2024
Clause extraction using machine translation and natural language processing (US Patent 12086559 - GRANTED)
A Hybrid Cognitive Contract Application for Identifying Accounting Risks in Contractual Language. NLDB 2024.
Identifying and replacing logically neutral phrases in natural language queries for query processing (US Patent 11971887 - GRANTED)
Refining understanding of natural language database queries (US Patent 11907226 - GRANTED)
2023
Domain Adaptation of a State of the Art Text-to-SQL Model: Lessons Learned and Challenges Found (arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.05448)
Logical role determination of clauses in conditional constructions of natural language (US Patent App. 17/682,177)
2022
Natural Language Interface for Process Mining Queries in Healthcare. Big Data 2022 (BDA4HM).
Tackling Temporal Questions in Natural Language Interface to Databases. EMNLP 2022.
Addressing Limitations of Encoder-Decoder Based Approach to Text-to-SQL. COLING 2022.
Clause Extraction Using Machine Translation and Natural Language Processing. (US Patent App. 17/219,030)
2021
Programmatic Database Language Generation for Big Data Applications. Big Data 2021 (KDDBHI).
Recognizing and Splitting Conditional Sentences for Automation of Business Processes Management . RANLP 2021.
2020
Identifying Motion Entities in Natural Language and A Case Study for Named Entity Recognition. COLING 2020.
LiMiT: The Literal Motion in Text Dataset. EMNLP 2020 (Findings).
2019
A Natural Language Interface Supporting Complex Logic Questions for Relational Databases. NLDB 2019.
Tackling Complex Queries to Relational Databases. ACIIDS 2019.
2018
A Large Resource of Patterns for Verbal Paraphrases. LREC 2018.
QUEST: A Natural Language Interface to Relational Databases. LREC 2018.
Method and System for Identifying User Issues in Forum Posts based on Discourse Analysis. (US Patent 10,120,864 - GRANTED)
Semantic Search in Document Review on a Tangible User Interface. (US Patent App. 15/407,507)
2017
Experimenting Word Embeddings in Assisting Legal Review. ICAIL 2017.
2016
DISCO: A System Leveraging Semantic Search in Document Review. COLING 2016.
A Multi-layer System for Semantic Textual Similarity. KDIR 2016. (Finalist for Best Paper Award)
Analysis of the Impact of Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics for Semantic Textual Similarity. AI*IA 2016.
Corpora for Learning the Mutual Relationship between Semantic Relatedness and Textual Entailment. LREC 2016.
Contributions to Semantic Textual Similarity Algorithms. PhD Thesis. University of Trento.
Identifying User Issues and Request Types in Forum Question Posts based on Discourse Analysis. WWW 2016 (Q4ASP).
2015
Semantic Relatedness and Textual Entailment via Corpus Patterns. CLIN 26 (Poster).
Learning the Impact and Behavior of Syntactic Structure: A Case Study in Semantic Textual Similarity. RANLP 2015.
Learning the Impact of Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics for Semantic Textual Similarity. RANLP 2015.
A Preliminary Evaluation of the Impact of Syntactic Structure in Semantic Textual Similarity and Semantic Relatedness Tasks. NAACL 2015 (SRW).
Paraphrase Identification and Semantic Similarity in Twitter with Simple Features. NAACL 2015 (SocialNLP).
FBK-HLT: A New Framework for Semantic Textual Similarity. NAACL 2015 (SemEval).
FBK-HLT: An Effective System for Paraphrase Identification and Semantic Similarity in Twitter. NAACL 2015 (SemEval).
FBK-HLT: An Application of Semantic Textual Similarity for Answer Selection in Community Question Answering. NAACL 2015 (SemEval).
2014
Towards Disambiguating Typed Predicate- Argument Structures for Italian. CliC-it 2014.
Fast and Accurate Misspelling Correction in Large Corpora. EMNLP 2014.
FBK-TR: Applying SVM with Multiple Linguistic Features for Cross-Level Semantic Similarity. COLING 2014 (SemEval).
FBK-TR: SVM for Semantic Relatedeness and Corpus Patterns for RTE. COLING 2014 (SemEval).