Publications

Laura Plaza, Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz, Víctor Ruiz, Alba Maeso, Berta Chulvi, Paolo Rosso, Enrique Amigó, Julio Gonzalo, Roser Morante, Damiano Spina (2024). Overview of EXIST 2024 -- Learning with Disagreement for Sexism Identification and Characterization in Tweets and Memes. Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction.

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Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Lin Tian, Futoon M. Abushaqra, Angel Felipe Magnossão de Paula, Kaixin Ji, Danula Hettiachchi, Johanne R. Trippas, Halil Ali, Falk Scholer, Damiano Spina (2024). Walert: Putting Conversational Information Seeking Knowledge into Action by Building and Evaluating a Large Language Model-Powered Chatbot. Proceedings of CHIIR'24.

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Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Falk Scholer, Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina (2024). Towards Investigating Biases in Spoken Conversational Search. Companion Publication of the 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction.

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Kaixin Ji, Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Johanne R. Trippas, Danula Hettiachchi, Flora D. Salim, Falk Scholer, Damiano Spina (2024). Towards Detecting and Mitigating Cognitive Bias in Spoken Conversational Search. Adjunct Publication of the 26th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services.

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Tony Kim Smith, H Ruda Nie, Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina (2024). RMIT-IR at EXIST Lab at CLEF 2024. Working Notes of CLEF 2024 – Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum.

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Damiano Spina, Danula Hettiachchi, Anthony McCosker (2024). Quantifying and Measuring Bias and Engagement in Automated Decision-Making.

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Laura Plaza, Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz, Víctor Ruiz, Alba Maeso, Berta Chulvi, Paolo Rosso, Enrique Amigó, Julio Gonzalo, Roser Morante, Damiano Spina (2024). Overview of EXIST 2024 -- Learning with Disagreement for Sexism Identification and Characterization in Tweets and Memes (Extended Overview). Working Notes of CLEF 2024 – Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum.

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Weronika Łajewska, Damiano Spina, Johanne R. Trippas, Krisztian Balog (2024). Explainability for Transparent Conversational Information-Seeking. Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

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Laura Plaza, Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz, Enrique Amigó, Julio Gonzalo, Roser Morante, Paolo Rosso, Damiano Spina, Berta Chulvi, Alba Maeso, Víctor Ruiz (2024). EXIST 2024: sEXism Identification in Social neTworks and Memes. Proceedings of ECIR'24.

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Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Ujwal Gadiraju, Damiano Spina (2024). Everything We Hear: Towards Tackling Misinformation in Podcasts. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction.

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Mahendra Rahmad, Damiano Spina, Lawrence Cavedon, Karin Verspoor (2024). Do numbers matter? Types and prevalence of numbers in clinical texts. Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing.

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David La Barbera, Eddy Maddalena, Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, Gianluca Demartini, Davide Ceolin, Damiano Spina, Stefano Mizzaro (2024). Crowdsourced Fact-Checking: Does It Actually Work?. Information Processing & Management.

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Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, David La Barbera, Davide Ceolin, Damiano Spina, Gianluca Demartini, Stefano Mizzaro (2024). Cognitive Biases in Fact-Checking and Their Countermeasures: A Review. Information Processing & Management.

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Kaixin Ji, Danula Hettiachchi, Flora D. Salim, Falk Scholer, Damiano Spina (2024). Characterizing Information Seeking Processes with Multiple Physiological Signals. Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

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Weronika Łajewska, Krisztian Balog, Damiano Spina, Johanne Trippas (2024). Can Users Detect Biases or Factual Errors in Generated Responses in Conversational Information-Seeking?. Proceedings of the 2024 Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region.

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Nattapat Boonprakong, Kaixin Ji, Ziyi Ye, Benjamin Tag, Damiano Spina, Tuukka Ruotsalo, Flora D. Salim (2024). Advancing Physiological Methods for Human-Information Interaction. Companion of the 2024 on ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing.

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Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer (2024). Adapting Generative Information Retrieval Systems to Users, Tasks, and Scenarios. Information Access in the Era of Generative AI.

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Laura Plaza, Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz, Roser Morante, Enrique Amigó, Julio Gonzalo, Damiano Spina, Paolo Rosso (2023). Overview of EXIST 2023 -- Learning with Disagreement for Sexism Identification and Characterization. Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction.

