140 results on '"Cremaschi M."'
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2. An experimental protocol to access immersiveness in video games
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Saibene, A, Corchs, S, Fontana, S, Solé-Casals, J, Malaspina, M, Amianto Barbato, J, Cremaschi, M, Gasparini, F, Grossi, A, Amianto Barbato, J., Cremaschi, M., Gasparini F., Grossi A., Saibene, A., Saibene, A, Corchs, S, Fontana, S, Solé-Casals, J, Malaspina, M, Amianto Barbato, J, Cremaschi, M, Gasparini, F, Grossi, A, Amianto Barbato, J., Cremaschi, M., Gasparini F., Grossi A., and Saibene, A.
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In the video game industry, great importance is given to the experience that the user has while playing a game. In particular, this experience benefits from the players' perceived sense of being in the game or immersion. The level of user immersion depends not only on the game's content but also on how the game is displayed, thus on its User Interface (UI ) and the Head’s-Up Display (HUD). Another factor influencing immersiveness that has been found in the literature is the player's expertise: the more experience the user has with a specific game, the less they need information on the screen to be immersed in the game. Player's level of immersion can be accessed by using both questionnaires of their perceived experience and exploiting their behavioural and physiological responses while playing the target game. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an experimental protocol to access immersiveness of gamers while playing a third-person shooter (Fortnite) with UIs with a standard, a dietetic, and a proposed HUD. A subjective evaluation of the immersion will be provided by completing the Immersive Experience Questionnaire (IEQ), while objective indicators will be provided by face tracking, behaviour and physiological responses analyses. The ultimate goal of this study is to define guidelines for video game UI development that can enhance the players' immersion.
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- 2023
3. MammoTab: a giant and comprehensive dataset for Semantic Table Interpretation
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Marzocchi, M, Cremaschi, M, Pozzi, R, Avogadro, R, Palmonari, M, Efthymiou, V, Jiménez-Ruiz, E, Chen, J, Cutrona, V, Hassanzadeh, O, Sequeda, J, Srinivas, K, Abdelmageed, N, Hulsebos, M, Marzocchi, M, Cremaschi, M, Pozzi, R, Avogadro, R, and Palmonari, M
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Semantic Table Interpretation, Tabular Data, SemTab Challenge, Knowledge Graph - Abstract
In this paper, we present MammoTab, a dataset composed of 1M Wikipedia tables extracted from over 20M Wikipedia pages and annotated through Wikidata. The lack of this kind of datasets in the state- of-the-art makes MammoTab a good resource for testing and training Semantic Table Interpretation approaches. The dataset has been designed to cover several key challenges, such as disambiguation, homonymy, and NIL-mentions. The dataset has been evaluated using MTab, one of the best approaches of the SemTab challenge.
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- 2023
4. s-elBat: a Semantic Interpretation Approach for Messy taBle-s
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Vasilis Efthymiou, Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Jiaoyan Chen, Vincenzo Cutrona, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Juan Sequeda, Kavitha Sriniva, Nora Abdelmageed, Madelon Hulsebos, Cremaschi, M, Avogadro, R, Chieregato, D, Cremaschi M., Avogadro R., Chieregato D., Vasilis Efthymiou, Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Jiaoyan Chen, Vincenzo Cutrona, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Juan Sequeda, Kavitha Sriniva, Nora Abdelmageed, Madelon Hulsebos, Cremaschi, M, Avogadro, R, Chieregato, D, Cremaschi M., Avogadro R., and Chieregato D.
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This paper describes s-elBat, a Semantic Table Interpretation approach. The approach inherits and improves the part of the techniques belonging to the MantisTable, an approach used and tested in previous editions of the SemTab challenge. s-elBat adds an innovative and optimised lookup approach for generating candidate entities for the annotation.
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- 2022
5. What Really Matters in a Table? Insights from a User Study
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Zhao, J, Fan, Y, Bagheri, E, Fuhr, N, Takasu, A, Cremaschi, M, Barbato, J, Rula, A, Palmonari, M, Actis-Grosso, R, Cremaschi M., Barbato J. A., Rula A., Palmonari M., Actis-Grosso R., Zhao, J, Fan, Y, Bagheri, E, Fuhr, N, Takasu, A, Cremaschi, M, Barbato, J, Rula, A, Palmonari, M, Actis-Grosso, R, Cremaschi M., Barbato J. A., Rula A., Palmonari M., and Actis-Grosso R.
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Better understanding human visual attention during reading can provide valuable insights for developing user-centred computations models. A considerable amount of data, presented in a tabular form, is used in daily activities and is available on the Web nowadays. Several approaches have proposed an automated table summarisation method to improve the users' experience and give them succinct summaries of tables. However, there has been little attention to considering user behaviour in the design of automated table summarisation. In this paper, we present the findings of an empirical study, where we investigate, with the help of standard User Experience tools (eye-tracking technology and surveys), how users approach the reading of a table. We focus on evaluating how the domain knowledge and interest of the users influence their comprehension, eventually identifying four possible user-profiles and their different information needs. In order to show the impact of our findings on the selection of the information to keep in summary, we present and release a tool that, in addition to supporting the development of similar experiments, allows checking the information presented in summary in the form of Resource Description Framework (RDF) triples, by exploiting the semantic annotation of the table.
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- 2022
6. Artificial Intelligence facing Multidimensional Poverty in Elderly
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Palumbo, F, Gasparini, F, Fracasso, F, Bandini, S, Borodi, V, Chieregato, D, Cremaschi, M, D'Antico, F, Messina, V, Terraneo, M, Terzera, L, Bandini S., Borodi V. M., Chieregato D., Cremaschi M., D'Antico F., Messina V., Terraneo M., Terzera L., Gasparini F., Palumbo, F, Gasparini, F, Fracasso, F, Bandini, S, Borodi, V, Chieregato, D, Cremaschi, M, D'Antico, F, Messina, V, Terraneo, M, Terzera, L, Bandini S., Borodi V. M., Chieregato D., Cremaschi M., D'Antico F., Messina V., Terraneo M., Terzera L., and Gasparini F.
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Poverty is a multidimensional concept that, besides the economic status and financial resources, should consider the lack of access to resources enabling a minimum standard of living and participation in society. In particular, elderly people are likely to require help with some or everyday activities and the total costs of this help can be very high and absorb a significant amount of their income, especially when they are alone and not in good health. This work proposes a strategy based on Bayesian Network to identify the risk of poverty in elderly people, relying on multidimensional indicators learned from heterogeneous sources of information, including the difficulty of accessing services, social exclusion and health status. Data cleaning and integration that include socio-demographic indicators are proposed here, and an overall framework of analysis that can be exportable to several other categories of the population at risk of poverty is presented.
