Matteo Negri

Publications


  • Negri, M., Magnini, B., Kouylekov, M.:
    Detecting Expected Answer Relations through Textual Entailment.
    To appear in Proceedings of CICling 2008, 9th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Haifa, Israel, February 17-23, 2008
  • Cabrio, E., Coppola, B., Kouylekov, M., Magnini, B., Negri M.:
    Question Answering Based Annotation for a Corpus of Spoken Requests
    Proceedings of SRSL-7, Workshop on the Semantic Representation of Spoken Language, Salamanca, Spain, November 13, 2007
  • Kouylekov, M., Negri M., Magnini, B., Coppola, B.:
    FBK-irst at CLEF-2007
    CLEF 2007 Working Notes, Budapest , Hungary, September 19-21, 2007
  • Negri M.:
    Dealing with Italian Temporal Expressions: the ITA-Chronos System
    Intelligenza Artificiale - Periodico trimestrale dell'Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale Anno IV - no 2, Giugno 2007
    Proceedings of EVALITA 2007 - Evaluation of NLP Tools for Italian, workshop organized in conjunction with AI*IA 2007, Roma, Italy, September 10-13, 2007.
  • Negri M., Kouylekov M.:
    "Who Are We Talking About?" Tracking the Referent in a Question Answering Series
    in Anaphora: Analysis, Algorithms and Applications, 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2007, Lagos Portugal, March 29-30, 2007, Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4410. Antonio Branco (Ed.) 2007, X, 191 p. ISBN: 978-3-540-71411-8
  • Kouylekov M., Negri M., Magnini B., Coppola B.:
    Towards Entailment-based Question Answering: ITC-irst at CLEF 2006
    Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval - 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Alicante, Spain, September 20-22, 2006, Revised Selected Papers Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4730/2007. Peters, C.; Clough, P.; Gey, F.C.; Karlgren, J.; Magnini, B.; Oard, D.W.; de Rijke, M.; Stempfhuber, M. (Eds.) 2007, XXIV, 998 p. ISBN: 978-3-540-74998-1
  • Magnini B., Cappelli, A., Pianta E., Speranza M., Bartalesi Lenzi V., Sprugnoli R., Romano L., Girardi C., Negri M.
    Annotazione di contenuti concettuali in un corpus italiano: I-CAB
    in Proceedings of SILFI 2006, X Congresso Internazionale della Societa' di Linguistica e Filologia Italiana, Firenze 14-17 giugno 2006.
  • Negri M., Kouylekov M., Magnini B., Coppola B.:
    Reconstructing DIOGENE: ITC-irst at TREC 2006
    TREC-2006 Notebook Papers, Gaithersburg, MD, November 2006.
  • Negri M., Saquete E., Martinez-Barco P., Munoz R.:
    Evaluating Knowledge-based Approaches to the Multilingual Extension of a Temporal Expression Normalizer
    ACL 2006 COLING-ACL 2006 Workshop on Annotating and Reasoning abput Time and Events (ARTE), Sydney, Australia, July 23, 2006.
  • Saquete E., Martinez-Barco P., Munoz R., Negri M., Speranza M., Sprugnoli R.:
    Multilingual Extension of a Temporal Expression Normalizer using Annotated Corpora
    EACL 2006 Workshop on Cross-Language Knowledge Induction, Trento, Italy, April 3, 2006.
  • B. Magnini, E. Pianta, C. Girardi, M. Negri, L. Romano, M. Speranza, R. Sprugnoli:
    I-CAB: the Italian Content Annotation Bank
    Proceedings of LREC 2006 Genova, Italy, May 24-26, 2006.
  • E. Saquete, P. Martinez-Barco, R. Munoz, N. Negri, M. Speranza, R. Sprugnoli:
    Automatic resolution rule assignment to multilingual temporal expressions using annotated corpora
    Proceedings of TIME 2006 International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, Budapest, Hungary, June 15-17, 2006.
  • Magnini B., Negri M., Tanev H., and Kouylekov M.:
    Bridging Languages for Question Answering
    KI - Kunstliche Intelligenz, 3/05, GI, 2005
  • Magnini B., Negri M., Pianta E., Romano L., Speranza M., Sprugnoli R.:
    From Text to Knowledge for the Semantic Web: the ONTOTEXT Project
    SWAP 2005, Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives, Trento, Italy, 14-15-16 December, 2005.
  • Tanev H., Kouylekov M., Magnini B., Negri M., Simov K.:
    Exploiting Linguistic Indices and Syntactic Structures for Multilingual Question Answering: ITC-irst at CLEF 2005
    Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories - Sixth Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005, Vienna, Austria, 21-23 September, 2005, Revised Selected Papers Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4022/2006. Peters, C.; Gey, F.; Gonzalo, J.; Mueller, H.; Jones, G.; Kluck, M.; Magnini, B.; de Rijke, M. (Eds.) 2006, XXI, 1013 p. ISBN: 978-3-540-45697-1
  • Lavelli A., Magnini B., Negri M., Pianta E., Speranza M., and Sprugnoli R.:
