People Biography

• Machine Learning (Deep Learning)
• Natural Language Processing
• Speech Processing
• Affective Behavioral Signal Processing (Empathy, Emotions, Personality raits) from Speech and Text
• Social Media Analysis

• In: Klempous R., Nikodem J., Baranyi P. (eds) Cognitive Infocommunications, Theory and Applications. Topics in Intelligent Engineering and Informatics, vol 13. Springer, 2018 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-95996-2_6.

• Harmonization and Development of Resources and Tools for Italian Natural Language Processing within the PARLI Project, Vol. 589, Basili, R., Bosco, C., Delmonte, R., Moschitti, A., Simi, M. (Eds.) 2015, Springer.

• Evaluation of Natural Language and Speech Tools for Italian, B. Magnini et al. (Eds.), LNCS 7689, Berlin, Springer Verlag, 2013 , pp. 107 - 115.

• Case Studies of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, Journal of Behaviour & Information Technology (Taylor & Francies), 2019, https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2019.1610908.

• International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI), 2018, pp 1-17, https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2018.1427831.

• Volume 50, 2018, pp 40-61, ISSN 0885-2308, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2017.12.003.

• A Knowledge-Poor Approach to Chemical-Disease Relation Extraction, The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, 2016 (doi: 10.1093/database/baw071).

• In the Mood for Sharing Contents: Emotions, Personality and Interaction Styles in the Diffusion of News, Information Processing & Management, Elsevier, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2015.08.002.

• 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), 2019.

• Graph Based Semi-supervised Learning with Convolutional Neural Networks to Classify Crisis Related Tweets, International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2018, Stanford, California, USA.

• CrisisMMD: Multimodal Twitter Datasets from Seven Natural Disasters, International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2018, Stanford, California, USA.

• A Twitter Tale of Three Hurricanes: Harvey, Irma, and Maria, 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), May 2018, Rochester NY, USA.

• Enabling Rapid Disaster Response Using Artificial Intelligence and Social Media. International Roundtable on the Impacts of Extreme Natural Events: Science and Technology for Mitigation (IRENE) workshop, December 2017, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

• Bangla Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion Using Conditional Random Fields, 20th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2017, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCITECHN.2017.8281780.

• Image4Act: Online Social Media Image Processing for Disaster Response, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2017, Sydney, Australia.

• Online Social Media Image Processing Using AIDR 2.0: Artificial Intelligence for Digital Response, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017, Honolulu, Hawaii.

• Automatic Image Filtering on Social Networks Using Deep Learning and Perceptual Hashing During Crises, 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management (ISCRAM). 2017 Albi, France.

• Bidirectional LSTMs - CRFs Networks for Bangla POS Tagging, ICCIT 2016.

• The Social Mood of News: Self-reported Annotations to Design Automatic Mood Detection Systems, Workshop on Computational Modeling of People's Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media, Co-located with COLING 2016, Osaka, Japan, 2016.

• How Interlocutors Coordinate with each other within Emotional Segments?, COLING 2016, Osaka, Japan, 2016.

• Can We Detect Speakers’ Empathy?: A Real-Life Case Study, 7th IEEE International Conference Cognitive InfoCommunications, 2016.

• Multilevel Annotation of Agreement and Disagreement in Italian News Blogs, Proc. LREC, Portroz, 2016.

• Automatic Summarization of Call-center Conversations, IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2015), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, 2015.

• A Knowledge-Poor Approach to BioCreative V DNER and CID Tasks, Proceedings of the Fifth BioCreative Challenge Evaluation Workshop, 274-279, 2015.

• Emotion Unfolding and Affective Scenes: A Case Study in Spoken Conversations, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modeling for Companion Technologies, pp. 5-11, ACM (ICMI), 2015.

• Annotation of Complex Emotions in Real-Life Dialogues: The Case of Empathy, Clic-it14, 2014.

• Predicting Personality Traits using Multimodal Information, Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Multimedia on Workshop on Computational Personality Recognition, pp. 15-18. ACM, 2014, Orlando, USA.

• Unsupervised Recognition and Clustering of Speech Overlaps in Spoken Conversations, Workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia - SLAM, pp. 62-66., 2014.

• Fusion of Acoustic, Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Features for Speaker Personality Traits Recognition, ICASSP2014 - Speech and Language Processing (ICASSP2014 - SLTC), 04-09 May 2014, Florence, Italy.

• Comparative Study of Speaker Personality Traits Recognition in Conversational and Broadcast News Speech, Interspeech-2013, 25-29 August 2013, Lyon, France.

• Personality Traits Recognition on Social Network - Facebook, WCPR-2013 (ICWSM-13), Cambridge, MA, USA.

• EVALITA 2011. In Working Notes of EVALITA 2011, 23-24th January 2012, Rome, Italy, ISSN 2240-5186 (2012).

• Bangla Text to Speech using Festival, Conference on Human Language Technology for Development (HLTD 2011), Alexandria, Egypt, 02-05 May, 2011.

• Phonetically balanced Bangla speech corpus, Conference on Human Language Technology for Development (HLTD 2011), Alexandria, Egypt, 02-05 May, 2011.

• Development of Annotated Bangla Speech Corpora, Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced language (SLTU’10), vol 1, pp-35-41, Penang, Malasia, May 3 - 5, 2010

• Text Normalization system for Bangla, Proc. Conference on Language and Technology 2009 (CLT09), NUCES, Lahore, Pakistan, January 22-24, 2009.

• Acoustic Analysis of Bangla Consonants, Proc. Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced language (SLTU’08), vol 1, page 108-113, Vietnam, May 5-7, 2008.

• Text To Speech for Bangla Language using Festival, Proc. 1st Intl. Conf. on Digital Comm. and Computer Applications (DCCA 2007), vol 1, pp-853-859, Amman, Jordan, March 19-23, 2007.

• In the Journal of Behaviour & Information Technology (Taylor & Francies), 2019. DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2019.1610908 .

• In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), 2019, Valencia, Spain.

• ACL, 2018, Melbourne, Australia.

• International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2018, Stanford, California, USA.

• In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2018, Stanford, California, USA.

• In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), May 2018, Rochester NY, USA.