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- 2022
7. LamAPI: A Comprehensive Tool for String-based Entity Retrieval with Type-base Filters
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Shvaiko, P, Euzenat, J, Jimenez-Ruiz, E, Hassanzadeh, O, Trojahn, C, Avogadro, R, Cremaschi, M, D'Adda, F, De Paoli, F, Palmonari, M, Avogadro R., Cremaschi M., D'Adda F., De Paoli F., Palmonari M., Shvaiko, P, Euzenat, J, Jimenez-Ruiz, E, Hassanzadeh, O, Trojahn, C, Avogadro, R, Cremaschi, M, D'Adda, F, De Paoli, F, Palmonari, M, Avogadro R., Cremaschi M., D'Adda F., De Paoli F., and Palmonari M.
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When information available in unstructured or semi-structured formats, e.g., tables or texts, comes in, finding links between strings appearing in these sources and the entities they refer to in some background Knowledge Graphs (KGs) is a key step to integrate, enrich and extend the data and/or KGs. This Entity Linking task is usually decomposed into Entity Retrieval and Entity Disambiguation because of the large entity search space. This paper presents an Entity Retrieval service (LamAPI) and discusses the impact of different retrieval configurations, i.e., query and filtering strategies, on the retrieval of entities. The approach is to augment the search activity with extra information, like types, associated with the strings in the original datasets. The results have been empirically validated against public datasets.
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- 2022
8. MammoTab: a giant and comprehensive dataset for Semantic Table Interpretation
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Efthymiou, V, Jiménez-Ruiz, E, Chen, J, Cutrona, V, Hassanzadeh, O, Sequeda, J, Srinivas, K, Abdelmageed, N, Hulsebos, M, Marzocchi, M, Cremaschi, M, Pozzi, R, Avogadro, R, Palmonari, M, Efthymiou, V, Jiménez-Ruiz, E, Chen, J, Cutrona, V, Hassanzadeh, O, Sequeda, J, Srinivas, K, Abdelmageed, N, Hulsebos, M, Marzocchi, M, Cremaschi, M, Pozzi, R, Avogadro, R, and Palmonari, M
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In this paper, we present MammoTab, a dataset composed of 1M Wikipedia tables extracted from over 20M Wikipedia pages and annotated through Wikidata. The lack of this kind of datasets in the state- of-the-art makes MammoTab a good resource for testing and training Semantic Table Interpretation approaches. The dataset has been designed to cover several key challenges, such as disambiguation, homonymy, and NIL-mentions. The dataset has been evaluated using MTab, one of the best approaches of the SemTab challenge.
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- 2023
9. An Artificial Intelligence approach to predict mutidimensional poverty of older people from unlabelled data
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Fracasso, F, Gasparini, F, Milella, F, Olearo, L, D'Adda, F, Messina, V, Cremaschi, M, Bandini, S, Fracasso, F, Gasparini, F, Milella, F, Olearo, L, D'Adda, F, Messina, V, Cremaschi, M, and Bandini, S
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Despite the rapid development in very recent years of Artificial Intelligence models to predict poverty, this problem still remains an unsolved open issue especially in a multidimensional perspective. In this work we present our proposal to face multidimensional poverty in case of a fragile population, the older adults, starting from an unlabelled dataset, collected administering a proper questionnaire to about 500 individuals. Firstly a model that allows to label the collected data into three classes of poverty is proposed. Then, XGBoost and Naive Bayes classifiers are considered to solve the classification problem. Finally, after having determined the relative importance of each feature, a novel Naive Bayes model is proposed that relies on new aggregated features that represent five poverty dimensions. These aggregated features are obtained by properly combining the variables collected through the questionnaire with cut-offs defined by a domain expert.
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- 2023
10. Borders and migrants in Europe
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Banks, M, Berglund, E, Bifulco, L, Blokker, P, Boatcă M, Bonvin, JM, Borghi, V, Burawoy, M, Busso, S, Cefaï, D, Centemeri, L, Chan, J, Chiara, M, Cremaschi, M, Diaz-Bone, R, Eyal, G, Farzin, S, Fassin, D, Froud, J, Garcia, M, Go, J, Laruffa,F, Morlicchio, E, Ngai, P, Noiret, S, Normand, R, Olori, D, Pellegrino, V, Pellizzoni, L, Routh, S, Salento, A, Sekulić, T, Selden, M, Torre, S, Tuorto, D, Yuan, S, Yuhua, G, Williams, K., Borghi, V., Sekulic, T, Banks, M, Berglund, E, Bifulco, L, Blokker, P, Boatcă M, Bonvin, JM, Borghi, V, Burawoy, M, Busso, S, Cefaï, D, Centemeri, L, Chan, J, Chiara, M, Cremaschi, M, Diaz-Bone, R, Eyal, G, Farzin, S, Fassin, D, Froud, J, Garcia, M, Go, J, Laruffa,F, Morlicchio, E, Ngai, P, Noiret, S, Normand, R, Olori, D, Pellegrino, V, Pellizzoni, L, Routh, S, Salento, A, Sekulić, T, Selden, M, Torre, S, Tuorto, D, Yuan, S, Yuhua, G, Williams, K., Borghi, V., and Sekulic, T
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It could be affirmed that with the fall of the Berlin Wall a new history of migration in Europe began, challenging previous models of interpretation of the phenomenon. I propose to observe and analyse the transformation on three different scales. The first one - that of the national state - regards the constellation of citizenship regimes and alteration of models of integration within Western European countries in the perspective of the ‘failure of multiculturalism’. The second - transnational internal European scale - concerns the dialectics between the EU citizens’ residence and labour mobility regime within the territory of the Union, and the persistent consideration of these people as ‘internal migrants’. The third one - the global scale - tackles the issue of ‘people on the move’ - regarding the constant waves of (forced) migration along Mediterranean and Balkan routes - that has been producing the ‘refugee crisis’ since 2015. Understanding the phenomenon and contrasting either scientifically or publicly the symbolic and effective violence and victims it has been producing, has became a challenge for the ‘public face of sociology’ and its aim of defending the interests of humanity (Burawoy 2005, XI Thesis: 24).
