Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

Fabrizio Silvestri is a Full Professor at DIAG (Dipartimento di Ingegneria informatica, automatica e gestionale) of Sapienza, University of Rome.
Prof. Silvestri conducts research on (Web) Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning, in general. Before the University of Rome, Prof. Silvestri was an Engineer/Research Manager at Facebook AI in the Integrity team. Before that, he has been a Software Engineer at Facebook London in the Search Systems team. Before joining Facebook, Prof. Silvestri was a principal scientist at Yahoo where he worked on sponsored search and native ads within the Gemini project. Prof. Silvestri holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, Italy, where he studied Web Information Retrieval problems with a particular focus on Efficiency-related problems like Caching, Collection Partitioning, and Distributed IR in general.

Journals

Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Salvatore Trani: X-CLEaVER: Learning Ranking Ensembles by Growing and Pruning Trees. ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol. 9(6): 62:1-62:26 (2018).

Aris Anagnostopoulos, Reem Atassi, Luca Becchetti, Adriano Fazzone, Fabrizio Silvestri: Tour recommendation for groups. Data Min. Knowl. Discov. 31(5): 1157-1188 (2017)

Xiao Bai, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Francesco Gullo, Amin Mantrach, Fabrizio Silvestri: Exploiting search history of users for news personalization. Inf. Sci. 385: 125-137 (2017)

Mauro Coletto, Luca Maria Aiello, Claudio Lucchese, Fabrizio Silvestri: Adult content consumption in online social networks. Soc. Netw. Anal. Min. 7(1): 28:1-28:21 (2017)

Roi Blanco, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Fabrizio Silvestri: IntoNews: Online news retrieval using closed captions. Inf. Process. Manag. 51(1): 148-162 (2015)

Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, Fabrizio Silvestri, Ranieri Baraglia: On Learning Prediction Models for Tourists Paths. ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol. 7(1): 8:1-8:34 (2015)

Giacomo Berardi, Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Fabrizio Silvestri: Endorsements and rebuttals in blog distillation. Inf. Sci. 249: 38-47 (2013)

Claudio Lucchese, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Gabriele Tolomei: Discovering tasks from search engine query logs. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 31(3): 14 (2013)

Daniele Broccolo, Lorenzo Marcon, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri: Generating suggestions for queries in the long tail with an inverted index. Inf. Process. Manag. 48(2): 326-339 (2012)

Gabriele Capannini, Fabrizio Silvestri, Ranieri Baraglia: Sorting on GPUs for large scale datasets: A thorough comparison. Inf. Process. Manag. 48(5): 903-917 (2012)

Gabriele Capannini, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri: Efficient Diversification of Web Search Results. Proc. VLDB Endow. 4(7): 451-459 (2011)

Fabrizio Silvestri: Mining Query Logs: Turning Search Usage Data into Knowledge. Found. Trends Inf. Retr. 4(1-2): 1-174 (2010)

Diego Puppin, Fabrizio Silvestri, Raffaele Perego, Ricardo Baeza-Yates: Tuning the capacity of search engines: Load-driven routing and incremental caching to reduce and balance the load. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 28(2): 5:1-5:36 (2010)

Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Aristides Gionis, Flavio Junqueira, Vanessa Murdock, Vassilis Plachouras, Fabrizio Silvestri: Design trade-offs for search engine caching. ACM Trans. Web 2(4): 20:1-20:28 (2008)

Ranieri Baraglia, Fabrizio Silvestri: Dynamic personalization of web sites without user intervention. Commun. ACM 50(2): 63-67 (2007)

Tiziano Fagni, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Salvatore Orlando: Boosting the performance of Web search engines: Caching and prefetching query results by exploiting historical usage data. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 24(1): 51-78 (2006)

Conferences
Luca Massarelli, Fabio Petroni, Aleksandra Piktus, Myle Ott, Tim Rocktäschel, Vassilis Plachouras, Fabrizio Silvestri, Sebastian Riedel: How Decoding Strategies Affect the Verifiability of Generated Text. EMNLP (Findings) 2020: 223-235

Bora Edizel, Aleksandra Piktus, Piotr Bojanowski, Rui Ferreira, Edouard Grave, Fabrizio Silvestri: Misspelling Oblivious Word Embeddings. NAACL-HLT (1) 2019: 3226-3234

Gabriele Tolomei, Fabrizio Silvestri, Andrew Haines, Mounia Lalmas: Interpretable Predictions of Tree-based Ensembles via Actionable Feature Tweaking. KDD 2017: 465-474

Luca Maria Aiello, Ioannis Arapakis, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Xiao Bai, Nicola Barbieri, Amin Mantrach, Fabrizio Silvestri: The Role of Relevance in Sponsored Search. CIKM 2016: 185-194

