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Here we present the final results of the MAPS (Marine Planning and Service Platform) project, an environment designed for gathering, classifying, managing and accessing marine scientific literature and data, making it available for search to Operative Oceanography researchers of various institutions by means of standard protocols. The system takes as input non-textual data (measurements) and text - both published papers and documentation - and it provides an advanced search facility thanks to the rich set of metadata and, above all, to the possibility of a refined and domain targeted key-word indexing of texts using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. The paper describes the system in its details providing also evidence of evaluation. Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notes XA International

The work measures grey citations in the years 2012, 2013 and 2014 and then describes the features of GL documents cited in different areas of knowledge: Computational Linguistics, Computer Science and Engineering. With the aim of surveying a wide and varied range of resources, we selected a sample data based on the bibliographical references of articles contained in four journals - all indexed by Scopus Citation Database and ISI Web of Science, with an Impact Factor (IF) over the last three years - and two proceedings of international conferences held in 2012 and 2014. Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notes XA International

The following title was published on an influential Italian newspaper, La Stampa, on November 7, 2013. “Tra i tesori della ‘Letteratura Grigia’ un’Eneide in napoletano del ‘600”. The article is about the presentation of the “Fondo De Mauro” on the Italian Network of Popular Culture: this fund originates from a private collection built up in several decades and donated to the Network by Tullio De Mauro and his wife Silvana Ferreri in 2011; it is made up of thousands of books, brochures, pamphlets relating to Italian dialects and minority languages. In the field of healthcare, while browsing on the web, we found the title of a PhD thesis of last year: “Letteratura Grigia nelle meta-analisi delle prove ripartite con scelta casuale degli interventi di sanità”. In the legal environment, the title of a Seminar at the University of Siena emerges from the web: “La “centralità” della legge e la letteratura grigia. Profili di politica del diritto in Italia tra Otto e Novecento” . From these findings, the idea of a survey on the wide variety of grey material available on Italian web portals arose. A first analysis showed that this material is available in different forms and dissemination is carried out through various means such as thematic bibliographies, newspapers articles, various types of documents published in PDF format or simple descriptions on web sites. The following are a few examples excerpted from some home pages belonging to our corpus: - Collection of grey literature. The Historical Archive of Women candidates for becoming the repository where the memories about these themes will be stored… - Grey literature ... Master copies · Reprints · Unreleased copies · Grey Literature. Archives for the history of Education… - Grey literature. The high quality brand of parks… - … International grey literature; national and international legislative data on the topic of drug addiction and related themes; documentary archive ... - Besides literature in German, there is literature in other languages and grey literature as well – in particular catalogues of museums and exhibitions… - It is about a few thousand of books, brochures and documents of grey literature concerning two topics, Italian dialects and minority languages… Given this scenario, the research aims at verifying whether – and eventually how much – the grey literature available on the web is actually structured, accessible or even managed by systems dealing with its organization and aiming at its retrieval and storing. The utmost goal is to build up a map of non-academic communities and their mechanisms for managing, presenting and disseminating this type of material. It is a sort of journey among the streams of the Web which channel meeting minutes, invites, manifests, fliers, pictures, newspapers articles, journalistic services and audio/video material on various topics. These “grey” products – by conveying basic information about social and popular culture – store, represent and spread knowledge. Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notes XA International

The MAPS (Marine Planning and Service Platform) project is a development of the Marine project (Ricerca Industriale e Sviluppo Sperimentale Regione Liguria 2007-2013) aiming at building a computer platform for supporting a Marine Information and Knowledge System, as part of the data management activities. One of the main objective of the project is to develop a repository that should gather, classify and structure marine scientific literature and data thus guaranteeing their accessibility to researchers and institutions by means of standard protocols. We will present the scenario of the Operative Oceanography together with the technologies used to develop an advanced search engine which aims at providing rapid and efficient access to a Digital Library of oceanographic data. The case-study is also highlighting how the retrieval of grey literature from this specific marine community could be reproduced for similar communities as well, thus revealing the great impact that the processing, re-use as well as application of grey data have on societal needs/problems and their answers. Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notes XA International

The survey is focused on the documentation produced by the European Commission (EC) projects involved in the Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (hereafter FP7) and managed by the Italian National Research Council (hereafter CNR). In particular, the Grey Literature (GL) available on CORDIS1 and European Projects websites was analysed. In order to verify how it is managed and whether it is compliant with EC recommendations, some categories were introduced to identify, measure and evaluate the usability and availability of projects production. Data was obtained from a sample of European projects websites. Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notes XA International