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Damiano Spina, Mark Sanderson, Daniel Angus, Gianluca Demartini, Dana McKay, Lauren L. Saling, Falk Scholer, Ryen W. White (2023). Human-AI Cooperation to Tackle Misinformation and Polarization. Communications of the ACM.

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Stanislaus Krisna, Danula Hettiachchi, Damiano Spina (2023). Towards Measuring Sensitivity of Psychometrics in Crowdsourcing Tasks: Engaging with Fact-checked Content Online. Proceedings of the CSCW 2023 Workshop on Undertanding and Mitigating Cognitive Biases in Human-AI Collaboration.

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Kaixin Ji, Damiano Spina, Danula Hettiachchi, Flora D. Salim, Falk Scholer (2023). Towards Detecting Tonic Information Processing Activities with Physiological Data. Adjunct Proceedings of UbiComp/ISWC 2023.

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Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Kaixin Ji, Danula Hettiachchi, Johanne R. Trippas, Falk Scholer, Damiano Spina (2023). RMIT_IR at the NTCIR-17 FairWeb-1 Task. Proceedings of 17th Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies (NTCIR-17).

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Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Marwah Alaofi, Reham Abdullah Altalhi, Elham Naghizade, Falk Scholer, Damiano Spina (2023). RMIT CIDDA IR at the TREC 2022 Fair Ranking Track. Proceedings of TREC 2022.

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Laura Plaza, Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz, Roser Morante, Julio Gonzalo, Enrique Amigó, Damiano Spina, Paolo Rosso (2023). Overview of EXIST 2023: sEXism Identification in Social neTworks. Proceedings of ECIR'23.

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Laura Plaza, Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz, Roser Morante, Enrique Amigó, Julio Gonzalo, Damiano Spina, Paolo Rosso (2023). Overview of EXIST 2023 -- Learning with Disagreement for Sexism Identification and Characterization (Extended Overview). Working Notes of CLEF 2023 – Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum.

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Angel Felipe Magnossão de Paula, Paolo Rosso, Damiano Spina (2023). Mitigating Negative Transfer with Task Awareness for Sexism, Hate Speech, and Toxic Language Detection. 2023 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN).

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Rahmad Mahendra, Damiano Spina, Karin Verspoor (2023). ITTC at SemEval 2023-Task 7: Document Retrieval and Sentence Similarity for Evidence Retrieval in Clinical Trial Data. Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023).

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Bayu Distiawan Trisedya, Flora D. Salim, Jeffrey Chan, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson (2023). i-Align: An Interpretable Knowledge Graph Alignment Model. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.

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Kaixin Ji, Damiano Spina, Danula Hettiachchi, Flora D. Salim, Falk Scholer (2023). Examining the Impact of Uncontrolled Variables on Physiological Signals in User Studies for Information Processing Activities. Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

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Danula Hettiachchi, Kaixin Ji, Jenny Kennedy, Anthony McCosker, Flora D. Salim, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Damiano Spina (2023). Designing and Evaluating Presentation Strategies for Fact-Checked Content. Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.

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Kevin Roitero, Michael Soprano, Beatrice Portelli, Massimiliano De Luise, Damiano Spina, Vincenzo Della Mea, Giuseppe Serra, Stefano Mizzaro, Gianluca Demartini (2023). Can the Crowd Judge Truthfulness? A Longitudinal Study on Recent Misinformation about COVID-19. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.

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Angel Felipe Magnossão de Paula, Giulia Rizzi, Elisabetta Fersini, Damiano Spina (2023). AI-UPV at EXIST 2023 -- Sexism Characterization Using Large Language Models Under The Learning with Disagreement Regime. Working Notes of CLEF 2023 – Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum.

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Yunke Qu, David La Barbera, Kevin Roitero, Stefano Mizzaro, Damiano Spina, Gianluca Demartini (2022). Combining Human and Machine Confidence in Truthfulness Assessment. J. Data and Information Quality.

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Marwah Alaofi, Luke Gallagher, Dana McKay, Lauren L. Saling, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Damiano Spina, Ryen W. White (2022). Where Do Queries Come From?. Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

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Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, W. Bruce Croft (2022). RMIT at TREC 2021 Fair Ranking Track. Proceedings of TREC 2021.

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Joel Mackenzie, Damiano Spina (2022). Report on the 25th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2021). SIGIR Forum.

