Publications
Edited
Proceedings of the IEEE ICDM Workshop on Community Mining and People Recommenders
Edited by: Panagiotis Papapetrou, Luiz Augusto Pizzato, Aristides Gioni, Xiongcai Cai
Vancouver, Canada, 2011
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Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2009
Edited by: Luiz Pizzato and Rolf Schwitter
Sydney, Australia, 2009
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Peer-reviewed
The effect of suspicious profiles on people recommenders.
By: Luiz Augusto Pizzato, Joshua Akehurst, Cameron Silvestrini, Irena Koprinska, Kalina Yacef, and Judy Kay
In: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2012). Montreal, Canada. 16-20 July 2011 (to apear)
Using Wikipedia and Conceptual Graph Structures to Generate Questions for Academic Writing Support.
By: Ming Liu, Rafael A. Calvo, Anindito Aditomo, and Luiz Augusto Pizzato
In: IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. Volume 99, preprint, 2012 doi:10.1109/TLT.2012.5
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Explicit and implicit user preferences in online dating.
By: Joshua Akehurst, Irena Koprinska, Kalina Yacef, Luiz Pizzato, Judy Kay, and Tomasz Rej,
In: New Frontiers in Applied Data Mining, volume 7104 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 15–27. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2012. ISBN 978-3-642-28319-2. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-28320-8_2.
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Stochastic Matching and Collaborative Filtering to Recommend People to People
By: Luiz Augusto Pizzato, and Cameron Silvestrini
In: RecSys '11: Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. Chicago, 23-27 October 2011
(PDF) (ACM) (Bib)In: University of Sydney, TR 676. Sydney, Australia, June 2011. ISBN 9781742102382
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CCR - A Content-Collaborative Reciprocal Recommender for Online Dating
By: Joshua Akehurst, Irena Koprinska, Kalina Yacef, Luiz Pizzato, Judy Kay, and Tomasz Rej,
In: Proceedings of the 22nd International International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011). Barcelona, Spain. 16-22 July 2011
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Finding someone you will like and who won't reject you.
By: Luiz Pizzato, Tomasz Rej, Kalina Yacef, Irena Koprinska and Judy Kay
In: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011). Girona, Spain. 11-15 July 2011
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Learning User Preferences in Online Dating.
By: Luiz Pizzato, Thomas Chung, Tomasz Rej, Kalina Yacef, Irena Koprinska and Judy Kay
In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Preference Learning (PL-10) at the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD). Barcelona, Spain. 24 September 2010
(PL10) (Bib)In: University of Sydney, TR 656. Sydney, Australia, April 2010. ISBN 9781742101842
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RECON: A Reciprocal Recommender for Online Dating.
By: Luiz Pizzato, Tomek Rej, Thomas Chung, Irena Koprinska and Judy Kay
In: RecSys '10: Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. Barcelona, 26-30 September 2010
(ACM) (PDF) (Bib)In: University of Sydney, TR 653. Sydney, Australia, April 2010. ISBN 9781742101835
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Reciprocal Recommender System for Online Dating
By: Luiz Pizzato, Tomek Rej, Thomas Chung, Irena Koprinska and Judy Kay
In: RecSys '10 (demonstration session): Proceedings of the Forth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. Barcelona, 26-30 September 2010
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Reciprocal Recommenders.
By: Luiz Pizzato, Tomek Rej, Thomas Chung, Kalina Yacef, Irena Koprinska and Judy Kay
In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization & Recommender Systems (ITWP'10) at User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2010), Big Island of Hawaii. 2010.
(PDF) (ITWP)In: University of Sydney, TR 651. Sydney, Australia, April 2010. ISBN 9781742101842
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Indexing on Semantic Roles for Question Answering.
By: Luiz Pizzato and Diego Molla
In: Proceedings of the Coling 2008 Workshop Information Retrieval for Question Answering (IR4QA-08). Manchester, August, 2008
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Question Prediction Language Model.
By: Luiz Pizzato and Diego Molla
In: Proceedings Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2007, Melbourne, December 2007.
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AnswerFinder at TREC 2006.
By: Menno van Zaanen, Diego Molla and Luiz Pizzato
In: The Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006)
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Pseudo Relevance Feedback Using Named Entities for Question Answering.
By: Luiz Pizzato, Diego Molla and Cecile Paris
In Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2006. Sydney University, November 2006.
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Extracting Exact Answers using a Meta Question Answering System.
By: Luiz Pizzato and Diego Molla
In: Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2005. The University of Sydney, Australia, December 10-11, 2005.
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Classifying Sentences using Induced Structure.
By: Menno van Zaanen, Luiz Pizzato and Diego Molla
In: Proceedings of the Twelfth Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE-2005). Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2-4 November 2005.
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Question Classification by Structure Induction.
By: Menno van Zaanen, Luiz Pizzato and Diego Molla
In: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2005). Edinburgh, Scotland, 30 July - 5 August 2005.
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Using a Trie-based Structure for Question Analysis.
By: Luiz Pizzato
In: Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2004. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, December 8, 2004. pp. 25-31. Published by ASSTA.
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Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation of a Thesaurus-Based Query Expansion Technique.
By: Luiz Pizzato, Paulo Quaresma and Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima
Presented at the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'04). Beijing, China, September 21-24, 2004.
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Evaluation of a Thesaurus-Based Query Expansion Technique.
By: Luiz Pizzato and Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima
In: Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Computacional Processing of the Portuguese Language - Written and Spoken. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Universidade do Algarve-FCHS, Faro, Portugal. June 26-27, 2003. Springer-Verlag, 2003.
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Query Expansion Based on Thesaurus Relations: Evaluation over Internet.
By: Luiz Pizzato and Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima
In: Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 2588. ISBN 3-540-00532-3. Springer-Verlag, 2003. pp, 553-556.
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Desenvolvimento e Avaliação de uma Estrutura Multitesauro para a Recuperação de Informações.
By: Luiz Pizzato and Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima
In: Proceedings of the XXVIII Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática (CLEI 2002). Montevideo, Uruguay. 25-29 November 2002.
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Desenvolvimento e Avaliação de uma Estrutura Multitesauro para Recuperação de Informações.
By: Luiz Pizzato and Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima
In: Proceedings of the I Workshop de Teses e Dissertações em Inteligência Artificial (WTDIA), XVI Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (SBIA'02). Porto de Galinhas, PE, Brazil. 11-14 November 2002.
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Estrutura Multitesauro para Recuperação de Informações.
By: Luiz Pizzato and Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima
In: Anais do XIII Simpósio Brasileiro em Informática na Educação (SBIE'02), Workshop de Ontologias (WONTO). São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil. 12-14 November 2002.
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Theses
Using Linguistically Motivated Features in Document Retrieval for Question Answering
By: Luiz Pizzato
PhD Thesis. Macquarie University, Australia. 2008.Supervised by: Dr. Diego Molla. Submitted on: 12 December 2008
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Estrutura Multitesauro para Recuperação de Informações.
By: Luiz Pizzato
Master Thesis. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). 2003.Supervised by: Profa. Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima Defended on: 8th January 2003 Examiners: Dr. Paulo Quaresma, University of Évora, Portugal; Dr. João Batista de Oliveira, PUCRS, Brazil; and Dr. Paulo Fernandes, PUCRS, Brazil.
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