Nicola Ferro

Maristella Agosti, Floriana Esposito, Stefano Ferilli, Nicola Ferro (Eds.): Digital Libraries and Archives - 8th Italian Research Conference, IRCDL 2012, Bari, Italy, February 9-10, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science 354, Springer 2013, isbn 978-3-642-35833-3

Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro, Costantino Thanos: DESIRE 2011: workshop on data infrastructurEs for supporting information retrieval evaluation. SIGIR Forum 46(1): 51-55 (2012)

Maristella Agosti, Tiziana Catarci, Nicola Ferro, Henning Müller, Giuseppe Santucci: PROMISE winter school 2012 information retrieval meets information visualization. SIGIR Forum 46(1): 65-70 (2012)

Tiziana Catarci, Nicola Ferro, Pamela Forner, Djoerd Hiemstra, Jussi Karlgren, Anselmo Peñas, Giuseppe Santucci, Christa Womser-Hacker: CLEF 2012: information access evaluation meets multilinguality, multimodality, and visual analytics. SIGIR Forum 46(2): 29-33 (2012)

Nicola Ferro, Richard Berendsen, Allan Hanbury, Mihai Lupu, Vivien Petras, Maarten de Rijke, Gianmaria Silvello, Maristella Agosti, Richard Berendsen, Toine Bogers, Martin Braschler, Paul Buitelaar, Khalid Choukri, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Pamela Forner, Allan Hanbury, Karin Friberg Heppin, Preben Hansen, Anni Järvelin, Birger Larsen, Mihai Lupu, Ivano Masiero, Henning Müller, Simone Peruzzo, Vivien Petras, Florina Piroi, Maarten de Rijke, Giuseppe Santucci, Gianmaria Silvello, Elaine Toms: PROMISE retreat report prospects and opportunities for information access evaluation. SIGIR Forum 46(2): 60-84 (2012)

Nicola Ferro, Richard Berendsen, Allan Hanbury, Mihai Lupu, Vivien Petras, Maarten de Rijke, Gianmaria Silvello, Maristella Agosti, Richard Berendsen, Toine Bogers, Martin Braschler, Paul Buitelaar, Khalid Choukri, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Pamela Forner, Allan Hanbury, Karin Friberg Heppin, Preben Hansen, Anni Järvelin, Birger Larsen, Mihai Lupu, Ivano Masiero, Henning Müller, Simone Peruzzo, Vivien Petras, Florina Piroi, Maarten de Rijke, Giuseppe Santucci, Gianmaria Silvello, Elaine Toms: PROMISE retreat report prospects and opportunities for information access evaluation. SIGIR Forum 46(2): 60-84 (2012)

Maristella Agosti, Emanuele Di Buccio, Nicola Ferro, Ivano Masiero, Simone Peruzzo, Gianmaria Silvello: DIRECTions: Design and Specification of an IR Evaluation Infrastructure. CLEF 2012: 88-99

Marco Angelini, Nicola Ferro, Kalervo Järvelin, Heikki Keskustalo, Ari Pirkola, Giuseppe Santucci, Gianmaria Silvello: Cumulated Relative Position: A Metric for Ranking Evaluation. CLEF 2012: 112-123

Vivien Petras, Nicola Ferro, Maria Gäde, Antoine Isaac, Michael Kleineberg, Ivano Masiero, Mattia Nicchio, Juliane Stiller: Cultural Heritage in CLEF (CHiC) Overview 2012. CLEF (Online Working Notes/Labs/Workshop) 2012

Marco Angelini, Nicola Ferro, Guido Granato, Giuseppe Santucci, Gianmaria Silvello: Information retrieval failure analysis: Visual analytics as a support for interactive "what-if" investigation. IEEE VAST 2012: 204-206

Nicola Ferro, Gianmaria Silvello: Empowering Archives through Annotations. IRCDL 2012: 57-68

Nicola Ferro, Gianmaria Silvello: Modeling Archives by Means of OAI-ORE. IRCDL 2012: 216-227

Nicola Ferro, Letizia Tanca (Eds.): Twentieth Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems, SEBD 2012, Venice, Italy, June 24-27, 2012, Proceedings. Edizioni Libreria Progetto, Padova, Italy 2012, isbn 978-88-96477-23-6

Nicola Ferro: DIRECT: the First Prototype of the PROMISE Evaluation Infrastructure for Information Retrieval Experimental Evaluation. ERCIM News 2011(86) (2011)

Nicola Ferro, Allan Hanbury, Henning Müller, Giuseppe Santucci: Harnessing the Scientific Data Produced by the Experimental Evaluation Search Engines and Information Access Systems. Procedia CS 4: 740-749 (2011)

