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.
My Thesis
You can find my thesis "Advanced Techniques for Personalized, Interactive Question Answering" here.
Recent Publications
2009
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S. Varges, G. Riccardi, S. Quarteroni and A. Ivanov, Leveraging POMDPs trained with User Simulations and Rule-based Dialogue Management in a Spoken Dialogue System. Demo
paper at: SIGDIAL'09, London, UK.
- S. Quarteroni, G. Riccardi and M. Dinarelli, What's in an
Ontology for Spoken Language Understanding . INTERSPEECH'09, Brighton, UK, 2009.
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S. Quarteroni and P. Saint-Dizier, Addressing How-to Questions using a Spoken Dialogue System: a Viable Approach?. Short paper at: KRAQ'09,
Singapore, 2009.
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S. Varges, S. Quarteroni, G. Riccardi, A.
V. Ivanov and P. Roberti, Combining POMDPs trained with
User Simulations and Rule-based Dialogue Management in a Spoken
Dialogue System . Demo paper at: ACL-IJCNLP'09, Singapore, 2009.
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M. Dinarelli, S. Quarteroni, S. Tonelli, A. Moschitti, G. Riccardi,
Annotating Spoken Dialogs: from Speech Segments to Dialog Acts and Frame Semantics.
EACL'09 Workshop on the Semantic Representation of Spoken Language (SRSL), Athens, Greece, March 2009.
- S. Quarteroni and S. Manandhar, Designing an Interactive Open
Domain Question Answering System. In: Natural Language
Engineering, Vol. 15(1), pp. 73-95. Special issue on Interactive
Question Answering. N. Webb, B. Webber, eds., Cambridge University
Press, 2009.
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S. Varges, G. Riccardi, A. Ivanov, S. Quarteroni, P. Roberti,
On-line Strategy Computation in Spoken Dialog Systems ICASSP
Show'n'Tell, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009.
2008
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S. Quarteroni, Improving Accessibility in a System to Answer Questions. In: ACM SigAccess Accessibility and Computing, Issue 92, October 2008. ACM, New York.
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A. Bisazza, M. Dinarelli, S. Quarteroni, S.
Tonelli, A. Moschitti and G. Riccardi, Semantic Annotations for Conversational Speech: from Speech
Transcriptions to Predicate Argument Structures. In: Proceedings of SLT'08, Goa, India, 2008.
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S. Quarteroni, G. Riccardi, S. Varges and A. Bisazza, An Open-Domain Dialog Act Taxonomy. Technical report # DISI-08-032, University of Trento, 2008.
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S. Quarteroni, Personalized, Interactive Question Answering on the Web. 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 in: Proceedings of SigDial'08, Columbus, OH, USA, June 2008.
- A. Moschitti, S. Quarteroni, Kernels on Linguistic Structures for Answer Extraction, Short paper in: Proceedings of the 46th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'08), Columbus, OH, USA, June 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
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).