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- 2023
11. MantisTable V: A novel and efficient approach to Semantic Table Interpretation
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Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Vasilis Efthymiou, Jiaoyan Chen, Vincenzo Cutrona, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Juan Sequeda, Kavitha Sriniva, Nora Abdelmageed, Madelon Hulsebo, Daniela Oliveira, Catia Pesquita, Avogadro, R, Cremaschi, M, Avogadro R., Cremaschi M., Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Vasilis Efthymiou, Jiaoyan Chen, Vincenzo Cutrona, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Juan Sequeda, Kavitha Sriniva, Nora Abdelmageed, Madelon Hulsebo, Daniela Oliveira, Catia Pesquita, Avogadro, R, Cremaschi, M, Avogadro R., and Cremaschi M.
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In this paper, we present MantisTable V, a novel unsupervised and automatic approach for the Semantic Table Interpretation. The approach is performed against DBpedia and Wikidata, and it can be easily adapted to any other Knowledge Graph. Moreover, we provide a tool (LamAPI) that allows to efficiently fetch data needed for Semantic Table Interpretation tasks from the Knowledge Graph dumps. The approach is manageable through a User Interface (tUI), a separated tool, which allows the visualisation and modification of table data and semantic annotations.
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- 2021
12. A Framework for Quality Assessment of Semantic Annotations of Tabular Data
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Hotho, A, Blomqvist, E, Dietze, S, Fokoue, A, Ding, Y, Barnaghi, P, Haller, A, Dragoni, M, Alani, H, Avogadro, R, Cremaschi, M, Jimenez-Ruiz, E, Rula, A, Avogadro R., Cremaschi M., Jimenez-Ruiz E., Rula A., Hotho, A, Blomqvist, E, Dietze, S, Fokoue, A, Ding, Y, Barnaghi, P, Haller, A, Dragoni, M, Alani, H, Avogadro, R, Cremaschi, M, Jimenez-Ruiz, E, Rula, A, Avogadro R., Cremaschi M., Jimenez-Ruiz E., and Rula A.
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Much information is conveyed within tables, which can be semantically annotated by humans or (semi)automatic approaches. Nevertheless, many applications cannot take full advantage of semantic annotations because of the low quality. A few methodologies exist for the quality assessment of semantic annotation of tabular data, but they do not automatically assess the quality as a multidimensional concept through different quality dimensions. The quality dimensions are implemented in STILTool 2, a web application to automate the quality assessment of the annotations. The evaluation is carried out by comparing the quality of semantic annotations with gold standards. The work presented here has been applied to at least three use cases. The results show that our approach can give us hints about the quality issues and how to address them.
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- 2021
13. A fully automated approach to a complete Semantic Table Interpretation
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Cremaschi, M, De Paoli, F, Rula, A, Spahiu, B, Cremaschi M., De Paoli F., Rula A., Spahiu B., Cremaschi, M, De Paoli, F, Rula, A, Spahiu, B, Cremaschi M., De Paoli F., Rula A., and Spahiu B.
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In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in extracting and annotating tables on the Web. This activity allows the transformation of text data into machine-readable formats to enable the execution of various artificial intelligence tasks, e.g. semantic search and dataset extension. Semantic Table Interpretation is the process of annotating elements in a table. Current approaches are mainly based on lexical matching algorithms that rely on metadata associated with tables or custom Knowledge Graphs. Their main limitations are due to the lack of metadata, the little use of contextual semantics, and the incompleteness of the proposed methods that do not include all the necessary steps. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive approach and a tool that provides an unsupervised method to annotate independent tables, possibly without header row or other external information. The approach is based on the definition of a context created from the elements within the table in order to discriminate among matching entities found in shared Knowledge Graphs and create high-quality annotations. The approach has achieved excellent results in an international challenge, thus proving its effectiveness.
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- 2020
14. MantisTable SE: An efficient approach for the semantic table interpretation
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Jiménez-Ruiz, E, Hassanzadeh, O, Efthymiou, V, Chen, J, Srinivas, K, Cutrona, V, Cremaschi, M, Avogadro, R, Barazzetti, A, Chieregato, D, Cremaschi M., Avogadro R., Barazzetti A., Chieregato D., Jiménez-Ruiz, E, Hassanzadeh, O, Efthymiou, V, Chen, J, Srinivas, K, Cutrona, V, Cremaschi, M, Avogadro, R, Barazzetti, A, Chieregato, D, Cremaschi M., Avogadro R., Barazzetti A., and Chieregato D.
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In this paper, we present a novel unsupervised and automatic approach for Semantic Table Interpretation. The technique presented is performed against DBpedia and Wikidata, and it can be easily adapted to any other Knowledge Graph (KG). Moreover, we provide a tool (LamAPI) that allows to efficiently fetch data needed for Semantic Table Interpretation (STI) tasks from the KG dumps.
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- 2020
15. Bridging the gap between human-gaze data and table summarisation
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Saibene, A, Corchs, S, Solé-Casals, J, Amianto Barbato, J, Cremaschi, M, Saibene, A, Corchs, S, Solé-Casals, J, Amianto Barbato, J, and Cremaschi, M
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Understanding users’ reading behaviour can facilitate and support the development of data lexicalisation models based on users’ characteristics. A significant amount of data can be found online in tabular form, and several models have been developed to provide the user with summaries of the content of such tables. Nevertheless, studies analysing table reading patterns are almost entirely lacking in the literature, making it almost impossible to integrate findings on user reading behaviour into lexicalisation models. This work aims to suggest a new line of gaze-related research that can integrate insights about user behaviour and characteristics into data summarisation algorithms to provide textual content that meets the user’s information needs. An overview of human-gaze studies applied to natural language will be presented to outline a study on human interaction with tables. Potential fields of application and challenges in applying these results to the field of table summarisation, namely the task of producing short summaries of tabular data, from a user-centred perspective will be discussed.
