Overview
Background
Dr. Gianluca Demartini is a Professor in Data Science and an ARC Future Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. His main research interests include Information Retrieval, Semantic Web, and Human Computation. His research is currently funded by the Australian Research Council, the Swiss National Science Foundation, Meta, Google, and the Wikimedia Foundation. He received Best Paper Awards at the ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR) in 2023, AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) in 2018, at the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) in 2016 and 2020, and the Best Demo award at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in 2011. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications including papers at major venues such as WWW, ACM SIGIR, VLDBJ, ISWC, and ACM CHI. He is an ACM Senior Member, ACM Distinguished Speaker, and a TEDx speaker.
Before joining the University of Queensland, he was a Lecturer at the University of Sheffield in UK, post-doctoral researcher at the eXascale Infolab at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, visiting researcher at UC Berkeley, junior researcher at the L3S Research Center in Germany, and intern at Yahoo! Research in Spain. In 2011, he obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Leibniz University of Hannover in Germany focusing on Semantic Search.
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Fields of research
Research interests
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Misinformation
Understanding how people interact with misinformation on social media and using AI to mitigate its spread online.
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Crowdsourcing and Human Computation
Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of human-in-the-loop systems.
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Big Data Analytics
Designing algorithms and systems that can scale-out to large amounts of data.
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AI for Public Good
Using Artificial Intelligence methods for societal and environmental purposes. For example, stopping the spread of misinformation online and identifying chimpanzee in videos for preservation purposes.
Research impacts
The research led by Prof. Demartini focuses on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of human-in-the-loop artificial intelligence (AI) systems with application of AI for public good. The application domains of his research include text analytics and the intersection between structured (e.g., knowledge graphs) and unstructured (e.g., text) digital content. During his research career he has collaborated with colleagues from several industry and governmental organizations like for example, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, IBM, SAP, and The National Archives in the UK.
Works
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2019
Conference Publication
Augmenting intelligence with bias-aware humans-in-the-loop (HumBL2019) chairs' welcome
Aroyo, Lora, Gadiraju, Ujwal, Inel, Oana, Checco, Alessandro, Gentile, Anna Lisa, Sarasua, Cristina and Demartini, Gianluca (2019). Augmenting intelligence with bias-aware humans-in-the-loop (HumBL2019) chairs' welcome. 2019 World Wide Web Conference, San Francisco, CA United States, 13 - 17 May 2019. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3308560.3317301
2019
Conference Publication
Health card retrieval for consumer health search an empirical investigation of methods
Jimmy,, Zuccon, Guido, Koopman, Bevan and Demartini, Gianluca (2019). Health card retrieval for consumer health search an empirical investigation of methods. CIKM '19: Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Beijing, China, November, 2019. New York, New York, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3357384.3358128
2019
Conference Publication
All those wasted hours: on task abandonment in crowdsourcing
Han, Lei, Roitero, Kevin, Gadiraju, Ujwal, Sarasua, Cristina, Checco, Alessandro, Maddalena, Eddy and Demartini, Gianluca (2019). All those wasted hours: on task abandonment in crowdsourcing. 12th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2019, Melbourne, VIC Australia , 11-15 February 2019. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3289600.3291035
2019
Conference Publication
Jobnow'19 - 1st international workshop on job knowledge discovery on the Web & Social media
