Scientific Events | Nicola Ferro, Researcher in Information Retrieval at University of Padua, Italy

Events

2025
1. General Co-chair of 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-18 July 2025
2. Co-organizer of Quantum Computing at CLEF (QuantumCLEF), Madrid, Spain, 9-12 September 2025, co-located with the 16th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2025)
3. Co-organizer of BioASQ 2025, a challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering, Madrid, Spain, 9-12 September 2025, co-located with the 16th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2025)
2024
1. Program co-chair for the Reproducibility track of 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2024), Bari, Italy, 14-18 October 2024
2. Co-organizer of Intelligent Disease Progression Prediction (iDPP@CLEF), Grenoble, France, 9-12 September 2024, co-located with the 15th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2024)
3. Co-organizer of Quantum Computing at CLEF (QuantumCLEF), Grenoble, France, 9-12 September 2024, co-located with the 15th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2024)
4. Co-organizer of Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop on Conversational Agents: A Framework for Evaluation (CAFE), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, August 26 – 30, 2024
5. Co-chair of the tutorial on Using and Evaluating Quantum Computing for Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems, Washington, USA, 14 July 2024, co-located with the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024)
6. Co-chair of the tutorial on Quantum Computing for Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems, Glasgow, UK, 24 March 2024, co-located with the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024)
2023
1. Co-organizer of The NTCIR Fair Web Task (FairWeb-1), Tokyo, Japan, 12-15 December 2023, co-located with the 17th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies (NTCIR-17)
2. Co-organizer of Intelligent Disease Progression Prediction (iDPP@CLEF), Thessaloniki, Greece, 18-21 September 2023, co-located with the 14th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2023)
3. General co-chair of 31st Italian Symposium on Advanced Databases System (SEBD 2023), Galzignano Terme (Padua), Italy, 2-5 July 2023
4. Co-organizer of Query Performance Prediction and Its Evaluation in New Tasks (QPP++ 2023), Dublin, Ireland, 2 April 2023, co-located with the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR)
5. Co-organizer of Dagstuhl Seminar 23031 on Frontiers of Information Access Experimentation for Research and Education, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, January 15-20, 2023
2022
1. Program co-chair for the Accelerating Innovation track of 26th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2022), Padua, Italy, 20-23 September 2022
2. Co-organizer of Intelligent Disease Progression Prediction (iDPP@CLEF), Bologna, Italy, 5-8 September 2022, co-located with the 13th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2022)
3. Area co-chair for the Evaluation and Validation Methodologies track of 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022), Marseille, France, 20-25 June 2022
4. Co-organizer of NTCIR We Want Web with CENTRE Task (WWW-4 with CENTRE), Tokyo, Japan, 14-17 June 2022, co-located with the 16th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies (NTCIR-16)
5. Doctoral Consortium co-chair of 30th Italian Symposium on Advanced Databases System (SEBD 2022), Tirrenia, Italy, 20-23 June 2022
2021
1. Program co-chair for the Resource track of 30th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2021), Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 1-5 November 2021
2. Co-coordinator of the Covid-19 MLIA @ Eval initiative
3. Program co-chair of 11th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2021), Bari, Italy, 15-17 September 2021
4. Sponsorship chair of 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2021), Lucca, Italy, 28 March - 1 April 2021
5. Co-moderator of the open table meeting IR Evaluation Measures and Meaningful Statements about System Effectiveness, Jerusalem, Israel, 9 March 2021, at the 14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2021)
2020
1. Co-organizer of NTCIR We Want Web with CENTRE Task (WWW-3 with CENTRE), Tokyo, Japan, 8-11 December 2020, co-located with the 15th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies (NTCIR-15)
2. Program Co-chair for short papers of 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2020), Lisbona, Portugal, 14-17 April 2020
2019
1. Co-organizer of CLEF/NTCIR/TREC REproducibility at CLEF 2019 (CENTRE@CLEF 2019), Lugano, Switzerland, 9-12 September 2019, co-located with the 10th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2019)
2. Co-organizer of The Open-Source IR Replicability Challenge (OSIRRC 2019), Paris, France, 25 July 2019, co-located with the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019)
3. Co-chair 12th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2019), Milan, Italy, 15-19 July 2019
4. Co-organizer of CLEF/NTCIR/TREC REproducibility at NTCIR-14 (CENTRE@NTCIR-14), Tokyo, Japan, 10-13 June 2019, co-located with the 14th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies (NTCIR-14)
5. Program Co-chair of 9th International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2019), Tokyo, Japan, 10 June 2019, co-located with the 14th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies (NTCIR-14)
2018
1. Co-organizer of CLEF/NTCIR/TREC REproducibility at TREC 2018 (CENTRE@TREC 2018), Washington, USA, 14-16 November 2018, co-located with the 27th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2018)
2. Co-organizer of 1st International Workshop on Generalization in Information Retrieval: Can We Predict Performance in New Domains? (GLARE 2018), Turin, Italy, 22 October 2018, co-located with the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018)
3. Chair of the panel Explaining and Predicting IR System Performance: A Need, a Reality, or a Chimera?, Grenoble, France, 28 March 2018, at the 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2018)
4. Co-organizer of CLEF/NTCIR/TREC REproducibility at CLEF 2018 (CENTRE@CLEF 2018), Avignon, France, 10-14 September 2018, co-located with the 9th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2018)
2017
1. Program Co-chair of 8th International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2017), Tokyo, Japan, 5 December 2017, co-located with the 13th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies (NTCIR-13)
