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Biography

Marco Polignano is a Professor Assistant at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy, in the SWAP (Semantic Web Access and Personalization) research group. He earned the Ph.D. in Computer Science and Mathematics in 2018, at the same university, with the thesis titled "An affect-aware computational model for supporting decision-making through recommender systems". He was program committee member and reviewer for many international conferences, local organizing committee for the Ai*iA 2017 and CLiC-it 2019 conferences and organizer of the Evalita 2018 challenge - ABSITA about the aspect-based sentiment analysis. Moreover, he organized the exUM workshop 2020-2021 at the User Model and Personalization international conference. His research interests include Recommender Systems, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and User Profiling.

Activities

Employment (1)

University of Bari Aldo Moro: Bari, IT

2020-12-29 to present | Professor Assistant (Computer Science)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro: Bari, Puglia, IT

2014-10 to 2018-03-19 | Dottorato di ricerca (Informatica)
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Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro: Bari, Puglia, IT

2011-09 to 2013-11 | Laurea Magistrale in Informatica (Informatica)
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Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro: Bari, Puglia, IT

2008-09 to 2011-11 | Laurea in Informatica e Tecnologie per la Produzione del Software (Informatica)
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Professional activities (4)

Italian Association Artificial Intelligence: Rome, IT

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IEEE: New York, NY, US

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ACM International: Florissant, MO, US

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Planetek Hellas (Greece): Athens, GR

2016-03-01 to 2016-07-31 | Scientific Consultant
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Funding (1)

Semantic EO Data Web Alert and Retrieval Framework

2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
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Works (44)

Comparing Human Pose Estimation through deep learning approaches: An overview

Computer Vision and Image Understanding
2025-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Gaetano Dibenedetto; Stefanos Sotiropoulos; Marco Polignano; Giuseppe Cavallo; Pasquale Lops
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EB-NeRD a large-scale dataset for news recommendation

2024-10-14 | Conference paper
Contributors: Johannes Kruse; Kasper Lindskow; Saikishore Kalloori; Marco Polignano; Claudio Pomo; Abhishek Srivastava; Anshuk Uppal; Michael Riis Andersen; Jes Frellsen
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11th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS'24)

2024-10-08 | Conference paper
Contributors: Peter Brusilovsky; Marco de Gemmis; Alexander Felfernig; Marco Polignano; Giovanni Semeraro; Martijn Willemsen
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RecSys Challenge 2024: Balancing Accuracy and Editorial Values in News Recommendations

2024-10-08 | Conference paper
Contributors: Johannes Kruse; Kasper Lindskow; Saikishore Kalloori; Marco Polignano; Claudio Pomo; Abhishek Srivastava; Anshuk Uppal; Michael Riis Andersen; Jes Frellsen
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Reproducibility of LLM-based Recommender Systems: the Case Study of P5 Paradigm

2024-10-08 | Conference paper
Contributors: Pasquale Lops; Antonio Silletti; Marco Polignano; Cataldo Musto; Giovanni Semeraro
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ExUM 2024 - 6th Workshop on Explainable User Modeling and Personalised Systems

2024-06-27 | Conference paper
Contributors: Marco Polignano; Cataldo Musto; Amra Delić; Oana Inel; Amon Rapp; Giovanni Semeraro; Jürgen Ziegler
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Human Pose Estimation for Explainable Corrective Feedbacks in Office Spaces

2024-06-27 | Conference paper
Contributors: Gaetano Dibenedetto; Marco Polignano; Pasquale Lops; Giovanni Semeraro
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10th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS’23)

2023-09-14 | Conference paper
Contributors: Peter Brusilovsky; Marco De Gemmis; Alexander Felfernig; Pasquale Lops; Marco Polignano; Giovanni Semeraro; Martijn C. Willemsen
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Reproducibility Analysis of Recommender Systems relying on Visual Features: traps, pitfalls, and countermeasures

