Welcome
This site is primarily meant to publish scientific documents
and publications which I wrote or to which I contributed (see the list below).
About me
I am from Lodi, Italy, where I attended high school at Liceo Classico (mostly Greek Latin and Humanities).
In 2004, I graduated in Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).
In 2007, I obtained my PhD in at the University of York (York, UK) in the field
of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing with a Thesis titled "Advanced Techniques for Personalized, Interactive Question Answering."
I am now a Senior Research Fellow under a EU Marie Curie fellowship within the ADAMACH project at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Trento, Italy.
Recent Publications (updated June 2008)
2008
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S. Quarteroni, Personalized, Interactive Question Answering on the Web. To appear in: Proceedings of KRAQ'08, Manchester, UK, August 2008.
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S. Varges, G. Riccardi and S. Quarteroni, Persistent Information State in a Data-Centric Architecture. Short paper to appear in: Proceedings of SigDial'08, Columbus, OH, USA, June 2008
- A. Moschitti, S. Quarteroni, Kernels on Linguistic Structures for Answer Extraction, Short paper to appear in: Proceedings of the 46th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'08), Columbus, OH, USA, June 2008.
- S. Quarteroni and S. Manandhar, Designing an Interactive Open Domain Question Answering System. To appear in: Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Special issue on Interactive Question Answering. N. Webb, B. Webber, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2008.
2007
- S. Quarteroni and S. Manandhar, User Modelling for Personalized Question Answering. In: Proceedings of AI*IA, Rome, Italy, September 2007.
- S. Quarteroni and S. Manandhar, A Chatbot-based Interactive Question Answering System. In: Proceedings of DECALOG, Rovereto, Italy, May 2007.
- A. Moschitti, S. Quarteroni, R. Basili and S. Manandhar, Exploiting Syntactic and Shallow Semantic Kernels for Question/Answer Classification. In: Proceedings of the 45th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007.
- S. Quarteroni, A. Moschitti, S. Manandhar and R. Basili, Advanced Structural Representations for Question Classification and Answer Re-ranking. In: Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Springer LNCS, Rome, Italy, April 2007.
2006
- Silvia Quarteroni and Suresh Manandhar, Incorporating User Models in Question Answering to Improve Readability. In: Proceedings of KRAQ'06. Trento, Italy, April 2006.
- Silvia Quarteroni and Suresh Manandhar, Adaptivity in Question Answering with User Modelling and a Dialogue Interface (short paper). In: Proceedings of EACL'06. Trento, Italy, April 2006.
- Silvia Quarteroni and Suresh Manandhar, User Modelling for Adaptive Question Answering and Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of FLAIRS-19. Melbourne Beach, FL, USA, May 2006.
2005
- S. Quarteroni, M. Rajman, M. Melichar Introducing Reset Patterns: an Extension to a Rapid Dialogue Prototyping Methodology, In proceedings of the IE'05 Workshop, 2005.
- Silvia Quarteroni and Suresh Manandhar, Adaptivity in Question Answering Using Dialogue Interfaces. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cultural Heritage - 9th Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2005). Milan, Italy, September 2005.
2004
- S. Quarteroni, M. Rajman, Introducing Reset Patterns: an Extension to a Rapid Dialogue Prototyping Methodology, EPFL Technical report IC-2004-58, 2004.
- M. Rajman, T. H. Bui, A. Rajman, F. Seydoux, A. Trutnev, S. Quarteroni, Assessing the usability of a dialogue management system designed in the framework of a rapid dialogue prototyping methodology. Published in the Acta Acustica united with Acustica journal, Vol 90(6), 2004.
- K. Aberer, A. Datta, S. Quarteroni, Autonomous Gossiping: A self-organizing epidemic algorithm for selective information dissemination in mobile ad-hoc networks. EPFL Technical report: IC-2004-07, 2004.
- K. Aberer, A. Datta, S. Quarteroni, Autonomous Gossiping: A self-organizing epidemic algorithm for selective information dissemination in mobile ad-hoc networks. In proceedings of the ICSNW 2004 conference (Springer LNCS).
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