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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2015
Journal Article
Pooling-based continuous evaluation of information retrieval systems
Tonon, Alberto, Demartini, Gianluca and Cudre-Mauroux, Philippe (2015). Pooling-based continuous evaluation of information retrieval systems. Information Retrieval Journal, 18 (5), 445-472. doi: 10.1007/s10791-015-9266-y
2015
Journal Article
Human beyond the machine: challenges and opportunities of microtask crowdsourcing
Gadiraju, Ujwal, Demartini, Gianluca, Kawase, Ricardo and Dietze, Stefan (2015). Human beyond the machine: challenges and opportunities of microtask crowdsourcing. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 30 (4) 7156008, 81-85. doi: 10.1109/MIS.2015.66
2015
Conference Publication
Fixing the domain and range of properties in linked data by context disambiguation
Tonon, Alberto, Catasta, Michele, Demartini, Gianluca and Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe (2015). Fixing the domain and range of properties in linked data by context disambiguation. Proceedings of the Workshop on Linked Data on the Web co-located with the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015), Florence, Italy, 19 May 2015. Aachen, Germany: CEUR-WS.
2014
Conference Publication
B-hist: entity-centric search over personal web browsing history
Catasta, Michele, Tonon, Alberto, Demartini, Gianluca, Ranvier, Jean-Eudes, Aberer, Karl and Cudre-Mauroux, Philippe (2014). B-hist: entity-centric search over personal web browsing history. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.websem.2014.07.003
2014
Conference Publication
Effective named entity recognition for idiosyncratic web collections
Prokofyev, Roman, Demartini, Gianluca and Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe (2014). Effective named entity recognition for idiosyncratic web collections. 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2014, Seoul, Korea , April 07 - 11, 2014 . New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2566486.2568013
2014
Conference Publication
Scaling-up the crowd: micro-task pricing schemes for worker retention and latency improvement
Difallah, Djellel Eddine, Catasta, Michele, Demartini, Gianluca and Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe (2014). Scaling-up the crowd: micro-task pricing schemes for worker retention and latency improvement. Second AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP-2014), Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 2 - 4 November 2014. Palo Alto, CA, United States: A A A I Press.
2014
Conference Publication
Hippocampus: answering memory queries using transactive search
Catasta, Michele, Tonon, Alberto, Difallah, Djellel Eddine, Demartini, Gianluca, Aberer, Karl and Cudre-Mauroux, Philippe (2014). Hippocampus: answering memory queries using transactive search. International Conference on World Wide Web, Seoul, Korea, 7-11 April 2014. New York, NY, United States: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/2567948.2576946
2014
Conference Publication
TransactiveDB: Tapping into collective human memories
Catastay, Michele, Tonon, Alberto, Difallah, Djellel Eddine, Demartini, Gianluca, Aberery, Karl and CudreMauroux, Philippe (2014). TransactiveDB: Tapping into collective human memories. 3rd Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Database Management, STDBM 2006, Co-located with the 32nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2006, Seoul, Korea, September 11, 2006. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery.
2014
Conference Publication
Correct me if I'm wrong: fixing grammatical errors by preposition ranking
Prokofyev, Roman, Mavlyutov, Ruslan, Grund, Martin, Demartini, Gianluca and Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe (2014). Correct me if I'm wrong: fixing grammatical errors by preposition ranking. 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - CIKM, Shanghai, China, 3 - 7 November 2014. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2661829.2661942
2014
Book
From people to entities: new semantic search paradigms for the web
Demartini, Gianluca (2014). From people to entities: new semantic search paradigms for the web. Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press.
2013
Journal Article
Large-scale linked data integration using probabilistic reasoning and crowdsourcing
Demartini, Gianluca, Difallah, Djellel Eddine and Cudre-Mauroux, Philippe (2013). Large-scale linked data integration using probabilistic reasoning and crowdsourcing. VLDB Journal, 22 (5), 665-687. doi: 10.1007/s00778-013-0324-z
2013
Conference Publication
Entity disambiguation in tweets leveraging user social profiles
Yerva, Surender Reddy, Catasta, Michele, Demartini, Gianluca and Aberer, Karl (2013). Entity disambiguation in tweets leveraging user social profiles. 2013 IEEE 14th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IEEE IRI 2013, San Francisco, CA, Unites States, 14 - 16 August 2013. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/IRI.2013.6642462
2013
Journal Article
The bowlogna ontology: fostering open curricula and agile knowledge bases for europe's higher education landscape
Demartini, Gianluca, Enchev, Iliya, Gapany, Joel and Cudre-Mauroux, Philippe (2013). The bowlogna ontology: fostering open curricula and agile knowledge bases for europe's higher education landscape. Semantic Web, 4 (1), 53-63. doi: 10.3233/SW-2012-0064
2013
Conference Publication
Ontology-based word sense disambiguation for scientific literature
Prokofyev, Roman, Demartini, Gianluca, Boyarsky, Alexey, Ruchayskiy, Oleg and Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe (2013). Ontology-based word sense disambiguation for scientific literature. 35th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2013, Moscow, Russia, 24-27 March 2013. Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-36973-5_50
2013
Conference Publication
CrowdQ: Crowdsourced Query Understanding
Demartini, Gianluca , Trushkowsky, Beth , Kraska, Tim and Franklin, Michael (2013). CrowdQ: Crowdsourced Query Understanding. 6th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2013), Asilomar, CA, United States, 6-9 January 2013. Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR).
2013
Conference Publication
Pick-a-crowd: tell me what you like, and I'll tell you what to do: a crowdsourcing platform for personalized human intelligence task assignment based on social networks
Difallah, Djellel Eddine, Demartini, Gianluca and Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe (2013). Pick-a-crowd: tell me what you like, and I'll tell you what to do: a crowdsourcing platform for personalized human intelligence task assignment based on social networks. 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 13 - 17 May 2013. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2488388.2488421
2013
Conference Publication
TRank: ranking entity types using the web of data
Tonon, Alberto, Catasta, Michele, Demartini, Gianluca, Mauroux, Philippe Cudre and Aberer, Karl (2013). TRank: ranking entity types using the web of data. 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Sydney, Australia, 21-25 October, 2013. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-41335-3_40
2013
Book Chapter
NoizCrowd: A Crowd-Based Data Gathering and Management System for Noise Level Data
Wisniewski, Mariusz, Demartini, Gianluca, Malatras, Apostolos and Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe (2013). NoizCrowd: A Crowd-Based Data Gathering and Management System for Noise Level Data. Mobile Web Information Systems. (pp. 172-186) Heidelberg, Germany: Springer . doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-40276-0_14
2012
Conference Publication
Combining inverted indices and structured search for ad-hoc object retrieval
Tonon, Alberto, Demartini, Gianluca and Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe (2012). Combining inverted indices and structured search for ad-hoc object retrieval. 35th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2012, Portland, OR, United States, 12 - 16 August 2012. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2348283.2348304
2012
Conference Publication
Tag recommendation for large-scale ontology-based information systems
Prokofyev, Roman, Boyarsky, Alexey, Ruchayskiy, Oleg, Aberer, Karl, Demartini, Gianluca and Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe (2012). Tag recommendation for large-scale ontology-based information systems. International Semantic Web Conference, Boston, MA, USA, November 11-15, 2012. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-35173-0-22
Funding
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Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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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-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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Master Philosophy
Online discussion summarisation and interaction
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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Doctor Philosophy
Synergising Learning Sciences, Learning Analytics, and Educational Technologies
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Hassan Khosravi
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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
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
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
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
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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