Giambattista Amati

GIAMBATTISTA AMATI

TITOLI DI STUDIO

• Il 09/06/2003 ha conseguito il PhD in Computing Science presso il "Department of Computing Science of University of Glasgow", discutendo la tesi "Probability Models for Information Retrieval based on Divergence from Randomness", (http://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b2151999)
•  Il 15/11/1983 ha  conseguito "cum laude" la Laurea in Matematica all'Università degli Studi di ROMA "La Sapienza", discutendo la tesi "Operatori di logica modale con interpretazioni probabilistiche".

3. CHAIR E ORGANIZZAZIONE DI CONFERENZE NAZIONALI E INTERNAZIONALI

• Program Chair della 3rd Italian Information Retrieval (IIR) Workshop, Bari, Italy, January 26-27, 2012. G. Amati, C. Carpineto, G. Semeraro, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd Italian Information Retrieval (IIR) Workshop, CEUR-WS, 2012.
•  General and Program Chair of BCS-ICTIR 2011 Conference, Giambattista Amati, Fabio Crestani (Eds.): Advances in Information Retrieval Theory - Third International Conference, ICTIR 2011, Bertinoro, Italy, September 12-14, 2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6931 Springer 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-23317-3
• Poster Program Chair of ACM-CIKM 2011 Conference, Bettina Berendt, Arjen de Vries, Wenfei Fan, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, and Ian Ruthven (Eds.). 2011. Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. ACM, New York, NY, USA.
• Poster Program Chair of ACM-SIGIR 2007 Conference, Wessel Kraaij, Arjen P. de Vries, Charles L. A. Clarke, Norbert Fuhr, Noriko Kando (Eds.): SIGIR 2007: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 23-27, 2007. ACM 2007, ISBN 978-1-59593-597-7.
• Workshop Program Chair of ACM-SIGIR 2010 Conference Omar Alonso and Giambattista Amati (2011) SIGIR 2010 Workshop Program Overview (pdf). SIGIR Forum 44, 2 (January 2011), 15-16. DOI=10.1145/1924475.1924480 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1924475.1924480
• General and Program Chair of ECIR 2007 Conference Giambattista Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Romano (Eds.): Advances in Information Retrieval, 29th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2007, Rome, Italy, April 2-5, 2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4425 Springer 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-71494-1
• Co-Chair della Summer School on Logics and Artificial Intelligence, organizzata dall'AI*IA, Ottobre 1992, CISM, Udine.

4. PARTECIPAZIONE A COMITATI EDITORIALI

• Area Editor su Information Retrieval Models per Springer EDBS Ling Liu,02/200708/2009 M. Tamer Özsu (Eds.): Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer US 2009, ISBN 978-0-387-35544-3,978-0-387-39940-9

5. FELLOWSHIPS

• Dal 02/1999 al 02/2000 Senior Research Fellow, Department of computing Science University of Glasgow

