Publications

2026

Aggarwal, Tanay; Salatino, Angelo; Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico (2026). Large language models for scholarly ontology generation: An extensive analysis in the engineering field. Information Processing & Management, 63(1), Large language models for scholarly ontology generation: An extensive analysis in the engineering field

2025

Murgia, Marco; Dessi, Danilo; Osborne, Francesco; Buscaldi, Davide; Motta, Enrico and Recupero, Diego Reforgiato (2025). CiteGen: A Web Application for Citation Recommendation Powered by LLMs and Knowledge Graphs. In: The Semantic Web: ESWC 2025 Satellite Events, 01-05 Jun 2025, Portoroz, Slovenia. CiteGen: A Web Application for Citation Recommendation Powered by LLMs and Knowledge Graphs

Cadeddu, Andrea; Chessa, Alessandro; De Leo, Vincenzo; Fenu, Gianni; Motta, Enrico; Osborne, Francesco; Reforgiato Recupero, Diego; Salatino, Angelo and Secchi, Luca (2025). A Comparative Study of Task Adaptation Techniques of Large Language Models for Identifying Sustainable Development Goals. IEEE Access, 13 pp. 175271–175291. A Comparative Study of Task Adaptation Techniques of Large Language Models for Identifying Sustainable Development Goals

Meloni, Antonello; Reforgiato Recupero, Diego; Osborne, Francesco; Salatino, Angelo Antonio; Motta, Enrico; Vahadati, Sahar and Lehmann, Jens (2025). Exploring Large Language Models for Scientific Question Answering via Natural Language to SPARQL Translation. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (Early access). Exploring Large Language Models for Scientific Question Answering via Natural Language to SPARQL Translation

Cadeddu, Andrea; Chessa, Alessandro; De Leo, Vincenzo; Fenu, Gianni; Motta, Enrico; Osborne, Francesco; Recupero, Diego Reforgiato; Salatino, Angelo and Secchi, Luca (2025). Benchmarking Large Language Models for Sustainable Development Goals Classification: Evaluating In-Context Learning and Fine-Tuning Strategies. In: 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Technologies and Deep Learning Models for Scientific, Technical and Legal Data (SemTech4STLD 2025), 01 Jun 2025, Portoroz, Slovenia. Benchmarking Large Language Models for Sustainable Development Goals Classification: Evaluating In-Context Learning and Fine-Tuning Strategies

Motta, Enrico; Daga, Enrico; Gangemi, Aldo; Gjelsvik, Maia Lunde; Osborne, Francesco and Salatino, Angelo (2025). The Epistemology of Fine-Grained News Classification. Semantic Web, 16(3), The Epistemology of Fine-Grained News Classification

Dessí, Danilo; Osborne, Francesco; Buscaldi, Davide; Reforgiato Recupero, Diego and Motta, Enrico (2025). CS-KG 2.0: A Large-scale Knowledge Graph of Computer Science. Scientific Data, 12(1), CS-KG 2.0: A Large-scale Knowledge Graph of Computer Science

Presutti, Valentina; Motta, Enrico and Sabou, Marta (2025). Opportunities for Knowledge Graphs in the AI landscape - An application-centric perspective. Journal of Web Semantics (Early access). Opportunities for Knowledge Graphs in the AI landscape - An application-centric perspective

Meloni, Antonello; Recupero, Diego Reforgiato; Osborne, Francesco; Salatino, Angelo; Motta, Enrico; Vahadati, Sahar and Lehmann, Jens (2025). Assessing Large Language Models for SPARQL Query Generation in Scientific Question Answering. In: ISWC 2024 Special Session on Harmonising Generative AI and Semantic Web Technologies,, 13 Nov 2024, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Assessing Large Language Models for SPARQL Query Generation in Scientific Question Answering

Salatino, Angelo; Aggarwal, Tanay; Mannocci, Andrea; Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico (2025). A survey of knowledge organization systems of research fields: Resources and challenges. Quantitative Science Studies, 6 pp. 567–610. A survey of knowledge organization systems of research fields: Resources and challenges

