Selected Papers

Journals

1. Giorgio Barnabò, Federico Siciliano, Carlos Castillo, Stefano Leonardi, Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Fabrizio Silvestri. Deep active learning for misinformation detection using geometric deep learning. Online Soc. Networks Media 33: 100244 (2023)

2. Alon Halevy, Cristian Canton-Ferrer, Hao Ma, Umut Ozertem, Patrick Pantel, Marzieh Saeidi, Fabrizio Silvestri, Ves Stoyanov, Preserving Integrity in Online Social Networks, Commun. ACM 65(2): 92-98 (2022)

3. Nicola Tonellotto, Alberto Gotta, Franco Maria Nardini, Daniele Gadler, Fabrizio Silvestri, Neural network quantization in federated learning at the edge, Inf. Sci.  575: 417-436 (2021).

4. James Thorne, Majid Yazdani, Marzieh Saeidi, Fabrizio Silvestri, Sebastian Riedel, Alon Y. Levy: From Natural Language Processing to Neural Databases. Proc. VLDB Endow. 14(6): 1033-1039 (2021)

5. Gabriele Tolomei, Fabrizio Silvestri: Generating Actionable Interpretations from Ensembles of Decision Trees. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 33(4): 1540-1553 (2021)

6. Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Salvatore Trani: X-CLEaVER: Learning Ranking Ensembles by Growing and Pruning Trees. ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol. 9(6): 62:1-62:26 (2018).

7. Aris Anagnostopoulos, Reem Atassi, Luca Becchetti, Adriano Fazzone, Fabrizio Silvestri: Tour recommendation for groups. Data Min. Knowl. Discov. 31(5): 1157-1188 (2017)

8. Xiao Bai, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Francesco Gullo, Amin Mantrach, Fabrizio Silvestri: Exploiting search history of users for news personalization. Inf. Sci. 385: 125-137 (2017)

9. Mauro Coletto, Luca Maria Aiello, Claudio Lucchese, Fabrizio Silvestri: Adult content consumption in online social networks. Soc. Netw. Anal. Min. 7(1): 28:1-28:21 (2017)

10. Roi Blanco, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Fabrizio Silvestri: IntoNews: Online news retrieval using closed captions. Inf. Process. Manag. 51(1): 148-162 (2015)

11. Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, Fabrizio Silvestri, Ranieri Baraglia: On Learning Prediction Models for Tourists Paths. ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol. 7(1): 8:1-8:34 (2015)

12. Giacomo Berardi, Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Fabrizio Silvestri: Endorsements and rebuttals in blog distillation. Inf. Sci. 249: 38-47 (2013)

13. Claudio Lucchese, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Gabriele Tolomei: Discovering tasks from search engine query logs. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 31(3): 14 (2013)

14. Daniele Broccolo, Lorenzo Marcon, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri: Generating suggestions for queries in the long tail with an inverted index. Inf. Process. Manag. 48(2): 326-339 (2012)

15. Gabriele Capannini, Fabrizio Silvestri, Ranieri Baraglia: Sorting on GPUs for large scale datasets: A thorough comparison. Inf. Process. Manag. 48(5): 903-917 (2012)

16. Gabriele Capannini, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri: Efficient Diversification of Web Search Results. Proc. VLDB Endow. 4(7): 451-459 (2011)

17. Fabrizio Silvestri: Mining Query Logs: Turning Search Usage Data into Knowledge. Found. Trends Inf. Retr. 4(1-2): 1-174 (2010)

18. Diego Puppin, Fabrizio Silvestri, Raffaele Perego, Ricardo Baeza-Yates: Tuning the capacity of search engines: Load-driven routing and incremental caching to reduce and balance the load. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 28(2): 5:1-5:36 (2010)

19. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Aristides Gionis, Flavio Junqueira, Vanessa Murdock, Vassilis Plachouras, Fabrizio Silvestri: Design trade-offs for search engine caching. ACM Trans. Web 2(4): 20:1-20:28 (2008)

20. Ranieri Baraglia, Fabrizio Silvestri: Dynamic personalization of web sites without user intervention. Commun. ACM 50(2): 63-67 (2007)

21. Tiziano Fagni, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Salvatore Orlando: Boosting the performance of Web search engines: Caching and prefetching query results by exploiting historical usage data. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 24(1): 51-78 (2006)

Conferences

1. Maria Sofia Bucarelli, Lucas Cassano, Federico Siciliano, Amin Mantrach, Fabrizio Silvestri: Leveraging Inter-Rater Agreement for Classification in the Presence of Noisy Labels. CVPR 2023: 3439-3448

