Here I am! I'm a PhD student at the Information Retrieval research group within the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, under supervision of Professor Keith van Rijsbergen. I graduated at University of Padua (Italy) with "summa cum laude" in Information Engineering, defending a thesis on Logical Imaging formalised in a Quantum Theory framework.

Research Interests

I am currently investigating formal models for Information Retrieval based on the formalism of Quantum Theory. In particular, I am working or I have been working, on the following topics:

Logical Imaging in a Quantum Theory framework
Subspace distance in Semantic Space
Quantum probability in Information Retrieval: model relevance dependencies with interference

I am also interested in theoretical and formal models for IR, in context modeling, especially using Quantum Theory, in evolutionary operators, and in high dimensions Vector Spaces and Semantic Spaces.

Research visit to KMi

I visited the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) of the Open University, investigating the geometry of Semantic Spaces (i.e. HAL). I had been supervised by Prof. Dawei Song (now at RGU); this collaboration led to the understanding of the geometrical behavior of Semantic Spaces and the definition of a semantic subspace distance.
My talk at KMi

News

I will present a paper titled ''The Quantum Probability Ranking Principle for Information Retrieval'' in ICTIR 2009, Cambridge (UK).