The Lab of Advanced Algorithms and Applications (A³, read "a-cube") is mainly devoted to the design, analysis and experimentation of algorithms and data structures for storing, compressing, mining and retrieving information from large amounts of textual data like Web repositories, XML file collections, textual databases, genomic/DNA sequences.

Highlights

We are developing a new semantic-annotation technology for short textual fragments, called TAGME. This tool has been applied succesfully to many contexts concerning with the clustering, the classification and the similarity-comparison of short texts.

Current Grants

• [2011-2012] Telecom Italia Working Capital
• [2010] Google Research Award
• [2010-2012] Italian MIUR-PRIN Project "The Mad Web"
• [2006-2011] Yahoo! Research
• [2009-2012] Italian MIUR-FIRB Project "Linguistica"

Latest News

ACM CIKM 2010 and IEEE software » January 17, 2012

A paper on our topic-annotation technology TAGME, already presented as short paper on CIKM 2010, has been published on IEEE software of January/February 2012 (vol. 29 no. 1).

ECIR 2012 paper accepted » January 17, 2012

We announce that our work “Classification of  Short Texts by Deploying Topical Annotations” has been accepted as full paper on the 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2012)

WSDM 2012 paper accepted » November 10, 2011

We announce that our paper “Topical clustering of search results” has been accepted on the ACM Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2012 conference and it has been selected for being presented in the plenary session. The paper is co-authored by M. Ciaramita (Google) and A. Marino (Univ. Florence).

New demo tools deployed » September 12, 2011

Recently we deployed new demo tools of some applications of our topic-annotation technology TAGME concerning the clustering, the classification and the similarity-comparison of short texts. Further information here.