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  1. Towards Green Recommender Systems: Investigating the Impact of Data Reduction on Carbon Footprint and Algorithm Performances

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  2. Recommending Healthy and Sustainable Meals exploiting Food Retrieval and Large Language Models

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  3. Reproducibility of LLM-based Recommender Systems: the Case Study of P5 Paradigm

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  4. 11th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS'24)

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  5. Instructing and Prompting Large Language Models for Explainable Cross-domain Recommendations

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  6. Human Pose Estimation for Explainable Corrective Feedbacks in Office Spaces

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro, Gaetano Dibenedetto

  7. ExUM 2024 - 6th Workshop on Explainable User Modeling and Personalised Systems

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro, Jürgen Ziegler

  8. Improving Transformer-based Sequential Conversational Recommendations through Knowledge Graph Embeddings

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  9. Evaluating Content-based Pre-Training Strategies for a Knowledge-aware Recommender System based on Graph Neural Networks

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  10. Report on the 10th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS 2023) at ACM RecSys 2023

    Article • ACM SIGIR Forum, December 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  11. 10th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS’23)

    Article • September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  12. Towards Sustainability-aware Recommender Systems: Analyzing the Trade-off Between Algorithms Performance and Carbon Footprint

    Article • September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  13. Reproducibility Analysis of Recommender Systems relying on Visual Features: traps, pitfalls, and countermeasures

    Article • September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  14. Combining Graph Neural Networks and Sentence Encoders for Knowledge-aware Recommendations

    Article • June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  15. 5th Workshop on Explainable User Models and Personalised Systems (ExUM)

    Article • June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro, Jürgen Ziegler

  16. Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS’22)

    Article • September 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  17. Usage of neuro-symbolic graph embedding techniques with First-Order Logic Rules for recommendation

    Article • September 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro, Giuseppe Spillo

  18. FinRec: The 3rd International Workshop on Personalization & Recommender Systems in Financial Services

    Article • September 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro, Yong Zheng

  19. Lexicon Enriched Hybrid Hate Speech Detection with Human-Centered Explanations

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  20. Workshop on Explainable User Models and Personalised Systems (ExUM)

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jürgen Ziegler, Giovanni Semeraro

  21. A Virtual Assistant for the Movie Domain Exploiting Natural Language Preference Elicitation Strategies

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  22. MQALD: Evaluating the impact of modifiers in question answering over knowledge graphs

    Article • Semantic Web, February 2022, IOS Press

    Giovanni Semeraro

  23. MyrrorBot : A Digital Assistant Based on Holistic User Models for Personalized Access to Online Services

    Article • ACM Transactions on Information Systems, October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  24. Together is Better: Hybrid Recommendations Combining Graph Embeddings and Contextualized Word Representations

    Article • September 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  25. Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS’21)

    Article • September 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  26. Exploring the Effects of Natural Language Justifications in Food Recommender Systems

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  27. Workshop on Explainable User Models and Personalized Systems (ExUM 2021)

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jürgen Ziegler, Giovanni Semeraro

  28. Improving preference elicitation in a conversational recommender system with active learning strategies

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  29. Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems

    Article • September 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  30. Towards Queryable User Profiles: Introducing Conversational Agents in a Platform for Holistic User Modeling

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  31. UMAP 2020 Workshop on Explainable User Models and Personalised Systems (ExUM) Chairs' Welcome & Organization

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jürgen Ziegler, Giovanni Semeraro

  32. Towards a Knowledge-aware Food Recommender System Exploiting Holistic User Models

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  33. Workshop on Explainable User Models and Personalized Systems (ExUM 2020)

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jürgen Ziegler, Giovanni Semeraro

  34. RecSys '19 joint workshop on interfaces and human decision making for recommender systems

    Article • September 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  35. Combining text summarization and aspect-based sentiment analysis of users' reviews to justify recommendations

    Article • September 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  36. UMAP 2019 Workshop on Explainable and Holistic User Modeling (ExHUM) Chairs' Welcome & Organization

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro, Amon Rapp

  37. Social Tags and Emotions as main Features for the Next Song To Play in Automatic Playlist Continuation

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  38. A Comparison of Word-Embeddings in Emotion Detection from Text using BiLSTM, CNN and Self-Attention

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  39. Embedding Knowledge Graphs for Semantics-aware Recommendations based on DBpedia

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  40. Mapping Twitter hate speech towards social and sexual minorities: a lexicon-based approach to semantic content analysis

    Article • Behaviour and Information Technology, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Giovanni Semeraro

  41. Modeling concepts and their relationships for corpus-based query auto-completion

    Article • Open Computer Science, January 2019, De Gruyter

    Md. Aftab Uddin, Giovanni Semeraro

  42. Semantics-aware Recommender Systems Exploiting Linked Open Data and Graph-based Features

    Article • January 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  43. Semantics-aware Graph-based Recommender Systems Exploiting Linked Open Data

    Article • July 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  44. Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (#IntRS)

    Article • September 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro

  45. RecSys'12 workshop on human decision making in recommender systems

    Article • September 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giovanni Semeraro