Paul Clough, Nicola Ferro, Pamela Forner, Julio Gonzalo, Bouke Huurnink, Jaana Kekäläinen, Mounia Lalmas, Vivien Petras, Maarten de Rijke: CLEF 2011: conference on multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation. SIGIR Forum 45(2): 32-37 (2011)

Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro, Costantino Thanos: DESIRE 2011: first international workshop on data infrastructures for supporting information retrieval evaluation. CIKM 2011: 2631-2632

Emanuele Di Buccio, Marco Dussin, Nicola Ferro, Ivano Masiero, Giuseppe Santucci, Giuseppe Tino: To Re-rank or to Re-query: Can Visual Analytics Solve This Dilemma? CLEF 2011: 119-130

Maria Gäde, Nicola Ferro, Monica Lestari Paramita: CHiC 2011 - Cultural Heritage in CLEF: From Use Cases to Evaluation in Practice for Multilingual Information Access to Cultural Heritage. CLEF (Notebook Papers/Labs/Workshop) 2011

Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro, Andreina Rigon, Gianmaria Silvello, Erilde Terenzoni, Cristina Tommasi: SIAR: A User-Centric Digital Archive System. IRCDL 2011: 87-99

Franco Crivellari, Graziano Deambrosis, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Marco Dussin, Nicola Ferro: EuropeanaConnect. IRCDL 2011: 130-131

Emanuele Di Buccio, Marco Dussin, Nicola Ferro, Ivano Masiero, Gianmaria Silvello: PROMISE - Participative Research labOratory for Multimedia and Multilingual Information Systems Evaluation. IRCDL 2011: 140-143

Nicola Ferro, Gianmaria Silvello: The NESTOR Model: Properties and Applications in the Context of Digital Archives. SEBD 2011: 275-

Maristella Agosti, Martin Braschler, Khalid Choukri, Nicola Ferro, Donna Harman, Carol Peters, Emanuele Pianta, Maarten de Rijke, Alan F. Smeaton: CLEF 2010 conference on multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation. SIGIR Forum 44(2): 8-12 (2010)

Martin Braschler, Khalid Choukri, Nicola Ferro, Allan Hanbury, Jussi Karlgren, Henning Müller, Vivien Petras, Emanuele Pianta, Maarten de Rijke, Giuseppe Santucci: A PROMISE for Experimental Evaluation. CLEF 2010: 140-144

Nicola Ferro, Gianmaria Silvello: FAST and NESTOR: How to Exploit Annotation Hierarchies. IRCDL 2010: 55-66

Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro, Gianmaria Silvello: The NESTOR Framework: Manage, Access and Exchange Hierarchical DataStructures. SEBD 2010: 242-253

Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro, Carol Peters, Maarten de Rijke, Alan F. Smeaton (Eds.): Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation, International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2010, Padua, Italy, September 20-23, 2010. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6360, Springer 2010, isbn 978-3-642-15997-8

Nicola Ferro, Carol Peters: CLEF 2009 Ad Hoc Track Overview: TEL and Persian Tasks. CLEF (1) 2009: 13-35

Nicola Ferro, Donna Harman: CLEF 2009: Grid@CLEF Pilot Track Overview. CLEF (1) 2009: 552-565

Nicola Ferro: Annotation Search: The FAST Way. ECDL 2009: 15-26

Marco Dussin, Nicola Ferro: Managing the Knowledge Creation Process of Large-Scale Evaluation Campaigns. ECDL 2009: 63-74

Nicola Ferro, Gianmaria Silvello: The NESTOR Framework: How to Handle Hierarchical Data Structures. ECDL 2009: 215-226

Nicola Ferro, Gianmaria Silvello: Design and Development of the Data Model of a Distributed DLS Architecture for Archive Metadata. IRCDL 2009: 12-21

Nicola Ferro, Carol Peters: CLEF Ad-hoc: A Perspective on the Evolution of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum. IRCDL 2009: 72-79

Emanuele Di Buccio, Nicola Ferro, Massimo Melucci, Riccardo Miotto, Nicola Orio: Design of an Information Retrieval System Based on the Peer-to-Peer Paradigm: An Application to Music Retrieval. IRCDL 2009: 100-107

Nicola Ferro: The FAST Annotation Service. SEBD 2009: 169-176

Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro, Gianmaria Silvello: Access and Exchange of Hierarchically Structured Resources on the Web with the NESTOR Framework. Web Intelligence 2009: 659-662

Carol Peters, Thomas Deselaers, Nicola Ferro, Julio Gonzalo, Gareth J. F. Jones, Mikko Kurimo, Thomas Mandl, Anselmo Peñas, Vivien Petras (Eds.): Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access, 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, September 17-19, 2008, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5706, Springer 2009, isbn 978-3-642-04446-5