PUBBLICAZIONI SCIENTIFICHE

• Amati G, Amodeo G, Gaibisso C (2012). Survival Analysis for Freshness in Microblogging Search. In: Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'12). Maui,Hi, USA, 29th October - 2nd November 2012, doi: 978-1-4503-1156-4
• Amati G, Carpineto C, Semeraro G (a cura di) (2012). Proceedings of the 3rd Italian Information Retrieval Workshop. vol. CEUR 835, CEUR-WS
• Amati G, Bianchi M, Marcone G (2012). Un Prototipo per la Ricerca di Opinioni sui Blog dedicati alle Trasmissioni Televisive d'Interesse Nazionale. In: Proceeding of the 3rd Italian Workshop on Information Retrieval 2012 (IIR '12), Bari, Italy, January 26-27, 2012. p. 183-190, CEUR-WS, Bary, Italy, January 26-27, 2012
• Amati G, Celi A, Di Nicola C, Flammini M, Pavone D (2011). Improved Stable Retrieval in Noisy Collections. In: Giambattista Amati, Fabio Crestani. Advances in Information Retrieval Theory. LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, vol. 6931, p. 342-345, BERLIN HEIDELBERG:Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-642-23317-3, ISSN: 0302-9743, Bertinoro. Italia, 12-14 Settembre 2011, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-23318-0_35
• Amodeo G, Amati G, Gambosi G (2011). On relevance, time and query expansion. In: CIKM '11 Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. p. 1973-1976, New York:ACM, ISBN: 978-1-4503-0717-8, doi: 10.1145/2063576.2063868
• Amati G, Crestani F (a cura di) (2011). Advances in Information Retrieval Theory, Proceedings of the Third International Conference, ICTIR 2011, Bertinoro, Italy, September 12-14, 2011.. vol. 6931, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN: 978-3-642-23317-3
• Amati G, Amodeo G, Bianchi M (2010). A Uniform Theoretic Approach to Opinion and Information Retrieval. In: Intelligent Information Access. vol. 301, p. 83-108, BERLIN:Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-13999-4, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-14000-6_5
• Amati G, Amodeo G, Capozio V, Gaibisso C, Gambosi G (2010). On performance of topical opinion retrieval. In: SIGIR '10 Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Geneva, Switzerland, p. 777-778, New York:ACM, ISBN: 978-1-60558-896-4, doi: 10.1145/1835449.1835611
• Alonso O, Amati G (2010). SIGIR 2010 Workshop Program Overview. SIGIR FORUM, vol. 44, p. 15-16, ISSN: 0163-5840, doi: 10.1145/1924475.1924480
• Amati G, Amodeo G, Capozio V, Gaibisso C, Gambosi G (2010). A Study on Evaluation on Opinion Retrieval Systems. In: Proceedings of the Italian Workshop on Information Retrieval (IIR 2010) January 27-28, 2010, Padova, Italy.. p. 47-51, CEUR-WS
• Amati G (2009). Divergence from Randomness Models. In: Encyclopedia of Database Systems. p.929-932, NEW YORK:Springer, ISBN: 978-0-387-35544-3, doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_924
• Amati G (2009). Two-Poisson model. In: Encyclopedia of Database Systems. p. 3218-3219, NEW YORK:Springer, ISBN: 978-0-387-35544-3, doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_920
• Amati G (2009). BM25. In: Encyclopedia of Database Systems. p. 257-260, New York:Springer US, ISBN: 978-0-387-35544-3, doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_921
• Amati G (2009). Information Retrieval Models. In: Encyclopedia of Database Systems. p. 1523-1528, New York:Springer US, ISBN: 978-0-387-35544-3, doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_916
• Amati G (2009). Information Retrieval. In: Encyclopedia of Database Systems. p. 1519-1523, New York:Springer US, ISBN: 978-0-387-35544-3, doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_915
• Amati G, Ambrosi E, Bianchi M, Gaibisso C, Gambosi G (2008). Automatic Construction of an Opinion-Term Vocabulary for Ad Hoc Retrieval. In: Advances in Information Retrieval. LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, vol. 4956, BERLIN HEIDELBERG:Springer-Verlag, ISSN: 0302-9743, Glasgow, UK, March 30-April 3, 2008, doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_11
• Amati G, Amodeo G, Bianchi M, Gaibisso C, Gambosi G (2008). FUB, IASI-CNR and University of Tor Vergata at TREC 2008 Blog Track. In: NIST Special Publication 500-277: The Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC 2008), Washington, DC. Washington, DC:NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
• Amati G, Bianchi M, Celi A, Gaibisso C, Draoli M, Gambosi G, Stilo G (2008). CNIPA, FUB and University of Rome "Tor Vergata" at TREC 2008 Legal Track. In: NIST Special Publication 500-277: The Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC 2008), Washington, DC. Washington, DC:NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
• Amati G, Carpineto C, Romano G (a cura di) (2007). Advances in Information Retrieval, Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2007, Rome, Italy, April 2-5, 2007,. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN: 978-3-540-71496-5
• Amati G, Ambrosi E, Bianchi M, Gaibisso C, Gambosi G (2007). FUB, IASI-CNR and University of Tor Vergata at TREC 2007 Blog Track. In: NIST Special Publication 500-274: Proceedings of The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2008), Washington, DC. Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
• Amati G (2006). Frequentist and Bayesian Approach to Information Retrieval. In: Advances in Information Retrieval. LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, vol. 3936, p. 13-24, BERLIN HEIDELBERG:Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-540-33347-0, ISSN: 0302-9743, London, UK, April 10-12, 2006, doi: 10.1007/11735106_3
