mala::home Davide “+mala” Eynard’s website

Research Interests

• Participative systems
• Semantic Web and Web2.0 interactions
• Social Web mining and applications
• Semantic Annotations

Projects

Past projects:

• Developing a conceptual framework for agreement technologies;
• SpeakinAbout, a collaborative semantic annotation tool;
• Extraction, a framework for the semi-automatic creation of ontologies from collections of textual documents.
• Web2Rism, a web2.0 reputation analyzer for tourism, in collaboration with the Webatelier laboratory at USI;
• SquirrelRDF-IMAP, an IMAP plugin for SquirrelRDF.

Publications

If any publication link is missing, not working, or pointing you to a page which asks you money for the paper, either check on Mendeley (which automatically syncs with my personal publications folder) or mail me: most of the articles you cannot directly download from here are freely available upon request.

Journal Papers

• Davide Eynard, Luca Mazzola, and Antonina Dattolo. Exploiting tag similarities to discover synonyms and homonyms in folksonomies. Software: Practice and Experience. (Early view published online: 14 AUG 2012). DOI: 10.1002/spe.2150. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (The article is freely available upon request, just drop me a mail if you want to read it!)
• Alessandro Inversini, Davide Eynard. Harvesting User Generated Picture Metadata To Understand Destination Similarity. Journal of Information Technology & Tourism 13 (4) 341-351, Jul 2012.
• Stefano Ceri, Adnan Abid, Mamoun Abu Helou, Davide Barbieri, Alessandro Bozzon, Daniele Braga, Marco Brambilla, Alessandro Campi, Francesco Corcoglioniti, Emanuele Della Valle, Davide Eynard, Piero Fraternali, Michael Grossniklaus, Davide Martinenghi, Stefania Ronchi, Marco Tagliasacchi, Salvatore Vadacca. Search Computing: Managing Complex Search Queries. IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 14-22, Nov./Dec. 2010.

Book Chapters

• Munindar P. Singh, Matthew Arrott, Tina Balke, Amit K. Chopra, Rob Christiaanse, Stephen Cranefield, Frank Dignum, Davide Eynard, Emilia Farcas, Nicoletta Fornara, Fabien Gandon, Guido Governatori, Hoa Khanh Dam, Joris Hulstijn, Ingolf Krueger, Ho-Pun Lam, Michael Meisinger, Pablo Noriega, Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Kartik Tadanki, Harko Verhagen, and Serena Villata. The Uses of Norms. In Giulia Andrighetto, Guido Governatori, Pablo Noriega, and Leendert W. N. van der Torre (Eds.), Normative Multi-Agent Systems, (4):191--229, Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2013.
• Davide Eynard, Matteo Matteucci, and Fabio Marfia (2012). A Modular Framework to Learn Seed Ontologies from Text. In M. Pazienza, & A. Stellato (Eds.), Semi-Automatic Ontology Development: Processes and Resources (pp. 22-47). IGI Global, 2012. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-0188-8.ch002

Conference Proceedings

• Davide Eynard, Alessandro Inversini, and Leonardo Gentile (2012). Finding similar destinations with Flickr Geotags. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2012). Volume 1. Pages 733-735.
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• Alessandro Inversini, Davide Eynard, Leonardo Gentile, and Marchiori Elena (2012). Destinations Similarity Based on User Generated Pictures' Tags. In Fuchs, M., Ricci, F., Cantoni, L. (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2012. Proceedings of the International conference in Helsingborg, Sweden (ENTER 2012). Springer. Pages 483-493.
• Antonina Dattolo, Davide Eynard, and Luca Mazzola. An Integrated Approach to Discover Tag Semantics. 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, vol. 1, pp. 814-820. Taichung, Taiwan, March 2011.
• Elena Marchiori, Davide Eynard, Alessandro Inversini, Lorenzo Cantoni, and Francesco Cerretti (2011). Harvesting Online Content: An Analysis of Hotel Review Websites. In R. Law, M. Fuchs & Francesco Ricci (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2011 – Proceedings of the International Conference in Innsbruck, Austria (pp. 101-112). Wien: Springer.
• Davide Eynard, Fabio Marfia, Matteo Matteucci. On the Use of Correspondence Analysis to Learn Seed Ontologies from Text. In Proceedings of International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (KEOD) pp. 430-439, Valencia, Spain, October 2010.
• Stefano Ceri, Adnan Abid, Mamoun Abu Helou, Daniele Braga, Alessandro Bozzon, Marco Brambilla, Alessandro Campi, Francesco Corcoglioniti, Emanuele Della Valle, Davide Eynard, Piero Fraternali, Michael Grossniklaus, Davide Martinenghi, Stefania Ronchi, Marco Tagliasacchi, Salvatore Vadacca. Proceedings of 18th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (Extended Abstract), Rimini, Italy, June 2010.
• Luca Mazzola, Davide Eynard and Riccardo Mazza. GVIS: a framework for graphical mashups of heterogeneous sources to support data interpretation. IEEE 3rd International Conference on “Human System Interactions” (HSI) 2010, pp. 578-584, Rzezow, Poland, May 2010.
• Silvia Bindelli, Claudio Criscione, Carlo A. Curino, Mauro L. Drago, Davide Eynard, and Giorgio Orsi. Improving Search and Navigation by Combining Ontologies and Social Tags. Proceedings of the OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, pp. 76-85, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, 2008.
• Davide Eynard and Marco Colombetti. Exploiting User Gratification for Collaborative Semantic Annotation. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Semantic Web User Interaction (SWUI 2008), pp. 31-37, Florence, Italy, April 5, 2008.
• David Laniado and Davide Eynard and Marco Colombetti. A semantic tool to support navigation in a folksonomy. HT '07: Proceedings of the 18th conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, pp. 153--154, ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, 2007.
• David Laniado and Davide Eynard and Marco Colombetti. Using WordNet to turn a folksonomy into a hierarchy of concepts. Semantic Web Application and Perspectives - Fourth Italian Semantic Web Workshop, 192--201, 2007
• Davide Eynard. Research on collaborative information sharing systems. KWEPSY 2007: Proceedings of the KWEPSY 2007 Knowledge Web PhD Symposium 2007, 81--82, 2007.