Eneko Agirre, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Thomas Mandl, Carol Peters: CLEF 2008: Ad Hoc Track Overview. CLEF 2008: 15-37

Mark Sanderson, Martin Braschler, Nicola Ferro, Julio Gonzalo: Workshop on Novel Methodologies for Evaluation in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2008: 713

Nicola Ferro, Gianmaria Silvello: A Methodology for Sharing Archival Descriptive Metadata in a Distributed Environment. ECDL 2008: 268-279

Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro: Annotations: A Way to Interoperability in DL. ECDL 2008: 291-295

Marco Dussin, Nicola Ferro: Design of a Digital Library System for Large-Scale Evaluation Campaigns. ECDL 2008: 400-401

Nicola Ferro, Donna Harman: Dealing with MultiLingual Information Access: Grid Experiments at TrebleCLEF. IRCDL 2008: 29-32

Emanuele Di Buccio, Nicola Ferro, Massimo Melucci: Content-based Information Retrieval in SPINA. IRCDL 2008: 89-92

Nicola Ferro, Gianmaria Silvello: A Distributed Digital Library System Architecture for Archive Metadata. IRCDL 2008: 99-104

Marco Dussin, Nicola Ferro: The Design of the User Interface of a Scientific DLS in the Context of the Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom Hierarchy. IRCDL 2008: 105-114

Marco Dussin, Nicola Ferro: Direct: applying the DIKW hierarchy to large-scale evaluation campaigns. JCDL 2008: 424

Marco Dussin, Nicola Ferro: The role of the dikw hierarchy in the design of a digital library system for the scientific data of large-scale evaluation campaigns. JCDL 2008: 450

Thomas Mandl, Fredric C. Gey, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Mark Sanderson, Diana Santos, Christa Womser-Hacker: An Evaluation Resource for Geographic Information Retrieval. LREC 2008

Carol Peters, Martin Braschler, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Julio Gonzalo, Mark Sanderson: From Research to Application in Multilingual Information Access: the Contribution of Evaluation. LREC 2008

Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro: How robust are multilingual information retrieval systems? SAC 2008: 1132-1136

Emanuele Di Buccio, Nicola Ferro, Massimo Melucci: Towards a Superimposed Peer Infrastructure for iNformation Access. SEBD 2008: 398-405

Maristella Agosti, Giorgetta Bonfiglio-Dosio, Nicola Ferro: A historical and contemporary study on annotations to derive key features for systems design. Int. J. on Digital Libraries 8(1): 1-19 (2007)

Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro: A formal model of annotations of digital content. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 26(1) (2007)

Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro, Nicola Orio: Annotations as a Tool for Disclosing Hidden Relationships Between Illuminated Manuscripts. AI*IA 2007: 662-673

Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Thomas Mandl, Carol Peters: CLEF 2007: Ad Hoc Track Overview. CLEF 2007: 13-32

Thomas Mandl, Fredric C. Gey, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Ray R. Larson, Mark Sanderson, Diana Santos, Christa Womser-Hacker, Xing Xie: GeoCLEF 2007: The CLEF 2007 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview. CLEF 2007: 745-772

Maristella Agosti, Stefano Berretti, Gert Brettlecker, Alberto Del Bimbo, Nicola Ferro, Norbert Fuhr, Daniel A. Keim, Claus-Peter Klas, Thomas Lidy, Diego Milano, Moira C. Norrie, Paola Ranaldi, Andreas Rauber, Hans-Jörg Schek, Tobias Schreck, Heiko Schuldt, Beat Signer, Michael Springmann: DelosDLMS - The Integrated DELOS Digital Library Management System. DELOS Conference 2007: 36-45

Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro, Gianmaria Silvello: An Architecture for Sharing Metadata Among Geographically Distributed Archives. DELOS Conference 2007: 56-65

Maristella Agosti, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro: The Importance of Scientific Data Curation for Evaluation Campaigns. DELOS Conference 2007: 157-166

Maristella Agosti, Tullio Coppotelli, Nicola Ferro, Luca Pretto: An Approach for the Construction of an Experimental Test Collection to Evaluate Search Systems that Exploit Annotations. DELOS Conference 2007: 167-176

Martin Braschler, Nicola Ferro: Adding Multilingual Information Access to the European Library. DELOS Conference 2007: 218-227

Franco Crivellari, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro: How to Compare Bilingual to Monolingual Cross-Language Information Retrieval. ECIR 2007: 533-540

Maristella Agosti, Martin Braschler, Nicola Ferro, Carol Peters, Sjoerd Siebinga: Roadmap for MultiLingual Information Access in the European Library. ECDL 2007: 136-147

Maristella Agosti, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Donna Harman, Carol Peters: The Future of Large-Scale Evaluation Campaigns for Information Retrieval in Europe. ECDL 2007: 509-512

