Publications de Michele Catasta

Structuring Wikipedia Articles with Section Recommendations

Michele Catasta, Tiziano Piccardi, Robert West

Sections are the building blocks of Wikipedia articles. They enhance readability and can be used as a structured entry point for creating and expanding articles. Structuring a new or already existing Wikipedia article with sections is a hard task for human ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Bartering Books to Beers: a Recommender System for Exchange Platforms

Michele Catasta, Jérémie Rappaz, Maria-Luiza Vladarean

Bartering is a timeless practice that is becoming increasingly popular on the Web. Recommending trades for an online bartering platform shares many similarities with traditional approaches to recommendation, in particular the need to model the preferences ...

2017

Contextualized ranking of entity types based on knowledge graphs

Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Karl Aberer, Michele Catasta, Roman Prokofyev

A large fraction of online queries targets entities. For this reason, Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) increasingly contain information about the searched entities such as pictures, short summaries, related entities, and factual information. A key facet ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

It's Getting Crowded! How to Use Crowdsourcing Effectively for Web Science Research

Michele Catasta

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

RoutineSense: A Mobile Sensing Framework for the Reconstruction of User Routines

Karl Aberer, Michele Catasta, Jean-Eudes Marie Ranvier, Matteo Vasirani

Modern smartphones are powerful platforms that have become part of the everyday life for most people. Thanks to their sensing and computing capabilities, smartphones can unobtrusively identify simple user states (e.g., location, performed activity, etc.), ...

2015

MEM0R1ES: Memory-based Information Systems

Michele Catasta

The advent of the Web reshaped the way in which humans memorize information, arguably unlike any other technological advance of the last decades. Rather than remembering the information itself, people are primed to find the needed information through Web s ...

EPFL2015

Hippocampus: answering memory queries using transactive search

Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Karl Aberer, Michele Catasta

ACM2014

MemorySense: Reconstructing and Ranking User Memories on Mobile Devices

Karl Aberer, Zhixian Yan, Michele Catasta, Horia Radu, Jean-Eudes Marie Ranvier, Matteo Vasirani

The richness of user-centric information gathered by modern devices can be used to keep track of memorable events, therefore acting as a prosthesis of the prone-to-forget human memory. We propose to combine virtual and physical sensors from mobile devices ...

Ieee2014

B-hist: Entity-centric search over personal web browsing history

Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Karl Aberer, Michele Catasta, Jean-Eudes Marie Ranvier

Web Search is increasingly entity centric; as a large fraction of common queries target specific entities, search results get progressively augmented with semi-structured and multimedia information about those entities. However, search over personal web br ...

Elsevier2014

Memo-it: Don’t write your diary, Sense it

Karl Aberer, Zhixian Yan, Michele Catasta, Mathieu Monney, Horia Radu, Jean-Eudes Marie Ranvier, Ivan Gavrilovic, Georgios Christodoulou, Matteo Vasirani, Abdessalam Ouaazki, Filip Hrisafov, Boris Perovic

2014

Entity Disambiguation in Tweets leveraging User Social Profiles

Karl Aberer, Surender Reddy Yerva, Michele Catasta

2013

Next Place Prediction using Mobile Data

Karl Aberer, Michele Catasta, Le Hung Tran, Lucas Kelsey McDowell

2012

Semantic Place Prediction using Mobile Data

Karl Aberer, Abson Sae-Tang, Michele Catasta, Lucas Kelsey McDowell

2012

Building a Front End for a Sensor Data Cloud

Karl Aberer, Ian Rolewicz, Zoltán Miklós, Ho Young Jeung, Michele Catasta

This document introduces the TimeCloud Front End, a web-based interface for the TimeCloud platform that manages large-scale time series in the cloud. While the Back End is built upon scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems as Hadoop and HBase and take ...

Springer Berlin / Heidelberg2011

From Web Data to Entities and Back

Nicolas Bonvin, Julien Gaugaz, Zoltán Miklós, Michele Catasta, Ekaterini Ioannou

We present the Entity Name System (ENS), an enabling infrastructure, which can host descriptions of named entities and provide unique identifiers, on large-scale. In this way, it opens new perspectives to realize entity-oriented, rather than keyword-orient ...

2010