The aim of this paper is to introduce the Open Access movement for Natural Language Processing (NLP) by means of a wide range of open access Grey Literature documentation available on the web. In 2008 Robert Dale, in the last issue of volume 35 of Computational Linguistics said: "There are a number of definitions of the term 'open access' in circulation, but almost all share the key principle that scientific literature should be freely available for all to read, download, copy, distribute, and use (with appropriate attribution) without restriction". At first glance it might seem that the Open Access movement has gradually become more influential in the field of language technology by building repositories accessible through the network. Today's digital archives are niches of intellectual production spread by means of a wide range of documents (such as journal articles and proceedings) which, paradoxically, the search engines do not always reach. The use of inappropriate terms in the formulation of queries and the fragmentation of repositories in this area of investigation does not allow to retrieve information on a large scale. The full paper, after a first introductory section, will be organized in two sections: 1) the first dedicated to the methodology for searching and tracing open access resources and to the criteria for analyzing and selecting the online documentation; 2) the second devoted to a description of the state-of-the-art of Open Access Grey Literature material in a statistical and thematic scenario. As things stand, standardization of computational systems interconnected by links and tools of various nature allowing Internet users to easily retrieve the information that the web naturally makes available would then be essential. Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notes XA International

This study wants to explore new ways of social media communication for Grey Literature. In particular it describes the role of social media in relation with traditional channels and how social media applications can be used for Grey. Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notes XA International

The conventionally accepted definition of Grey Literature, as Information produced and distributed by non-commercial publishing, does not take into consideration either the increasing availability of forms of grey knowledge, or the growing importance of computer-based encoding and management as the standard mode of creating and developing grey literature. Semi-automated terminological analysis of almost twenty years of terminological creativity in the proceedings of eleven GL International Conferences offers the opportunity to pave the way to a bottom-up redefinition of Grey Literature stemming from attested terminological creativity and lexical innovation. In this paper, we focus on a set of automatically-acquired terms obtained by subjecting our reference Corpus to a number of pre-processing steps of automated text analysis, such as concordances, frequency lists and lexical association scores. Acquired terms allow us to throw in sharp relief developing trends and important shifts of emphasis in the current understanding of the notion of Grey Literature. Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notes, Pratt student commentary XA International

The advent and exponential development of the World Wide Web has led to an increasing availability of distributed knowledge and information resources. Most often, such knowledge meets requirements of the web community that are hardly addressed by other more traditional information channels. The recent fast-growing availability of Italian on-line teaching materials, courses and tutorials on Language Technologies represents an interesting case study. The phenomenon is closely related to the growing popularity of Computing and Humanities courses in the curricula of Italian universities and also meets a non specialist demand for a more aware use of language as a vehicle for querying and accessing web-based information. A more intelligent and personalized use of the most popular search-engines ties in with a deeper understanding of how texts are automatically searched and indexed and how text information is internally represented and eventually made available by computers. A new generation of self-taught web users is getting more and more aware of the potentials and limits of the current language-based technology. When people understand better and better what sort of queries make sense in what contexts and why, they will most likely use this knowledge to avoid the strictures of precompiled information repositories and ontologies and to exploit the web in more personalized and creative ways. In the full version of our contribution, we intend to survey the increasing availability of on-line teaching materials on language technologies in Italian, and discuss this in connection with the growing popularity of Computing and Humanities courses in the curricula of Italian universities, and its potential for providing access to a wider community of users. Nowadays, language technologies seem to offer the unprecedented opportunity to meet the requirements for structured, categorical knowledge and the subjective, user-centred information demands of Net citizens. Nonetheless, Italian publishing houses have so far been capable of addressing the general public need for a more aware use of current technologies only to a very limited extent. In this context, the Italian Grey Literature is playing an important role: most academic and tutorial materials are available on the Web, creating a potential access for a wider community of users. Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notes XA International

This paper presents the results of a study on grey literature (GL) in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Our data has been collected in a corpus of ca 13,000 records corresponding to the titles of papers presented at International Conferences from 1950 to June 2008. A statistical representation of the most significant terms relative to GL in NLP and other interrelated disciplines associates old and new words, highlighting the terminological changes that have taken place in the course of time. Aim of our study is to contribute to the creation of language resources for the extraction of GL coming from the Web in order to help prevent the disappearance of documents containing NLP words that have undergone rapid development over the last decades. This paper is organised as follows: after a general introduction to our work, section 2 provides a historical overview of NLP; sections 3 and 4 offer an account of the most relevant terms used by specialists in different periods, and indicative of the changes that have taken place; section 5 describes the methodology we have used and also contains information on our GL database and a graphical representation of the data. Finally, the conclusions stress the need to integrate pre-existing or obsolete words and expressions, creating NLP synonym relations. Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notes XA International