Borrego, Agustín; Dessì, Danilo; Ayala, Daniel; Hernández, Inma; Osborne, Francesco; Recupero, Diego Reforgiato; Buscaldi, Davide; Ruiz, David and Motta, Enrico (2025). Research hypothesis generation over scientific knowledge graphs. Knowledge-Based Systems, 315 Research hypothesis generation over scientific knowledge graphs

Bongini, Paola; Rossolini, Monica; Maurino, Andrea and Osborne, Francesco (2025). The information power of social media for investment decisions: an AI-driven analysis of Reddit posts. Journal of Financial Management, Markets and Institutions, 13(02), The information power of social media for investment decisions: an AI-driven analysis of Reddit posts

Birti, Mattia; Maurino, Andrea and Osborne, Francesco (2025). Optimizing Large Language Models for ESG Activity Detection in Financial Texts. In: ICAIF ’25: 6th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance, 15-18 Nov 2025, Singapore, Singapore. Optimizing Large Language Models for ESG Activity Detection in Financial Texts

Buscaldi, Davide; Dessì, Danilo; Osborne, Francesco; Piras, Davide and Recupero, Diego Reforgiato (2025). Evaluating LLMs for Named Entity Recognition in Scientific Domain with Fine-Tuning and Few-Shot Learning. In: 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Technologies and Deep Learning Models for Scientific, Technical and Legal Data (SemTech4STLD 2025), 01 Jun 2025, Portoroz, Slovenia. Evaluating LLMs for Named Entity Recognition in Scientific Domain with Fine-Tuning and Few-Shot Learning

Tsaneva, Stefani; Dessì, Danilo; Osborne, Francesco and Sabou, Marta (2025). Knowledge graph validation by integrating LLMs and human-in-the-loop. Information Processing & Management, 62(5), Knowledge graph validation by integrating LLMs and human-in-the-loop

Greco, David; Osborne, Francesco; Pusceddu, Simone and Reforgiato Recupero, Diego (2025). Modelling big data platforms as knowledge graphs: the data platform shaper. Journal of Big Data, 12(1), Modelling big data platforms as knowledge graphs: the data platform shaper

Fernandez, Miriam; Morales Tirado, Alba Catalina; Pavon-Perez, Angel; Duddin, Keely; Zhang, Min; Bakina, Ksenia; Bandara, Arosha; Capdevila, Rose; Lazard, Lisa and Jurasz, Olga (2025). Co-creating an Ontology of Online Gender-Based Harms: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. In: ISWC 2025 - The 24th International Semantic Web Conference, 02-06 Nov 2025, Nara, Japan. Co-creating an Ontology of Online Gender-Based Harms: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Allocca, Carlo; Antonini, Alessio; Pala, Riccardo; Salatino, Angelo; Naja, Iman; Ail, Rohit; Haleem, Muhammad Salman; Lopez-Perez, Laura; Gaeta, Eugenio; Pecchia, Leandro and Fico, Giuseppe (2025). Knowledge Graph Construction for Health, Lifestyle and Fitness Applications. In: Curry, Edward; Acosta, Maribel; Poveda-Villalón, Maria; van Erp, Marieke; Ojo, Adegboyega; Hose, Katja; Shimizu, Cogan and Lisena, Pasquale eds. The Semantic Web: 22nd European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2025, Portoroz, Slovenia, June 1–5, 2025, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 15719. Cham, CH: Springer, pp. 102–122. Knowledge Graph Construction for Health, Lifestyle and Fitness Applications

2024

Innominato, Pasquale; Macdonald, Jamie; Saxton, Wendy; Longshaw, Laura; Granger, Rachel; Naja, Iman; Allocca, Carlo; Edwards, Ruth; Rasheed, Solah; Folkvord, Frans; de Batle, Jordi; Ail, Rohit; Motta, Enrico; Bale, Catherine; Fuller, Claire; Mullard, Anna; Subbe, Christian; Griffiths, Dawn; Wreglesworth, Nicholas; Pecchia, Leandro; Fico, Giuseppe and Antonini, Alessio (2024). Digital remote monitoring using a mobile health solution in cancer survivors: an observational pilot trial protocol. JMIR Research Protocols, 12 Digital remote monitoring using a mobile health solution in cancer survivors: an observational pilot trial protocol

