Nicola Ferro
Full Professor
in Computer Science
Intelligent Interactive Information Access (IIIA)
Hub
Information Management Systems
Research Group
Department of
Information Engineering
University of Padua
, Italy
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Journals - Editorial Board
Associate Editor,
ACM Transactions on Information Systems
(TOIS)
Associate Editor,
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, specialty section in Natural Language Processing
Chair of the Scientific Committee,
Mondo Digitale
, official journal of AICA, the Italian Association for Informatics and Computation
Journals - Reviewer
ACM Transactions on Information Systems
(TOIS)
ACM Transactions on the Web
(TWEB)
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing
(TALIP)
ACM Computing Surveys
(CSUR)
Communications of the ACM
(CACM)
ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage
(JOCCH)
ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality
(JDIQ)
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
(TKDE)
Information Processing & Management
(IPM)
Information Retrieval
(IR)
The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
(VLDB)
Information Systems
(IS)
International Journal on Digital Libraries
(IJoDL)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
(JASIST)
Data & Knowledge Engineering
(DKE)
Machine Learning
(ML)
PeerJ Computer Science
Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics
(IJCoL)
Conferences - Program Committees
2024
Senior PC Member
46th European Conference on Information Retrieval
(ECIR 2024)
PC Member
27th International Conference on Extending Database Technology
(EDBT 2024)
2023
Senior PC Member, Resource PC Member, Reproducibility PC Member. Workshops PC Member
46th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
(SIGIR 2023)
Senior PC Member
16th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
(WSDM 2023)
Senior PC Member,
32nd ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM 2023)
Senior PC Member, Demonstrator PC Member, Doctoral Consortium Member
45th European Conference on Information Retrieval
(ECIR 2023)
9th ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval
(ICTIR 2023)
2nd International Conference on "Multilingual digital terminology today. Design, representation formats and management systems"
(MDDT 2023)
13th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop
(IIR 2023)
2022
Senior PC Member, Resource Paper PC Member, Doctoral Consortium Member
45th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
(SIGIR 2022)
Senior PC Member,
31st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM 2022)
Senior PC Member and Workshop Committee
44th European Conference on Information Retrieval
(ECIR 2022)
28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
(KDD 2022)
31st The Web Conference
(WWW 2022)
15th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
(WSDM 2022)
3rd Biennial International Conference on Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems
(DESIRES 2022)
6th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
(CHIIR 2022)
8th ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval
(ICTIR 2022)
2nd Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe
(CIRCLE 2022)
12th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop
(IIR 2022)
1st International Conference on "Multilingual digital terminology today. Design, representation formats and management systems"
(MDDT 2022)
2021
Senior PC Member, Short Paper and Resource Paper PC Member, Doctoral Consortium Mentor
44th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
(SIGIR 2021)
Senior PC Member,
30th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM 2021)
Area Chair
59th Joint Conference of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL 2021)
Senior PC Member
21st ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
(JCDL 2021)
7th ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval
(ICTIR 2021)
PC Member and Tutorial committee,
14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
(WSDM 2021)
Demo Committee Member
43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval
(ECIR 2021)
5th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
(CHIIR 2021)
30th The Web Conference
(WWW 2021)
2nd Biennial International Conference on Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems
(DESIRES 2021)
Task selection committee,
16th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies
(NTCIR-16)
17th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries
(IRCDL 2021)
Sim4IR Workshop on Simulation for Information Retrieval Evaluation
, co-located with SIGIR 2021
3rd Workshop on Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems
(KaRS 2021), co-located with RecSys 2021
2020
Senior PC Member, Best Paper Committee Member
43rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
(SIGIR 2020)
Senior PC Member, Best Paper Committee Member
42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval
(ECIR 2020)
Senior PC Member
20th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
(JCDL 2020)
Senior PC Member,
24th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
(TPDL 2020)
6th ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval
(ICTIR 2020)
4th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
(CHIIR 2020)
29th The Web Conference
(WWW 2020)
Tutorial committee,
13th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
(WSDM 2020)
1st Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe
(CIRCLE 2020)
28th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems
(SEBD 2020)
16th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries
(IRCDL 2020)
LREC Workshop on Cross-Language Search and Summarization of Text and Speech
(CLSSTS 2020)
2019
42nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
(SIGIR 2019)
4th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
(CHIIR 2019)
28th The Web Conference
(WWW 2019)
Tutorial committee,
12th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
(WSDM 2019)
Senior PC Member and Doctoral Consortium Member,
