8 papers
The Best Are Always the Best: COVID-19 Lockdown Stringency and the Dispersion of Olympic Medal Outcomes
Fernando Delbianco, Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Tohmé
We ask whether COVID-19 lockdown stringency altered national Olympic performance between Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, using the Oxford Stringency Index and the 99 countries that won a…
An Assessment Tool for Academic Research Managers in the Third World
Fernando Delbianco, Andres Fioriti, Fernando Tohmé
The academic evaluation of the publication record of researchers is relevant for identifying talented candidates for promotion and funding. A key tool for this is the use of the in…
Home advantage and crowd attendance: Evidence from rugby during the Covid 19 pandemic
Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohmé
The COVID-19 pandemic forced almost all professional and amateur sports to be played without attending crowds. Thus, it induced a large-scale natural experiment on the impact of so…
A Graph-based Similarity Function for CBDT: Acquiring and Using New Information
Federico E. Contiggiani, Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohmé
One of the consequences of persistent technological change is that it force individuals to make decisions under extreme uncertainty. This means that traditional decision-making fra…
Assessing the behavior and performance of a supervised term-weighting technique for topic-based retrieval
Mariano Maisonnave, Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohmé +1
This article analyses and evaluates FDD\b{eta}, a supervised term-weighting scheme that can be applied for query-term selection in topic-based retrieval. FDD\b{eta} weights terms b…
Detecting Ongoing Events Using Contextual Word and Sentence Embeddings
Mariano Maisonnave, Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohmé +2
This paper introduces the Ongoing Event Detection (OED) task, which is a specific Event Detection task where the goal is to detect ongoing event mentions only, as opposed to histor…