In Collections

• Davide Eynard, Klaus Glashoff, Michael M. Bronstein, and Alexander M. Bronstein. Multimodal diffusion geometry by joint diagonalization of Laplacians. ArXiv Technical Report arXiv:1209.2295. Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, September 2012.
• Davide Eynard. Using semantics and user participation to customize personalization. HP Labs Technical Report HPL-2008-197. HP Labs, Palo Alto, December 2008.
• Davide Eynard and John Recker and Craig Sayers. An IMAP Plugin for SquirrelRDF. HP Labs Technical Report HPL-2007-161. HP Labs, Palo Alto, October 2007.

Theses

• Davide Eynard. A Virtuous Cycle of Semantics and Participation. PhD Thesis. Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2009.
• Davide Eynard. Progetto e sviluppo di un reasoner per alcune famiglie di logiche descrittive. (Project and development of a reasoner for some families of Description Logics). Master Thesis, supervised by prof. Marco Colombetti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, July 2005.

Talks

• PhD Dissertation, "A Virtuous Cycle of Semantics and Participation", Politecnico di Milano, April 2009
• "Using semantics and user participation to customize personalization", HP Labs, Palo Alto, September 2008
• "Web searching for researchers", Politecnico di Milano, June 2008
• "Linux crash course for PhD students", Politecnico di Milano, May 2008
• "The semantic collaborative environments group @DEI-PolimI", Ontology Engineering Meets Web2.0 Workshop, Obergurgl, Austria, Feb 2008
• "An IMAP Plugin for SquirrelRDF", HP Labs, Palo Alto, September 2007
• "Research on Collaborative Information Sharing Systems", Politecnico di Milano, April 2007

Programme Committees

• Member of the PC of the International Workshop on Community-based Evolution of Knowledge-intensive Systems (COMBEK 2009) co-located with OTM conferences 2009, Vilamoura, Portugal, November 2009.

• Member of the PC of the 3rd workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2009) organized in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Business Information Systems - BIS 2009, Poznan, Poland, April 2009.

• Member of the PC of the International Workshop on Interacting with Multimedia Content in the Social Semantic Web (IMC-SSW 2008), co-located with the 3rd International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies - SAMT 2008, Koblenz, Germany, December 2008

• Member of the PC of the International Workshop on Community-based Evolution of Knowledge-intensive Systems (COMBEK 2008) co-located with OTM conferences 2008, Monterrey, Mexico, November 2008.

• Member of the PC of the 2nd workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2008) organized in conjunction with 11 th International Conference on Business Information Systems - BIS 2008, Innsbruck, Austria, April 2008.

Supervised Theses

• Sarp Erdag, "Reputation Analysis on the Web 2.0", Ms Thesis, co-supervised with Lorenzo Cantoni, Politecnico di Milano (Como campus), October 2009.
• Carlo Miglierina, "Uso di ontologie per l'estrazione di informazioni strutturate dai Wiki", Bs Thesis, co-supervised with Marco Colombetti, Politecnico di Milano, October 2009.
• Marco Dola, "Sistema di template per visualizzare risorse in un wiki semantico", Bs Thesis, co-supervised with Marco Colombetti and David Laniado, Politecnico di Milano, October 2008.
• Emanuele Scapinello, Mattia Regazzoni: "A folksonomy-based graphical tool for ontology grounding", Ms Thesis, co-supervised with Marco Colombetti, Politecnico di Milano, April 2008.
• Giulia Rodà : "Progetto e implementazione di un'ontologia di contesto in un wiki semantico", Bs Thesis, co-supervised with Marco Colombetti, Politecnico di Milano, March 2008.
• Marco Polonio, Matteo Rebulla: "Speakin' About: un'estensione di Firefox per annotazioni semantiche", Bs Thesis, co-supervised with Marco Colombetti, Politecnico di Milano, March 2008.
• Daniele Zanni, Davide Zoni: "File System a tag: l'evoluzione arriva da Internet", Bs Thesis, co-supervised with Fabio Schreiber, Politecnico di Milano, March 2008.
• Thomas Marchi, Fabio Panozzo: "Progetto e implementazione di un motore per wiki semantici, con una sperimentazione nell'ambito delle energie rinnovabili", Bs Thesis, co-supervised with Marco Colombetti, Politecnico di Milano, July 2007.
• David Laniado: "Supporto alla navigazione nei sistemi di classificazione collaborativa: applicazione di tecniche semantiche alle folksonomie", Master Thesis,co-supervised with Marco Colombetti, Politecnico di Milano, April 2007.