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Enrique Amigó, Stefano Mizzaro, Damiano Spina (2022). Ranking Interruptus: When Truncated Rankings Are Better and How to Measure That. Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

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Francisco Rodrı́guez-Sánchez, Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz, Laura Plaza, Adrián Mendieta-Aragón, Guillermo Marco-Remón, Maryna Makeienko, María Plaza, Julio Gonzalo, Damiano Spina, Paolo Rosso (2022). Overview of EXIST 2022: sEXism Identification in Social neTworks. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural.

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Thinh Hung Truong, Yulia Otmakhova, Rahmad Mahendra, Timothy Baldwin, Jey Han Lau, Trevor Cohn, Lawrence Cavedon, Damiano Spina, Karin Verspoor (2022). ITTC @ TREC 2021 Clinical Trials Track. Proceedings of TREC 2021.

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Yonchanok Khaokaew, Indigo Holcombe-James, Mohammad Saiedur, Rahaman, Jonathan Liono, Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Peter Bailey, Nicholas J. Belkin, Paul N. Bennett, Yongli Ren, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Ryen W. White, Flora D. Salim (2022). Imagining Future Digital Assistants at Work: A Study of Task Management Needs. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.

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David La Barbera, Kevin Roitero, Joel Mackenzie, Damiano Spina, Gianluca Demartini, Stefano Mizzaro (2022). BUM at CheckThat! 2022: A Composite Deep Learning Approach to Fake News Detection using Evidence Retrieval. Working Notes of CLEF 2022—Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum.

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Binh Le, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, Hui Chia (2022). A Crowdsourcing Methodology to Measure Algorithmic Bias in Black-box Systems: A Case Study with COVID-related Searches. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Bias and Social Aspects in Search and Recommendation.

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Ameer Albahem, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, Lawrence Cavedon (2021). Component-Based Analysis of Dynamic Search Performance. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst..

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Lauren L. Saling, Devi Mallal, Falk Scholer, Russell Skelton, Damiano Spina (2021). No one is immune to misinformation: An investigation of misinformation sharing by subscribers to a fact-checking newsletter. PLOS ONE.

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Johannes Kiesel, Damiano Spina, Henning Wachsmuth, Benno Stein (2021). The Meant, the Said, and the Understood: Conversational Argument Search and Cognitive Biases. CUI'21.

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Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Mark Sanderson, Lawrence Cavedon (2021). Accessing Media Via an Audio-only Communication Channel: A Log Analysis. CUI'21.

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Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, David La Barbera, Davide Ceolin, Damiano Spina, Stefano Mizzaro, Gianluca Demartini (2021). The Many Dimensions of Truthfulness: Crowdsourcing Misinformation Assessments on a Multidimensional Scale. Information Processing & Management.

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Yunke Qu, Kevin Roitero, Stefano Mizzaro, Damiano Spina, Gianluca Demartini (2021). Human-in-the-Loop Systems for Truthfulness: A Study of Human and Machine Confidence. Proceedings of the 2021 Truth and Trust Online Conference (TTO 2021).

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Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, W. Bruce Croft (2021). Evaluating Fairness in Argument Retrieval. Proceedings of CIKM'21.

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Manuel Steiner, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, Lawrence Cavedon (2021). Crowdsourcing Backstories for Complex Task-Based Search. Australasian Document Computing Symposium.

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Joel Mackenzie, Damiano Spina (2021). ADCS '21: Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Document Computing Symposium. Association for Computing Machinery.

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Xinhuan Duan, Elham Naghizade, Damiano Spina, Xiuzhen Zhang (2020). RMIT at PAN-CLEF 2020: Profiling Fake News Spreaders on Twitter. CLEF 2020 Labs and Workshops, Notebook Papers.

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Gianluca Demartini, Stefano Mizzaro, Damiano Spina (2020). Human-in-the-loop Artificial Intelligence for Fighting Online Misinformation: Challenges and Opportunities. Bulletin of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering.

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Assunta Cerone, Elham Naghizade, Falk Scholer, Devi Mallal, Russell Skelton, Damiano Spina (2020). Watch ’n’ Check: Towards a Social Media Monitoring Tool to Assist Fact-Checking Experts. 2020 IEEE 7th International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA).

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Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Mark Sanderson, Hideo Joho, Lawrence Cavedon (2020). Towards a Model for Spoken Conversational Search. Information Processing & Management.