Aggarwal, Tanay; Salatino, Angelo; Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico (2024). Identifying Semantic Relationships Between Research Topics Using Large Language Models in a Zero-Shot Learning Setting. In: 4th International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge: Representation, Discovery, and Assessment, Sci-K 2024, 12 Nov 2024, Baltimore. Identifying Semantic Relationships Between Research Topics Using Large Language Models in a Zero-Shot Learning Setting

Motta, Enrico; Osborne, Francesco; Pulici, Martino M. L.; Salatino, Angelo and Naja, Iman (2024). Capturing the Viewpoint Dynamics in the News Domain. In: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW-24), 26-28 Nov 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Capturing the Viewpoint Dynamics in the News Domain

Pisu, Alessia; Pompianu, Livio; Salatino, Angelo; Osborne, Francesco; Riboni, Daniele; Motta, Enrico and Reforgiato Recupero, Diego (2024). Classifying Scientific Topic Relationships with SciBERT. In: Joint Proc. of Posters, Demos, Workshops, and Tutorials of the 20th Int.l Conf. on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS 2024), 17-19 Sep 2024, Amsterdam. Classifying Scientific Topic Relationships with SciBERT

Pisu, Alessia; Pompianu, Livio; Salatino, Angelo; Osborne, Francesco; Riboni, Daniele; Motta, Enrico and Recupero, Diego Reforgiato (2024). Leveraging Language Models for Generating Ontologies of Research Topics. In: Text2KG 2024: International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Generation from Text, 28 May 2024, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece. Leveraging Language Models for Generating Ontologies of Research Topics

Beetz, Michael; Cimiano, Philipp; Kümpel, Michaela; Motta, Enrico; Tiddi, Ilaria and Töberg, Jan-Philipp (2024). Transforming Web Knowledge into Actionable Knowledge Graphs for Robot Manipulation Tasks. In: ESWC 2024 Workshops and Tutorials Joint Proceedings, 26-27 May 2024, Heraklion, Greece. Transforming Web Knowledge into Actionable Knowledge Graphs for Robot Manipulation Tasks

Bolanos Burgos, Francisco; Salatino, Angelo; Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico (2024). Artificial intelligence for literature reviews: opportunities and challenges. Artificial Intelligence Review, 57(9), Artificial intelligence for literature reviews: opportunities and challenges

Cadeddu, Andrea; Chessa, Alessandro; De Leo, Vincenzo; Fenu, Gianni; Motta, Enrico; Osborne, Francesco; Recupero, Diego Reforgiato; Salatino, Angelo and Secchi, Luca (2024). Optimizing Tourism Accommodation Offers by Integrating Language Models and Knowledge Graph Technologies. Information, 15(7), Optimizing Tourism Accommodation Offers by Integrating Language Models and Knowledge Graph Technologies

Lehmann, Jens; Meloni, Antonello; Motta, Enrico; Osborne, Francesco; Recupero, Diego Reforgiato; Salatino, Angelo Antonio and Vahdati, Sahar (2024). Large Language Models for Scientific Question Answering: An Extensive Analysis of the SciQA Benchmark. In: ESWC 2024, 26-30 May 2024, Hersonissos, Greece. Large Language Models for Scientific Question Answering: An Extensive Analysis of the SciQA Benchmark

Buscaldi, D.; Dessi, D.; Motta, E.; Murgia, M.; Osborne, F. and Recupero, D. R. (2024). Automating Citation Placement with Natural Language Processing and Transformers. In: 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Technologies and Deep Learning Models for Scientific, Technical and Legal Data, SemTech4STLD 2024, 26 May 2024, Hersonissos; Greece. Automating Citation Placement with Natural Language Processing and Transformers

Innominato, Pasquale F; Macdonald, Jamie H; Saxton, Wendy; Longshaw, Laura; Granger, Rachel; Naja, Iman; Alloca, Carlo; Edwards, Ruth; Rasheed, Solah; Folkvord, Frans; de Batlle, Jordi; Ail, Rohit; Motta, Enrico; Bale, Catherine; Fuller, Claire; Mullard, Anna P; Subbe, Christian P; Griffiths, Dawn; Wreglesworth, Nicholas I; Pecchia, Leandro; Fico, Giuseppe and Antonini, Alessio (2024). Digital Remote Monitoring Using an mHealth Solution for Survivors of Cancer: Protocol for a Pilot Observational Study. JMIR Research Protocols, 13 Digital Remote Monitoring Using an mHealth Solution for Survivors of Cancer: Protocol for a Pilot Observational Study

