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Paolo Dongilli

KRDB Center
Faculty of Computer Science
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Dominikanerplatz 3
39100 Bozen
ITALY

phone: +39 0471 016222
fax: +39 0471 016009
http://www.inf.unibz.it/~dongilli
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ΣΟΦΙΑ ΣΟΛΟΜΩΝΤΟΣ 6:12-14
[12] Λαμπρὰ καὶ ἀμάραντός ἐστιν ἡ σοφία και εὐχερῶς θεωρεῖται ὑπὸ τῶν ἀγαπώντων αὐτὴν καὶ εὑρίσκεται ὑπὸ τῶν ζητούντων αὐτήν, [13] φθάνει τοὺς ἐπιθυμοῦντας προγνωσθῆναι. [14] ὁ ὀρθρίσας πρὸς αὐτὴν οὐ κοπιάσει, πάρεδρον γὰρ εὑρήσει τῶν πυλῶν αὐτοῦ.

ΚΑΤΑ ΛΟΥΚΑΝ 14:8-11
[8] «Όταν σε καλέσει κάποιος άλλος καλεσμένος να είναι πιο σπουδαίος από σένα. [9] Και τότε θα έρθει αυτός που κάλεσε κι εσένα κι εκείνον, και θα σου πει: "δώσε τη θέση σου σ' αυτόν". Τότε εσύ νιροπιασμένος θα πας να καθίσεις στιν τελευταία θέση. [10] Γι' αυτό, όταν σε καλέσουν κάπου, πήγαινε και κάθισε στην τελευταία θέση, ώστε όταν έρθει αυτός που σε κάλέσε, να σου πει: "φίλε μου, έλα σε μια καλύτερη θέση". Έτσι αυτό θα είναι μια τιμί για σένα μπροστά στους συνδαιτυμόνες σου. [11] Γιατί όποιος υψώνει τον εαυτό του θα ταπεινωθεί, κι αυτός που ταπεινώνει τον εαυτό του θα υψωθεί».

projects

MIVaS: (2007-2008) MIVaS (Metodi Inferenziali per la Valutazione di Sistema -- Inferential Methods for the Evaluation of the School System) was started at the beginning of 2007 by the Evaluation Committee of the Italian-language schools of the Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano. The aim of the committee is a diachronic research (1966-2006) about the linguistic skills and the evolution of contextual culture of the students exiting the 3rd grade of the Lower Junior High School (equivalent to other countries' 8th grade of Lower Junior High School or Middle School). The targets of this analysis are the written compositions of students and the respective evaluations expressed by examiners. We consider the written exams of these subjects: Italian, German as second language, English, and Mathematics. Furthermore all documents which turn out to be useful in identifying the contextual culture are examined. The aim is to build the premises for a systemic evaluation which carefully monitors the ongoing changes of social and scholastic behaviors, focusing on the "natural" outcomes of schools along with meaningful documents of teaching activities and of the contextual factors deriving from social life.

Natural Language Generation Applied to Intelligent Query Interfaces: (2006-) The present research aims at building a bridge between Intelligent Query Interfaces and Natural Language Generation technologies. The idea is to have a query interface enabling the users to access heterogeneous data sources by means of an integrated ontology. The query interface supports the users in formulating a precise conjunctive query where the intelligence of the interface is driven by an ontology describing the domain of the data in the information system. The main challenge is that the underlying conjunctive query must be presented to the user in natural language and the stepwise refinements of the query made by the user are refinements that maintain the grammaticality of the sentences representing the query. This can be considered a step towards a question answering system where the question is not freely inserted by the user, but instead the user is guided in building it according to the knowledge domain chosen.

SEWASIE: (2003-2005) The goal of the SEWASIE (SEmantic Webs and AgentS in Integrated Economies) project is the design and the implementation of an advanced search engine allowing information access via a machine-processable semantics of data in order to provide the basis of structured web-based communication. (more ...)

MIRIS: (2000-2003) The aim of the MIRIS (Minority Rights Information System) project is to develop a comprehensive information system which provides easily accessible information on the implementation of minority rights in Europe. MIRIS will include the most important legal texts including the EU Framework Convention for the protection of minority rights, state reports, the national legislation and the case-law, reports compiled by minority groups, experts' opinions, international treaties, etc.