2. Valeria Ruscio, Valentino Maiorca, Fabrizio Silvestri: Attention-likelihood relationship in Transformers. Tiny Papers @ ICLR 2023

3. Andrea Bacciu, Federico Siciliano, Nicola Tonellotto, Fabrizio Silvestri: Integrating Item Relevance in Training Loss for Sequential Recommender Systems. RecSys 2023: 1114-1119

4. Ziheng Chen, Fabrizio Silvestri, Jia Wang, Yongfeng Zhang, Gabriele Tolomei: The Dark Side of Explanations: Poisoning Recommender Systems with Counterfactual Examples. SIGIR 2023: 2426-2430

5. Giovanni Trappolini, Andrea Santilli, Emanuele Rodolà, Alon Y. Halevy, Fabrizio Silvestri: Multimodal Neural Databases. SIGIR 2023: 2619-2628

6. Artsiom Sauchuk, James Thorne, Alon Y. Halevy, Nicola Tonellotto, Fabrizio Silvestri: On the Role of Relevance in Natural Language Processing Tasks. SIGIR 2022: 1785-1789

7. Federico Siciliano, Maria Sofia Bucarelli, Gabriele Tolomei, Fabrizio Silvestri: NEWRON: A New Generalization of the Artificial Neuron to Enhance the Interpretability of Neural Networks. IJCNN 2022: 1-17

8. Giorgio Barnabò, Federico Siciliano, Carlos Castillo, Stefano Leonardi, Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Fabrizio Silvestri: FbMultiLingMisinfo: Challenging Large-Scale Multilingual Benchmark for Misinformation Detection. IJCNN 2022: 1-8

9. Shivam Sharma, Firoj Alam, Md. Shad Akhtar, Dimitar Dimitrov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Hamed Firooz, Alon Y. Halevy, Fabrizio Silvestri, Preslav Nakov, Tanmoy Chakraborty: Detecting and Understanding Harmful Memes: A Survey. IJCAI 2022: 5597-5606

10. Firoj Alam, Stefano Cresci, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Fabrizio Silvestri, Dimiter Dimitrov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Shaden Shaar, Hamed Firooz, Preslav Nakov: A Survey on Multimodal Disinformation Detection. COLING 2022: 6625-6643

11. Ziheng Chen, Fabrizio Silvestri, Jia Wang, He Zhu, Hongshik Ahn, Gabriele Tolomei: ReLAX: Reinforcement Learning Agent Explainer for Arbitrary Predictive Models. CIKM 2022: 252-261

12. A. Lucic, M. ter Hoeve, G. Tolomei, M. de Rijke, F. Silvestri. CF-GNNExplainer: Counterfactual Explanations for Graph Neural Networks. AISTATS 2022: 4499-4511

13. Dimitar Dimitrov, Bishr Bin Ali, Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hamed Firooz, Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino. Detecting Propaganda Techniques in Memes. ACL 2021: 6603-6617

14. James Thorne, Majid Yazdani, Marzieh Saeidi, Fabrizio Silvestri, Sebastian Riedel, Alon Halevy. Database Reasoning over Text. ACL 2021.

15. Dimitar Dimitrov, Bishr Bin Ali, Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hamed Firooz, Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino.  SemEval-2021 Task 6: Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and Images. [Paper PDF]. ACL 2021. 

16. Luca Massarelli, Fabio Petroni, Aleksandra Piktus, Myle Ott, Tim Rocktäschel, Vassilis Plachouras, Fabrizio Silvestri, Sebastian Riedel: How Decoding Strategies Affect the Verifiability of Generated Text. EMNLP (Findings) 2020: 223-235

17. Bora Edizel, Aleksandra Piktus, Piotr Bojanowski, Rui Ferreira, Edouard Grave, Fabrizio Silvestri: Misspelling Oblivious Word Embeddings. NAACL-HLT (1) 2019: 3226-3234

18. Gabriele Tolomei, Fabrizio Silvestri, Andrew Haines, Mounia Lalmas: Interpretable Predictions of Tree-based Ensembles via Actionable Feature Tweaking. KDD 2017: 465-474

19. Luca Maria Aiello, Ioannis Arapakis, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Xiao Bai, Nicola Barbieri, Amin Mantrach, Fabrizio Silvestri: The Role of Relevance in Sponsored Search. CIKM 2016: 185-194

20. Mauro Coletto, Luca Maria Aiello, Claudio Lucchese, Fabrizio Silvestri: On the Behaviour of Deviant Communities in Online Social Networks. ICWSM 2016: 72-81

