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Fausto Giunchiglia
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Open AccessDiversity and language technology: how language modeling bias causes epistemic injustice
It is well known that AI-based language technology—large language models, machine translation systems, multilingual dictionaries, and corpora—is currently limited to three percent of the world’s most widely sp...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
From Knowledge Representation to Knowledge Organization and Back
Knowledge Representation (KR) and facet-analytical Knowledge Organization (KO) have been the two most prominent methodologies of data and knowledge modelling in the Artificial Intelligence community and the In...
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Open AccessAdaptation of student behavioural routines during Covid-19: a multimodal approach
One population group that had to significantly adapt and change their behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic is students. While previous studies have extensively investigated the impact of the pandemic on thei...
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Open AccessRepresenting interlingual meaning in lexical databases
In today’s multilingual lexical databases, the majority of the world’s languages are under-represented. Beyond a mere issue of resource incompleteness, we show that existing lexical databases have structural l...
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Topological enhanced graph neural networks for semi-supervised node classification
The complexity and non-Euclidean structure of graph data hinders the development of data augmentation methods similar to those in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a feature augmentation method for gr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Journey Through Illness of the Type 1 Diabetes Caregiver, from Disruption to Positive Co**
Type 1 Diabetes is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects mainly children and teenagers. The life, feelings, thoughts and thinking patterns of their parental caregivers must be taken in consideration as the...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Aligning Visual and Lexical Semantics
We discuss two kinds of semantics relevant to Computer Vision (CV) systems - Visual Semantics and Lexical Semantics. While visual semantics focus on how humans build concepts when using vision to perceive a targe...
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A Context Model for Personal Data Streams
We propose a model of the situational context of a person and show how it can be used to organize and, consequently, reason about massive streams of sensor data and annotations, as they can be collected from mobi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
One World - Seven Thousand Languages (Best Paper Award, Third Place)
We present a large scale multilingual lexical resource, the Universal Knowledge Core (UKC), which is organized like a Wordnet with, however, a major design difference. In the UKC the meaning of words is represent...
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ALP: An Arabic Linguistic Pipeline
This paper presents ALP, an entirely new linguistic pipeline for natural language processing of text in Modern Standard Arabic. In contrary to the conventional pipeline architecture, we solve common NLP operat...
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QROWD—A Platform for Integrating Citizens in Smart City Data Analytics
Optimizing mobility services is one of the greatest challenges Smart Cities face in their efforts to improve residents’ wellbeing and reduce $...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
iTelos—Case Studies in Building Domain-Specific Knowledge Graphs
The construction of a domain-specific knowledge graphs is a complex task requiring the synergistic work of domain experts, knowledge engineers, and data scientists. The goal of the iTelos methodology is to suppor...
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Graph topology enhancement for text classification
Graph neural networks (GNNs) can deal with complex network structures and model complex syntax structures in natural languages, which makes GNN outstanding in text classification tasks. However, most graph neu...
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Open AccessHuman-in-the-loop handling of knowledge drift
We introduce and study knowledge drift (KD), a special form of concept drift that occurs in hierarchical classification. Under KD the vocabulary of concepts, their individual distributions, and the is-a relations...
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Open AccessA large and evolving cognate database
We present CogNet, a large-scale, automatically-built database of sense-tagged cognates—words of common origin and meaning across languages. CogNet is continuously evolving: its current version contains over 8 mi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Robots as Transitional Objects for Young Children
Here, the psychological construct of transitional objects is presented, along with animism and suspension of disbelief in order to provide guidelines and inspiration for Human-Robot Interaction directed to you...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Popularity Driven Data Integration
More and more, with the growing focus on large scale analytics, we are confronted with the need of integrating data from multiple sources. The problem is that these data are impossible to reuse as-is. The net res...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Representing Habits as Streams of Situational Contexts
The increasing use of smart devices allows us to extract massive streams of data, e.g., sensor streams, questionnaires, answers, annotations, etc. This information is crucial for the recognition of people’s be...
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Open AccessTowards Visual Semantics
Lexical Semantics is concerned with how words encode mental representations of the world, i.e., concepts. We call this type of concepts, classification concepts. In this paper, we focus on Visual Semantics, namel...
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Open AccessPutting human behavior predictability in context
Various studies have investigated the predictability of different aspects of human behavior such as mobility patterns, social interactions, and shop** and online behaviors. However, the existing researches h...
