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
The ADI (Associazione di Italianistica) National Conference was held in Palermo, during the event, Marco Papasidero (University of Palermo) presented his talk "L'immagine del 'saraceno' in alcune leggende mariane di prima età moderna (secc. XVI-XVIII)." His research examines how Marian legends from the 16th to 18th centuries depicted the figure of the 'Saracen,' offering new ... Read more
Marco Papasidero (University of Palermo) took part in the Seminario dottorale di Storia medievale at the University of Messina, where he presented his talk "Demoni, santi e tempeste sovrannaturali. Appunti per una storia culturale." His presentation focused on how believers sought saintly intercession to ensure favorable weather or ward off storms, while Vincenzo Tedesco examined the demonological ... Read more
Riccardo Amerigo Vigliermo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) participated in the 28th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2024), presenting the paper "Sensitive Topics Retrieval in Digital Libraries: A Case Study of ḥadīṯ Collections". Co-authored with Giovanni Sullutrone, Luca Sala, and Sonia Bergamaschi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), the ... Read more
Our colleague, Giuseppe Cartella (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) participated in the 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities (AI4DH), presenting the paper "Pixels of Faith: Exploiting Visual Saliency to Detect Religious Image Manipulation." Co-authored with Vittorio Cuculo, Marcella Cornia (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Marco Papasidero (University of Palermo), Federico ... Read more
Federico Cocchi and Marcella Cornia (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) participated in the 18th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024), presenting the paper "Safe-CLIP: Removing NSFW Concepts from Vision-and-Language Models." The study addresses the challenge of enhancing the safety of vision-and-language models, such as CLIP, by reducing their sensitivity to NSFW (not safe ... Read more