Publication List of Alberto Lavelli

• Alberto Lavelli, Anna Corazza.
  The Berkeley Parser at the EVALITA 2009 Constituency Parsing Task.
  In Proceedings of the Workshop on Evaluation of NLP Tools for Italian (EVALITA 2009), December 2009.

• Alberto Lavelli, Johan Hall, Jens Nilsson, and Joakim Nivre.
  MaltParser at the EVALITA 2009 Dependency Parsing Task.
  In Proceedings of the Workshop on Evaluation of NLP Tools for Italian (EVALITA 2009), December 2009.

• José Iria, Spiros Nikolopoulos, Martin Mozina, Alberto Lavelli, Claudio Giuliano, Lorenza Romano, Damjan Kuznar, Ioannis Kompatsiaris.
  Cross-Media Knowledge Extraction in the Car Manufacturing Industry.
  In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'09), New Jersey, USA, November 2009.

• Alberto Lavelli, Mary Elaine Califf, Fabio Ciravegna, Dayne Freitag, Claudio Giuliano, Nick Kushmerick, Lorenza Romano, Neil Ireson.
  Evaluation of Machine Learning-based Information Extraction Algorithms: Criticisms and recommendations.
  Language Resources and Evaluation, 42(4), pages 361-393, 2009.

• Marina Giordanino, Claudio Giuliano, Damjan Kuznar, Alberto Lavelli, Martin Mozina, Lorenza Romano.
  Cross-Media Knowledge Acquisition: A Case Study.
  In Proceedings of the SAMT-2008 workshop on Cross-media information analysis, extraction and management, December 2008.

• C. Bosco, A. Mazzei, V. Lombardo, G. Attardi, A. Corazza, A. Lavelli, L. Lesmo, G. Satta, M. Simi.
  Comparing Italian parsers on a common treebank: the Evalita experience.
  In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morocco, 28-30 May 2008.

• Claudio Giuliano, Alberto Lavelli, Lorenza Romano.
  Relation Extraction and the Influence of Automatic Named-Entity Recognition.
  ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, 5(1), December 2007.

• José Iria, Victoria Uren, Alberto Lavelli, Sebastian Blohm, Aba-sah Dadzie, Thomas Franz, João Magalhães, Spiros Nikolopoulos, Christine Preisach, Piercarlo Slavazza.
  Enhancing Enterprise Knowledge Processes via Cross-Media Extraction.
  In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP 2007), Whistler, BC, Canada, 28-31 October 2007.

• Anna Corazza, Alberto Lavelli, Giorgio Satta.
  Phrase-Based Statistical Parsing.
  In Proceedings of the Workshop on Evaluation of NLP Tools for Italian (EVALITA 2007), Rome, Italy, 10 September 2007. Appeared as special issue of Intelligenza Artificiale, the journal of Associazione Italiana Intelligenza Artificiale (AI*IA), IV(2): 38-39, June 2007.

• Claudio Giuliano, Alberto Lavelli, Daniele Pighin, Lorenza Romano.
  FBK-IRST: Kernel Methods for Semantic Relation Extraction.
  In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval-2007), Prague, Czech Republic, June 23-24 2007.

• Henri Avancini, Alberto Lavelli, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Roberto Zanoli.
  Automatic Expansion of Domain-Specific Lexicons by Term Categorization. (A pre-final version is available here)
  ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, 3(1): 1-30, May 2006.

• Claudio Giuliano, Alberto Lavelli, Lorenza Romano.
  Exploiting Shallow Linguistic Information for Relation Extraction from Biomedical Literature.
  In Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2006), Trento, Italy, 5-7 April 2006.

• Lorenza Romano, Milen Kouylekov, Idan Szpektor, Ido Dagan, Alberto Lavelli.
  Investigating a Generic Paraphrase-Based Approach for Relation Extraction.
  In Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2006), Trento, Italy, 5-7 April 2006.

• Claudio Giuliano, Alberto Lavelli, Lorenza Romano.
  Simple Information Extraction (SIE): A Portable and Effective IE System.
  In Proceedings of the EACL-06 Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining (ATEM-2006), Trento, Italy, 4 April 2006.

• Neil Ireson, Fabio Ciravegna, Mary Elaine Califf, Dayne Freitag, Nick Kushmerick, Alberto Lavelli.
  Evaluating Machine Learning for Information Extraction.
  In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2005), Bonn, Germany, 7-11 August, 2005.

