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This site is primarily meant to publish scientific documents and publications which I wrote or to which I contributed (see the list below).

 

About me

 

I was born in Pavia, Italy, but I grew up close by in Lodi. After attending high school at Liceo Classico (mostly Greek Latin and Humanities), I graduated in Computer Science in 2004 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).

In 2007, I obtained my PhD in at the University of York (York, UK) in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing with a Thesis titled "Advanced Techniques for Personalized, Interactive Question Answering."

From late 2007 to late 2010, I have been a Senior Research Fellow under a EU Marie Curie fellowship within the ADAMACH project at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Trento, Italy.

I am now a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Electronics and Computer Science (DEI) of Politecnico di Milano, Italy, where I joined the Search Computing ERC project.

 

My Thesis

You can find my thesis "Advanced Techniques for Personalized, Interactive Question Answering" here.

 

Recent Publications

2011

• S. Quarteroni, A.V. Ivanov and G. Riccardi, SIMULTANEOUS DIALOG ACT SEGMENTATION AND CLASSIFICATION FROM HUMAN-HUMAN SPOKEN CONVERSATIONS. To appear in: Proceedings of IEEE ICASSP, Prague, May 2011.
• S. Varges, G. Riccardi, S. Quarteroni and A. V. Ivanov, POMDP CONCEPT POLICIES AND TASK STRUCTURES FOR HYBRID DIALOG MANAGEMENT. To appear in: Proceedings of IEEE ICASSP, Prague, May 2011.
• M. Brambilla, A. Campi, S. Ceri and S. Quarteroni, Semantic Resource Framework. Book chapter to appear in: New Trends in Search Computing, S. Ceri, M. Brambilla (Eds.). Springer LNCS, Vol. 6585, March 2011 (in print).
• P. Andrews, S. Quarteroni. In press. Extending Conversational Agents for Task-Oriented Human-Computer Dialogue. In book: D. Pérez-Marín, I. Pascual-Nieto (Eds.) Conversational Agents and Natural Language Interaction: Techniques and Effective Practices, IGI Global Publishers. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-617-6, ISBN13: 9781609606176, ISBN10: 1609606175, EISBN13: 9781609606183.

2010

• S. Quarteroni, M. Gonzalez, G. Riccardi, S. Varges, Combining User Intention and Error Modeling for Statistical Dialog Simulators. In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2010, Makuhari, Japan, September 2010.
• S. Quarteroni and G. Riccardi, Classifying Dialog Acts in Human-Human and Human-Machine Spoken Conversations. In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2010, Makuhari, Japan, September 2010.
• S. Varges, S. Quarteroni, G. Riccardi and A. V. Ivanov, Investigating Clarification Strategies in a Hybrid POMDP Dialog Manager. In Proceedings of SIGDial 2010, Tokyo, Japan, September 2010.
• M. Gonzalez, S. Quarteroni, G. Riccardi and S. Varges, Cooperative User Models in Statistical Dialog Simulators. In Proceedings of SIGDial 2010, Tokyo, Japan, September 2010.
• S. Quarteroni, Personalized Question Answering. Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL), Vol. 51(1), 2010. In press.
• A. Moschitti and S. Quarteroni, Linguistic Kernels for Answer Re-ranking in Question Answering Systems. Information Processing & Management, Special Issue on Question Answering, 2010. In press.
• S. Quarteroni and A. Moschitti, A Comprehensive Resource for Complex Open-domain Question Answering. In proceedings of LREC'10, Valletta, Malta, May 19-22, 2010.

2009

• S. Rigo, E. Stepanov, P. Roberti, S. Quarteroni and G. Riccardi, The 2009 UNITN EVALITA Italian Spoken Dialog System. EVALITA'09, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2009.
• P. Baggia, F. Cutugno, M. Danieli, S. Quarteroni, G. Riccardi and P. Roberti, The Multi-site 2009 EVALITA Spoken Dialog System Evaluation. EVALITA'09, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2009.
• S. Quarteroni, M. Dinarelli and G. Riccardi, Ontology-based Grounding of Spoken Language Understanding. ASRU'09, Merano, Italy, 2009.
• S. Varges, G. Riccardi, S. Quarteroni and A. V. Ivanov, The Exploration/Exploitation Trade-off in POMDPs for Dialogue Management. ASRU'09, Merano, Italy, 2009.
• S. Varges, S. Quarteroni, G. Riccardi, A. V. Ivanov and P. Roberti, Leveraging POMDPs trained with User Simulations and Rule-based Dialogue Management in a Spoken Dialogue System. SIGDIAL'09 (demo paper), London, UK.
• S. Quarteroni, G. Riccardi and M. Dinarelli, What's in an Ontology for Spoken Language Understanding. INTERSPEECH'09, Brighton, UK, 2009.
• S. Quarteroni and P. Saint-Dizier, Addressing How-to Questions using a Spoken Dialogue System: a Viable Approach?. Short paper at: KRAQ'09, Singapore, 2009.
• S. Varges, S. Quarteroni, G. Riccardi, A. V. Ivanov and P. Roberti, Combining POMDPs trained with User Simulations and Rule-based Dialogue Management in a Spoken Dialogue System. Demo paper at: ACL-IJCNLP'09, Singapore, 2009.
• M. Dinarelli, S. Quarteroni, S. Tonelli, A. Moschitti, G. Riccardi, Annotating Spoken Dialogs: from Speech Segments to Dialog Acts and Frame Semantics. EACL'09 Workshop on the Semantic Representation of Spoken Language (SRSL), Athens, Greece, March 2009.
• S. Quarteroni and S. Manandhar, Designing an Interactive Open Domain Question Answering System. In: Natural Language Engineering, Vol. 15(1), pp. 73-95. Special issue on Interactive Question Answering. N. Webb, B. Webber, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2009.
• S. Varges, G. Riccardi, A. Ivanov, S. Quarteroni, P. Roberti, On-line Strategy Computation in Spoken Dialog Systems. ICASSP Show'n'Tell, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009.

