Nicola Ferro

Personal Web Page: https://www.dei.unipd.it/~ferro/
Affiliation: University of Padua
Email: [email protected]
Country: Italia
Twitter: @frrncl
Relevant Publications:
- Nicola Ferro: CLEF 15th Birthday: Past, Present, and Future. SIGIR Forum 48(2): 31-55 (2014)
- Marco Angelini, Nicola Ferro, Giuseppe Santucci, Gianmaria Silvello: VIRTUE: A visual tool for information retrieval performance evaluation and failure analysis. J. Vis. Lang. Comput. 25(4): 394-413 (2014)
- Marco Ferrante, Nicola Ferro, Maria Maistro: Injecting user models and time into precision via Markov chains. SIGIR 2014: 597-606
Work Groups (WGs)
WG2 – "Keyword Search" - WG4
Fields of Expertise:
Digital libraries and archives - Document representation - Evaluation of retrieval results - Information retrieval - Specialized information retrieval - Structure and multilingual text search
Expectations from the action:
Joint Research Activities - Knowledge expansion - Participation / Writing EU projects - Participation in training activities
Available to host STSMs:
yes
Research initiatives that you want to carry out with people in Keystone:
- Joint research on evaluation for keyword search - Organization of open evaluation contests on large-scale datasets
Papers By: Nicola Ferro
Keyword search and evaluation over relational databases: an outlook to the future.
- Applied computing
- Computer forensics
- Electronic commerce
- Enterprise computing
- Law, social and behavioral sciences
- Big data
- Computer systems organization
- Computing methodologies
- Artificial intelligence
- Control methods
- Symbolic and algebraic manipulation
- Human-centered computing
- Accessibility
- Information systems
- Information retrieval
- Search engine architectures and scalability
- Adversarial retrieval
- Information systems applications
- Computational advertising
- World Wide Web
- Online advertising
- Web applications
- Electronic commerce
- Web searching and information discovery
- Social tagging
- Mathematics of computing
- Security and privacy
- Cryptography
- Database and storage security
- Formal methods and theory of security
- Intrusion/anomaly detection and malware mitigation
- Network security
- Software and application security
- Software and its engineering
- Theory of computation
- Randomness, geometry and discrete structures