• Claudio Giuliano, Alberto Lavelli, Lorenza Romano.
  Filtering Uninformative Words to Speed up IE: ITC-irst Participation in the PASCAL challenge.
  In Proceedings of the PASCAL challenges workshop, Southampton, UK, 13 April 2005.

• Claudio Giuliano, Alberto Lavelli, Lorenza Romano.
  Information extraction activities at ITC-irst.
  In Proceedings of the Dagstuhl Seminar on Machine Learning for the Semantic Web, Dagstuhl, Germany, 13-18 February 2005.

• Anna Corazza, Alberto Lavelli, Giorgio Satta, Roberto Zanoli.
  Analyzing an Italian Treebank with State-of-the-Art Statistical Parsers.
  In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT-2004), Tübingen, Germany, 10-11 December 2004.

• Alberto Lavelli, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Roberto Zanoli.
  Distributional Term Representations: An Experimental Comparison.
  In Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-2004), Washington, USA, 9-11 November 2004.

• J. Iria, F. Ciravegna, P. Cimiano, A. Lavelli, E. Motta, L. Gilardoni, E. Mönch.
  Integrating Information Extraction, Ontology Learning and Semantic Browsing into Organizational Knowledge Processes.
  In Proceedings of the EKAW 2004   Workshop on the Application of Language and Semantic Technologies to support Knowledge Management Processes, Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, UK, October 2004.

• Alberto Lavelli, Mary Elaine Califf, Fabio Ciravegna, Dayne Freitag, Claudio Giuliano, Nick Kushmerick, Lorenza Romano.
  IE evaluation: Criticisms and recommendations.
  In Proceedings of the AAAI-04 Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining (ATEM-2004), San Jose, California, 26 July 2004.

• Alberto Lavelli, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Roberto Zanoli.
  An Experimental Comparison of Term Representations for Term Management Applications.
  In Proceedings of the 12th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD-2004), pages 190-201, S. Margherita di Pula, Italy, 21-23 June 2004.

• Fabio Ciravegna, Alberto Lavelli.
  LearningPinocchio: Adaptive Information Extraction for Real World Applications.
  Natural Language Engineering, 10(2): 145-165, June 2004.
  (Substantially extended version of the paper presented at ROMAND 2002)

• Alberto Lavelli, Mary Elaine Califf, Fabio Ciravegna, Dayne Freitag, Claudio Giuliano, Nick Kushmerick, Lorenza Romano.
  A Critical Survey of the Methodology for IE Evaluation.
  In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004), pages 1655-1658, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004.

• P. Cimiano, F. Ciravegna, J. Domingue, S. Handschuh, A. Lavelli, S. Staab, and M. Stevenson.
  Requirements for Information Extraction for Knowledge Management.
  In Proceedings of the Knowledge Management and Semantic Annotation Workshop at the Second International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP-2003), Sanibel, Florida, October 2003.

• Henri Avancini, Alberto Lavelli, Bernardo Magnini, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Roberto Zanoli.
  Expanding Domain-Specific Lexicons by Term Categorization.
  In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC-03), pages 793-797, Melbourne, Florida, March 2003.

• Fabio Ciravegna, Alberto Lavelli.
  Full Parsing Approximation for Information Extraction via Finite-State Cascades.
  Natural Language Engineering (special issue on Robust Methods in Analysis of Natural Language Data), 8(2-3): 145-165, June 2002.

• Alberto Lavelli, Bernardo Magnini, Fabrizio Sebastiani.
  Building Thematic Lexical Resources by Bootstrapping and Machine Learning.
  In Proceedings of the LREC 2002 workshop on Linguistic Knowledge Acquisition and Representation: Bootstrapping Annotated Language Data, pages 53-62, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, 1 June 2002.

• Alberto Lavelli, Fabio Pianesi, Ermanno Maci, Irina Prodanof, Luca Dini, Giampaolo Mazzini.
  SiSSA: An Infrastructure for Developing NLP Applications.
  In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), pages 1047-1054, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, 29-31 May 2002.

• Alberto Lavelli, Fabio Pianesi, Ermanno Maci, Irina Prodanof, Luca Dini, Giampaolo Mazzini.
  SiSSA - A Software Infrastructure for Developing Distributed NLP Applications.
  In Proceedings of the Workshop on Modular Programming applied to Natural Language Processing  held as part of EUROLAN'01 Summer School, Iasi, Romania, 6-8 August 2001.