41st European Conference on Information Retrieval
(ECIR 2019)
Senior PC Member
19th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
(JCDL 2019)
Senior PC Member,
23rd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
(TPDL 2019)
5th ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval
(ICTIR 2019)
Task selection committee,
15th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies
(NTCIR-15)
27th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems
(SEBD 2019)
10th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop
(IIR 2019)
15th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries
(IRCDL 2019)
6th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
(CLiC-it 2019)
4th Swiss Text Analytics Conference
(SwissText 2019)
2nd Workshop on Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems
(KaRS 2019), co-located with CIKM 2019
4th Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries
(BIRNDL 2019), co-located with SIGIR 2019
1st Interdisciplinary Workshop on Algorithm Selection and Meta-Learning in Information Retrieval
(AMIR 2019), co-located with ECIR 2019
8th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval
(BIR 2019), co-located with ECIR 2019
2nd International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts
(Text2Story 2019), co-located with ECIR 2019
1st International Workshop on Open data and Ontologies for Cultural Heritage
(ODOCH 2019), co-located with CAiSE 2019
2018
PC Member and Workshop Committee,
41st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
(SIGIR 2018)
Senior PC Member,
27th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM 2018)
Senior PC Member,
40th European Conference on Information Retrieval
(ECIR 2018)
27th The Web Conference
(WWW 2018)
3rd ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
(CHIIR 2018)
4th ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval
(ICTIR 2018)
18th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
(JCDL 2018)
Senior PC Member,
22nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
(TPDL 2018)
1st Biennial International Conference on Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems
(DESIRES 2018)
Task selection committee,
14th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies
(NTCIR-14)
Future Directions in Information Access
(FDIA 2018) Symposium, co-located with ICTIR 2018
3rd Swiss Text Analytics Conference
(SwissText 2018)
5th International Workshop on Exploratory Search in Databases and the Web
(ExploreDB 2018), co-located with SIGMOD/PODS 2018
7th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval
(BIR 2018), co-located with ECIR 2018
11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC 2018)
26th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems
(SEBD 2018)
9th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop
(IIR 2018)
14th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries
(IRCDL 2018)
2017
40th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
(SIGIR 2017)
Senior PC Member,
26th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM 2017)
Senior PC Member,
39th European Conference on Information Retrieval
(ECIR 2017)
3rd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval
(ICTIR 2017)
Future Directions in Information Access
(FDIA 2017) Symposium at the 11th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2017)
Senior PC Member,
21st International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
(TPDL 2017)
2nd ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
(CHIIR 2017)
17th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
(JCDL 2017)
19th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries
(ICADL 2017)
4th International Workshop on Exploratory Search in Databases and the Web
(ExploreDB 2017), co-located with SIGMOD/PODS 2017
25th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems
(SEBD 2017)
8th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop
(IIR 2017)
13th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries
(IRCDL 2017)
4th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
(CLIC-IT 2017)
2016
39th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
(SIGIR 2016)
Senior PC Member,
25th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM 2016)
Senior PC Member,
20th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
(TPDL 2016)
16th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
(JCDL 2016)
Task selection committee,
13th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies
(NTCIR-13)
1st ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
(CHIIR 2016)
10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC 2016)
3rd International Workshop on Exploratory Search in Databases and the Web
(ExploreDB 2016), co-located with SIGMOD/PODS 2016
24th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems
(SEBD 2016)
7th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop
(IIR 2016)
12th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries
(IRCDL 2016)
2015
11th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference
(AIRS 2015)
24th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM 2015)
38th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
(SIGIR 2015)
37th European Conference on Information Retrieval
(ECIR 2015)
6th Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation
(CLEF 2015)
Future Directions in Information Access
(FDIA 2015) Symposium at the 10th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2015)
Task selection committee of
12th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies
(NTCIR-12)
19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
(TPDL 2015)
15th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
(JCDL 2015)
2nd International Workshop on Exploratory Search in Databases and the Web
(ExploreDB 2015), co-located with SIGMOD/PODS 2015
6th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop
(IIR 2015)
11th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries
(IRCDL 2015)
4th AIUCD Annual Conference - Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage: What Relationship?
