Publications by Michele Catasta

Structuring Wikipedia Articles with Section Recommendations

Robert West, Tiziano Piccardi, Michele Catasta

Sections are the building blocks of Wikipedia articles. They enhance readability and can be used as a structured entry point for creating and expanding articles. Structuring a new or already existing Wikipedia article with sections is a hard task for human ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Bartering Books to Beers: a Recommender System for Exchange Platforms

Michele Catasta, Jérémie Rappaz, Maria-Luiza Vladarean

Bartering is a timeless practice that is becoming increasingly popular on the Web. Recommending trades for an online bartering platform shares many similarities with traditional approaches to recommendation, in particular the need to model the preferences ...

2017

Contextualized ranking of entity types based on knowledge graphs

Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Michele Catasta, Roman Prokofyev

A large fraction of online queries targets entities. For this reason, Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) increasingly contain information about the searched entities such as pictures, short summaries, related entities, and factual information. A key facet ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

It's Getting Crowded! How to Use Crowdsourcing Effectively for Web Science Research

Michele Catasta

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

RoutineSense: A Mobile Sensing Framework for the Reconstruction of User Routines

Karl Aberer, Matteo Vasirani, Michele Catasta, Jean-Eudes Marie Ranvier

Modern smartphones are powerful platforms that have become part of the everyday life for most people. Thanks to their sensing and computing capabilities, smartphones can unobtrusively identify simple user states (e.g., location, performed activity, etc.), ...

2015

MEM0R1ES: Memory-based Information Systems

Michele Catasta

The advent of the Web reshaped the way in which humans memorize information, arguably unlike any other technological advance of the last decades. Rather than remembering the information itself, people are primed to find the needed information through Web s ...

EPFL2015

Hippocampus: answering memory queries using transactive search

Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Michele Catasta

ACM2014

MemorySense: Reconstructing and Ranking User Memories on Mobile Devices

Karl Aberer, Zhixian Yan, Matteo Vasirani, Michele Catasta, Jean-Eudes Marie Ranvier, Horia Radu

The richness of user-centric information gathered by modern devices can be used to keep track of memorable events, therefore acting as a prosthesis of the prone-to-forget human memory. We propose to combine virtual and physical sensors from mobile devices ...

Ieee2014

B-hist: Entity-centric search over personal web browsing history

Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Michele Catasta, Jean-Eudes Marie Ranvier

Web Search is increasingly entity centric; as a large fraction of common queries target specific entities, search results get progressively augmented with semi-structured and multimedia information about those entities. However, search over personal web br ...

Elsevier2014

Memo-it: Don’t write your diary, Sense it

Karl Aberer, Zhixian Yan, Matteo Vasirani, Michele Catasta, Jean-Eudes Marie Ranvier, Mathieu Monney, Horia Radu, Georgios Christodoulou, Filip Hrisafov, Boris Perovic

2014