IIR 2021
11th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop 2021

Table of Contents

• Preface
  

Long Papers

• Keyword Extraction for Improved Document Retrieval in Conversational Search
  Oleg Borisov , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Fabio Crestani
• Extracting Relations from Italian Wikipedia using Unsupervised Information Extraction
  Pierluigi Cassotti , Lucia Siciliani , Pierpaolo Basile , Marco de Gemmis , Pasquale Lops
• Reading Songs: A Computational Analysis of Popular Songs lyrics
  Silvia Corbara , Alessio Molinari
• Measuring the Ranking Quality of Recommendations in a Two-Dimensional Carousel Setting
  Nicolò Felicioni , Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Fernando Benjamín Pérez Maurera , Paolo Cremonesi
• On Single and Multiple Representations in Dense Passage Retrieval
  Craig Macdonald , Nicola Tonellotto , Iadh Ounis
• Towards a Human in the Loop Approach to Preserve Privacy in Images
  Andrea Mauri , Alessandro Bozzon
• Recommending Third-party Library Updates with LSTM Neural Networks
  Phuong T. Nguyen , Juri Di Rocco , Riccardo Rubei , Claudio Di Sipio , Davide Di Ruscio

Short Papers

• Holistic Summarization of Recommender Systems Results
  Noemi Mauro , Zhongli Filippo Hu , Liliana Ardissono , Sara Capecchi , Gianmarco Izzi , Claudio Mattutino
• FashionSearch++: Improving Consumer-to-Shop Clothes Retrieval with Hard Negatives
  Davide Morelli , Marcella Cornia , Rita Cucchiara
• AURYGA: A Recommender System for Game Tagging
  Riccardo Rubei , Claudio Di Sipio
• Garbled-Word Embeddings for Jumbled Text
  Gianluca Sperduti , Alejandro Moreo , Fabrizio Sebastiani
• Sequential Modeling in Vector Space
  Benyou Wang , Emanuele Di Buccio , Massimo Melucci
• SAFIR: a Semantic-Aware Neural Framework for IR
  Maristella Agosti , Stefano Marchesin , Gianmaria Silvello
• How to Perform Reproducible Experiments in the ELLIOT Recommendation Framework: Data Processing, Model Selection, and Performance Evaluation
  Vito Walter Anelli , Alejandro BellogÍn , Antonio Ferrara , Daniele Malitesta , Felice Antonio Merra , Claudio Pomo , Francesco Maria Donini , Eugenio Di Sciascio , Tommaso Di Noia
• Sparse Embeddings for Recommender Systems with Knowledge Graphs
  Vito Walter Anelli , Tommaso Di Noia , Eugenio Di Sciascio , Antonio Ferrara , Alberto Carlo Maria Mancino
• On Building Benchmark Datasets for Understudied Information Retrieval Tasks: the Case of Semantic Query Labeling
  Elias Bassani , Gabriella Pasi
• GUapp: Enhancing Job Recommendations with Knowledge Graphs
  Giovanni Maria Biancofiore , Tommaso Di Noia , Eugenio Di Sciascio , Fedelucio Narducci , Paolo Pastore
• Combining Mitigation Treatments against Biases in Personalized Rankings: Use Case on Item Popularity
  Ludovico Boratto , Gianni Fenu , Mirko Marras
• Do Hard Topics Exist? A Statistical Analysis
  J. Shane Culpepper , Guglielmo Faggioli , Nicola Ferro , Oren Kurland
• Representing, Tracking and Revising the User’s Knowledge: A Search Result Filter Framework
  Dima El Zein , Célia da Costa Pereira ,
• Neural IR for Domain-Specific Tasks
  Óscar Espitia , Gabriella Pasi
• Measuring Gender Stereotype Reinforcement in Information Retrieval Systems
  Alessandro Fabris , Alberto Purpura , Gianmaria Silvello , Gian Antonio Susto
• Quality and Diversity of Recommender Systems Users’ Choices: a Simulation Perspective
  Naieme Hazrati , Francesco Ricci
• An Investigation on the Impact of Natural Language on Conversational Recommendations
  Andrea Iovine , Fedelucio Narducci , Marco de Gemmis , Giovanni Semeraro
• A Regression Framework to Interpret the Robustness of Recommender Systems Against Shilling Attacks
  Yashar Deldjoo , Tommaso Di Noia , Eugenio Di Sciascio , Felice Antonio Merra
• User-friendly Query Interfaces for the HOPE Project
  Diego Marcia , Manuela Sanguinetti , Maurizio Atzori
• Similarity-Based Reasoning and Retrieval with Order-Sorted Feature Logic
  Gian Carlo Milanese , Gabriella Pasi
• Generalized Funnelling: Ensemble Learning and Heterogeneous Document Embeddings for Cross-Lingual Text Classification
  Andrea Pedrotti , Fabrizio Sebastiani , Alejandro Moreo
• Multidimensional Relevance in Legal and Health Domains
  Georgios Peikos , Gabriella Pasi
• Using an Ensemble of Features for Personalized Recommendations of Scientific Publications
  Paolo Tenti , James Thomas , Rafael Penaloza , Gabriella Pasi
• An Overview on Evaluation Labs and Open Issues in Health-related Credible Information Retrieval
  Rishabh Upadhyay , Gabriella Pasi , Marco Viviani