2. Co-organizer of Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 17442 on Towards Cross-Domain Performance Modeling and Prediction: IR/RecSys/NLP, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, October 29 – November 3 , 2017
3. Co-organizer of 1st International Workshop on LEARning Next gEneration Rankers (LEARNER 2017), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1 October 2017, co-located with the 3rd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2017)
4. Co-chair of 1st International Workshop on Keyword-based Access and Ranking at Scale (KARS 2017), Venice, Italy, 21 March 2017, co-located with the 20th EDBT/ICDT 2017 Joint Conference
2016
1. Area co-chair (program co-chair) of 3rd Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLIC-IT 2016), Napoli, Italy, 5-6 December 2016
2. General chair of 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2016), Padova, Italy, 20-23 March 2016
3. Co-organizer of 1st International Workshop on System And User Centered Evaluation Approaches in Interactive Information Retrieval (SAUCE 2016), Chapel Hill,USA, 17 March 2016, co-located with the 1st ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2006)
4. Co-editor of the Special Issue on Data Citation of the Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL)
2015
1. Co-chair of the 1st AI*IA Workshop on Intelligent Techniques At LIbraries and Archives (IT@LIA 2015), Ferrara, Italy, 22 September 2015, co-located with the XIV Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2015)
2. Co-chair of the 1st International Workshop on Multilingual Web Access (MWA 2015), Florence, Italy, 19 May 2015, co-located with the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015)
3. Co-chair of the tutorial on Visual Analytics for Information Retrieval Evaluation (VAIRË 2015), Vienna, Austria, 29 March 2015, co-located with the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015)
2014
1. Chair of the Panel on the Evaluation of Keyword Search Systems at the Keystone Spring 2014 WG Meeting, "Semantic keyword search in big data", 25 March 2014, Leiden, The Netherlands
2013
1. Co-chair of the Evaluation Lab on Cultural Heritage in CLEF (CHiC 2013), Valencia, Spain, 23-27 September 2013, co-located with the CLEF 2013 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
2. Program chair of PROMISE Winter School on Bridging between Information Retrieval and Databases, Bressanone, Italy, 4-8 February 2013
3. Program co-chair of 9th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2013), Rome, Italy, 31 January - 1 February 2013
2012
1. Co-chair of the Evaluation Lab on Cultural Heritage in CLEF (CHiC 2012), Rome, Italy, 17-20 September 2012, co-located with the CLEF 2012 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
2. Program chair of 20th Italian Symposium on Advanced Databases System (SEBD 2012), Venezia, Italy, 24-27 June 2012
3. Program co-chair of 8th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2012), Bari, Italy, 9-10 February 2012
4. Co-chair of PROMISE Winter School on Information Retrieval meets Information Visualization, Zinal, Switzerland, 23-27 January 2012
2011
1. Co-chair of the Workshop on Data infrastructurEs for Supporting Information Retrieval Evaluation (DESIRE 2011), Glasgow, United Kingdom, 28 October 2011, co-located with the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011)
2. Co-chair of the Workshop on Cultural Heritage in CLEF (CHiC 2011): From Use Cases to Evaluation in Practice for Multilingual Information Access to Cultural Heritage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 21-22 September 2011, co-located with the CLEF 2011 - Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation
2010
1. Program co-chair of CLEF 2010 - Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation, Padova, Italy, 20-23 September 2010
2009
1. Co-chair of the Workshop on Multilinguality in Information Access to Digital Libraries (MLIA4DL 2009) - User Needs and Evaluation of Multilingual Resources Use, Trento, Italy, 9 September 2009, co-located with the International Conference on Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web (ICSD 2009)
2. Chair of the Panel on Evaluation in Information Retrieval - Learning it, Applying it, Improving it, at the 7th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2009), Padova, Italy, 2 September 2009
3. Co-organizer of the CLEF 2009 Ad-hoc Track, Corfu, Greece, 30 September-2 October 2009, co-located with the CLEF 2009 - Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum
4. Co-organzier of the Grid@CLEF 2009 Pilot Track, Corfu, Greece, 30 September-2 October 2009, co-located with the CLEF 2009 - Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum
2008
1. Co-organzier of the Workshop on Novel Methodologies for Evaluation in Information Retrieval, Glasgow, UK, 30 March 2008, co-located with the 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2008)
2. Co-organizer of the CLEF 2008 Ad-hoc Track, Aarhus, Denmark, 17-19 September 2008, co-located with the CLEF 2008 - Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum
3. Co-organizer of the GeoCLEF Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, 17-19 September 2008, co-located with the CLEF 2008 - Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum
2007
1. Co-organizer of the CLEF 2007 Ad-hoc Track, Budapest, Hungary, 19-21 September 2007, co-located with the CLEF 2007 - Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum
2. Co-organizer of the GeoCLEF Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track 2007, Budapest, Hungary, 19-21 September 2007, co-located with the CLEF 2007 - Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum
2006
1. Co-organizer of the CLEF 2006 Ad-hoc Track, Alicante, Spain, 20-22 September 2006, co-located with the CLEF 2006 - Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum
2. Co-organizer of the GeoCLEF Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track 2006, Alicante, Spain, 20-22 September 2006, co-located with the CLEF 2006 - Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum
2005
1. Co-organizer of the CLEF 2005 Ad-hoc Track, Vienna, Austria, 21-23 September 2005, co-located with the CLEF 2005 - Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum

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

Events

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

Events

Full Professor
in Computer Science

Department of
Information Engineering