Our colleagues Federico Ruozzi and Amina El Ganadi participate within the program of the conference at the University of Reading - sponsored by the Digital Humanities CoP -   with the paper "The Illusion of Knowledge: Interpreting AI Hallucinations in the Study of Humanities and the Black Box of LLMs". See the program of the conference: DH_AI_Final_Programme ... Read more

Our colleagues, Giovanni Sullutrone and Luca Sala (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) made significant contributions to the 32nd Symposium on Advanced Database Systems, the leading annual event for the Italian database research community. Sullutrone led a session on "Integrating Large Language Models in Digital Humanities," showcasing cutting-edge applications of these models. Additionally, together with Sala, ... Read more

Marcello Costa (University of Palermo) participated in the 2CO Communicating Complexity Conference 2024, presenting his paper "Ubiquity Platform. Data Visualization for Digital Humanities". The paper, developed within the ITSERR project, explores innovative strategies for data visualization in Digital Humanities, aiming to make complex data more accessible and understandable. The Ubiquity Platform offers new approaches to ... Read more

Cinzia Ferrara and Chiara Palillo (University of Palermo) participated in the SID 2024 National Conference – Design and Research: Sources and Resources, contributing to the discussion panel "Research Tools for Digital Humanities: Reconfiguring the Information Space." As part of the UbiQuity project (ITSERR), their presentation focused on disseminating research results in design for Digital Humanities, ... Read more

Within the framework of the Summer School “Significanza culturale del patrimonio ecclesiastico", promoted by the Accademia Maria Luisa di Borbone, the Università LUMSA and the Arcidiocesi di Lucca, whose venue is the Seminario arcivescovile di Lucca, our colleague Ilaria Sabbatini (ESFRI – RESILIENCE RI/PNRR ITSERR) will participate as invited professor and by presenting the following ... Read more

Fabio Tutrone (University of Palermo) took part in the interdisciplinary conference Worlds Above and Below: Supernatural Worlds in Classics, Judaism, and Early Christianity, organized by the University of Otago. He presented a talk titled "Augustine on Souls, Elements, and Demons: A Journey the Roman Cosmos to the Christian Paradise" exploring the transition from classical cosmology ... Read more

“Trends, Applications, and Challenges in Human Attention Modelling”

Authors: Giuseppe Cartella, Marcella Cornia, Vittorio Cuculo, Alessandro D’Amelio, Dario Zanca, Giuseppe Boccignone, Rita Cucchiara

Abstract
Human attention modelling has proven, in recent years, to be
particularly useful not only for understanding the cognitive processes
underlying visual exploration, but also for providing support to
artificial intelligence models that aim to solve problems in various
domains, including image and video processing, vision-and-language
applications, and language modelling. This survey offers a reasoned
overview of recent efforts to integrate human attention mechanisms into
contemporary deep learning models and discusses future research
directions and challenges.

Our colleague, Davide Caffagni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) participated in the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), presenting the paper "The Revolution of Multimodal Large Language Models: A Survey." Co-authored with Federico Cocchi, Luca Barsellotti, Nicholas Moratelli, Sara Sarto, Lorenzo Baraldi, Marcella Cornia and Rita Cucchiara (University of Modena ... Read more

Within the framework of the prestigious 18th International conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2024)  the 16th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2024) will be jointly held. Here, our colleagues Usman Nawaz, Liliana Lo Presti, Marianna Napolitano, and Marco La Cascia (ESFRI – RESILIENCE RI/PNRR ITSERR) will participate presenting the following ... Read more

Our colleague, Usman Nawaz (University of Palermo) participated in the 16th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2024), jointly held with the 18th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2024), presenting the paper "Automatic Lemmatization of Old Church Slavonic Language Using a Novel Dictionary-Based Approach." Co-authored with Liliana Lo Presti (University ... Read more