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- 2022
16. How to preserve healthy aging through nutritional strategies: The new approach of the Food Social Network (Food NET) project
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Giuseppe, R, Colleoni, M, Cremaschi, M, Daconto, L, Napoli, I, Gallace, A, Guzzetti, L, Labra, M, Maurino, A, Tomasinelli, C, Vincenti, A, Zizzari, S, Cena, H, Giuseppe, Rachele De, Colleoni, Matteo, Cremaschi, Marco, Daconto, Luca, Napoli, Ilaria Di, Gallace, Alberto, Guzzetti, Lorenzo, Labra, Massimo, Maurino, Andrea, Tomasinelli, Chiara, Vincenti, Alessandra, Zizzari, Sara, Cena, Hellas, Giuseppe, R, Colleoni, M, Cremaschi, M, Daconto, L, Napoli, I, Gallace, A, Guzzetti, L, Labra, M, Maurino, A, Tomasinelli, C, Vincenti, A, Zizzari, S, Cena, H, Giuseppe, Rachele De, Colleoni, Matteo, Cremaschi, Marco, Daconto, Luca, Napoli, Ilaria Di, Gallace, Alberto, Guzzetti, Lorenzo, Labra, Massimo, Maurino, Andrea, Tomasinelli, Chiara, Vincenti, Alessandra, Zizzari, Sara, and Cena, Hellas
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BACKGROUND: Aging is a process that does not refer only to the accumulation of damage in a human being over time but rather to individual changes determined by genetic, lifestyle, social and environmental factors. Aging is one of the greatest known risk factors for most human diseases. An older person in good health has a good level of independence, weighs less on the national health system and plays a productive and active role in his/her community; thus, the concept of 'healthy aging', reflecting older adult-environment fit should be promoted. The interactions between lifestyle, including nutrition, and health play a fundamental role in the aging process; eating habits and eating behaviours are recognized as important modifiable factors potentially leading to a healthy 'phenotype'. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS: A multidisciplinary consortium with three Italian universities (the University of Milano-Bicocca, University of Pavia and University of Calabria) and Italian Small-Medium Enterprises proposed the Food Social Network (Food NET) project. Food NET overall outcome is to achieve target-specific guidelines and exact technologies for accessible functional foods, aimed at improving the quality of life and nutritional status of citizens (aged>65) of the Metropolitan City of Milan (Italy). CONCLUSIONS: This project is part of the 'Smart Living' and food-related strategies aimed at responding to the needs of this target population, developing new food products, appropriate to meet the specific requirements and ensuring and promoting sustainable diets for healthy aging by effective food policy approaches.
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- 2022
17. Preface of ICRAIC 2021
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Wang, Y., Xie, F., Li, H., Ruan, W., Cui, G., Jiao, J., Carbone, G., Chen, Y., Liu, H., Song, W., Yu, F., Wu, P., Zhang, D., Kang, G., Theodoropoulos, G., Duan, Q., Sezer, V., Ramos, M., Jr., Mj, V., de Caro, J. S., Ekström, Mikael, Hidalgo, I. I., Eshuis, R., Zhao, J., Sun, R., Lv, P., Huang, L., Qian, W., Yu, Y., Huang, H., Zhang, L., Liu, W., Shi, H., Huang, J., Liu, Z., Faci, N., Wang, S., Zhang, Y., Han, Z., Portela, F., Cremaschi, M., Samuel, O. W., Tanveer, M. H., Wang, Y., Xie, F., Li, H., Ruan, W., Cui, G., Jiao, J., Carbone, G., Chen, Y., Liu, H., Song, W., Yu, F., Wu, P., Zhang, D., Kang, G., Theodoropoulos, G., Duan, Q., Sezer, V., Ramos, M., Jr., Mj, V., de Caro, J. S., Ekström, Mikael, Hidalgo, I. I., Eshuis, R., Zhao, J., Sun, R., Lv, P., Huang, L., Qian, W., Yu, Y., Huang, H., Zhang, L., Liu, W., Shi, H., Huang, J., Liu, Z., Faci, N., Wang, S., Zhang, Y., Han, Z., Portela, F., Cremaschi, M., Samuel, O. W., and Tanveer, M. H.
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- 2022
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18. MammoTab: a giant and comprehensive dataset for Semantic Table Interpretation
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Efthymiou, V, Jiménez-Ruiz, E, Chen, J, Cutrona, V, Hassanzadeh, O, Sequeda, J, Srinivas, K, Abdelmageed, N, Hulsebos, M, Marzocchi, M, Cremaschi, M, Pozzi, R, Avogadro, R, Palmonari, M, Efthymiou, V, Jiménez-Ruiz, E, Chen, J, Cutrona, V, Hassanzadeh, O, Sequeda, J, Srinivas, K, Abdelmageed, N, Hulsebos, M, Marzocchi, M, Cremaschi, M, Pozzi, R, Avogadro, R, and Palmonari, M
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In this paper, we present MammoTab, a dataset composed of 1M Wikipedia tables extracted from over 20M Wikipedia pages and annotated through Wikidata. The lack of this kind of datasets in the state- of-the-art makes MammoTab a good resource for testing and training Semantic Table Interpretation approaches. The dataset has been designed to cover several key challenges, such as disambiguation, homonymy, and NIL-mentions. The dataset has been evaluated using MTab, one of the best approaches of the SemTab challenge.
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- 2022
19. Culture and policymaking. Pluralism, performativity, and semiotic capital
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Cremaschi M., Fioretti C., Mannarini T., Salvatore S., Cremaschi, M., Fioretti, C., Mannarini, T., and Salvatore, S.
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- 2021
20. Semantic table interpretation using MantisTable
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Shvaiko P.,Euzenat J.,Jimenez-Ruiz E.,Jimenez-Ruiz E.,Hassanzadeh O.,Trojahn C., Cremaschi, M, Rula, A, Siano, A, de Paoli, F, Cremaschi M., Rula A., Siano A., de Paoli F., Shvaiko P.,Euzenat J.,Jimenez-Ruiz E.,Jimenez-Ruiz E.,Hassanzadeh O.,Trojahn C., Cremaschi, M, Rula, A, Siano, A, de Paoli, F, Cremaschi M., Rula A., Siano A., and de Paoli F.
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- 2019
21. Supporting journalism by combining neural language generation and knowledge graphs
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Cremaschi, M, Bianchi, F, Maurino, A, Pierotti, A, Cremaschi M., Bianchi F., Maurino A., Pierotti A. P., Cremaschi, M, Bianchi, F, Maurino, A, Pierotti, A, Cremaschi M., Bianchi F., Maurino A., and Pierotti A. P.
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Natural Language Generation is a field that is becoming relevant in several domains, including journalism. Natural Language Generation techniques can be of great help to journalists, allowing a substantial reduction in the time required to complete repetitive tasks. In this position paper, we enforce the idea that automated tools can reduce the effort required to journalist when writing articles; at the same time we introduce GazelLex (Gazette Lexicalization), a prototype that covers several steps of Natural Language Generation, in order to create soccer articles automatically, using data from Knowledge Graphs, leaving journalists the possibility of refining and editing articles with additional information. We shall present our first results and current limits of the approach, and we shall also describe some lessons learned that might be useful to readers that want to explore this field.