2023-09-14 | Conference paper
Contributors: Pasquale Lops; Elio Musacchio; Cataldo Musto; Marco Polignano; Antonio Silletti; Giovanni Semeraro
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Accountable Knowledge-aware Recommender Systems

2023-06-18 | Conference paper
Contributors: Pasquale Lops; Cataldo Musto; Marco Polignano
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5th Workshop on Explainable User Models and Personalised Systems (ExUM)

2023-06-16 | Conference paper
Contributors: Cataldo Musto; Amra Delic; Oana Inel; Marco Polignano; Amon Rapp; Giovanni Semeraro; Jürgen Ziegler
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HELENA: An intelligent digital assistant based on a Lifelong Health User Model

Information Processing & Management
2023-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Marco Polignano; Pasquale Lops; Marco de Gemmis; Giovanni Semeraro
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Preface to the Sixth Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI)

Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI)
2022-11-23 | Conference paper | Conceptualization
Contributors: Marco Polignano
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A hybrid lexicon-based and neural approach for explainable polarity detection

Information Processing & Management
2022-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Marco Polignano; Valerio Basile; Pierpaolo Basile; Giuliano Gabrieli; Marco Vassallo; Cristina Bosco
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Special Issue on Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems and Adaptive Systems

Information
2022-09-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Marco Polignano; Giovanni Semeraro
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Comparing Transformer-based NER approaches for analysing textual medical diagnoses

CLEF eHealth
2021 | Journal article
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Towards Emotion-aware Recommender Systems: an Affective Coherence Model based on Emotion-driven Behaviors

Expert Systems with Applications
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Polignano, Marco; Narducci, Fedelucio; de Gemmis, Marco; Semeraro, Giovanni
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Semantically-Aware Retrieval of Oceanographic Phenomena Annotated on Satellite Images

Information
2021-08-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Vasilis Kopsachilis; Lucia Siciliani; Marco Polignano; Pol Kolokoussis; Michail Vaitis; Marco de Gemmis; Konstantinos Topouzelis
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HealthAssistantBot: A Personal Health Assistant for the Italian Language

IEEE Access
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Marco Polignano; Fedelucio Narducci; Andrea Iovine; Cataldo Musto; Marco De Gemmis; Giovanni Semeraro
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Time of Your Hate: The Challenge of Time in Hate Speech Detection on Social Media

Applied Sciences
2020-06-18 | Journal article
Contributors: Komal Florio; Valerio Basile; Marco Polignano; Pierpaolo Basile; Viviana Patti
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A comparison of Word-Embeddings in Emotion Detection from Text using BiLSTM, CNN and Self-Attention

ACM UMAP 2019 Adjunct - Adjunct Publication of the 27th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
2019 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85068682306

Contributors: Polignano, M.; De Gemmis, M.; Basile, P.; Semeraro, G.
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Marco Polignano via Scopus - Elsevier

Identification of Bot Accounts in Twitter Using 2D CNNs on User-generated Contents Notebook for PAN at CLEF 2019

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2019 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85070513643

Contributors: Polignano, M.; De Pinto, M.G.; Lops, P.; Semeraro, G.
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Social Tags and Emotions as main Features for the Next Song to Play in Automatic Playlist Continuation

ACM UMAP 2019 Adjunct - Adjunct Publication of the 27th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
2019 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85068654627

Contributors: Polignano, M.; De Gemmis, M.; Basile, P.; Semeraro, G.
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A semantic representation of EO data for image retrieval based on natural language queries

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
2018 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85052711726

Contributors: Polignano, M.; De Gemmis, M.; Kopsacheilis, V.; Vaitis, M.; Malig, J.; Grether, D.; Ioannou, I.; Sarelli, A.; De Pasquale, V.; Samarelli, S. et al.
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An emotion-driven approach for aspect-based opinion mining

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2018 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85050920729

Contributors: Polignano, M.; Basile, P.; De Gemmis, M.; Semeraro, G.
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Hansel: Italian hate speech detection through ensemble learning and deep neural networks

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2018 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85058620880

