“Il Piave mormorava...”: Recognizing Locations and other Named Entities in Italian Texts on the Great War

Increasing amounts of sources about World War I (WWI) are nowadays available in digital form. In this paper, we illustrate the automatic creation of a NE-annotated domain corpus used to adapt an existing NER to Italian WWI texts. We discuss the...

The CoLing Lab system for Sentiment Polarity Classification of tweets

This paper describes the CoLing Lab system for the EVALITA 2014 SENTIment POLarity Classification (SENTIPOLC) task. Our system is based on a SVM classifier trained on the rich set of lexical, global and twitter-specific features described in these...

E.Pedreschi et Al.: “A high-resolution TDC-based board for a fully digital trigger and data acquisition system in the NA62 experiment at CERN", IEEE Transaction on Nuclear Science, June 2015

A time to digital converter based system, to be used for most sub-detectors in the high-flux rare-decay experiment NA62 at CERN SPS, was built as part of the NA62 fully digital trigger and data acquisition system in which the TDC Board (TDCB) and a...

E.Pedreschi et Al.: “A high-resolution TDC-based board for a fully digital trigger and data acquisition system in the NA62 experiment at CERN", IEEE Transaction on Nuclear Science, June 2015

A time to digital converter based system, to be used for most sub-detectors in the high-flux rare-decay experiment NA62 at CERN SPS, was built as part of the NA62 fully digital trigger and data acquisition system in which the TDC Board (TDCB) and a...

G Valenza, M. Nardelli, G. Bertschy, C. Gentili, A. Lanata, EP Scilingo, Predicting Mood Changes in Bipolar Disorder through Heartbeat Nonlinear Dynamics: a Preliminary Study, Computing in Cardiology, Nice (France), September 2015

M. Nardelli, G. Valenza, M. Bianchi, A. Greco, A. Lanata, A. Bicchi, E.P. Scilingo, “Gender-Specific Velocity Recognition of Caress-like stimuli through Nonlinear Analysis of Heart Rate Variability”, EMBC IEEE, Milan (Italy), August 2015

This study reports on the development of a gender-specific classification system able to discern between two levels of velocity of a caress-like stimulus, through information gathered from Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) linear and nonlinear dynamics....

A. Greco, G. Valenza, M. Nardelli, M. Bianchi, A. Lanata' , E.P. Scilingo, “Electrodermal Activity Analysis during Affective Haptic Elicitation”, EMBC, 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE, Milan (Italy), August 2015

This paper investigates how the autonomic nervous system dynamics, quantified through the analysis of the electrodermal activity (EDA), is modulated according to affective haptic stimuli.  Specifically, a haptic display able to convey caress-like...

M. Nardelli, G. Valenza, A. Greco, A. Lanata', E.P. Scilingo, “Arousal Recognition System based on Heartbeat Dynamics During Auditory Elicitation”, EMBC, 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE, Milan(Italy), August 2015

This study reports on the recognition of different arousal levels, elicited by affective sounds, performed using estimates of autonomic nervous system dynamics.  Specifically, as a part of the circumplex model of affect, arousal levels were recognized...

G. Valenza, A. Greco, M. Nardelli, M. Bianchi, A. Lanatà, S. Rossi, E.P. Scilingo, “Electroencephalographic Spectral Correlates of Caress-like Affective Haptic Stimuli”,EMBC, 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE, Milan(Italy), August 2015

This paper describes how brain dynamics, as  estimated through spectral analysis of electroencephalographic  (EEG) oscillatory rhythms, is modified by quantifiable, affective  haptic stimuli. Specifically, 32 healthy subjects (16 females)  interacted...

Nardelli, M., Valenza, G., Cristea, I. A., ..., D., Lanatà, A., Scilingo, E. P.: “Characterizing psychological dimensions in non-pathological subjects through autonomic nervous system dynamics”, Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 9, March 2015

The objective assessment of psychological traits of healthy subjects and psychiatric patients has been growing interest in clinical and bioengineering research fields during the last decade. Several experimental evidences strongly suggest that a link...