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Johanne R. Trippas, Paul Thomas, Damiano Spina, Hideo Joho (2020). Third International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (CAIR'20): Full-Day Workshop at CHIIR 2020. Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval.

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Kevin Roitero, Michael Soprano, Beatrice Portelli, Damiano Spina, Vincenzo Della Mea, Giuseppe Serra, Stefano Mizzaro, Gianluca Demartini (2020). The COVID-19 Infodemic: Can the Crowd Judge Recent Misinformation Objectively?. Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management.

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Jonathan Liono, Mohammad Saiedur, Rahaman, Flora D. Salim, Yongli Ren, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, Johanne R. Trippas, Mark Sanderson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. White (2020). Intelligent Task Recognition: Towards Enabling Productivity Assistance in Daily Life. Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval.

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David La Barbera, Kevin Roitero, Gianluca Demartini, Stefano Mizzaro, Damiano Spina (2020). Crowdsourcing Truthfulness: The Impact of Judgment Scale and Assessor Bias. ECIR'20 Proceedings of the 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval.

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Kevin Roitero, Michael Soprano, Shaoyang Fan, Damiano Spina, Stefano Mizzaro, Gianluca Demartini (2020). Can The Crowd Identify Misinformation Objectively? The Effects of Judgment Scale and Assessor's Background. Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

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Aleksandr Chuklin, Aliaksei Severyn, Johanne~R. Trippas, Enrique Alfonseca, Hanna Silen, Damiano Spina (2019). Using Audio Transformations to Improve Comprehension in Voice Question Answering. CLEF'19 Proceedigns of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum.

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Damiano Spina, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Amit Sheth, Markus Strohmaier (2019). Processing Social Media in Real-Time. Information Processing & Management.

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Ameer Albahem, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, Lawrence Cavedon (2019). Meta-Evaluation of Dynamic Search: How Do Metrics Capture Topical Relevance, Diversity and User Effort?. ECIR'19 Proceedings of the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval.

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Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Peter Bailey, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. White, Jonathan Liono, Yongli Ren, Flora D. Salim, Mark Sanderson (2019). Learning About Work Tasks to Inform Intelligent Assistant Design. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval.

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Jiaxin Mao, Damiano Spina, Sargol Sadeghi, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson (2019). Investigating the Learning Process in Job Search: A Longitudinal Study. Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.

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Damiano Spina, Jaime Arguello, Hideo Joho, Julia Kiseleva, Filip Radlinski (2019). CAIR'18: Second International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval at SIGIR 2018. SIGIR Forum.

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Jonathan Liono, Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Mohammad S. Rahamad, Yongli Ren, Flora D. Salim, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Ryen W. White (2019). Building a Benchmark for Task Progress in Digital Assistants. TI@WSDM10 WSDM Task Intelligence Workshop.

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Enrique Amigó, Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo, Damiano Spina (2019). A Comparison of Filtering Evaluation Metrics Based on Formal Constraints. Information Retrieval Journal.

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J. Shane Culpepper, Fernando Diaz, Mark D. Smucker, James Allan, Jaime Arguello, Leif Azzopardi, Peter Bailey, Tim Baldwin, Krisztian Balog, Hannah Bast, Nick Belkin, Klaus Berberich, Bodo von Billerbeck, Jamie Callan, Rob Capra, Mark Carman, Ben Carterette, Charles L. A. Clarke, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Nick Craswell, W. Bruce Croft, Jeff Dalton, Gianluca Demartini, Laura Dietz, Susan Dumais, Carsten Eickhoff, Nicola Ferro, Norbert Fuhr, Shlomo Geva, Claudia Hauff, David Hawking, Hideo Joho, Gareth Jones, Jaap Kamps, Noriko Kando, Diane Kelly, Jaewon Kim, Julia Kiseleva, Yiqun Liu, Xiaolu Lu, Stefano Mizzaro, Alistair Moffat, Jian-Yun Nie, Alexandra Olteanu, Iadh Ounis, Filip Radlinski, Maarten de Rijke, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Laurianne Sitbon, Ian Soboroff, Damiano Spina, Torsten Suel, James Thom, Paul Thomas, Andrew Trotman, Ellen Voorhees, Arjen P. de Vries, Emine Yilmaz, Guido Zuccon (2018). Research Frontiers in Information Retrieval: Report from the Third Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval in Lorne (SWIRL 2018). SIGIR Forum.