Contributors: Polignano, M.; Basile, P.
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Overview of the EVALITA 2018 aspect-based sentiment analysis task (ABSITA)

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2018 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85058658278

Contributors: Basile, P.; Basile, V.; Croce, D.; Polignano, M.
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Do you feel blue? Detection of negative feeling from social media

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
2017 | Book
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2-s2.0-85033730180

Contributors: Polignano, M.; De Gemmis, M.; Narducci, F.; Semeraro, G.
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Empathic inclination from digital footprints

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2017 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85029215663

Contributors: Polignano, M.; Basile, P.; Rossiello, G.; De Gemmis, M.; Semeraro, G.
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Empathic inclination from digital footprints

Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2017), Volume: CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2017 | Conference paper
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Learning inclination to empathy from social media footprints

UMAP '17, At Bratislava, Slovakia, Volume: ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-4635-1/17/07
2017 | Conference poster
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Recommending Doctors and Health Facilities in the HealthNet Social Network

Workshop on Social Media for Personalization and Search co-located with 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2017), Volume: Vol-1840 urn:nbn:de:0074-1840-0. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1840/
2017 | Conference paper
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User's Social Media Profile as Predictor of Empathy

UMAP'17 Adjunct - THUM Workshop, At Bratislava, Slovakia, Volume: ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-5067-9/17/07
2017 | Conference paper
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Affective aspects as uncertain variables in decisional processes

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2016 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85009454910

Contributors: Polignano, M.
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Affective aspects as uncertain variables in decisional processes

AI*IA Doctoral Consortium, Volume: In CEUR Workshop Proceedings , Vol-1769, pp.58-63
2016 | Conference paper
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A Framework for Emotion-aware Recommender Systems supporting Decision Making

Future Directions in Information Access FDIA 2015
2015 | Conference paper
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A Recommender System for Connecting Patients to the Right Doctors in the HealthNet Social Network

24th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW '15, Florence, Italy, May 18-22, 2015, Companion Volume
2015 | Conference paper
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Recommender systems supporting decision making through analysis of user emotions and personality

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2015 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85009162955

Contributors: Polignano, M.; De Gemmis, M.
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Recommender Systems supporting Decision Making through Analysis of User Emotions and Personality

AI*IA 2015 Doctoral Consortium
2015 | Conference paper
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The Infuence of User's Emotions in Recommender Systems for Decision Making Processes

▪ Doctoral Consortium of CHItaly 2015. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings - ISSN:1613-0073 vol. 1462, pp.58-66, 2015
2015 | Conference paper
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The inuence of user's emotions in recommender systems for decision making processes

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2015 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84949810187

Contributors: Polignano, M.
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Towards a patient-centered medicine: the HealthNet Social Network

Proceeding of 5th International Conference on Digital Health, 2015
2015-05-18 | Conference paper
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A comparison of lexicon-based approaches for sentiment analysis of microblog

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2014 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84919676344

Contributors: Musto, C.; Semeraro, G.; Polignano, M.
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A comparison of Lexicon-based approaches for Sentiment Analysis of microblog posts

DART@AI*IA 2014, Information Filtering and Retrieval. Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Information Filtering and Retrieval, co-located with Artificial Intelligence for Society and Economy, the XIII AI*IA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2014), Pisa, Italy, December 10-12, 2014
2014 | Conference paper
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urn:nbn:de:0074-1314-7

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Peer review (23 reviews for 15 publications/grants)

Review activity for Artificial intelligence review. (2)
Review activity for Engineering applications of artificial intelligence. (1)
Review activity for Expert systems with applications. (1)
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Review activity for Information processing and management. (4)
Review activity for International journal of data science and analytics. (1)
Review activity for International journal of human-computer studies. (1)
Review activity for Journal of ambient intelligence & humanized computing (3)
Review activity for Journal of intelligent information systems. (1)
Review activity for Journal of strategic information systems. (1)
Review activity for Knowledge-based systems. (3)
Review activity for Multimedia tools and applications. (1)
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