21. Mihajlo Grbovic, Nemanja Djuric, Vladan Radosavljevic, Fabrizio Silvestri, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Andrew Feng, Erik Ordentlich, Lee Yang, Gavin Owens: Scalable Semantic Matching of Queries to Ads in Sponsored Search Advertising. SIGIR 2016: 375-384

22. Nicola Barbieri, Fabrizio Silvestri, Mounia Lalmas: Improving Post-Click User Engagement on Native Ads via Survival Analysis. WWW 2016: 761-770

23. Carlos A. Colmenares, Marina Litvak, Amin Mantrach, Fabrizio Silvestri: HEADS: Headline Generation as Sequence Prediction Using an Abstract Feature-Rich Space. HLT-NAACL 2015: 133-142

24. Mihajlo Grbovic, Nemanja Djuric, Vladan Radosavljevic, Fabrizio Silvestri, Narayan Bhamidipati: Context- and Content-aware Embeddings for Query Rewriting in Sponsored Search. SIGIR 2015: 383-392

25. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Di Jiang, Fabrizio Silvestri, Beverly Harrison: Predicting The Next App That You Are Going To Use. WSDM 2015: 285-294

26. Daniele Broccolo, Craig Macdonald, Salvatore Orlando, Iadh Ounis, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Nicola Tonellotto: Load-sensitive selective pruning for distributed search. CIKM 2013: 379-388

27. Marco Pennacchiotti, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hossein Vahabi, Rossano Venturini: Making your interests follow you on twitter. CIKM 2012: 165-174

28. Claudio Lucchese, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hossein Vahabi, Rossano Venturini: How Random Walks Can Help Tourism. ECIR 2012: 195-206

29. Francesco Bonchi, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hossein Vahabi, Rossano Venturini: Efficient query recommendations in the long tail via center-piece subgraphs. SIGIR 2012: 345-354

30. Simon Jonassen, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Fabrizio Silvestri: Prefetching query results and its impact on search engines. SIGIR 2012: 631-640

31. Diego Ceccarelli, Claudio Lucchese, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri: Caching query-biased snippets for efficient retrieval. EDBT 2011: 93-104

32. Claudio Lucchese, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Gabriele Tolomei: Identifying task-based sessions in search engine query logs. WSDM 2011: 277-286

33. Fabrizio Silvestri, Rossano Venturini: VSEncoding: efficient coding and fast decoding of integer lists via dynamic programming. CIKM 2010: 1219-1228

34. Ranieri Baraglia, Fidel Cacheda, Victor Carneiro, Diego Fernández, Vreixo Formoso, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri: Search shortcuts: a new approach to the recommendation of queries. RecSys 2009: 77-84

35. Fabrizio Silvestri: Sorting Out the Document Identifier Assignment Problem. ECIR 2007: 101-112

36. Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Carlos Castillo, Flavio Junqueira, Vassilis Plachouras, Fabrizio Silvestri: Challenges on Distributed Web Retrieval. ICDE 2007: 6-20

37. Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Aristides Gionis, Flavio Junqueira, Vanessa Murdock, Vassilis Plachouras, Fabrizio Silvestri: The impact of caching on search engines. SIGIR 2007: 183-190

38. Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, Aristides Gionis, Vanessa Murdock, Fabrizio Silvestri: Know your neighbors: Web spam detection using the web topology. SIGIR 2007: 423-430

39. Diego Puppin, Stefano Moncelli, Ranieri Baraglia, Nicola Tonellotto, Fabrizio Silvestri: A Grid Information Service Based on Peer-to-Peer. Euro-Par 2005: 454-464

40. Tiziano Fagni, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri: A Highly Scalable Parallel Caching System for Web Search Engine Results. Euro-Par 2004: 347-354

41. Fabrizio Silvestri, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego: Assigning identifiers to documents to enhance the clustering property of fulltext indexes. SIGIR 2004: 305-312

42. Ranieri Baraglia, Fabrizio Silvestri: An Online Recommender System for Large Web Sites. Web Intelligence 2004: 199-205

43. Salvatore Orlando, Paolo Palmerini, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri: Scheduling High Performance Data Mining Tasks on a Data Grid Environment. Euro-Par 2002: 375-384

44. Salvatore Orlando, Paolo Palmerini, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri: Adaptive and Resource-Aware Mining of Frequent Sets. ICDM 2002: 338-345

45. Salvatore Orlando, Paolo Palmerini, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri: An Efficient Parallel and Distributed Algorithm for Counting Frequent Sets. VECPAR 2002: 421-435

46. Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri: Design of a Parallel and Distributed Web Search Engine. ParCo 2001: 197-204

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