44 citations
Counting papers with at most 25 authors, so collaboration author lists do not stand in for the people here.
8 papers
Concept Tagging for Natural Language Understanding: Two Decadelong Algorithm Development
Jacopo Gobbi, Evgeny Stepanov, Giuseppe Riccardi
Concept tagging is a type of structured learning needed for natural language understanding (NLU) systems. In this task, meaning labels from a domain ontology are assigned to word s…
Why Do Urban Legends Go Viral?
Marco Guerini, Carlo Strapparava
Urban legends are a genre of modern folklore, consisting of stories about rare and exceptional events, just plausible enough to be believed, which tend to propagate inexorably acro…
A Declarative Framework for Specifying and Enforcing Purpose-aware Policies
Riccardo De Masellis, Chiara Ghidini, Silvio Ranise
Purpose is crucial for privacy protection as it makes users confident that their personal data are processed as intended. Available proposals for the specification and enforcement…
Deep Feelings: A Massive Cross-Lingual Study on the Relation between Emotions and Virality
Marco Guerini, Jacopo Staiano
This article provides a comprehensive investigation on the relations between virality of news articles and the emotions they are found to evoke. Virality, in our view, is a phenome…
Is it morally acceptable for a system to lie to persuade me?
Marco Guerini, Fabio Pianesi, Oliviero Stock
Given the fast rise of increasingly autonomous artificial agents and robots, a key acceptability criterion will be the possible moral implications of their actions. In particular,…
Sentiment Analysis: How to Derive Prior Polarities from SentiWordNet
Marco Guerini, Lorenzo Gatti, Marco Turchi
Assigning a positive or negative score to a word out of context (i.e. a word's prior polarity) is a challenging task for sentiment analysis. In the literature, various approaches b…
Exploring Image Virality in Google Plus
Marco Guerini, Jacopo Staiano, Davide Albanese
Reactions to posts in an online social network show different dynamics depending on several textual features of the corresponding content. Do similar dynamics exist when images are…
Ecological Evaluation of Persuasive Messages Using Google AdWords
Marco Guerini, Carlo Strapparava, Oliviero Stock
In recent years there has been a growing interest in crowdsourcing methodologies to be used in experimental research for NLP tasks. In particular, evaluation of systems and theorie…