• Alberto Lavelli, Fabio Pianesi, Ermanno Maci, Irina Prodanof, Luca Dini, Giampaolo Mazzini.
  SiSSA - An Infrastructure for NLP Application Development.
  In Proceedings of the ACL/EACL2001  Workshop on Sharing Tools and Resources for Research and Education, Toulouse, France, 7 July 2001.

• Fabio Ciravegna, Alberto Lavelli, Giorgio Satta.
  Bringing Information Extraction out of the Labs: the PINOCCHIO Environment.
  In Werner Horn (editor), ECAI 2000. Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 416-420, IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2000.

• Fabio Ciravegna, Luca Gilardoni, Alberto Lavelli, Silvia Mazza, William Black, Massimo Ferraro, Nadia Mana, Johannes Matiasek, Fabio Rinaldi.
  Flexible Text Classification for Financial Applications. The FACILE System.
  PAIS-2000, Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems, sub-conference of ECAI-2000. In Werner Horn (editor), ECAI 2000. Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 696-700, IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2000.

• Fabio Ciravegna, Alberto Lavelli.
  Grammar Organization for Cascade-Based Parsing in Information Extraction.
  In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2000), pages 297-298, Trento, Italy, 23-25 February 2000.

• Fabio Ciravegna, Alberto Lavelli, Nadia Mana, Luca Gilardoni, Silvia Mazza, Massimo Ferraro, Johannes Matiasek, William Black, Fabio Rinaldi, David Mowatt.
  FACILE: Classifying Texts Integrating Pattern Matching and Information Extraction.
  In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'99), pages 890-895, Stockholm, Sweden, 31 July - 6 August 1999.

• Fabio Ciravegna, Alberto Lavelli.
  Full Text Parsing using Cascades of Rules: an Information Extraction Perspective.
  In Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'99), pages 102-109, Bergen, Norway, 8-12 June 1999.

• Fabio Ciravegna, Alberto Lavelli, Daniela Petrelli, Fabio Pianesi.
  Developing Language Resources and Applications with Geppetto.
  In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'98), pages 619-625, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998.

• Fabio Pianesi, Fabio Ciravegna Alberto Lavelli, Daniela Petrelli.
  Sistemi per lo Sviluppo di Applicazioni di NLP: l'ambiente Geppetto.
  In AI*IA Notizie, pages 5-13, March 1998.

• Fabio Ciravegna, Alberto Lavelli, Giorgio Satta.
  Efficient Full Parsing for Information Extraction.
  In Proceedings of the Meeting of the Working Groups on Automatic Learning and Natural Language of the Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale (AI*IA), Turin, Italy, 9-10 December 1997.

• Fabio Ciravegna, Alberto Lavelli.
  Controlling Bottom-Up Chart Parsers through Text Chunking.
  In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'97), pages 30-41, Boston, Massachusetts, 17-20 September 1997.

• Fabio Ciravegna, Alberto Lavelli, Daniela Petrelli, Fabio Pianesi.
  Participatory Design for Linguistic Engineering: the Case of the GEPPETTO Development Environment.
  In Proceedings of the ACL/EACL Workshop on Computational Environments for Grammar Development and Linguistic Engineering, pages 16-23, Madrid, Spain, 12 July 1997.

• Bianca Angelini, Mauro Cettolo, Anna Corazza, Daniele Falavigna, Alberto Lavelli, Gianni Lazzari, Fabio Pianesi, Oliviero Stock.
  Preliminary Results of the C-STAR Project at IRST.
  In Proceedings of the C-STAR Workshop, Kyoto, Japan, 10-11 September 1996.

• Paolo Bresciani, Alberto Lavelli, Bernardo Magnini, Daniela Petrelli, Oliviero Stock, Carlo Strapparava, Massimo Zancanaro.
  Il prototipo di TAMIC: accesso all'informazione per il cittadino in linguaggio naturale.
  In Pietro Mercatali, Giovanni Soda, Daniela Tiscornia (editors), Progetti di Intelligenza Artificiale per la Pubblica Amministrazione, Franco Angeli, pages 167-184, 1996.

• Paolo Bresciani, Alberto Lavelli, Bernardo Magnini, Daniela Petrelli, Oliviero Stock, Carlo Strapparava, Massimo Zancanaro.
  Un'interfaccia basata su linguaggio naturale per lo sportellista della Pubblica Amministrazione: il prototipo di TAMIC.
  In AI*IA notizie - Numero monografico su Interfacce Intelligenti, pages 16-21, September 1996.