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- 2019
22. Le datazioni radiocarboniche delle strutture al margine 423 del Villaggio Grande della Terramara Santa Rosa di Poviglio
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Cremaschi, M and Gallinaro, M.
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età del bronze ,terramara ,radiocarbonio ,analisi bayesiana - Published
- 2021
23. Symbolic Universes and (Post)Crisis Scenarios
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Salvatore S., Mannarini T., Avdi E., Battaglia F., Cremaschi M., Forges Davanzati, G. Fini, V. Kadianaki, I. Krasteva, A. Kullasepp, K. Matsopoulos, A. Mølholm, M. Rozlyn, Rochira A., Russo F., Sammut G., Santarpia A., Valmorbida A., Veltri G. A., S. Salvatore, V. Fini, T. Mannarini, J. Valsiner, G.A. Veltri (Eds.), Salvatore, S., Mannarini, T., Avdi, E., Battaglia, F., Cremaschi, M., Forges, Davanzati, Fini, G., V., Kadianaki, I., Krasteva, A., Kullasepp, K., Matsopoulo, A., Mølholm, M., Rozlyn, Rochira, A., Russo, F., Sammut, G., Santarpia, A., Valmorbida, A., and Veltri, G. A.
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symbolic universes - Published
- 2019
24. Late Holocene onset of intensive cultivation and introduction of the falaj irrigation system in the Salut oasis (Sultanate of Oman)
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Cremaschi, M, Degli Esposti, M, Fleitmann, D, Perego, A, Sibilia, E, Zerboni, A, Cremaschi M., Degli Esposti M., Fleitmann D., Perego A., Sibilia E., Zerboni A., Cremaschi, M, Degli Esposti, M, Fleitmann, D, Perego, A, Sibilia, E, Zerboni, A, Cremaschi M., Degli Esposti M., Fleitmann D., Perego A., Sibilia E., and Zerboni A.
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This paper discusses the time and steps of the introduction of intensive agriculture and evolution of irrigation systems to sustain crops in the palaeo-oasis of Salut in the northern Sultanate of Oman. Various geoarchaeological methods allow reconstructing the exploitation of the natural resources of the region and technological development of irrigation methods since the Mid-Holocene. Intensive agriculture started during the Bronze Age and continued with some spatial and intensity fluctuations up to the Islamic period. Cultivations were initially sustained by surface irrigation systems and later replaced by a dense net of aflaj, the typical surface/underground system adopted in the Levant, Arabian Peninsula and western Asia to collect water from deep piedmont aquifers and redistribute it to the fields located in the lowlands. Our results indicate that the aflaj were in use for a long period in the palaeo-oasis formed along Wadi Sayfam and surrounding the citadel of Salut. Uranium-Thorium dating of calcareous tufa formed in the underground tunnels of the aflaj suggests that they were used between ∼540 BCE and ∼1150 CE. After ∼1150 CE Wadi Sayfam were abandoned and the size of the oasis shrank substantially. During the late Islamic period, a surface aqueduct descending from the piedmont of Jabal Shams secured water supply. Our work confirms that in arid lands archaeological and historical communities were able to actively modulate their response to climate changes by using a variety of technological strategies.
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25. Cambiamenti climatici, gestione sostenibile delle risorse, salute delle società e dell’ambiente: il caso studio della Terramara S. Rosa di Poviglio
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Clo', E., Zerboni, A., Cremaschi, M., and Mercuri, A. M.
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- 2020
26. L’ambiente delle terramare: territorio e vita di una popolazione dell’età del bronzo ricostruiti tramite la palinologia
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Zappa, J., Clo', E., Florenzano, A., Torri, P., Furia, E., Montecchi, M. C., Mercuri, A. M., Zerboni, A., and Cremaschi, M.
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- 2020
27. ENABLING TABULAR DATA UNDERSTANDING BY HUMANS AND MACHINES THROUGH SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION
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Cremaschi, M, MAURINO, ANDREA, DE PAOLI, FLAVIO MARIA, CREMASCHI, MARCO, Cremaschi, M, MAURINO, ANDREA, DE PAOLI, FLAVIO MARIA, and CREMASCHI, MARCO
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Esiste un numero significativo di documenti, report e pagine Web – un'analisi riporta 233 milioni di tabelle relazionali nel repository Common Crawl contenente un totale 2,85 miliardi di documenti – che fanno uso di tabelle per fornire informazioni che non possono essere facilmente elaborate dagli umani o capite dai computer. Per risolvere questo problema proponiamo un nuovo approccio che permetterà ai computer di interpretare la semantica di una tabella, e fornirà agli umani una rappresentazione più accessibile dei dati contenuti in essa. Per conseguire questo obiettivo, il problema principale è stato suddiviso in tre sotto-problemi: (i) la definizione di un metodo per fornire un'interpretazione semantica dei dati di una tabella; (ii) la definizione di un modello descrittivo che permetta ai computer di capire e condividere dati di una tabella; e (iii) la definizione di processi, tecniche e algoritmi per generare rappresentazioni dei dati in linguaggio naturale. Per quanto riguarda il sotto-problema (i), la rappresentazione semantica dei dati è stata ottenuta attraverso l'applicazione di tecniche di interpretazione di tabelle (table interpretation), che aiuta gli utenti ad identificare, in una maniera semi-automatica, il significato dei dati di una tabella e le relazioni tra di essi. Queste tecniche considerano in input una tabella e un Knowledge Graph, e restituiscono una rappresentazione RDF – un set di tuple
– del contenuto della tabella, facendo riferimento ai concetti e alle proprietà del KG. Questa dissertazione presenta un nuovo approccio che, a partire dai lavori presenti in letteratura, ha portato allo sviluppo di un nuovo strumento, chiamato MantisTable, che effettua automaticamente un'interpretazione semantica completa della tabella. Gli esperimenti condotti hanno mostrato buoni risultati, rispetto alle tecniche e ai tool simili. Il sotto-problema (ii) è stato affrontato con la definizione di nuovi modi di rappresenta, A significant number of documents, reports and Web pages –an analysis reports 233M relational tables within the Common Crawl repository of 1.81 billion documents– makes use of tables to convey information that cannot be easily processed by humans, and understood by computers. To address this issue, we propose a new approach that allows computers to interpret the semantics of a table, and provides humans with a more accessible representation of the data contained in a table. To achieve the objective, the general problem has been broken down into three sub-problems: (i) define a method to provide a semantic interpretation of table data; (ii) define a descriptive model that allows computers to understand and share table data; and (iii) define processes, techniques and algorithms to generate natural language representation of the table data. Regarding sub-problem (i), the semantic representation of a data has been obtained through the application of table interpretation techniques, which supports users to identify in a semi-automatic way the meaning of the data in the table and the relationships between them. Such techniques take a table and a Knowledge Graph (KG) as input, and deliver as output an RDF representation –a set of tuples –. The output contains the input table annotated with the KG concepts and properties. This thesis presents a new approach, rooted in the existing literature, to laid the foundations for the development of a new tool -called MantisTable- which automatically performs a complete semantic interpretation of a table. The conducted experiments have shown good results compared to similar techniques. Sub-problem (ii) has been tackled by defining new ways of representing data. A new kind of description has been defined that combines the OpenAPI specification with the JSON-LD. The results of semantic table interpretation techniques are exploited to enhance a popular description format and allow automatic retrieval and proce - Published
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28. STILTool: A Semantic Table Interpretation evaLuation Tool
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Harth, A, Presutti, V, Troncy, R, Acosta, M, Polleres, A, Fernández, JD, Xavier Parreira, J, Hartig, O, Hose, K, Cochez, M, Cremaschi, M, Siano, A, Avogadro, R, Jimenez-Ruiz, E, Maurino, A, Harth, A, Presutti, V, Troncy, R, Acosta, M, Polleres, A, Fernández, JD, Xavier Parreira, J, Hartig, O, Hose, K, Cochez, M, Cremaschi, M, Siano, A, Avogadro, R, Jimenez-Ruiz, E, and Maurino, A
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This paper describes STILTool, an open-source tool for the automatic evaluation of the quality of semantic annotations computed by semantic table interpretation approaches. STILTool provides a graphical interface allowing users to analyse the correctness of the annotations of tabular data. The tool also provides a set of statistics in order to identify the most common error patterns.
