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  • 2009 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Fabio Crestani is affiliated with the Universita della Svizzera Italiana in Switzerland. Their research spans the interdisciplinary areas of Computer Science and Psychology, with a total of 93 publications in Computer Science and 46 in Psychology. Subfields explored in their work include Artificial Intelligence, Social Psychology, Information Systems, Applied Psychology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their research focuses on topics such as Topic Modeling, Mental Health via Writing, Digital Mental Health Interventions, Mental Health Research Topics, Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining, Advanced Text Analysis Techniques, and Recommender Systems and Techniques.

Crestani's recent papers include:

  • "A Survey of Computational Methods for Online Mental State Assessment on Social Media," 2021, ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare
  • "The impact of psycholinguistic patterns in discriminating between fake news spreaders and fact checkers," 2021, Data & Knowledge Engineering
  • "Evaluating Mixed-initiative Conversational Search Systems via User Simulation," 2022, Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
  • "Mental disorders on online social media through the lens of language and behaviour: Analysis and visualisation," 2022, Information Processing & Management
  • "The impact of emotional signals on credibility assessment," 2021, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Frequent coauthors working with Crestani include Mohammad Aliannejadi, David E. Losada, Javier Parapar, Ivan Sekulić, and Patricia Martín-Rodilla.

Their contributions have appeared in various publication venues, with the highest number of publications in arXiv (Cornell University). Other frequent venues include Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare, and Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining.

In addition to journal and conference papers, Crestani has authored multiple book publications with Springer Science+Business Media, including several editions of "Advances in Information Retrieval" published in 2023.

Recognition in their professional career includes the ACM Senior Member award received in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Like It or Not: A Survey of Twitter Sentiment Analysis Methods

    Anastasia Giachanou;Fabio Crestani

  • Application of Spreading Activation Techniques in Information Retrieval

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  • “Is this document relevant?…probably”: a survey of probabilistic models in information retrieval

    Fabio Crestani;Mounia Lalmas;Cornelis J. Van Rijsbergen;Iain Campbell

  • Asking Clarifying Questions in Open-Domain Information-Seeking Conversations

    Mohammad Aliannejadi;Hamed Zamani;Fabio Crestani;W. Bruce Croft

  • A Test Collection for Research on Depression and Language Use

    David E. Losada;Fabio Crestani

  • eRISK 2017: CLEF Lab on Early Risk Prediction on the Internet: Experimental Foundations

    David E. Losada;Fabio Crestani;Javier Parapar

  • Overview of eRisk: Early Risk Prediction on the Internet

    David E. Losada;Fabio Crestani;Javier Parapar

  • Effective search results summary size and device screen size: is there a relationship?

    Simon Sweeney;Fabio Crestani

  • Searching the Web by constrained spreading activation

    Fabio Crestani;Puay Leng Lee

  • Leveraging Emotional Signals for Credibility Detection

    Anastasia Giachanou;Paolo Rosso;Fabio Crestani

  • Overview of eRisk 2019 Early Risk Prediction on the Internet

    David E. Losada;Fabio Crestani;Javier Parapar

  • Proceedings of the 25th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

    Snehasis Mukhopadhyay;ChengXiang Zhai;Elisa Bertino;Fabio Crestani

  • Overview of the International Sexual Predator Identification Competition at PAN-2012.

    Giacomo Inches;Fabio Crestani

  • Building user profiles from topic models for personalised search

    Morgan Harvey;Fabio Crestani;Mark J. Carman

  • Soft computing in information retrieval: techniques and applications

    Fabio Crestani;Gabriella Pasi

  • Information Retrieval by Logical Imaging.

    Fabio Crestani;C. J. van Rijsbergen

  • User's perception of relevance of spoken documents

    Tassos Tombros;Fabio Crestani

  • Automatic authoring and construction of hypermedia for information retrieval

    Maristella Agosti;Massimo Melucci;Fabio Crestani

  • Methods for ranking information retrieval systems without relevance judgments

    Shengli Wu;Fabio Crestani

  • Comparative opinion mining: A review

    Kasturi Dewi Varathan;Anastasia Giachanou;Fabio Crestani

  • Overview of eRisk 2021: Early Risk Prediction on the Internet

    Javier Parapar;Patricia Martín-Rodilla;David E. Losada;Fabio Crestani

  • Effective search results summary size and device screen size

    Simon Sweeney;Fabio Crestani

  • Overview of eRisk: Early Risk Prediction on the Internet (Extended Lab Overview).

    David E. Losada;Fabio Crestani;Javier Parapar

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriella Pasi
Gabriella Pasi University of Milano-Bicocca
Ian Ruthven
Ian Ruthven University of Strathclyde
Mark Sanderson
Mark Sanderson RMIT University
W. Bruce Croft
W. Bruce Croft University of Massachusetts Amherst
Paolo Rosso
Paolo Rosso Universitat Politècnica de València
Paolo Ferragina
Paolo Ferragina University of Pisa
Leif Azzopardi
Leif Azzopardi University of Strathclyde
C. J. van Rijsbergen
C. J. van Rijsbergen University of Glasgow
David V. Canter
David V. Canter University of Liverpool

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