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Enrique Amigó, Stefano Mizzaro, Damiano Spina (2018). Towards a Basic Principle for Ranking Effectiveness Prediction without Human Assessments: A Preliminary Study. GLARE'18 CIKM Workshop on 1st International Workshop on GeneraLization in InformAtion REtrieval.

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Jaime Arguello, Filip Radlinski, Hideo Joho, Damiano Spina, Julia Kiseleva (2018). Second International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (CAIR'18): Workshop at SIGIR 2018. The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval.

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Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Lawrence Cavedon, Hideo Joho, Mark Sanderson (2018). Informing the Design of Spoken Conversational Search: Perspective Paper. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval.

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Kevin Roitero, Gianluca Demartini, Stefano Mizzaro, Damiano Spina (2018). How Many Truth Levels? Six? One Hundred? Even more? Validating Truthfulness of Statements via Crowdsourcing. RDSM'18 CIKM Workshop on Rumours and Deception in Social Media.

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Ameer Albahem, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, Alistair Moffat, Lawrence Cavedon (2018). Desirable Properties for Diversity and Truncated Effectiveness Metrics. Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Document Computing Symposium.

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Enrique Amigó, Damiano Spina, Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz (2018). An Axiomatic Analysis of Diversity Evaluation Metrics: Introducing the Rank-Biased Utility Metric. The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval.

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Bahar Salehi, Damiano Spina, Alistair Moffat, Sargol Sadeghi, Falk Scholer, Timothy Baldwin, Lawrence Cavedon, Mark Sanderson, Wilson Wong, Justin Zobel (2018). A Living Lab Study of Query Amendment in Job Search. The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval.

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Enrique Amigó, Fernando Giner, Stefano Mizzaro, Damiano Spina (2018). A Formal Account of Effectiveness Evaluation and Ranking Fusion. Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval.

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Damiano Spina, Maria Maistro, Yongli Ren, Sargol Sadeghi, Wilson Wong, Timothy Baldwin, Lawrence Cavedon, Alistair Moffat, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Justin Zobel (2017). Understanding User Behavior in Job and Talent Search: An Initial Investigation. SIGIR Workshop on eCommerce.

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Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Lawrence Cavedon, Mark Sanderson (2017). How Do People Interact in Conversational Speech-Only Search Tasks: A Preliminary Analysis. Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval.

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Damiano Spina, Johanne R. Trippas, Lawrence Cavedon, Mark Sanderson (2017). Extracting Audio Summaries to Support Effective Spoken Document Search. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.

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Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Lawrence Cavedon, Mark Sanderson (2017). Crowdsourcing User Preferences and Query Judgments for Speech-Only Search. SIGIR 1st International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval.

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Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Lawrence Cavedon, Mark Sanderson (2017). A Conversational Search Transcription Protocol and Analysis. Proceedings of the SIGIR 1st International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (CAIR'17).

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Ameer Albahem, Damiano Spina, Lawrence Cavedon, Falk Scholer (2016). RMIT @ TREC 2016 Dynamic Domain: Exploiting Passage Representation for Retrieval and Relevance Feedback. TREC Proceedings of the Text REtrieval Conference.

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Liu Yang, Qingyao Ai, Damiano Spina, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Liang Pang, W. Bruce Croft, Jiafeng Guo, Falk Scholer (2016). Beyond Factoid QA: Effective Methods for Non-factoid Answer Sentence Retrieval. ECIR'16 Proceedings of the 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval.

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Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Mark Sanderson, Lawrence Cavedon (2015). Towards Understanding the Impact of Length in Web Search Result Summaries over a Speech-Only Communication Channel. Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

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Damiano Spina, Johanne R. Trippas, Lawrence Cavedon, Mark Sanderson (2015). SpeakerLDA: Discovering Topics in Transcribed Multi-Speaker Audio Contents. Proceedings of the Third Edition Workshop on Speech, Language & Audio in Multimedia.

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Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Mark Sanderson, Lawrence Cavedon (2015). Results Presentation Methods for a Spoken Conversational Search System. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Novel Web Search Interfaces and Systems.

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Arkaitz Zubiaga, Damiano Spina, Raquel Martínez, Víctor Fresno (2015). Real-time classification of Twitter trends. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.