CATEx: (1998-2000) The CATEx (Computer Assisted Terminology Extraction) project of EURAC.Research emerged from the need to support and improve the manual acquisition of terminological data. The main objective of the project was to develop a computational framework for (semi-)automatic terminology acquisition, which was composed of the following modules: a parallel text corpus, term-extraction tools, and a term database. Our corpus contained Italian and German legal documents (approx. 5 million words), which have been encoded in XML according to the Corpus Encoding Standard. The following pieces of information have been annotated: bibliographic information, structural information, sentences and tokens, lemmas, part-of-speech tags, and alignment at the sentence level. With the large number of approx. 100,000 one-to-one sentence alignments the corpus served also as a useful reference tool for the evaluation of alignment algorithms. The CATEx bilingual corpus is being used now by the BISTRO project.

recent events

publications

Paolo Dongilli. Natural Language Rendering of a Conjunctive Query. KRDB Research Centre Technical Report KRDB08-3, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, June 2008. [ bib | .pdf ]

Ivan Zorzi, Sergio Tessaris, and Paolo Dongilli. Improving Responsiveness of Ontology-Based Query Formulation. In Proceedings of the 4th Italian Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP 2007), Bari, Italy, December 2007. [ bib | .pdf ]

Paolo Dongilli. Discourse planning strategies for complex concept descriptions. In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP-2007), Pattaya, Chonburi, Thailand, December 2007. [ bib | .pdf ]

Paolo Dongilli. Centering-theory-based text planning of a conjunctive query. In Proceedings of the 3rd Language & Technology Conference, Lecture Notes in AI (LNAI), Poznan, Poland, October 2007. Springer Verlag. [ bib | .pdf ]

Raffaella Bernardi, Paolo Dongilli, Maurizio Girardi, and Daniele Gobbetti. MIVaS Project. Inferential Methods for the Evaluation of the School System. CADMO. Giornale Italiano di Pedagogia sperimentale. An International Journal of Educational Research, Tempus Trast. Soluzioni in rete per la formazione degli insegnanti. Gabriella Agrusti (ed). (Anno XV, 1), 2007. [ bib ]

Paolo Dongilli, Sergio Tessaris, and John Bateman. Leveraging Systemic-Functional Linguistics to Enhance Intelligent Database Querying. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, Jinan, China, October 2006. [ bib | .pdf ]

Paolo Dongilli and Enrico Franconi. An Intelligent Query Interface with Natural Language Support. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2006), Melbourne Beach, Florida, USA, May 2006. [ bib | .pdf ]

Tiziana Catarci, Tania Di Mascio, Paolo Dongilli, Enrico Franconi, Giuseppe Santucci, and Sergio Tessaris. SEWASIE (Semantic Web and AgentS in Integrated Economies) project: Usability Evaluation Tests. In Proceedings of HCITALY 2005: the 4th Italian Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction, Rome, Italy, September 2005. [ bib | .pdf ]

Paolo Dongilli, Pablo Fillottrani, Enrico Franconi, and Sergio Tessaris. A Multi-Agent System for Querying Heterogeneous Data Sources with Ontologies. In Proceedings of SEBD-2005: Thirteenth Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems, Brixen-Bressanone, Italy, June 2005. [ bib | .pdf ]

Tiziana Catarci, Paolo Dongilli, Tania Di Mascio, Enrico Franconi, Giuseppe Santucci, and Sergio Tessaris. Usability evaluation tests in the SeWAsIE (SEmantic Webs and AgentS in Integrated Economies) project. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2005), Las Vegas, Nevada USA, 2005. [ bib | .pdf ]

Tiziana Catarci, Paolo Dongilli, Tania Di Mascio, Enrico Franconi, Giuseppe Santucci, and Sergio Tessaris. An Ontology Based Visual Tool for Query Formulation Support. In Proceedings ECAI 2004: the 16th Biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Valencia, Spain, August 2004. [ bib | .pdf ]

Paolo Dongilli, Enrico Franconi, and Sergio Tessaris. Semantics Driven Support for Query Formulation. In Proceedings of the 2004 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2004), volume 104, Whistler, BC, Canada, June 2004. [ bib | .pdf ]

Paolo Dongilli and Johann Gamper. MIRIS Unleashed. In Proceedings JURIX 2003: the Sixteenth Annual International Conference (Legal Knowledge and Information Systems), pages 131-139, Utrecht, December 2003. IOS Press. [ bib | .pdf ]

Johann Gamper and Paolo Dongilli. Towards a Portal for Minority Rights in Europe. In António Palma dos Reis and Pedro Isaías, editors, Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on e-Society 2003, pages 313-320, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2003. IADIS Press. [ bib | .pdf ]

Johann Gamper and Paolo Dongilli. Towards a Semantic Portal for Minority Rights in Europe. Poster at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2002), Sardinia, Italia, July 2002. [ bib | .pdf ]

Johann Gamper and Paolo Dongilli. Primary Data Encoding of a Bilingual Corpus. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the GLDV, pages 323-331, Frankfurt a/M, Germany, July 1999. [ bib | .pdf ]

Paolo Dongilli. Progetto di un Etichettatore Lessicale ad Apprendimento Automatico. Master's thesis, Facoltà di Ingegneria Informatica, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, November 1998. [ bib | .ps.gz ]

teaching

2008
XML and Semistructured Databases

2004-2005, 2005-2006
Didattica dell'informatica I (SSIS Bressanone - Classe A042)