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- 2020
29. Holocene Climatic Changes and Cultural Dynamics in the Libyan Sahara
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Cremaschi, M. and Di Lernia, S.
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30. Tra tipi e forme. Perché la sociologia urbana deve lavorare sulle dinamiche
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Cremaschi M., Gales P. L. E., Cremaschi, M., and Gales, P. L. E.
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This article considers the papers included in the special section of «Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia» on forms of urbanisation in Italy. Urbanisation affects ever wider territories, spreading the effects of Wirth’s triad (mass, density and heterogeneity) and raising questions of typologies and morphology, central concepts of sociology. This article reviews some international debates that frame these methodological issues, in order to position urban sociology among competing disciplinary and theoretical interpretative efforts. It criticizes in particular how scholars connect the material side of urbanisation with social urban dynamics. In order to do so, the paper sketches a comparative analysis of urban dynamics in France and in Italy, stressing the consequences of different governance systems. The aim is to underline some disciplinary confusions and to reaffirm the role of actors, institutions and coalitions that shape both phenomenologies and dynamics. In conclusion, together with the articles in the special section, it shows that urbanization brings together – rather than warding off – different types of cities, despite their marked historical paths. We argue that urban sociology should focus more on those who build, undergo and evaluate such urbanization processes, a concern that has been somehow less prominent in urban studies.
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- 2018
31. Policies and Sensemaking
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Andriola, V., Been, W., Cremaschi, M., Fini, V., Matsopoulos, A., Willet, J., Salvatore, S., Mannarini, T., Valsiner, J., Veltri, G.A., Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS) (CEE), Sciences Po (Sciences Po)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Sergio Salvatore, Viviana Fini, Terri Mannarini, Jaan Valsiner, Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri, Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (CEE), Sciences Po Institutional Repository, Spire, and AIAS (FdR)
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Stylized fact ,symbolic universes ,[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology ,policy-making ,[SHS.SOCIO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology ,05 social sciences ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,021107 urban & regional planning ,02 engineering and technology ,Sensemaking ,0506 political science ,symbolic universes, policy-making ,Order (business) ,Capital (economics) ,050602 political science & public administration ,Cultural development ,Semiotics ,Sociology ,Positive economics - Abstract
This chapter outlines the implication of the Re.Cri.Re. analysis of European societies’ cultural milieu for policy-making. It is claimed the strategic need of carrying out policies of cultural development, as intended within the Re.Cri.Re. framework, a policy of cultural development is aimed at two main purposes: on the one hand, to define social practices that promote semiotic capital, namely the positive experience of institutions and more in general of the systemic rules; on the other hand, to introduce constraints on the opacification of the system, in order to reduce the deficit of sense it fuels. The chapter is dedicated to outline the purpose and the methodological framework of policies of cultural development as well as to present thirteen suggestions of possible actions of this kind. These suggestions target three broad domains: institutions, economy and vital worlds. In order to clarify the methodological tenets and the suggestion, a few stylized excerpts from case-studies examined during the Re.Cri.Re. project are provided.
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32. The collapse of the Terramare culture (Northern Italy): a question of climate change or human overexploitation of natural resources?
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Cremaschi, M., Mercuri, A. M., Florenzano, A., Clò, E., Zanchetta, G., Regattieri, E., Isola, I., Brandolini, F., Mariani, G. S., and Zerboni, A.
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33. Short-range aeolian transport in high mountain environments: an overlooked phenomenon
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Mariani, G. S., Zerboni, A., Crouvi, O., Cremaschi, M., and Trombino, L
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- 2019
34. The Road to Canossa revised: using geoarchaeological tools to unveil the interaction between cultural and natural landscapes in Medieval times
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Mariani, G. S., Brandolini, F., Cremaschi, M., Pelfini, M., and Zerboni, A
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- 2019
35. MantisTable: A Tool for Creating Semantic Annotations on Tabular Data
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Hitzler, P, Kirrane, S, Hartig, O, de Boer, V, Vidal, ME, Maleshkova, M, Schlobach, S, Hammar, K, Lasierra, N, Stadtm"uller, S, Hose, K, Verborgh, R, Cremaschi, M, Rula, A, Siano, A, De Paoli, F, Hitzler, P, Kirrane, S, Hartig, O, de Boer, V, Vidal, ME, Maleshkova, M, Schlobach, S, Hammar, K, Lasierra, N, Stadtm"uller, S, Hose, K, Verborgh, R, Cremaschi, M, Rula, A, Siano, A, and De Paoli, F
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This paper describes MantisTable, an open source Semantic Table Interpretation tool, which automatically annotates tables using a Knowledge Graph. MantisTable provides a graphical interface allowing users to analyse the results of the semantic table interpretation process and validate the final annotations. The tool also provides a guided mode for viewing and editing annotations by users. Thanks to MantisTable features, it is possible to create semantic annotations and favour the publication and exchange of tabular data.
