Ida Mele

Contact Information

Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica (IASI)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
Via dei Taurini, 19
00185, Rome, Italy
email: ida DOT mele AT iasi DOT cnr DOT it

Short Bio

I am a researcher at the Institute for System Analysis and Computer Science -- in Italian: Istituto di Analisi e Sistemi d'Informatica (IASI) -- of the Italian National Research Council -- in Italian: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) -- in Rome. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at ISTI-CNR (Pisa, Italy). Before joining the CNR, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Switzerland) and at Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Saarbrücken, Germany).
I received my Ph.D. in Engineering in Computer Science from Sapienza University of Rome, under the supervision of Prof. Stefano Leonardi. My Ph.D. Thesis focused on Web usage mining for optimizing information retrieval and recommendation systems. Part of my research was conducted while I was an intern at the Yahoo Research Lab (Barcelona, Spain) and at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Saarbrücken, Germany).

My research interests are: Web mining, information retrieval, conversational systems, recommendation algorithms, and topic modeling.


Recent Positions


Education


Publications

Journal Papers

  • A. De Nicola, A. Formica, I. Mele, and F. Taglino
    Evaluating Information Content Methods for Semantic Similarity based on Taxonomies
    Knowledge and Information Systems (Under Review)
  • A. De Nicola, A. Formica, I. Mele, M. Missikoff, and F. Taglino
    A Comparative Study of LLMs and NLP Approaches for Supporting Business Process Analysis.
    Enterprise Information Systems (Under Review)
  • A. De Nicola, A. Formica, I. Mele, and F. Taglino
    Semantic Similarity Based on Taxonomies
    In Applied Sciences 13 (21), 11959. MDPI. 2023
    [Abstract], [PDF] [BibTeX]
  • A. Formica, I. Mele, and F. Taglino
    A Template-based Approach for Question Answering over Knowledge Bases
    In Knowledge and Information Systems. Springer. 2023.
    [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • O. Frieder, I. Mele, C. I. Muntean, F. M. Nardini, R. Perego, and N. Tonellotto.
    Caching Historical Embeddings in Conversational Search.
    In Transactions on the Web (TWEB). ACM. 2022.
    [Abstract], [PDF], [arXiv], [BibTeX]
  • G. Abramo, C.A. D’Angelo, and I. Mele
    Impact of Covid-19 on research output by gender across countries
    In Scientometrics, 1-16. Jan. 2022. Springer International Publishing
    [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • I. Mele, C.I. Muntean, F.M. Nardini, R. Perego, N. Tonellotto, and O. Frieder
    Adaptive utterance rewriting for conversational search
    In Information Processing & Management. Volume 58, Issue 6, Nov 2021. Elsevier
    [Abstract], [PDF], [Download preprint] [BibTeX]
  • I. Mele, N. Tonellotto, O. Frieder, and R. Perego
    Topical Result Caching in Web Search Engines
    In Information Processing & Management. Volume 57, Issue 3, May 2020. Elsevier
    [Abstract], [PDF], [arXiv], [BibTeX]
  • I. Mele, S. A. Bahrainian, and F. Crestani
    Event Mining and Timeliness Analysis from Heterogeneous News Streams
    In Information Processing & Management. Volume 56, Issue 3, Pages 969 -- 993. May 2019. Elsevier.
    [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • A. Anagnostopoulos, L. Becchetti, I. Bordino, S. Leonardi, I. Mele, and P. Sankowski
    Stochastic Query Covering for Fast Approximate Document Retrieval
    In ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Volume 33, Issue 3, March 2015, Article No. 11
    [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]