Maristella Agosti, Tullio Coppotelli, Nicola Ferro, Luca Pretto: Annotations and Digital Libraries: Designing Adequate Test-Beds. ICADL 2007: 150-159

Maristella Agosti, Gert Brettlecker, Nicola Ferro, Paola Ranaldi, Heiko Schuldt: Extending the DelosDLMS by the FAST Annotation Service. IRCDL 2007: 7-12

Nicola Ferro, Andrea Marcante, Alessandro Martin, Emanuele Panizzi: Annotation: what we learned from DELOS. IRCDL 2007: 13-14

Maristella Agosti, Tullio Coppotelli, Nicola Ferro: Construction of an Annotation Test Collection for Search Evaluation on Digital Libraries. IRCDL 2007: 15-17

Marco Dussin, Nicola Ferro: An Effective User Interface for a Scientific DLS to Support Information Retrieval Evaluation. IRCDL 2007: 18-21

Maristella Agosti, Emanuele Di Buccio, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Massimo Melucci, Riccardo Miotto, Nicola Orio: Distributed Information Retrieval and Automatic Identification of Music Works in SAPIR. SEBD 2007: 479-482

Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro, Emanuele Panizzi, Rosa Trinchese: Annotation as a support to user interaction for content enhancement in digital libraries. AVI 2006: 151-154

Maristella Agosti, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro: Scientific Data of an Evaluation Campaign: Do We Properly Deal with Them? CLEF 2006: 11-20

Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Thomas Mandl, Carol Peters: CLEF 2006: Ad Hoc Track Overview. CLEF 2006: 21-34

Fredric C. Gey, Ray R. Larson, Mark Sanderson, Kerstin Bischoff, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker, Diana Santos, Paulo Rocha, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro: GeoCLEF 2006: The CLEF 2006 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview. CLEF 2006: 852-876

Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro: Scientific Evaluation of a DLMS: A Service for Evaluating Information Access Components. ECDL 2006: 536-539

Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro: Search Strategies for Finding Annotations and Annotated Documents: The FAST Service. FQAS 2006: 270-281

Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro: Uniform Methodology for Evaluating Information Access Components of Digital Libraries. IRCDL 2006: 25-28

Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro, Nicola Orio: Graph-based automatic suggestion of relationships among images of illuminated manuscripts. SAC 2006: 1063-1067

Michela Bacchin, Nicola Ferro, Massimo Melucci: A probabilistic model for stemmer generation. Inf. Process. Manage. 41(1): 121-137 (2005)

Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Gareth J. F. Jones, Carol Peters: CLEF 2005: Ad Hoc Track Overview. CLEF 2005: 11-36

Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro: Annotations as Context for Searching Documents. CoLIS 2005: 155-170

Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro: DIRECT: A System for Evaluating Information Access Components of Digital Libraries. ECDL 2005: 483-484

Maristella Agosti, Hanne Albrechtsen, Nicola Ferro, Ingo Frommholz, Preben Hansen, Nicola Orio, Emanuele Panizzi, Annelise Mark Pejtersen, Ulrich Thiel: DiLAS: a Digital Library Annotation Service. IWAC 2005: 91-101

Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro, Nicola Orio: Annotating illuminated manuscripts: an effective tool for research and education. JCDL 2005: 121-130

Martin Braschler, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Carol Peters: CLEF 2004: Ad Hoc Track Overview and Results Analysis. CLEF 2004: 10-26

Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Nicola Orio: Experiments on Statistical Approaches to Compensate for Limited Linguistic Resources. CLEF 2004: 60-72

Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro: An Information Service Architecture for Annotations. DELOS Workshop: Digital Library Architectures 2004: 115-126

Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro: A System Architecture as a Support to a Flexible Annotation Service. DELOS Workshop: Digital Library Architectures - LNCS Volume 2004: 147-166

Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro, Ingo Frommholz, Ulrich Thiel: Annotations in Digital Libraries and Collaboratories - Facets, Models and Usage. ECDL 2004: 244-255

Michela Bacchin, Nicola Ferro, Massimo Melucci: A Probabilistic Model for Stemmer Generation. SEBD 2004: 230-237

Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Massimo Melucci, Nicola Orio: Experiments to Evaluate Probabilistic Models for Automatic Stemmer Generation and Query Word Translation. CLEF 2003: 220-235

Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro: Annotations: Enriching a Digital Library. ECDL 2003: 88-100

Maristella Agosti, Michela Bacchin, Nicola Ferro, Massimo Melucci: Improving the Automatic Retrieval of Text Documents. CLEF 2002: 279-290

Michela Bacchin, Nicola Ferro, Massimo Melucci: The Effectiveness of a Graph-Based Algorithm for Stemming. ICADL 2002: 117-128