    Italian Content Annotation Bank (I-CAB): Temporal Expressions (V. 1.0).
    ITC-irst Technical Report, June 2005.
  • Tanev H., Negri M., Magnini M., and Kouylekov M.:
    The DIOGENE Question Answering System at CLEF-2004
    Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images - Fifth Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2004, Bath, UK, September 15-17, 2004, Revised Selected Papers Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3491/2005. Peters, C.; Clough, P.; Gonzalo, J.; Jones, G.J.F.; Kluck, M.; Magnini, B. (Eds.) 2005, XVI, 845 p. ISBN: 978-3-540-27420-9
  • Negri M.:
    Sense-based Blind Relevance Feedback for Question Answering
    SIGIR-2004 Workshop on Information Retrieval For Question Answering (IR4QA) Proceedings, Sheffield, UK, July 25-30, 2004.
  • Tanev H., Kouylekov M., Negri M., Coppola B., Magnini B.:
    Multilingual Pattern Libraries for Question Answering: a Case Study for Definition Questions
    Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ( LREC-2004 ) Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, May 26-28, 2004.
  • Negri M., Magnini B.:
    Using WordNet Predicates for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition
    Proceedings of the Second International WordNet Conference (GWC 2004), Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic, January 2004.
  • Negri M., Marseglia L.:
    Recognition and Normalization of Time Expressions
    TERN 2004 Evaluation Workshop, Alexandria, VA, USA, September 23, 2004. Technical Report
  • Kouylekov M., Magnini B., Negri M., Tanev H.:
    ITC-irst at TREC-2003: the DIOGENE QA system
    TREC-12 Conference Notebook Papers, Gaithersburg, MD, November 2003.
  • Negri M., Tanev H., and Magnini B.:
    Bridging Languages for Question Answering: DIOGENE at CLEF-2003
    Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems - Fourth Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2003, Trondheim, Norway, August 2003.Revised papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 3237/2004. Carol Peters, Julio Gonzalo, Martin Braschler, Michael Kluck (Eds.). 2004, 675 p. ISBN: 978-3-540-24017-4
  • Negri M., Magnini B., and Tanev H.:
    Answer-Driven Reasoning as a Framework for Intelligent Information Access
    Proceedings of AI*IA 2003 - Eight National Congress of Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale, Workshop on "Topics and Perspectives of Natural Language Processing in Italy", Pisa, Italy, September 2003
  • Magnini B., Negri M., Prevete R. and Tanev H.:
    Mining Knowledge from Repeated Co-occurrences
    In TREC-11 Conference Notebook Papers, Gaithersburg, MD, November 19-22, 2002.
  • Magnini B., Negri M., Prevete R. and Tanev H.:
    Mining the Web to validate answers to natural language questions
    Proceedings of Data Mining 2002 , Bologna - Italy, September 25-27, 2002.
  • Magnini B., Negri M., Prevete R. and Tanev H.:
    A Wordnet-based Approach to Named-Entites Recognition
    Proceedings of SemaNet02, COLING Workshop on Building and Using Semantic Networks, Taipei - Taiwan, August 31, 2002.
  • Magnini B., Negri M., Prevete R. and Tanev H.:
    Comparing Statistical and Content-Based Techniques for Answer Validation on the Web
    Proceedings of the VIII Convegno AI*IA , Siena - Italy, September 11-13, 2002.
  • Magnini B., Negri M., Prevete R. and Tanev H.:
    Is it the Right Answer? Exploiting Web Redundancy for Answer Validation
    Proceedings of ACL 40th Anniversary Meeting ( ACL-02 ACL), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, July 7-12, 2002.
  • Magnini B., Negri M., Prevete R. and Tanev H.:
    Towards Automatic Evaluation of Question/Answering Systems
    Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ( LREC-2002 ) Proceedings, Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain, May 29-31, 2002.
  • Magnini B., Negri M., Prevete R. and Tanev H.:
    Multilingual Question/Answering: the Diogene System
    TREC-10 Conference Notebook Papers, Gaithersburg, MD, November 13-16, 2001.
  • Magnini B., Negri M., Prevete R.:
    Open Domain Question Answering on the Web
    in Floriana Esposito (Ed.):     AI*IA 2001: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 7th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Bari - Italy, September 25-28, 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 2175. ISBN 3-540-42601-9

Project Deliverables

  • Negri M.:
    Semantic Based Answer Extraction Modules: 1st Cycle
    QALL-ME Project
    FP6 IST-033860, Deliverable D5.1, document number QALL-ME_D5.1_20071016, November 2007.