358 citations · 410 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for
30 papers
Partial Annotation Learning for Biomedical Entity Recognition
Liangping Ding, Giovanni Colavizza, Zhixiong Zhang
Motivation: Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key task to support biomedical research. In Biomedical Named Entity Recognition (BioNER), obtaining high-quality expert annotated da…
Open Access Improves the Dissemination of Science: Insights from Wikipedia
Puyu Yang, Ahad Shoaib, Robert West +1
Wikipedia is a well-known platform for disseminating knowledge, and scientific sources, such as journal articles, play a critical role in supporting its mission. The open access mo…
Polarization and reliability of news sources in Wikipedia
Puyu Yang, Giovanni Colavizza
Wikipedia is the largest online encyclopedia: its open contribution policy allows everyone to edit and share their knowledge. A challenge of radical openness is that it facilitates…
Seller-buyer networks in NFT art are driven by preferential ties
Giovanni Colavizza
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have recently surged to mainstream attention by allowing the exchange of digital assets via blockchains. NFTs have also been adopted by artists to sell d…
Unsilencing Colonial Archives via Automated Entity Recognition
Mrinalini Luthra, Konstantin Todorov, Charles Jeurgens +1
Colonial archives are at the center of increased interest from a variety of perspectives, as they contain traces of historically marginalized people. Unfortunately, like most archi…
From Books to Knowledge Graphs
Natallia Kokash, Matteo Romanello, Ernest Suyver +1
The digital transformation of the scientific publishing industry has led to dramatic improvements in content discoverability and information analytics. Unfortunately, these improve…
An Assessment of the Impact of OCR Noise on Language Models
Konstantin Todorov, Giovanni Colavizza
Neural language models are the backbone of modern-day natural language processing applications. Their use on textual heritage collections which have undergone Optical Character Rec…
Local2Global: A distributed approach for scaling representation learning on graphs
Lucas G. S. Jeub, Giovanni Colavizza, Xiaowen Dong +2
We propose a decentralised "local2global"' approach to graph representation learning, that one can a-priori use to scale any embedding technique. Our local2global approach proceeds…
A Map of Science in Wikipedia
Puyu Yang, Giovanni Colavizza
In recent decades, the rapid growth of Internet adoption is offering opportunities for convenient and inexpensive access to scientific information. Wikipedia, one of the largest en…
The case for the Humanities Citation Index (HuCI): a citation index by the humanities, for the humanities
Giovanni Colavizza, Silvio Peroni, Matteo Romanello
Citation indexes are by now part of the research infrastructure in use by most scientists: a necessary tool in order to cope with the increasing amounts of scientific literature be…
A map of Digital Humanities research across bibliographic data sources
Gianmarco Spinaci, Giovanni Colavizza, Silvio Peroni
Purpose. This study presents the results of an experiment we performed to measure the coverage of Digital Humanities (DH) publications in mainstream open and proprietary bibliograp…
Local2Global: Scaling global representation learning on graphs via local training
Lucas G. S. Jeub, Giovanni Colavizza, Xiaowen Dong +2
We propose a decentralised "local2global" approach to graph representation learning, that one can a-priori use to scale any embedding technique. Our local2global approach proceeds…
Meta-research on COVID-19: An overview of the early trends
Giovanni Colavizza
COVID-19 is having a dramatic impact on research and researchers. The pandemic has underlined the severity of known challenges in research and surfaced new ones, but also accelerat…
Archives and AI: An Overview of Current Debates and Future Perspectives
Giovanni Colavizza, Tobias Blanke, Charles Jeurgens +1
The digital transformation is turning archives, both old and new, into data. As a consequence, automation in the form of artificial intelligence techniques is increasingly applied…
On the Value of Wikipedia as a Gateway to the Web
Tiziano Piccardi, Miriam Redi, Giovanni Colavizza +1
By linking to external websites, Wikipedia can act as a gateway to the Web. To date, however, little is known about the amount of traffic generated by Wikipedia's external links. W…
Experts and authorities receive disproportionate attention on Twitter during the COVID-19 crisis
Kristina Gligorić, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Martin Müller +5
Timely access to accurate information is crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prompted by key stakeholders' cautioning against an "infodemic", we study information sharing on Twit…
Wikipedia Citations: A comprehensive dataset of citations with identifiers extracted from English Wikipedia
Harshdeep Singh, Robert West, Giovanni Colavizza
Wikipedia's contents are based on reliable and published sources. To this date, relatively little is known about what sources Wikipedia relies on, in part because extracting citati…
Quantifying the higher-order influence of scientific publications
Massimo Franceschet, Giovanni Colavizza
Citation impact is commonly assessed using direct, first-order citation relations. We consider here instead the indirect influence of publications on new publications via citations…
The OpenCitations Data Model
Marilena Daquino, Silvio Peroni, David Shotton +6
A variety of schemas and ontologies are currently used for the machine-readable description of bibliographic entities and citations. This diversity, and the reuse of the same ontol…
Data Engineering for Data Analytics: A Classification of the Issues, and Case Studies
Alfredo Nazabal, Christopher K. I. Williams, Giovanni Colavizza +2
Consider the situation where a data analyst wishes to carry out an analysis on a given dataset. It is widely recognized that most of the analyst's time will be taken up with \emph{…
Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia
Tiziano Piccardi, Miriam Redi, Giovanni Colavizza +1
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, is one of the most visited sites on the Web and a common source of information for many users. As an encyclopedia, Wik…
The citation advantage of linking publications to research data
Giovanni Colavizza, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Isla Staden +2
Efforts to make research results open and reproducible are increasingly reflected by journal policies encouraging or mandating authors to provide data availability statements. As a…
Crypto art: A decentralized view
Massimo Franceschet, Giovanni Colavizza, Tai Smith +6
This is a decentralized position paper on crypto art, which includes viewpoints from different actors of the system: artists, collectors, galleries, art scholars, data scientists.…
Assessing Simulations of Imperial Dynamics and Conflict in the Ancient World
Jim Madge, Giovanni Colavizza, James Hetherington +2
The development of models to capture large-scale dynamics in human history is one of the core contributions of cliodynamics. Most often, these models are assessed by their predicti…