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- 2019
36. Mantistable: An automatic approach for the semantic table interpretation
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Jiménez-Ruiz, E, Hassanzadeh, O, Srinivas, K, Efthymiou, V, Chen, J, Cremaschi, M, Avogadro, R, Chieregato, D, Jiménez-Ruiz, E, Hassanzadeh, O, Srinivas, K, Efthymiou, V, Chen, J, Cremaschi, M, Avogadro, R, and Chieregato, D
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- 2019
37. The site of San Michele di Valestra: new evidence of Apennines exploitation during the Bronze Age (XV–XII cent. -BC, Northern Italy)
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Cremaschi, M., Mariani, G. S., Brandolini, F., and Mercuri, A. M.
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- 2018
38. Towards a map of the Upper Pleistocene loess in the Po Plain Loess Basin
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Zerboni, A., Amit, R., Baroni, C., Coltorti, M., Ferrario, M. F., Fioraso, G., Forno, M. G., Frigerio, C., Gianotti, F., Irace, A., DI LIVIO, Fiorenza, Mariani, G. S., Michetti, A. M., Monegato, Giovanni Virgilio, Mozzi, P., Orombelli, G., Perego, Alessia, Porat, N., Rellini, I., Trombino, L., and Cremaschi, M.
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- 2018
39. A practical approach to services composition through light semantic descriptions
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Cremaschi, M, De Paoli, F, Kritikos, K, Plebani, P, Cremaschi, M, De Paoli, F, Kritikos, K, and Plebani, P
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Services composition has been much investigated over the last decade without reaching shared and consolidated results mainly for the lack of interoperable descriptions of services and the consequent need of extensive user intervention. In this paper, we propose a light and practical approach to create machine-readable descriptions of output data that can be merged or used (as-is or adapted) as input data to other services. The solution relies on the popular and standard OpenAPI descriptions augmented with annotations based on JSON-LD format. Services descriptions are created by table annotations techniques applied on sets of given or retrieved output values. The approach has been implemented in a tool and validated with a set of real services.
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- 2018
40. Micromorphology and site formation processes in the Castrum Popilii Medieval Motte (N Italy)
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Brandolini, F, Trombino, L, Sibilia, E, Cremaschi, M, Brandolini, F, Trombino, L, Sibilia, E, and Cremaschi, M
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This paper presents the results of the geoarchaeological study of a medieval motte known in historical documents as “Castrum Popilii” (Poviglio, Northern Italy). The Castrum Popilii motte, for its particular environmental characteristics, represents an exceptional case study for the Early Medieval Age in Po Valley. In 1989 an archaeological rescue excavation revealed an exceptionally well-preserved stratigraphic sequence at the northern side of the Santo Stefano church. The study of the archaeological materials and thin soil sections collected during this campaign, integrated with geoarchaeological observations, allowed the reconstruction of the natural and anthropogenic processes involved in the formation of the Santo Stefano di Poviglio stratigraphy sequence. The area also referred to as “Santo Stefano di Poviglio”, exposed the eastern limit of the medieval motte, characterizes by a sequence of occupation deposits, living floors, and wooden structural remains dated between the late 9th and the 11th centuries AD. The micromorphological study of this archaeological site led to developing a new hypothesis about the use of lime-based plaster in the construction of domestic living floors in a rural early medieval village in Central Po Plain. The sealing of the sequence due to the construction of a stone stronghold in the 15th century, combined with waterlogging, preserved the deposit from reworking by bioturbation and later human activities. On the other hand, water stagnation influenced a series of post-depositional migration and accumulation of iron–manganese and phosphatic features. The geoarchaeological tools applied in this study allowed to maximize the data collected in a rescue situation in 1989 highlighting new information about the genesis and development of Castrum Popilii medieval motte.
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- 2018
41. Palynology of the Terramare, the Middle Bronze age of the Po Plain (SUCCESSO-TERRA project)
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Mercuri, A. M., Florenzano, A., Torri, P., Mazzanti, M., Clò, E., Furia, E., Zerboni, A., and Cremaschi, M.
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- 2017
42. The Smart Methodology for the Life Cycle of Services
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BATINI, CARLO, Castelli, M, COMERIO, MARCO, Cremaschi, M, Iaquinta, L, Torsello, A, Viscusi, G., Batini, C, Castelli, M, Comerio, M, Cremaschi, M, Iaquinta, L, Torsello, A, and Viscusi, G
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Services, Service Science, Methodology, Service Value ,ING-INF/05 - SISTEMI DI ELABORAZIONE DELLE INFORMAZIONI - Published
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43. Toward automatic semantic API descriptions to support services composition
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Cremaschi, M, De Paoli, F, DePaoli, F, Schulte, S, Johnsen, EB, Cremaschi, M, De Paoli, F, DePaoli, F, Schulte, S, and Johnsen, EB
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The ability to provide appropriate and complete API descriptions to let users discover services that satisfy a set of requirements and compose them to fulfil more complex users’ needs is critical for the success of any modern ICT solution. Composition suffers from the lack of semantic matching between properties included in published API descriptions. The work presented in this paper addresses this issue by discussing the current formats and tools to build API descriptions, and presenting a method for extracting and associating semantic to properties. Such method relies on a revised version of Table Interpretation techniques to support semantic annotations of API properties. The objectives are to enrich the popular OpenAPI Specification format with semantic annotations, and add the functionality of semantic annotation and composition to the associated editor.
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44. Actively Learning to Rank Semantic Associations for Personalized Contextual Exploration of Knowledge Graphs
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Bianchi, F, Palmonari, M, Cremaschi, M, Fersini, E, BIANCHI, FEDERICO, PALMONARI, MATTEO LUIGI, CREMASCHI, MARCO, FERSINI, ELISABETTA, Bianchi, F, Palmonari, M, Cremaschi, M, Fersini, E, BIANCHI, FEDERICO, PALMONARI, MATTEO LUIGI, CREMASCHI, MARCO, and FERSINI, ELISABETTA
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Knowledge Graphs (KG) represent a large amount of Semantic Associations (SAs), i.e., chains of relations that may reveal interesting and unknown connections between different types of entities. Applications for the contextual exploration of KGs help users explore information extracted from a KG, including SAs, while they are reading an input text. Because of the large number of SAs that can be extracted from a text, a first challenge in these applications is to effectively determine which SAs are most interesting to the users, defining a suitable ranking function over SAs. However, since different users may have different interests, an additional challenge is to personalize this ranking function to match individual users’ preferences. In this paper we introduce a novel active learning to rank model to let a user rate small samples of SAs, which are used to iteratively learn a personalized ranking function. Experiments conducted with two data sets show that the approach is able to improve the quality of the ranking function with a limited number of user interactions.
