Riccardo Amerigo Vigliermo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) participated in the 2024 Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) Annual Meeting, presenting the paper "The Digital Maktaba Project: Building an Intelligent System for Cataloguing Non-Latin Script HeritagesT". The Digital Maktaba (DM) project, developed within ITSERR and funded by PNRR, focuses on AI-driven cataloguing and metadata ... Read more
Marco Papasidero (University of Palermo) will speak at the seminar "Santi scrittori in digitale", part of the permanent seminar series I Santi internauti. His talk, "Ildegarda spirituale: letture, riletture e reinterpretazioni della Sibilla del Reno sul Web", will explore the digital reception and reinterpretation of Hildegard of Bingen’s spiritual legacy.
At EMNLP 2024, Sania Aftarha presented RoBERT2VecTM: A Novel Approach for Topic Extraction in Islamic Studies, co-authored by Luca Gagliardelli, Amina El Ganadi, Federico Ruozzi, and Sonia Bergamaschi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) The study introduces RoBERT2VecTM, combining RoBERTa and Doc2Vec to enhance topic modeling in Hadith studies. The approach improves semantic analysis, generating ... Read more
Federico Ruozzi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) and Domenico Ciccarello (University of Palermo) presented the paper "Digital Maktaba: Enhancing Library Inclusivity through Automated Knowledge Extraction from Multi-Alphabet Digital Collections" at the AIB national conference "Niente su di noi, senza di noi. Biblioteche per l’inclusione." The Digital Maktaba project leverages AI-driven technologies like OCR, NLP, ... Read more
Davide Caffagni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) participated in the 35th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), presenting the paper "Revisiting Image Captioning Training Paradigm via Direct CLIP-based Optimization", co-authored with Nicholas Moratelli, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, and Rita Cucchiara (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). The paper introduces Direct CLIP-Based Optimization (DiCO), a novel ... Read more
At FLLM 2024, Amina El Ganadi (University of Palermo) presented the paper The Impact of Generative AI on Islamic Studies: Case Analysis of "Digital Muhammad ibn Ismail Al-Bukhari", co-authored by Sania Aftar, Luca Gagliardelli, Sonia Bergamaschi, and Federico Ruozzi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). The study explores the role of generative AI in Islamic ... Read more