Nardelli, M., Valenza, G., Greco, A., Lanata, A., & Scilingo, E. "Recognizing Emotions Induced by Affective Sounds through Heart Rate Variability.",IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, May 2015

This paper reports on how emotional states elicited by affective sounds can be effectively recognized by means of estimates of Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) dynamics. Specifically, emotional states are modeled as a combination of arousal and valence...

Lanata, A., Valenza, G., Nardelli, M., Gentili, C., & Scilingo, E. P. “Complexity index from a per-sonalized wearable monitoring system for assessing remission in mental health”. Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Journal of, 19(1), 132-139, Jan

This study discusses a personalized wearable monitoring system, which provides information and communication technologies to patients with mental disorders and physicians managing such diseases. The system, hereinafter called the PSYCHE system, is...

A.Bacci, M.Martorella, D.A.Gray, S.Gelli, F.Berizzi: "Virtual Multichannel SAR for Ground Moving Targets Imaging", IET, Radar Sonar Navigation, 2015, RSN-SI-2015-0128.R1

Slow moving ground targets are invisible within SAR images since they appear defocused and their backscattered signal completely overlap the focused ground return. In order for this targets to be detected and refocused the availability of some spatial...

A. Zingoni, M. Diani, G. Corsini, A. Masini: "Real-time 3D reconstruction form images taken from an UAV", The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XL-3/W3, pp. 313-319, 2015

ABSTRACT:   We designed a method for creating 3D models of objects and areas from two aerial images acquired from an UAV. The models are generated automatically and in real-time, and consist in dense and true-colour reconstructions of the considered...

L.Fanucci, F.Falaschi, B.Carnevale, L.Crocetti, H.Hunjan, S.Bisase, S.Rosi, M.C.Simone:“Analysis of security risks & threats and the design of a hardware secure module to perform cipher algorithms for automotive applications”,(poster),HiPEAC,Jan 2015

B. Carnevale, F. Falaschi, D. Pacini, G. Dini, L. Fanucci: "A Hardware Accelerator for the IEEE 802.1X‐2010 Key Hierarchy in Automotive Applications", accepted at 12th ACS/IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2015, Nov 2015

The increasing complexity of automotive networks has led to broad security issues related to human safety. On the other hand, to solve problems of network overload, the automotive world is moving in the direction of using an Ethernet backbone for...

E. Biondi, C. Boldrini, A. Passarella, M. Conti: "Optimal duty cycling in mobile opportunistic net-works with end-to-end delay guarantees", Technical Report IIT TR-13-2014, 2014

Opportunistic communications have been recently proposed as a key strategy for offloading traffic from 3G/4G cellular networks, which is particularly beneficial in case of crowded areas where many users are interested in similar contents. To conserve...

E. Biondi, C. Boldrini, A. Passarella, M. Conti: "Duty cycling in opportunistic networks: intercontact times and energy-delay tradeoff", IIT-CNR 2013, Technical Report IIT TR-22/2013, December 2013

Portable mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are the enablers for communications in mobile ad hoc networks. In order to optimise their energy usage, one of the most popular techniques is to implement a duty cycling policy, which periodically...

E. Biondi, C. Boldrini, R. Bruno: “Optimal Charging of Electric Vehicle Fleets for a Car Sharing System with Power Sharing”, In Proceedings of IEEE Energycon 2016, pp. 1-6, April 2016.

Electric car sharing services have been growing in popularity in the last years but operators are striving to reduce the costs of deploying and managing their charging infrastructure. Charging technologies that offer power sharing have the potential to...

E. Biondi, C. Boldrini, A. Passarella, M. Conti: "Optimal energy vs. delay trade off in opportunistic networks", IIT-CNR 2015, Technical Report IIT TR-13-2015, October 2015. In fase di sottomissione a IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

Opportunistic communications have been recently proposed as a key strategy for offloading traffic from 3G/4G cellular networks, which is particularly beneficial in case of crowded areas where many users are interested in similar contents. To conserve...