Mauro Coletto, Luca Maria Aiello, Claudio Lucchese, Fabrizio Silvestri: On the Behaviour of Deviant Communities in Online Social Networks. ICWSM 2016: 72-81

Mihajlo Grbovic, Nemanja Djuric, Vladan Radosavljevic, Fabrizio Silvestri, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Andrew Feng, Erik Ordentlich, Lee Yang, Gavin Owens: Scalable Semantic Matching of Queries to Ads in Sponsored Search Advertising. SIGIR 2016: 375-384

Nicola Barbieri, Fabrizio Silvestri, Mounia Lalmas: Improving Post-Click User Engagement on Native Ads via Survival Analysis. WWW 2016: 761-770

Carlos A. Colmenares, Marina Litvak, Amin Mantrach, Fabrizio Silvestri: HEADS: Headline Generation as Sequence Prediction Using an Abstract Feature-Rich Space. HLT-NAACL 2015: 133-142

Mihajlo Grbovic, Nemanja Djuric, Vladan Radosavljevic, Fabrizio Silvestri, Narayan Bhamidipati: Context- and Content-aware Embeddings for Query Rewriting in Sponsored Search. SIGIR 2015: 383-392

Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Di Jiang, Fabrizio Silvestri, Beverly Harrison: Predicting The Next App That You Are Going To Use. WSDM 2015: 285-294

Daniele Broccolo, Craig Macdonald, Salvatore Orlando, Iadh Ounis, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Nicola Tonellotto: Load-sensitive selective pruning for distributed search. CIKM 2013: 379-388

Marco Pennacchiotti, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hossein Vahabi, Rossano Venturini: Making your interests follow you on twitter. CIKM 2012: 165-174

Claudio Lucchese, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hossein Vahabi, Rossano Venturini: How Random Walks Can Help Tourism. ECIR 2012: 195-206

Francesco Bonchi, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hossein Vahabi, Rossano Venturini: Efficient query recommendations in the long tail via center-piece subgraphs. SIGIR 2012: 345-354

Simon Jonassen, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Fabrizio Silvestri: Prefetching query results and its impact on search engines. SIGIR 2012: 631-640

Diego Ceccarelli, Claudio Lucchese, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri: Caching query-biased snippets for efficient retrieval. EDBT 2011: 93-104

Claudio Lucchese, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Gabriele Tolomei: Identifying task-based sessions in search engine query logs. WSDM 2011: 277-286

Fabrizio Silvestri, Rossano Venturini: VSEncoding: efficient coding and fast decoding of integer lists via dynamic programming. CIKM 2010: 1219-1228

Ranieri Baraglia, Fidel Cacheda, Victor Carneiro, Diego Fernández, Vreixo Formoso, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri: Search shortcuts: a new approach to the recommendation of queries. RecSys 2009: 77-84

Fabrizio Silvestri: Sorting Out the Document Identifier Assignment Problem. ECIR 2007: 101-112

Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Carlos Castillo, Flavio Junqueira, Vassilis Plachouras, Fabrizio Silvestri: Challenges on Distributed Web Retrieval. ICDE 2007: 6-20

Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Aristides Gionis, Flavio Junqueira, Vanessa Murdock, Vassilis Plachouras, Fabrizio Silvestri: The impact of caching on search engines. SIGIR 2007: 183-190

Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, Aristides Gionis, Vanessa Murdock, Fabrizio Silvestri: Know your neighbors: Web spam detection using the web topology. SIGIR 2007: 423-430

Diego Puppin, Stefano Moncelli, Ranieri Baraglia, Nicola Tonellotto, Fabrizio Silvestri: A Grid Information Service Based on Peer-to-Peer. Euro-Par 2005: 454-464

Tiziano Fagni, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri: A Highly Scalable Parallel Caching System for Web Search Engine Results. Euro-Par 2004: 347-354

Fabrizio Silvestri, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego: Assigning identifiers to documents to enhance the clustering property of fulltext indexes. SIGIR 2004: 305-312

Ranieri Baraglia, Fabrizio Silvestri: An Online Recommender System for Large Web Sites. Web Intelligence 2004: 199-205

Salvatore Orlando, Paolo Palmerini, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri: Scheduling High Performance Data Mining Tasks on a Data Grid Environment. Euro-Par 2002: 375-384

Salvatore Orlando, Paolo Palmerini, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri: Adaptive and Resource-Aware Mining of Frequent Sets. ICDM 2002: 338-345

Salvatore Orlando, Paolo Palmerini, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri: An Efficient Parallel and Distributed Algorithm for Counting Frequent Sets. VECPAR 2002: 421-435