(AIUCD 2015)
2014
Digital Libraries 2014 - ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2014) and International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2014)
37th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
(SIGIR 2014)
The 2014 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
(WI 2014)
1st International Workshop on Personalised Multilingual Information Access
(PMIA 2014)
8th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval
(RuSSIR 2014)
5th Symposium on Information Interaction in Context
(IIiX 2014)
36th European Conference on Information Retrieval
(ECIR 2014)
5th Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation
(CLEF 2014)
9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC 2014)
2nd Workshop on Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation
(LL 2014), co-located with CIKM 2014
1st International Workshop on Exploratory Search in Databases and the Web
(ExploreDB 2014), co-located with EDBT/ICDT 2014
22nd Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems
(SEBD 2014)
10th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries
(IRCDL 2014)
2013
The 2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
(WI 2013)
15th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries
(ICADL 2013)
36th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
(SIGIR 2013)
21st Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems
(SEBD 2013)
22nd ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM 2013)
17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
(TPDL 2013)
13th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
(JCDL 2013)
35th European Conference on Information Retrieval
(ECIR 2013)
4th Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation
(CLEF 2013)
Workshop on Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation
(LL 2013), co-located with CIKM 2013
Workshop on Exploration, Navigation and Retrieval of Information in Cultural Heritage
(ENRICH 2013), co-located with SIGIR 2013
2012
34th European Conference on Information Retrieval
(ECIR 2012)
3rd Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation
(CLEF 2012)
21st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM 2012)
35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
(SIGIR 2012)
12th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
(JCDL 2012)
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
(TPDL 2012)
The 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
(WI 2012)
4th Symposium on Information Interaction in Context
(IIiX 2012)
Task Based and Aggregated Search Workshop
(TBAS 2012), co-located with ECIR 2012
2011
4th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
(WSDM 2011)
20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM 2011)
33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval
(ECIR 2011)
2nd Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation
(CLEF 2011)
11th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
(JCDL 2011)
49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
(ACL-HTL 2011)
Workshop Chair,
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
(TPDL 2011)
Special track on Metadata & Semantics for Cultural Collections & Applications
at the
5th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research
(MTSR 2011)
7th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries
(IRCDL 2011)
5h International Workshop On Cross Lingual Information Access: Computational Linguistics and the Information Need of Multilingual Societies
(CLIA 2011)
2010
6th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries
(IRCDL 2010)
32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval
(ECIR 2010)
ECIR 2010 International Workshop on Contextual Information Access, Seeking and Retrieval Evaluation
(CIRSE 2010)
7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC 2010)
LREC 2010 Workshop on Web Services and Processing Pipelines in HLT: Tool Evaluation, LR Production and Validation
(WSPP 2010)
10th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
(JCDL 2010)
18th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems
(SEBD 2010)
33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
(SIGIR 2010)
COLING 2010 International Workshop On Cross Lingual Information Access
(CLIA 2010)
The 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
(WI 2010)
3rd Symposium on Information Interaction in Context
(IIiX 2010)
14th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
(ECDL 2010), and Workshop Committee member
19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM 2010)
2009
5th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries
(IRCDL 2009)
31st European Conference on Information Retrieval
(ECIR 2009)
ECIR 2009 International Workshop on Contextual Information Access, Seeking and Retrieval Evaluation
(CIRSE 2009)
17th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems
(SEBD 2009)
32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
(SIGIR 2009)
SIGIR 2009 Workshop on Information Access in a Multilingual World: Transitioning from Research to Real-World Applications
(CLIR 2009)
SIGIR 2009 Workshop on The Future of IR Evaluation
(IREVAL 2009)
The 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
(WI 2009)
13th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
(ECDL 2009)
2008
2nd Symposium on Information Interaction in Context
(IIiX 2008)
30th European Conference on Information Retrieval
(ECIR 2008)
16th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems
(SEBD 2008)
31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
(SIGIR 2008)
12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
(ECDL 2008)
2007
29th European Conference on Information Retrieval
(ECIR 2007)
2006
1st Symposium on Information Interaction in Context
(IIiX 2006)