2008

• S. Quarteroni, Improving Accessibility in an automated Question Answering system. In: ACM SigAccess Accessibility and Computing, Issue 92, October 2008. ACM, New York.
• A. Bisazza, M. Dinarelli, S. Quarteroni, S. Tonelli, A. Moschitti and G. Riccardi, Semantic Annotations for Conversational Speech: from Speech Transcriptions to Predicate Argument Structures. In: Proceedings of SLT'08, Goa, India, 2008.
• S. Quarteroni, G. Riccardi, S. Varges and A. Bisazza, An Open-Domain Dialog Act Taxonomy. Technical report # DISI-08-032, University of Trento, 2008.
• S. Quarteroni, Personalized, Interactive Question Answering on the Web. In: Proceedings of KRAQ'08, Manchester, UK, August 2008.
• S. Varges, G. Riccardi and S. Quarteroni, Persistent Information State in a Data-Centric Architecture. Short paper in: Proceedings of SigDial'08, Columbus, OH, USA, June 2008.
• A. Moschitti, S. Quarteroni, Kernels on Linguistic Structures for Answer Extraction, Short paper in: Proceedings of the 46th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'08), Columbus, OH, USA, June 2008.

2007

• S. Quarteroni and S. Manandhar, User Modelling for Personalized Question Answering. In: Proceedings of AI*IA, Rome, Italy, September 2007.
• S. Quarteroni and S. Manandhar, A Chatbot-based Interactive Question Answering System. In: Proceedings of DECALOG, Rovereto, Italy, May 2007.
• A. Moschitti, S. Quarteroni, R. Basili and S. Manandhar, Exploiting Syntactic and Shallow Semantic Kernels for Question/Answer Classification. In: Proceedings of the 45th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007.
• S. Quarteroni, A. Moschitti, S. Manandhar and R. Basili, Advanced Structural Representations for Question Classification and Answer Re-ranking. In: Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Springer LNCS, Rome, Italy, April 2007.

2006

• S. Quarteroni and S. Manandhar, Incorporating User Models in Question Answering to Improve Readability. In: Proceedings of KRAQ'06. Trento, Italy, April 2006.
• S. Quarteroni and S. Manandhar, Adaptivity in Question Answering with User Modelling and a Dialogue Interface (short paper). In: Proceedings of EACL'06. Trento, Italy, April 2006.
• S. Quarteroni and S. Manandhar, User Modelling for Adaptive Question Answering and Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of FLAIRS-19. Melbourne Beach, FL, USA, May 2006.

2005

• S. Quarteroni, M. Rajman, M. Melichar Introducing Reset Patterns: an Extension to a Rapid Dialogue Prototyping Methodology, In proceedings of the IE'05 Workshop, 2005.
• Silvia Quarteroni and Suresh Manandhar, Adaptivity in Question Answering Using Dialogue Interfaces. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cultural Heritage - 9th Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2005). Milan, Italy, September 2005.

2004

• S. Quarteroni, M. Rajman, Introducing Reset Patterns: an Extension to a Rapid Dialogue Prototyping Methodology, EPFL Technical report IC-2004-58, 2004.
• M. Rajman, T. H. Bui, A. Rajman, F. Seydoux, A. Trutnev, S. Quarteroni, Assessing the usability of a dialogue management system designed in the framework of a rapid dialogue prototyping methodology. Published in the Acta Acustica united with Acustica journal, Vol 90(6), 2004.
• K. Aberer, A. Datta, S. Quarteroni, Autonomous Gossiping: A self-organizing epidemic algorithm for selective information dissemination in mobile ad-hoc networks. EPFL Technical report: IC-2004-07, 2004.
• K. Aberer, A. Datta, S. Quarteroni, Autonomous Gossiping: A self-organizing epidemic algorithm for selective information dissemination in mobile ad-hoc networks. In proceedings of the ICSNW 2004 conference (Springer LNCS).