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Professor Gianluca Demartini
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Gianluca Demartini

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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.

Availability

Professor Gianluca Demartini is:
Available for supervision
Media expert

Research interests

  • Misinformation

    Understanding how people interact with misinformation on social media and using AI to mitigate its spread online.

  • Crowdsourcing and Human Computation

    Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of human-in-the-loop systems.

  • Big Data Analytics

    Designing algorithms and systems that can scale-out to large amounts of data.

  • 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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225 works between 2006 and 2025

161 - 180 of 225 works

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

Correct me if I'm wrong: fixing grammatical errors by preposition ranking

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.

From people to entities: new semantic search paradigms for the web

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

Effective named entity recognition for idiosyncratic web collections

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.

Scaling-up the crowd: micro-task pricing schemes for worker retention and latency improvement

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

Hippocampus: answering memory queries using transactive search

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.

TransactiveDB: Tapping into collective human memories

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

Large-scale linked data integration using probabilistic reasoning and crowdsourcing

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

TRank: ranking entity types using the web of data

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

NoizCrowd: A Crowd-Based Data Gathering and Management System for Noise Level Data

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

Entity disambiguation in tweets leveraging user social profiles

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

The bowlogna ontology: fostering open curricula and agile knowledge bases for europe's higher education landscape

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

Ontology-based word sense disambiguation for scientific literature

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

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

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).

CrowdQ: Crowdsourced Query Understanding

2012

Conference Publication

Downscaling Entity Registries for Ad-Hoc Environments

Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe , Demartini, Gianluca , Enchev, Iliya , Guéret, Christophe and Perroud, Benoit (2012). Downscaling Entity Registries for Ad-Hoc Environments. First International Workshop on Downscaling the Semantic Web co-located with the 9th Extended Semantic Web conference, Heraklion, Greece, May 2012.

Downscaling Entity Registries for Ad-Hoc Environments

2012

Conference Publication

Predicting the future impact of news events

Gaugaz, Julien, Siehndel, Patrick, Demartini, Gianluca, Iofciu, Tereza, Georgescu, Mihai and Henze, Nicola (2012). Predicting the future impact of news events. 34th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2012, Barcelona, Spain, 1-5 April 2012. Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-28997-2_5

Predicting the future impact of news events

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

Combining inverted indices and structured search for ad-hoc object retrieval

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

Tag recommendation for large-scale ontology-based information systems

2012

Conference Publication

Mechanical cheat: Spamming schemes and adversarial techniques on crowdsourcing platforms

Difallah, Djellel Eddine, Demartini, Gianluca and Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe (2012). Mechanical cheat: Spamming schemes and adversarial techniques on crowdsourcing platforms. 1st International Workshop on Crowdsourcing Web Search, CrowdSearch 2012 - Workshop Held in Conjunction with WWW 2012 Conference, Lyon; France, April 17, 2012.

Mechanical cheat: Spamming schemes and adversarial techniques on crowdsourcing platforms

2012

Conference Publication

ZenCrowd: Leveraging probabilistic reasoning and crowdsourcing techniques for large-scale entity linking

Demartini, Gianluca, Difallah, Djellel Eddine and Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe (2012). ZenCrowd: Leveraging probabilistic reasoning and crowdsourcing techniques for large-scale entity linking. 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web, WWW'12, Lyon, France, 16-20 April 2012. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2187836.2187900

ZenCrowd: Leveraging probabilistic reasoning and crowdsourcing techniques for large-scale entity linking

Funding

Current funding

  • 2025 - 2028
    PBIAS: A Principled Approach to Data Bias Management in Data Pipelines
    ARC Future Fellowships
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2025
    Large-Scale Political Participation: Issue Identification, Deliberation, and Co-creation (Swiss National Science Foundation grant administered by Universität Zürich)
    University of Zurich
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2026
    ARC Training Centre for Information Resilience
    ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centres
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2023 - 2024
    Measuring the Gender Gap: Attribute-based Class Completeness Estimation
    Wikimedia Foundation (US)
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2024
    Human-in-the-loop Natural Language Processing in GLAM
    Universities Australia - Germany Joint Research Co-operation Scheme
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2023
    Monitoring and Modeling Human Annotator Behaviors in Mephisto
    Meta AI Mephisto Dataset Collection Tool
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2023
    Human-in-the-loop Chimpanzee Identification
    Google AI for Social Good
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2022
    DESCANT : DEtecting Stereotypes in human ComputAtioN Tasks
    CYENS Centre of Excellence
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2024
    Crowdsourcing an Online Safety Benchmark for Fake News Identification
    Facebook Online Safety Benchmark Research Award
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2024
    Building crowd sourced data curation processes
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2019
    Artificial Intelligence with Humans in the Loop
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2022
    Collaborative Lab of Health Informatics with Neusoft
    Neusoft Research of Intelligent Healthcare Technology, Co Ltd
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

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Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Bias in Data Pipelines and AI Systems

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Bias Mitigation in Human in the Loop Decision Systems

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Shazia Sadiq

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Human-centered Artificial Intelligence for Democracy

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Retrieval Augmented Generation: A Paradigm Shift in Natural Language Processing

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Customer Data Stories

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Shazia Sadiq

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Human in the Loop Decision Systems for Online Safety

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Tim Miller

  • Master Philosophy

    Online discussion summarisation and interaction

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Joel Mackenzie

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence for Democracy

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Joel Mackenzie

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Extreme Analytics

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Stephen Viller, Dr Jarrod Knibbe, Dr Maxime Cordeil

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Critical Success Factors in Data Driven Value Creation

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Marta Indulska, Professor Shazia Sadiq

Completed supervision

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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