Patent

Conference Papers

  • A. De Nicola, A. Formica, I. Mele, M. Missikoff, and F. Taglino
    A Knowledge-based Approach to Business Process Analysis: from Informal to Formal
    In DEXA'23: The 34th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications. Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
    [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • I. Mele, C.I. Muntean, M. Aliannejadi, and N. Voskarides
    The 2nd Workshop on Mixed-Initiative ConveRsatiOnal Systems (MICROS)
    In CIKM'22: Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
    [Workshop Description], [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • G. Abramo, C.A. D’Angelo, and I. Mele
    Gendered impact of COVID-19 pandemic on research production: a cross-country analysis based on bioRxiv
    In ISSI'21: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics
    [Full Paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [arXiv], [BibTeX]
  • I. Mele, C.I. Muntean, F.M. Nardini, R. Perego, and N. Tonellotto
    Finding context through utterance dependencies in search conversations
    In TREC 2021
    [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX],
  • I. Mele, C.I. Muntean, M. Aliannejadi, and N. Voskarides
    MICROS: Mixed-Initiative ConveRsatiOnal Systems Workshop
    In ECIR'21: Proceedings of the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval
    [Workshop Description], [Abstract], [PDF], [arXiv], [BibTeX]
  • I. Mele, C.I. Muntean, F.M. Nardini, R. Perego, and N. Tonellotto
    Topical Enrichment of Conversational Search Utterances: Participation of the HPCLab-CNR Team in CAsT 2020
    In TREC 2020
    [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX],
  • I. Mele, C.I. Muntean, F.M. Nardini, R. Perego, N. Tonellotto, and O. Frieder
    Topic Propagation in Conversational Search
    In SIGIR'20: Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
    [Short paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [arXiv]
  • I. Mele and F. Crestani
    A Multi-Source Collection of Event-Labeled News Documents
    In ICTIR'19: Proceedings of the The 5th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval
    [Short paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX], [Dataset]
  • S. A. Bahrainian, F. Zarrinkalam, I. Mele, and F. Crestani
    Predicting the Topic of Your Next Query for Just-In-Time IR
    In ECIR'19: Proceedings of the 41th European Conference on Information Retrieval
    [Full paper], [Abstract], [ PDF], [BibTeX]
  • A. Giachanou, P. Rosso, I. Mele, and F. Crestani
    Early Commenting Features for Emotional Reactions Prediction
    In SPIRE-18: Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval
    [Full paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • A. Giachanou, P. Rosso, I. Mele, and F. Crestani
    Emotional Influence Prediction of News Posts
    In ICWSM-18: Proceedings of the 12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
    [Short paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • S. A. Bahrainian, I. Mele, and F. Crestani
    Predicting Topics in Scholarly Papers
    In ECIR'18: Proceedings of the 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval
    [Full paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • I. Mele, S. A. Bahrainian, and F. Crestani
    Linking News across Multiple Streams for Timeliness Analysis
    In CIKM'17: Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
    [Full paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [Download preprint] [BibTeX]
  • K. Hui, K. Berberich, and I. Mele
    Dealing with Incomplete Judgments in Cascade Measures
    In ICTIR'17: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval
    [Full paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • M. Aliannejadi, I. Mele, and F. Crestani
    A Cross-Platform Collection for Contextual Suggestion
    In SIGIR'17: Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
    [Collection paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • A. Giachanou, I. Mele, and F. Crestani
    A Collection for Detecting Triggers of Sentiment Spikes
    In SIGIR'17: Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
    [Collection paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • I. Mele and F. Crestani
    Event Detection for Heterogeneous News Streams
    In NLDB'17: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems
    [Full paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • S. A. Bahreinian, I. Mele, and F. Crestani
    Modeling Discrete Dynamic Topics
    In SAC'17: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
    [Full paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • M. Aliannejadi, I. Mele, and F. Crestani
    Personalized Ranking for Context-Aware Venue Suggestion
    In SAC'17: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
    [Short paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • A. Giachanou, J. Gonzalo, I. Mele, and F. Crestani
    Sentiment Propagation for Predicting Reputation Polarity
    In ECIR'17: Proceedings of the 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval
    [Full paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • M. Aliannejadi, I. Mele, and F. Crestani
    Venue Appropriateness Prediction for Contextual Suggestion
    In TREC'16: Proceedings of the 25th Text REtrieval Conference. 2016
    [Full paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • M. Aliannejadi, I. Mele, and F. Crestani
    User Model Enrichment for Venue Recommendation
    In AIRS'16: Proceedings of the 12th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference
    [Full paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • A. Giachanou, I. Mele, and F. Crestani
    Explaining Sentiment Spikes in Twitter
    In CIKM'16: Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
    [Extended short paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • J. Biega, K. Gummadi, I. Mele, D. Milchevski, C. Tryfonopoulos, and G. Weikum
    R-Susceptibility: An IR-Centric Approach to Assessing Privacy Risks for Users in Online Communities
    In SIGIR'16: Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
    [Full paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • N. A. Alawad, A. Anagnostopoulos, S. Leonardi, I. Mele, and F. Silvestri
    Network-Aware Recommendations of Novel Tweets
    In SIGIR'16: Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
    [Short paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • A. Anagnostopoulos, L. Becchetti, A. Fazzone, I. Mele, and M. Riondato
    The Importance of Being Expert: Efficient Max-Finding in Crowdsourcing
    In SIGMOD'15: Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
    [Full paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • A. Anand, I. Mele, S. Bedathur, and K. Berberich
    Phrase Query Optimization on Inverted Indexes
    In CIKM '14: Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
    [Short paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX] -- [Research Report], [BibTeX]
  • I. Mele, F. Bonchi, and A. Gionis
    The Early-Adopter Graph and its Application to Web-Page Recommendation
    In CIKM '12: Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
    [Extended short paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • A. Anagnostopoulos, L. Becchetti, S. Leonardi, I. Mele, and P. Sankowski
    Stochastic Query Covering
    In WSDM '11: Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
    (Best Poster Award)

