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Rossana Damiano

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    Journal articles

    1. Jiménez-Díaz, G., Diaz-Agudo, B., Bruni, L.E., Kadastik, N., Follo, A., Damiano, E., Striani, M., Sanchez-Martin, A., Lieto, A. (2025). Interpretable Clusters for Representing Citizens’ Sense of Belonging through Interaction with Cultural Heritage. ACM JOURNAL ON COMPUTING AND CULTURAL HERITAGE (JOCCH), Volume 17, Issue 412 February 2025.
    2. Lieto, A., Striani, Gena, C., Dolza, E., Marras, A.M., Pozzato, G.L., Damiano, R. (2024) A sensemaking system for grouping and suggesting stories from multiple affective viewpoints in museums. Int. Journal of HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION, Volume 39, Issue 1-2, Pages 109 - 143, 10.1080/07370024.2023.2242355
    3. Asprino, L., Damiano, R., Daquino, M., De Giorgis, S., Gangemi, A., Lieto, A., Sartini, B., Striani, M. (2024). An Ontology Network for Citizen Curation. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 17(4), 1-30.
    4. Lieto, A., Pozzato, G.L., Striani, M., Zoia, S., Damiano, R. (2023) DEGARI 2.0: A Diversity-Seeking, Knowledge-based, Explainable, Art Recommender for Social Inclusion. COGNITIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Volume 77, Pages 1-17.
    5. Damiano, R. (2023). Design and Development of Knowledge Graphs for Hittite and Kassite Prosopographic Data. MESOPOTAMIA: rivista di archeologia, epigrafia e storia orientale antica: LVIII, 2023, 87-92.
    6. Daga, E., Asprino, L., Damiano, R., Diaz Agudo, B., Gangemi, A., Kuflik, T., Lieto, A., Marras, A.M., Martinez Pandiani, D., Mulholland, P., Peroni,S., Pescarin,S. & Wecker, A. (2021). Integrating citizen experiences in cultural heritage archives: requirements, state of the art, and challenges. ACM JOURNAL ON COMPUTING AND CULTURAL HERITAGE (JOCCH), 15(1), 1-35
    7. Damiano, R., Lombardo, V., Pizzo, A. Studying and Designing Emotions in Live Interactions with the Audience. MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS. To appear. 10.1007/s11042-020-10007-3
    8. Damiano, R., Lombardo, V., Pizzo, A. (2019). The ontology of drama. APPLIED ONTOLOGY, vol. 14, n. 1, p. 1-40, ISSN: 1875-8533, doi: 10.3233/AO-190204
    9. Damiano, R., Lombardo, V., Lieto, A., & Borra, D. (2016). Exploring cultural heritage repositories with creative intelligence. The Labyrinth 3D system. ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING, 16, 41-52.
    10. Lombardo, V., Pizzo, A., Damiano, R. (2016). Safeguarding and Accessing Drama As Intangible Cultural Heritage, ACM JOURNAL ON COMPUTING and CULTURAL HERITAGE, vol. 9, n. 1, p. 1-26, ISSN: 1556-4673, doi, 10.1145/2812814
    11. Lombardo V., Battaglino C., Pizzo A., Damiano R., Lieto A. (2015). Coupling conceptual modeling and rules for the annotation of dramatic media. SEMANTIC WEb, vol. 6, p. 503-534, ISSN: 1570-0844, doi: 10.3233/SW-140156
    12. Damiano R., Gena C., Lombardo V. (2015). Leveraging social semantic components in executable environments for learning, EXPERT SYSTEMS, vol. 32, n. 2, p. 277-292, ISSN: 1468-0394, doi: 10.1111/exsy.12044
    13. Damiano R., Lombardo V., Nunnari F. (2013). Virtual agents for the production of linear animations. ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING, vol. 4, n. 3, p. 187-194, ISSN: 1875-9521, doi: 10.1016/j.entcom.2013.06.001
    14. Lombardo V., Damiano R. (2012). Semantic annotation of narrative media objects. MULTIMEDIA TOOLS and APPLICATIONS, vol. 59, p. 407-439, ISSN: 1380-7501, doi: 10.1007/s11042-011-0813-2
    15. Lombardo V., Damiano R. (2012). Storytelling on mobile devices for cultural heritage. THE NEW REVIEW OF HYPERMEDIA and MULTIMEDIA, vol. 18, p. 11-35, ISSN: 1361-4568, doi: 10.1080/13614568.2012.617846
    16. Damiano R., Gena C., Lombardo V., Nunnari F., Pizzo A. (2008). A stroll with Carletto: adaptation in drama-based tours with virtual characters. USER MODELING and USER-ADAPTED INTERACTION, vol. 18, p. 417-453, ISSN: 0924-1868, doi: 10.1007/s11257-008-9053-1

     