Gadiraju, Ujwal, Demartini, Gianluca, Bohlouli, Mahdi and Margaryan, Anoush (2019). Jobnow'19 - 1st international workshop on job knowledge discovery on the Web & Social media. 30th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Hof, Germany, 17-20 September 2019. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3342220.3349532
2019
Conference Publication
Preface
Demartini, Gianluca and Thomas, Paul (2019). Preface. 24th Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Sydney, NSW Australia, 5-6 December 2019. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1016/j.matpr.2014.09.001
2019
Conference Publication
Tracking user behaviours: Laboratory-based and in-the-wild user studies
Demartini, Gianluca and Sadiq, Shazia (2019). Tracking user behaviours: Laboratory-based and in-the-wild user studies. 24th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2019, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 22-25 April 2019. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-18590-9a
2019
Conference Publication
On transforming relevance scales
Han, Lei, Roitero, Kevin, Maddalena, Eddy, Mizzaro, Stefano and Demartini, Gianluca (2019). On transforming relevance scales. 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Beijing, China, 3-7 November 2019. Washington, DC, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3357384.3357988
2018
Journal Article
Crowd Anatomy Beyond the Good and Bad: Behavioral Traces for Crowd Worker Modeling and Pre-selection
Gadiraju, Ujwal, Demartini, Gianluca, Kawase, Ricardo and Dietze, Stefan (2018). Crowd Anatomy Beyond the Good and Bad: Behavioral Traces for Crowd Worker Modeling and Pre-selection. Computer Supported Cooperative Work: CSCW: An International Journal, 28 (5), 1-27. doi: 10.1007/s10606-018-9336-y
2018
Conference Publication
All That Glitters Is Gold — An Attack Scheme on Gold Questions in Crowdsourcing
Checco, Alessandro, Bates, Jo and Demartini, Gianluca (2018). All That Glitters Is Gold — An Attack Scheme on Gold Questions in Crowdsourcing. Seventh AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, Stevenson, WA United States, 28-30 October 2019. Washington, DC United States: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. doi: 10.1609/hcomp.v6i1.13332
2018
Journal Article
Augmenting Intelligence with Humans-in-the-Loop (HumL@WWW2018) Chairs’ Welcome
Aroyo, Lora, Demartini, Gianluca, Gentile, Anna Lisa and Welty, Chris (2018). Augmenting Intelligence with Humans-in-the-Loop (HumL@WWW2018) Chairs’ Welcome. The Web Conference 2018 - Companion of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2018, 2018-January, 1099-1100. doi: 10.1145/3184558.3192303
2018
Conference Publication
Investigating user perception of gender bias in image search: the role of sexism
Otterbacher, Jahna, Checco, Alessandro, Demartini, Gianluca and Clough, Paul (2018). Investigating user perception of gender bias in image search: the role of sexism. 41st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, 8-12 July 2018. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3209978.3210094
2018
Conference Publication
Moral panic through the lens of Twitter: an analysis of infectious disease outbreaks
Ahmed, Wasim, Bath, Peter A., Sbaffi, Laura and Demartini, Gianluca (2018). Moral panic through the lens of Twitter: an analysis of infectious disease outbreaks. 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-20 July 2018. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3217804.3217915
2018
Conference Publication
All that glitters is gold -- An attack scheme on gold questions in crowdsourcing
Checco, Alessandro, Bates, Jo and Demartini, Gianluca (2018). All that glitters is gold -- An attack scheme on gold questions in crowdsourcing. The 6th AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2018), Zurich, Switzerland, July 5–8 2018. Palo Alto, CA, United States: AAAI Press.
2018
Conference Publication
On the volatility of commercial search engines and its impact on information retrieval research
Jimmy, Zuccon, Guido and Demartini, Gianluca (2018). On the volatility of commercial search engines and its impact on information retrieval research. 41st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, 8-12 July 2018. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3209978.3210088
2018
Conference Publication
Can user behaviour sequences reflect perceived novelty?
