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2023 ACM CIKM Test of Time Award
2023/11/02
The 2023 ACM CIKM Test of Time Award was assigned to the paper: “TAGME: on-the-fly annotation of short text...
Paolo Ferragina and Giovanni Manzini receive the 2022 ACM Kannellakis Award
2023/05/04
Paolo Ferragina and Giovanni Manzini, together with Michael Burrows, are recipients of the 2022 ACM Paris Kanellakis...
EATCS Best Italian PhD Thesis award won by Giorgio Vinciguerra
2022/09/23
We are pleased to announce that the Italian Chapter of the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)...
Learned rank/select published in ACM TALG
2022/03/18
We are proud to share that our article “A Learned Approach to Design Compressed Rank/Select Data Structures”...
On the performance of learned data structures published in TCS
2021/05/20
We are glad to announce that our paper “On the performance of learned data structures” has been published in...
The A³ Lab at the Stanford Compression Workshop
2021/02/24
We are delighted to announce that the A³ Lab will attend the Stanford Compression Workshop 2021 to present a summary of...
Tosoni’s thesis awarded by con.Scienze
2021/02/09
Our A³ Lab member Francesco Tosoni has been awarded by con.Scienze for the 2020 Best Italian Master Thesis in Computer...
PGM-index featured on Hacker News and social media
2021/02/08
Our PGM-index has been featured on Hacker News! We warmly thank everyone who showed interest and shared our achievements...
Learned rank/select @ ALENEX21
2020/11/03
We are happy to announce that our paper A “learned” approach to quicken and compress rank/select dictionaries (authored...
Contextualizing Trending Entities in News Stories @ WSDM21
2020/10/19
It is a great pleasure to congratulate with my Bloomberg LP’s co-authors: Marco Ponza, Diego Ceccarelli, Edgar...
Why are learned indexes so effective? @ ICML20
2020/06/14
We are happy to announce that our paper Why are learned indexes so effective? (authored by Paolo Ferragina, Fabrizio...
PGM-index paper published in PVLDB
2020/04/27
We are happy to announce that our paper The PGM-index: a fully-dynamic compressed learned index with provable worst-case...
Springer's Chapter on Learned data structures
2020/04/07
Very recently, the unexpected combination of data structures and machine learning has led to the development of a new...
Paper published in Nature
2019/11/09
We are glad to announce that our paper “A public data set of spatio-temporal match events in soccer competitions...
PlayeRank: Data-driven Performance Evaluation and Player Ranking in Soccer via a Machine Learning Approach Paper Published in ACM TIST
2019/09/17
We are happy to announce that our paper PlayeRank: Data-driven Performance Evaluation and Player Ranking in Soccer via...
On Computing Entity Relatedness in Wikipedia, with Applications Paper Accepted at Knowledge-Based Systems
2019/09/15
We are happy to announce that our paper On Computing Entity Relatedness in Wikipedia, with Applications (by Marco Ponza,...
Multicriteria Data Structures and Algorithms: from compressed to learned indexes, and beyond
2019/05/14
The ever growing need to efficiently store, retrieve and analyze massive datasets, originated by very different...
Master Theses Available
2019/05/14
We invite highly motivated master’s students to join our research group for challenging research theses. The...
SWAT Paper Accepted at Wiley Computational Intelligence
2019/05/08
We are glad to announce that our paper Swat: A system for detecting salient Wikipedia entities in texts has been...
Brotli Paper Accepted at ACM TOIS
2019/01/10
We are glad to announce that our paper Brotli: A General-Purpose Data Compressor (with Google Zurich Research Team) has...
SMAPH Paper Accepted at ACM TOIS
2019/01/01
We are glad to announce that our paper SMAPH: A Piggyback Approach for Entity-Linking in Web Queries (with Google Zurich...
WISER Paper Accepted at Information Systems (Elsevier)
2018/12/20
We are glad to announce that our paper Wiser: A Semantic Approach for Expert Finding in Academia based on Entity Linking...
Entity-linking suite for texts, posts and queries
2018/08/12
After about eight years of algorithm design, software development and tuning, and large experimental tests I wish to...
2018 Educator Grant awards in Europe, the Middle East and Africa
2018/05/26
I’m proud and happy to announce the Google grant award for EMEA that I and Fabrizio Luccio got for our novel...