    Conference and workshop articles

    1. Mensa, E., Fulfaro, C., Fubini, F., Bottino, A., Antonino, R., Ferraris, E., Damiano, R. (2025). “There was a scribe, a priest and a thief”. Testing the potential of language models for the creation of curatorial narratives in an archaeological museum. In Proceedings of Digital Heritage 2025. ACM.
    2. Mensa, E., Damiano, R. (2024). From plot to prompts: a case study on interactive narratives in museums. From plot to prompts: a case study on interactive narratives in museums (2024) In Proc. of the 3rd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage, IAI4CH 2024, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3865, pp. 102-108.
    3. Damiano, R., Mattutino, C., Finocchiaro, C. and Devecchi, E. (2024) Querying Prosopographic Datasets: A Case Study on Cuneiform Persons and Sources. In: Proceedings of AVICH 2024, June 4th, 2024, Genoa, Italy.
    4. Stranisci, M.A., Bernasconi, E., Patti, V., Ferilli, S., Ceriani, M., Damiano. R. (2023). The World Literature Knowledge Graph, Proc. of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2023.
    5. Marco Antonio Stranisci, Rossana Damiano, Enrico Mensa, Viviana Patti, Daniele Paolo Radicioni, Tommaso Caselli: WikiBio: a Semantic Resource for the Intersectional Analysis of Biographical Events. Proc. of the International Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2023: 12370-12384
    6. Stranisci, M. A., Frenda, S., Ceccaldi, E., Basile, V., Damiano, R., & Patti, V. (2022). APPReddit: a Corpus of Reddit Posts Annotated for Appraisal. Proc. of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022.
    7. Urbinati, A., Burdisso, E., Capozzi Lupi, A. T. E., Mattutino, C., Vilella, S., Semeraro, A., Ruffo, G., Corti, C., De Martino, S., Devecchi, E., Scarpa, E., Torri, G., Damiano, R. Bridging Representation and Visualization in Prosopographic Research: A Case Study. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage, CEUR workshop proceedings, vol. 3286, ISSN 1613-0073, 2022 (p. 80-92)
    8. Stranisci, M.A., Patti, V., Damiano, R. Representing the Under-Represented: a Dataset of Post-Colonial, and Migrant Writers. In Proc. of the 3rd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge, LDK 2021, September 1-3, 2021, Zaragoza, Spain. 2021: 7:1-7:14.
    9. Lombardo, V., Damiano, R., Karatas, T., Mattutino, C. (2020). Linking ontological classes and archaeological forms. In Proc. of the 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Springer.
    10. Lombardo, V., Damiano, R., & Pizzo, A. (2018). Drammar: A comprehensive ontological resource on drama. Of 17th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2018, LNCS 11137, p. 103-118, Springer, ISSN: 03029743, ISBN: 978-303000667-9, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-00668-6_7
    11. Damiano, R., Lieto, A., Lombardo, V.: Testing the effectiveness of narrative archetypes for archive exploration (2017). Proc. of the 10th Int. Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT10), in Workshops of the Thirteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment: Technical Reports WS-17-18 - WS-16-20, pp. 176-183, AAAI Press, ISBN: 978-1-57735-792-6
    12. Lombardo V., Damiano R. (2016). Assessing 3D geovisualization for the communication of public art. Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP 2016, p. 314-322, Setubal (Portugal), SciTePress, ISBN: 9789897581755
    13. Damiano R., Lombardo V., Lieto A. (2015). Visual metaphors for semantic cultural heritage, Proceedings of the 2015 7th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2015. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Future Intelligent Educational Environments, p. 100-109, ISSN: 2409-0034, doi: 10.4108/icst.intetain.2015.259506
    14. Damiano R., Lombardo V., Lieto A., Borra D. (2015). Mind the red thread! 3D metaphors for cultural heritage visualization. Proc. of 2015 Digital Heritage International Congress, p. 355-358, IEEE, ISBN: 9781509000487, doi: 10.1109/DigitalHeritage.2015.7419522

    Books and Book Chapters

    1. Pizzo, A., Lombardo, V., Damiano, R. Interactive Storytelling: a Cross-media Approach to Writing, Producing and Editing with AI, Routledge 2023.

    Courses

    Modellazione Concettuale per il Web Semantico (INF0071)
    Corso di laurea magistrale in Informatica

    Research topics

    My research interests mainly concern Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage, with a focus on Semantic Web and Linked Data, Interactive Storytelling and Affective Computing.

    I am co-founder and Scientific Board member of the Content Centered Computing research group (at the Department of Computer Science), of the Research Centre on Digital Scholarship for the Humanities - DISH and of the Interdepartmental Research Center on Multimedia and Audiovisual - CIRMA

     

    Selected Workshops and Conferences

    Selected Projects and Grants (as Coordinator / Local Coordinator / Principal Investigator)

    Research groups

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