Zhuang, Mengdie, Toms, Elaine G. and Demartini, Gianluca (2018). Can user behaviour sequences reflect perceived novelty?. 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2018, Torino, Italy, October 22 - 26, 2018. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3269206.3269243
2018
Journal Article
Augmenting intelligence with humansintheloop
Gentile, Anna Lisa, Aroyo, Lora, Demartini, Gianluca and Welty, Chris (2018). Augmenting intelligence with humansintheloop. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2169
2018
Conference Publication
Measuring the effect of public health campaigns on twitter: The case of world autism awareness day
Ahmed, Wasim, Bath, Peter A., Sbaffi, Laura and Demartini, Gianluca (2018). Measuring the effect of public health campaigns on twitter: The case of world autism awareness day. 13th International Conference on Transforming Digital Worlds, iConference 2018, Sheffield, U.K., March 25-28, 2018. CHAM: Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-78105-1_2
2018
Book Chapter
Using Twitter as a data source: an overview of ethical, legal, and methodological challenges
Ahmed, Wasim, Bath, Peter A. and Demartini, Gianluca (2018). Using Twitter as a data source: an overview of ethical, legal, and methodological challenges. The ethics of online research. (pp. 79-107) edited by Kandy Woodfield. Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing . doi: 10.1108/s2398-601820180000002004
2018
Conference Publication
On fine-grained relevance scales
Roitero, Kevin, Maddalena, Eddy, Demartini, Gianluca and Mizzaro, Stefano (2018). On fine-grained relevance scales. 41st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, 8-12 July 2018. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3209978.3210052
2017
Journal Article
An introduction to hybrid human-machine information systems
Demartini, Gianluca, Difallah, Djellel Eddine, Gadiraju, Ujwal and Catasta, Michele (2017). An introduction to hybrid human-machine information systems. Foundations and Trends in Web Science, 7 (1), 1-87. doi: 10.1561/1800000025
Funding
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Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Human-centered Artificial Intelligence for Democracy
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Bias in Data Pipelines and AI Systems
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence for Democracy
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Bias Mitigation in Human in the Loop Decision Systems
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Shazia Sadiq
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Doctor Philosophy
Retrieval Augmented Generation: A Paradigm Shift in Natural Language Processing
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Human in the Loop Decision Systems for Online Safety
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Tim Miller
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Master Philosophy
Online discussion summarisation and interaction
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Critical Success Factors in Data Driven Value Creation
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska, Professor Shazia Sadiq
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Doctor Philosophy
Crowd Sourced Data Curation
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska, Professor Shazia Sadiq
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Doctor Philosophy
Critical Success Factors in Data Driven Value Creation
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska, Professor Shazia Sadiq
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Doctor Philosophy
Sensemaking in Multi-artefact Information Tasks
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska, Professor Shazia Sadiq
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Doctor Philosophy
Extreme Analytics
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Stephen Viller, Dr Jarrod Knibbe, Dr Maxime Cordeil
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Doctor Philosophy
Critical Success Factors in Data Driven Value Creation
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska, Professor Shazia Sadiq
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Doctor Philosophy
Integrating Human and Machine Intelligence Towards the Development of an Adaptive Learning System
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Hassan Khosravi
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Doctor Philosophy
Synergising Learning Sciences, Learning Analytics, and Educational Technologies
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Hassan Khosravi
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Doctor Philosophy
Sensemaking in Multi-artefact Information Tasks
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska, Professor Shazia Sadiq
Completed supervision
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
A Study of Active Learning for Named Entity Recognition
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Guido Zuccon
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
On the Role of Human and Machine Metadata in Crowdsourced Data Annotation
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Shazia Sadiq, Professor Marta Indulska
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Automating Expertise in Identifying Structured Data Quality Issues: From Experts, Through Novices, to Machines
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Shazia Sadiq, Professor Marta Indulska
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Improving the Work Environment and Data Quality in Micro-Task Crowdsourcing
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Shazia Sadiq
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Intelligence Behind Annotations: A Study of Understanding Interaction Behavior when the Human is in the Loop
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Shazia Sadiq
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Synergising Learning Sciences, Learning Analytics, and Educational Technologies
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Hassan Khosravi
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Search Engines that Help People Make Better Health Decisions
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Guido Zuccon
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Media
Enquiries
Contact Professor Gianluca Demartini directly for media enquiries about:
- AI
- AI for Good
- Artificial Intelligence
- Bias
- Big data
- Crowdsourcing
- Data Analytics
- Data Science
- Disinformation
- Fairness
- Fake News
- Human Computation
- Knowledge Graphs
- Misinformation
- Text Analytics
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