• Paolo Bresciani, Alberto Lavelli, Bernardo Magnini, Daniela Petrelli, Oliviero Stock, Carlo Strapparava, Massimo Zancanaro.
  Il prototipo di TAMIC: una interfaccia mediata per il cittadino basata su linguaggio naturale.
  In Atti del Workshop su Interfacce Intelligenti, Rome, Italy, April 1996.

• Fabio Ciravegna, Alberto Lavelli.
  On Parsing Control for Efficient Text Analysis.
  In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'95), pages 148-149, Prague and Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, September 1995.
  This is a 2 page abstract; you can find an extended version of this paper among the technical reports at the bottom of this page.

• Anna Corazza, Alberto Lavelli.
  An N-Best Representation for Bidirectional Parsing Strategies.
  In Working Notes of the AAAI'94 Workshop on Integration of Natural Language and Speech Processing, pages 7-14, Seattle, Washington, 31 July - 1 August 1994.

• Oliviero Stock, Giuseppe Carenini, Federico Cecconi, Enrico Franconi, Alberto Lavelli, Bernardo Magnini, Fabio Pianesi, Marco Ponzi, Vieri Samek-Lodovici, Carlo Strapparava.
  ALFRESCO: Enjoying the Combination of Natural Language Processing and Hypermedia for Information Exploration.
  In Mark T. Maybury (editor), Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces, The MIT Press, pages 197-224, chapter 9, 1993
  (Extended and revised version of a paper previously published at IJCAI'91).

• Alberto Lavelli, Bernardo Magnini, Carlo Strapparava.
  An Approach to Multilevel Semantics for Applied Systems.
  In Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP'92), pages 17-24, Trento, Italy, April 1992.

• Alberto Lavelli, Bernardo Magnini.
  Lexical Discrimination within a Multilevel Semantics Approach.
  In E. Ardizzone, S. Gaglio, F. Sorbello (editors), Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the 2nd Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA, pages 455-459, Palermo, Italy, October 1991.

• Alessandra Giorgi, Alberto Lavelli, Fabio Pianesi, Giorgio Satta, Oliviero Stock.
  Tre parser per una lingua (Three parsers for a language).
  In Jurgen Rolshoven, Dieter Seelbach (editors), Romanistische Computerlinguistik. Theorien und Implementationen, Max Niemeyer Verlag, pages 77-104, Tubingen, Germany, 1991.

• Giuseppe Carenini, Alberto Lavelli, Marco Ponzi.
  Natural Limits of Artificial Realities.
  In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cyberspace, Santa Cruz, California, April 1991.

• Alberto Lavelli, Giorgio Satta.
  Bidirectional Parsing of Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars.
  In Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'91), pages 27-32, Berlin, Germany, April 1991.

• Alberto Lavelli, Oliviero Stock.
  When Something Is Missing: Ellipsis, Coordination and the Chart.
  In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'90), pages 184-189, Helsinki, Finland, August 1990.

• Alberto Lavelli, Oliviero Stock.
  Quando l'input non è una frase: una soluzione basata su chart per alcuni fenomeni di malformatezza. (When Input Is Not a Sentence: a Chart-Based Solution for Some Ill-Formedness Phenomena)
  In Proceedings of the 1st Conference of Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale (AI*IA'89), pages 59-67, Trento, Italy, November 1989.

• Oliviero Stock, Alberto Lavelli.
  Natural Language Access to Knowledge: a Prototype and a Prospect for the Field of Law.
  In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Expert Systems in Law, pages 723-739, Firenze, Italy, 1989.

Technical Reports

• Fabio Ciravegna, Alberto Lavelli, Daniela Petrelli, Fabio Pianesi.
  The GEPPETTO Development Environment. Version 2.1. User Manual.
  Technical Report, IRST, November 1997.

• Fabio Ciravegna, Alberto Lavelli, Daniela Petrelli, Fabio Pianesi.
  The GEPPETTO Development Environment. Version 2.0. User Manual.
  Technical Report, IRST, August 1996.

• Fabio Ciravegna, Alberto Lavelli, Fabio Pianesi.
  Linguistic Processing of Texts Using GEPPETTO.
  Technical Report, IRST, December 1995.

• Fabio Ciravegna, Alberto Lavelli.
  Controlling Bidirectional Parsing for Efficient Text Analysis.
  Technical Report 9508-02, IRST, August 1995.
  Extended version of the abstract presented at the 4th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'95).

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