• Amati G (2006). Information Theoretic Approach to Information Extraction. In: Flexible Query Answering Systems. LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, vol. 4027, p. 519-529, BERLIN HEIDELBERG:Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-540-34638-8, ISSN: 0302-9743, Milan, Italy, June 7-10, 2006, doi: 10.1007/11766254_44
• Ounis I, Amati G, Plachouras V, He B, MacDonald C, Lioma C (2006). Terrier: A High Performance and Scalable Information Retrieval Platform. In: ACM SIGIR Open Source Information Retrieval Workshop 2006, August 10-11, 2006, Seattle, Washington USA. p. 1-7
• 25. 2005 - Contributo in Atti di convegno
• Amati G, Carpineto C, Romano G (2005). Merging XML Indices. In: Advances in XML Information Retrieval. LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, vol. 3493, p. 253-260, BERLIN HEIDELBERG:Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-540-26166-7, ISSN: 0302-9743, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, December 6-8, 2004, doi: 10.1007/11424550_20
• 26. 2005 - Software
• Ounis I, Amati G, Plachouras V, He B, Macdonald C, Johnson D (2005). Terrier Information Retrieval Platform. In: Advances in Information Retrieval. vol. 3408, p. 517-519, ISBN: 978-3-540-25295-5, doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-31865-1_37
• 27. 2005 - Articolo in rivista
• Plachouras V, Ounis I, Amati G (2005). The static absorbing model for the web. JOURNAL OF WEB
• ENGINEERING, vol. 4, p. 165-186, ISSN: 1540-9589
• 28. 2004 - Contributo in Atti di convegno
• Amati G, Carpineto C, Romano G (2004). Comparing Weighting Models for Monolingual Information Retrieval. In: Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems. LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, vol. 3237, p. 310-318, BERLIN HEIDELBERG:Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-540-24017-4, ISSN: 0302-9743, Trondheim, Norway, August 21-22, 2003, doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-30222-3_29
• 29. 2004 - Contributo in Atti di convegno
• Amati G, Carpineto C, Romano G (2004). Query Difficulty, Robustness, and Selective Application of Query Expansion. In: Advances in Information Retrieval. LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, vol. 2997, p. 127-137, BERLIN HEIDELBERG:Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-540-21382-6, ISSN: 0302-9743, Sunderland, UK, April 5-7, 2004, doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-24752-4_10
• Amati G, Carpineto C, Romano G (2004). Fondazione Ugo Bordoni at TREC 2004. In: NIST Special Publication 500-261: Proceedings of The Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2004) . Washington DC:NIST , Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
• Amati G, Carpineto C, Romano G (2003). Italian Monolingual Information Retrieval with PROSIT. In: Advances in Cross-Language Information Retrieval. LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, vol. 2785, p. 257-264, BERLIN HEIDELBERG:Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-540-40830-7, ISSN: 0302-9743, Rome, Italy, September 2002, doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-45237-9_21
• Plachouras V, Ounis I, Amati G (2003). A Utility-oriented Hyperlink Analysis Model for the Web. In: Proceedings of the First Latin Web Conference. Santiago, Chile, 10-12 November 2003, p. 123-131, IEEE Computer , ISBN: 0-7695-2058-8, doi: 10.1109/LAWEB.2003.1250290
• Amati G, Carpineto C, Romano G (2003). Fondazione Ugo Bordoni at TREC 2003: robust and web track. In: NIST Special Publication 500-255:Proceedings of The Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2003) . p. 234-245, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 2003
• Amati G, van Rijsbergen CJ (2002). Probabilistic Models of Information Retrieval Based on Measuring the Divergence from Randomness. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS, vol. 20, p. 357-389, ISSN: 1046-8188, doi: 10.1145/582415.582416
• Amati G, van Rijsbergen C J (2002). Term Frequency Normalization via Pareto Distributions. In: Advances in Information Retrieval. LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, vol. 2291, p. 183-192, BERLIN HEIDELBERG:Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-540-43343-9, ISSN: 0302-9743, Glasgow, UK, March 25-27, 2002, doi: 10.1007/3-540-45886-7_13
• Plachouras V, Ounis I, Amati G, Van Rijsbergen C J (2002). University of Glasgow at the Web track of TREC 2002. In: NIST Special Publication 500-251: Proceedings of The Eleventh Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2002) . p. 645-651, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 19-22, 2002
• Amati G, Carpineto C, Romano G (2001). FUB at TREC-10 Web Track: A Probabilistic Framework for Topic Relevance Term Weighting. In: NIST Special Publication 500-250: Proceedings of The Tenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2001) . p. 182-191, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 13-16, 2001
• Amati G, Ounis I (2000). Conceptual Graphs and First Order Logic. COMPUTER JOURNAL, vol. 43, p. 1-12, ISSN: 0010-4620, doi: 10.1093/comjnl/43.1.1
• Amati G, Fabio Crestani F (2000). Probabilistic learning by uncertainty sampling with non-binary relevance. In: Soft Computing in Information Retrieval. STUDIES IN FUZZINESS AND SOFT COMPUTING, vol. 50, p. 292-316, Heidelberg:Physica Verlag Heidelberg, ISBN: 978-3-7908-1299-2, ISSN: 1434-9922
• Amati G, Crestani F (1999). Probabilistic learning for selective dissemination of information. INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT, vol. 35, p. 633-654, ISSN: 0306-4573, doi: 10.1016/S0306-4573(99)00012-6