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- 2017
45. Towards Augmented Choreography
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Bernini, D, DE MICHELIS, G, Plumari, M, Tisato, F, Cremaschi, M, BERNINI, DIEGO, DE MICHELIS, GIORGIO, TISATO, FRANCESCO, Cremaschi, M., Bernini, D, DE MICHELIS, G, Plumari, M, Tisato, F, Cremaschi, M, BERNINI, DIEGO, DE MICHELIS, GIORGIO, TISATO, FRANCESCO, and Cremaschi, M.
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Choreographers are interested in enriched performances where virtual actants play together with live performers. Augmented Choreography can be viewed as the definition of how perceptions generated from the environment turn into commands that influence the environment itself and, in particular, virtual actants. This paper introduces a modular and extensible architecture that supports the flexible and dynamic definition of augmented choreographies and presents an experimental application.
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- 2012
46. L'area centro padana tra il IV ed il III a.C. Aspetti geomorfologici ed impatto antropico
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Cremaschi, M. and Storchi, Paolo
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Geomorfologia, Romanizzazione ,Romanizzazione ,Geomorfologia - Published
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47. Enriching API descriptions by adding API profiles through semantic annotation
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Lucky, M, Cremaschi, M, Lodigiani, B, Menolascina, A, DE PAOLI, F, LUCKY, MEHERUN NESA, CREMASCHI, MARCO, DE PAOLI, FLAVIO MARIA, Lucky, M, Cremaschi, M, Lodigiani, B, Menolascina, A, DE PAOLI, F, LUCKY, MEHERUN NESA, CREMASCHI, MARCO, and DE PAOLI, FLAVIO MARIA
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In recent years several description tools and formats have been introduced for describing REST Web APIs both in human and machine readable formats. Although these descriptions provide functional information about the APIs (e.g. HTTP methods, URIs, model schema, etc.), the information that qualifies the properties of APIs (e.g. classification of input arguments and response data) is missing. We envisage that providing a complete set of information to the users will facilitate the composition of APIs to fulfil users’ specific needs. This paper analyses the current state of the art in Web API Descriptions and Semantic Annotations to show that although there are solutions with semantic capabilities, most of them fails to add semantic annotations automatically or semi-automatically. Moreover, advanced technical skills are needed to manage semantics and compose different Web APIs, which reduce the number of potential users of such solutions. The goal is to enhance actual API descriptions by creating a simple description format to annotate properties at semantic level to support semi-automatic composition. To achieve this goal, we propose an extension of the Open API Initiative (OAI) specification to create comprehensive descriptions. The approach focuses on the emerging concept of API Profiling to add descriptive information of data semantics by addressing Dublin Core Application Profile (DCAP) guidelines.
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48. La terramara Santa Rosa di Poviglio : strutture tra Villaggio Piccolo e Villaggio Grande : Nuovi dati dallo scavo 2015
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Cremaschi, M., Mutti, A., Baratti, Giorgio, Borgi, F., Brandolini, F., Donati, N., Ferrari, P., Fronza, G., Lachenal, T., Zerboni, A., G. Baratti (ORCID:0000-0001-7306-0133), Cremaschi, M., Mutti, A., Baratti, Giorgio, Borgi, F., Brandolini, F., Donati, N., Ferrari, P., Fronza, G., Lachenal, T., Zerboni, A., and G. Baratti (ORCID:0000-0001-7306-0133)
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The Terramara S. Rosa di Poviglio (Reggio Emilia, Po Plain of Northern Italy) whose excavation started in 1984, consists of two dwelling areas indicated as “Villaggio Piccolo” (VP) and “Villaggio Grande” (VG), dating back to the Middle Bronze Age (MBA) and to the Recent Bronze Age (RBA), respectively. The two areas are separated by a moat which, according to recent geophys- ical prospections, is crossed by a passage connecting the VP to the VG. This structure was investigated in the 2015 field opera- tion by opening a long excavation trench. The bottom of the moat was found to have been in use for a long period, from the late MBA to the RBA. Evidence of huge wooden structures, consisting of regular alignments of post holes, were found at the fringe of the VP. The margin of the moat close to the VP was covered by thick dumps, dating mostly to the RBA, discarded from the dwelling areas of the village into the moat. However inside these deposits, an exceptional quantity of small bronze items was re- covered which probably have to be related to an area of metallurgic activities
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49. The hominin frontal bone recently discovered in the Po Valley, Northern Italy
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Manzi, Giorgio, Bernardini, F., Caramelli, D., Cremaschi, M., DI VINCENZO, Fabio, Galli, C., Giabobini, G., Gigli, E., Lari, M., Lo Vetro, D., Martini, F., Muscolino, F., Persico, D., Poggiani Keller, R., Profico, Antonio, Ravara, S., Ravazzi, C., Zanolli, C., and Tuniz, C.
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Frontale ,Neanderta, Frontale, Valle del Po ,Valle del Po ,Neanderta - Published
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50. Thermoluminescence (TL) dating of burnt flints: problems, perspectives and some examples of application
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Martini, M, Sibilia, E, Croci, S, Cremaschi, M, MARTINI, MARCO, SIBILIA, EMANUELA, Cremaschi, M., Martini, M, Sibilia, E, Croci, S, Cremaschi, M, MARTINI, MARCO, SIBILIA, EMANUELA, and Cremaschi, M.
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Thermoluminescence (TL) dating is a powerful tool in archaeology, and its reliability has been checked since the early 1970s. It is, in principle, specific for ceramic, but it can also be successfully applied to other materials of archaeological interest, provided that they have been submitted in the past to some kind of heating up to several hundreds of degrees centigrade. This is the case of prehistoric flint deliberately or accidentally burnt by ancient man. Illustrating the specific aspects of this application, we report the TL dating results of a group of burnt flints from three prehistoric sites in northern Italy. The first two, Ghiardo and Ghiardello, are open-air sites close to Reggio Emilia, at the fringe of the Apennine on Middle Pleistocene terraces. The third, Fumane, is a large cave system in the Venetian Pre-Alps, in the Lessini plateau, close to Verona. It includes a thick Palaeolithic sequence, spanning the whole first Pleninglacial period. © 2001 Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS.
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- 2001
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