7 code implementations • 8 Jul 2019 • Luca Pappalardo, Gianni Barlacchi, Filippo Simini, Roberto Pellungrini
The last decade has witnessed the emergence of massive mobility data sets, such as tracks generated by GPS devices, call detail records, and geo-tagged posts from social media platforms.
Physics and Society
1 code implementation • 4 Dec 2020 • Massimiliano Luca, Gianni Barlacchi, Bruno Lepri, Luca Pappalardo
The study of human mobility is crucial due to its impact on several aspects of our society, such as disease spreading, urban planning, well-being, pollution, and more.
1 code implementation • 1 Dec 2020 • Filippo Simini, Gianni Barlacchi, Massimiliano Luca, Luca Pappalardo
The movements of individuals within and among cities influence critical aspects of our society, such as well-being, the spreading of epidemics, and the quality of the environment.
1 code implementation • 7 Mar 2022 • Massimiliano Luca, Luca Pappalardo, Bruno Lepri, Gianni Barlacchi
Next-location prediction, consisting of forecasting a user's location given their historical trajectories, has important implications in several fields, such as urban planning, geo-marketing, and disease spreading.
no code implementations • 21 Jul 2018 • Alberto Rossi, Gianni Barlacchi, Monica Bianchini, Bruno Lepri
In this paper, we study how to model taxi drivers' behaviour and geographical information for an interesting and challenging task: the next destination prediction in a taxi journey.
no code implementations • NLP4ConvAI (ACL) 2022 • Marco del Tredici, Xiaoyu Shen, Gianni Barlacchi, Bill Byrne, Adrià De Gispert
In conversational QA, models have to leverage information in previous turns to answer upcoming questions.
no code implementations • ECNLP (ACL) 2022 • Xiaoyu Shen, Gianni Barlacchi, Marco del Tredici, Weiwei Cheng, Bill Byrne, Adrià Gispert
In this paper, we build a benchmark with annotations for both evidence selection and answer generation covering 6 information sources.
no code implementations • ECNLP (ACL) 2022 • Xiaoyu Shen, Gianni Barlacchi, Marco del Tredici, Weiwei Cheng, Adrià Gispert
To fill in this blank, here we study how to effectively incorporate semi-structured answer sources for PQA and focus on presenting answers in a natural, fluent sentence.
no code implementations • 5 Aug 2022 • Xiaoyu Shen, Svitlana Vakulenko, Marco del Tredici, Gianni Barlacchi, Bill Byrne, Adrià De Gispert
Dense retrieval (DR) approaches based on powerful pre-trained language models (PLMs) achieved significant advances and have become a key component for modern open-domain question-answering systems.
no code implementations • 23 Oct 2023 • Andrei C. Coman, Gianni Barlacchi, Adrià De Gispert
Unlike the Open Domain Question Answering (ODQA) setting, the conversational (ODConvQA) domain has received limited attention when it comes to reevaluating baselines for both efficiency and effectiveness.
Conversational Question Answering Open-Domain Question Answering +2