    [Full paper], [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]

Workshop Papers

  • A. De Nicola, A. Formica, I. Mele, M. Missikoff, F. Taglino
    Towards a formal approach to a Knowledge Base supporting Business Process Analysis
    In SEBD'23: 31st Symposium on Advanced Database Systems. 2023.
    [Abstract]
  • A. De Nicola, A. Formica, I. Mele, M. Missikoff, F. Taglino
    Formal Approach to a Knowledge Base for Business Process Analysis
    In ital-AI'23: Terzo Convegno Nazionale CINI sull'Intelligenza Artificiale. 2023.
    [Abstract]
  • A. Giachanou, P. Rosso, I. Mele, and F. Crestani
    Emotional Reactions Prediction of News Posts using Early Commenting Activity In IIR'18: Proceedings of the 9th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop
    [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • A. Giachanou, I. Mele, and F. Crestani
    USI Participation at SMERP 2017 Text Retrieval Task
    In SMERP'17: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness (workshop co-located with the 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval)
    [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • A. Giachanou, I. Mele, and F. Crestani
    USI Participation at SMERP 2017 Text Summarization Task
    In SMERP'17: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness (workshop co-located with the 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval)
    [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]
  • J. Biega, I. Mele, and G. Weikum
    Probabilistic Prediction of Privacy Risks in User Search Histories
    In PSBD '14: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Privacy and Secuirty of Big Data (workshop co-located with the 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management)
    [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]

Doctoral Consortium

  • I. Mele
    Web Usage Mining for Enhancing Search-Result Delivery and Helping Users to Find Interesting Web Content
    In WSDM '13: Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
    [Abstract], [PDF], [BibTeX]

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ORCID: 0000-0002-3730-6383
Scopus ID: 55522598300
Researcher ID: P-4275-2018


Quotes

  • Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present - Oogway, Kung Fu Panda
  • I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel - Maya Angelou
  • We know what we are, but know not what we may be - William Shakespeare
  • I dream a dream that dreams back at me - Toni Morrison
  • There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't - Nerdish joke