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Ruey-Cheng Chen, Damiano Spina, W. Bruce Croft, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer (2015). Harnessing Semantics for Answer Sentence Retrieval. Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval.

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Damiano Spina, Maria-Hendrike Peetz, Maarten de Rijke (2015). Active Learning for Entity Filtering in Microblog Streams. Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

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Enrique Amigó, Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz, Irina Chugur, Adolfo Corujo, Julio Gonzalo, Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke, Damiano Spina (2014). Overview of RepLab 2014: Author Profiling and Reputation Dimensions for Online Reputation Management. CLEF'14 Proceedings of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum.

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Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz, Enrique Amigó, Damiano Spina, Julio Gonzalo (2014). ORMA: A Semi-Automatic Tool for Online Reputation Monitoring in Twitter. ECIR'14 Proceedings of the 36th European Conference on Information Retrieval.

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Damiano Spina, Julio Gonzalo, Enrique Amigó (2014). Learning Similarity Functions for Topic Detection in Online Reputation Monitoring. Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval.

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Damiano Spina, Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz, Tamara Martı́n, Enrique Amigó, Juio Gonzalo, Fernando Giner (2013). UNED Online Reputation Monitoring Team at RepLab 2013. CLEF'13 Eval. Labs and Workshop Online Working Notes.

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Maria-Hendrike Peetz, Damiano Spina, Julio Gonzalo, Maarten de Rijke (2013). Towards an Active Learning System for Company Name Disambiguation in Microblog Streams. CLEF'13 Eval. Labs and Workshop Online Working Notes.

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Daniel Archambault, Ruben Bouwmeester, Cosmin Cabulea, Elizabeth M Daly, Giusy Di Lorenzo, Maarten de Rijke, Martin Harrigan, Eser Kandogan, Michael Muller, Mor Naaman, Daniele Quercia, Damiano Spina, Markus Strohmaier, Arkaitz Zubiaga (2013). Reports on the Workshops Held at the Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. AI Magazine.

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Enrique Amigó, Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz, Irina Chugur, Adolfo Corujo, Julio Gonzalo, Tamara Martín, Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke, Damiano Spina (2013). Overview of RepLab 2013: Evaluating Online Reputation Monitoring Systems. Proceedings of 4th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative.

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Damiano Spina, Julio Gonzalo, Enrique Amigó (2013). Discovering Filter Keywords for Company Name Disambiguation in Twitter. Expert Systems with Applications.

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Tamara Martín, Damiano Spina, Enrique Amigó, Julio Gonzalo (2012). UNED at RepLab 2012: Monitoring Task. CLEF'12 Eval. Labs and Workshop Notebook Papers.

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Arkaitz Zubiaga, Damiano Spina, Enrique Amigó, Julio Gonzalo (2012). Towards Real-Time Summarization of Scheduled Events from Twitter Streams. Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media.

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Damiano Spina, Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke, Andrei Oghina, Minh Thuong Bui, Mathias Breuss (2012). Identifying Entity Aspects in Microblog Posts. Proceedings of the 35th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

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Damiano Spina, Edgar Meij, Andrei Oghina, Minh Thuong Bui, Mathias Breuss, Maarten de Rijke (2012). A Corpus for Entity Profiling in Microblog Posts. Proceedings of the LREC Workshop on Language Engineering for Online Reputation Management.

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Damiano Spina, Enrique Amigó, Julio Gonzalo (2011). Filter Keywords and Majority Class Strategies for Company Name Disambiguation in Twitter. CLEF'11 Proceedings of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum.

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Arkaitz Zubiaga, Damiano Spina, Víctor Fresno, Raquel Martínez (2011). Classifying Trending Topics: A Typology of Conversation Triggers on Twitter. Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.

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Guillermo Garrido, Bernardo Cabaleiro, Anselmo Peñas, Alvaro Rodrigo, Damiano Spina (2011). A Distant Supervised Learning System for the TAC-KBP Slot Filling and Temporal Slot Filling Tasks. TAC'11 Proceedings of Text Analysis Conference.

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Enrique Amigó, Javier Artiles, Julio Gonzalo, Damiano Spina, Bing Liu, Adolfo Corujo (2010). WePS-3 Evaluation Campaign: Overview of the Online Reputation Management Task. CLEF'10 Eval. Labs and Workshops Online Working Notes.

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