Cadeddu, Andrea; Chessa, Alessandro; De Leo, Vincenzo; Fenu, Gianni; Motta, Enrico; Osborne, Francesco; Reforgiato Recupero, Diego; Salatino, Angelo and Secchi, Luca (2024). A comparative analysis of knowledge injection strategies for large language models in the scholarly domain. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 133 A comparative analysis of knowledge injection strategies for large language models in the scholarly domain

Diakopoulos, N.; Trattner, C.; Jannach, D.; Meijer, I. Costera and Motta, E. (2024). Leveraging Professional Ethics for Responsible AI. Communications of the ACM, 67(2), pp. 19–21. Leveraging Professional Ethics for Responsible AI

Tsaneva, Stefani; Dessì, Danilo; Osborne, Francesco and Sabou, Marta (2024). Enhancing Scientific Knowledge Graph Generation Pipelines with LLMs and Human-in-the-Loop. In: 4th International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge: Representation, Discovery, and Assessment, Sci-K 2024, 12 Nov 2024, Baltimore. Enhancing Scientific Knowledge Graph Generation Pipelines with LLMs and Human-in-the-Loop

Zavarella, Vanni; Recupero, Diego Reforgiato; Consoli, Sergio; Fenu, Gianni; Angioni, Simone; Buscaldi, Davide; Dessí, Danilo and Osborne, Francesco (2024). Knowledge Graphs for Digital Transformation Monitoring in Social Media. In: 3rd International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Generation from Text (TEXT2KG), 26-30 May 2024, Hersonissos, Greece. Knowledge Graphs for Digital Transformation Monitoring in Social Media

Alam, Mehwish; Buscaldi, Davide; Cochez, Michael; Gesese, Genet Asefa; Osborne, Francesco and Reforgiato Recupero, Diego (2024). Workshop on Deep Learning and Large Language Models for Knowledge Graphs (DL4KG). In: KDD '24: Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 25-29 Aug 2024, Barcelona, Spain. Workshop on Deep Learning and Large Language Models for Knowledge Graphs (DL4KG)

Zavarella, Vanni; Consoli, Sergio; Reforgiato Recupero, Diego; Fenu, Gianni; Angioni, Simone; Buscaldi, Davide; Dessí, Danilo and Osborne, Francesco (2024). Triplétoile: Extraction of knowledge from microblogging text. Heliyon, 10(12), Triplétoile: Extraction of knowledge from microblogging text

Angioni, Simone; Consoli, Sergio; Dessì, Danilo; Osborne, Francesco; Reforgiato Recupero, Diego and Salatino, Angelo (2024). Investigating Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Discussions in News: A Knowledge Graph Analysis Empowered by AI. In: 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Technologies and Deep Learning Models for Scientific, Technical and Legal Data, SemTech4STLD 2024, 26 May 2024, Hersonissos. Investigating Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Discussions in News: A Knowledge Graph Analysis Empowered by AI

Angioni, Simone; Consoli, Sergio; Dessì, Danilo; Osborne, Francesco; Reforgiato Recupero, Diego and Salatino, Angelo (2024). Exploring Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Discourse in News: An AI-Powered Investigation Through Knowledge Graph Analysis. IEEE Access, 12 pp. 77269–77283. Exploring Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Discourse in News: An AI-Powered Investigation Through Knowledge Graph Analysis

Balloccu, Simone; Podda, Alessandro Sebastian; Pompianu, Livio; Saia, Roberto and Salatino, Angelo Antonio (2024). HUMAD 2024: International Workshop on Human-Centered Modeling and Adaptation for Digital Transformation. In: UMAP '24: 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, 1-4 Jul 2024, Cagliari, Italy. HUMAD 2024: International Workshop on Human-Centered Modeling and Adaptation for Digital Transformation