Preface
This volume contains the papers presented at IIR 2015 (the 6th Italian Infor- mation Retrieval Workshop) held on 25-26 May, 2015, in Cagliari.
The purpose of theItalian Information Retrieval Workshop(IIR) is to provide a meeting forum for stimulating and disseminating research in Informa- tion Retrieval, where Italian researchers (especially young ones) and researchers affiliated with Italian institutions can network and discuss their research results in an informal way.
IIR 2015 is the 6th edition of the Italian Information Retrieval Workshop.
It took place onMay 25-26, 2015at theTiscali CampusinCagliari, Italy.
Tiscali was also the main sponsor of this event.
The general chairs were Domenico Dato (Tiscali) and Raffaele Perego (ISTI- CNR).
For this edition, the committee (co-chaired by Paolo Boldi, Universit`a degli Studi di Milano, and Fabrizio Sebastiani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy, and Qatar Computing Research Institute) decided to accept 27 papers. The program also included two invited talks, by Renato Soru (Tiscali) and by Fabrizio Silvestri (Yahoo!).
The program co-chairs wish to thank all the members of the Program Com- mittee (see below) as well as the local organizers (Local arrangements: Gian- luca Nonnis (Tiscali), Webmaster: Franco Maria Nardini (ISTI-CNR), Publicity:
Diego Ceccarelli (ISTI-CNR)).
Program Committee
– Giambattista Amati (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni) – Roberto Basili (Universit`a di Roma Tor Vergata) – Giacomo Berardi (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) – Gloria Bordogna (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) – Claudio Carpineto (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni) – Fabio Crestani (Universit`a della Svizzera Italiana) – Danilo Croce (Universit`a di Roma Tor Vergata) – Gianmarco De Francisci Morales (Yahoo! Labs) – Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio (Universit`a di Padova) – Andrea Esuli (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) – Nicola Ferro (Universit`a di Padova)
– Marco Gori (Universit`a di Siena) – Pasquale Lops (Universit`a di Bari)
– Diego Marcheggiani (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) – Massimo Melucci (Universit`a di Padova)
– Stefano Mizzaro (Universit`a di Udine)
– Alejandro Moreo Fernandez (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) – Alessandro Moschitti (Qatar Computing Research Institute) – Cataldo Musto (Universit`a di Bari)
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– Gabriella Pasi (Universit`a di Milano Bicocca) – Marco Pennacchiotti (eBay)
– Giovanni Semeraro (Universit`a di Bari) – Fabrizio Silvestri (Yahoo! Labs) – Gabriele Tolomei (Yahoo! Labs)
– Nicola Tonellotto (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) – Marco Turchi (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
– Rossano Venturini (Universit`a di Pisa) – Giovanni Zappella (Amazon)
– Guido Zuccon (Queensland University of Technology)
NOTE:Copyright of all papers is held by the author(s). Copying permitted for private and academic purposes. This volume is published and copyrighted by its editors.
Cagliari, 20 July 2015 Paolo Boldi and Fabrizio Sebastiani
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