Latest Publications

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2024

Maria Soledad Pera, Federica Cena, Monica Landoni, Cataldo Musto, Alain D Starke. 2024. “Human Factors in User Modeling for Intelligent Systems”. In A Human-Centered Perspective of Intelligent Personalized Environments and Systems. Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 3-42. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-55109-3_1

Alisa Rieger, Suleiman Kulane, Ujwal Gadiraju, Maria Soledad Pera. 2024. “Disentangling Web Search on Debated Topics: A User-Centered Exploration”. In Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2024). ACM, 12 pages. DOI:10.1145/3563359.3597399

Alisa Rieger, Frank Bredius, Mariët Theune, Maria Soledad Pera. 2024. “From Potential to Practice: Intellectual Humility During Search on Debated Topics”. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2024). ACM, pp. 130-141. DOI:10.1145/3627508.3638306

Christine Pinney, Benjamin J Bettencourt, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, Katherine Landau Wright, Maria Soledad Pera. 2024. “How Readability Cues Affect Children’s Navigation of Search Engine Result Pages”. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2024). ACM, pp. 62-69. DOI:10.1145/3563359.3597399

Benjamin J Bettencourt, Maria Soledad Pera, Casey Kennington, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails. 2024. “Kid Query: Co-designing an Application to Scaffold Query Formulation”. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2024). ACM, pp. 828-833. DOI:10.1145/3563359.3597399

Joost Kruis, Maria Soledad Pera, Zoë ten Napel, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, Remco Feskens. 2024. “Toward Personalised Learning Experiences: Beyond Prompt Engineering”. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2024). ACM, pp. 644-649. DOI:10.1145/3563359.3597399

Robin Ungruh, Maria Soledad Pera. 2024. “How Readability Cues Affect Children’s Navigation of Search Engine Result Pages”. In Designing for Children’s Digital Well- being: A Research, Policy and Practice Agenda (DCDW ’24), co-located with ACM IDC 2024. DOI:10.48550/arXiv.2405.02050

Christine Pinney, Casey Kennington, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails. 2024. “Incorporating Word-level Phonemic Decoding into Readability Assessment”. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). ACL, pp. 8998–9009. DOI:2024.lrec-main.788

Alisa Rieger, Tim Draws, Nicolas Mattis, David Maxwell, David Elsweiler, Ujwal Gadiraju, Dana McKay, Alessandro Bozzon, Maria Soledad Pera. 2024. “Responsible Opinion Formation on Debated Topics in Web Search”. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024). Springer Nature Switzerland, 437-465. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-56066-8_32

Benedikt Hornig, Maria Soledad Pera, Jan Scholtes. 2024. “Misinformation in video recommendations: an exploration of top-n recommendation algorithms”. In ROMCIR 2024: The 4th Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval (held as part of ECIR 2024: the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval). Vol-3677, pp 54-67. DOI:https://romcir.disco.unimib.it/wp-content/uploads/sites/151/2024/03/Hornig-Pera-Scholtes-Misinformation-in-video-recommendations-2.pdf

Michael D Ekstrand, Lex Beattie, Maria Soledad Pera, Henriette Cramer. 2024. “Not just algorithms: Strategically addressing consumer impacts in information retrieval”. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024). Springer Nature Switzerland, 314-335. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-56066-8_25

Maria Soledad Pera, Federica Cena, Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Noemi Mauro, Emiliana Murgia. 2024. “1st Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users (IR4U2)”. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024). Springer, Cham, vol 14612. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-56069-9_55

Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera. 2024. “Good for Children, Good for All?”. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024). Springer Nature Switzerland, 302-313. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-56066-8_24

Noemi Mauro, Federica Cena, Cynthia Putnam, Maria Soledad Pera, David Roldán Álvarez. 2024. “Introduction to this special issue on intelligent systems for people with diverse cognitive abilities”. In Human–Computer Interaction. Taylor & Francis, volume 39, issue 1, 7 pages. DOI:10.1080/07370024.2023.2251969

Avishek Anand, Maria Soledad Pera, Maria Heuss, Venktesh V, Matteo Corsi. 2024. “Report on the 21st Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2023)”. In SIGIR Forum . ACM, volume 57, issue 1, 5 pages. DOI:10.1145/3642979.3643004

Garrett Allen, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, Maria Soledad Pera. 2024. “Multi-Perspective Learning to Rank to Support Children’s Information Seeking in the Classroom”. In IEEE International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT). IEEE, pp. 311-317. DOI:10.1109/WI-IAT59888.2023.00050

2023

Royal Pathak, Francesca Spezzano, Maria Soledad Pera. 2023. “Understanding the contribution of recommendation algorithms on misinformation recommendation and misinformation dissemination on social networks”. In ACM Transactions on the Web. ACM, Volume 17, Issue 4, pp. 1-26. DOI:10.1145/3616088

Angel Luis Garrido, Maria Soledad Pera, Carlos Bobed. 2023. “SJORS: A Semantic Recommender System for Journalists”. In Business & Information Systems Engineering. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, pp. 1-18. DOI:10.1007/s12599-023-00843-6

Maria Soledad Pera, Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Mohammad Aliannejadi. “Where a Little Change Makes a Big Difference: A Preliminary Exploration of Children’s Queries”. In Advances in Information Retrieval - 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023.. pp. 522-533. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-28238-6_43

Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, Maria Soledad Pera. “How does Information Pollution Challenge Children’s Right to Information Access?”. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3rd Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval, ROMCIR 2023 co-located with ECIR 2023.. pp. 17-29. DOI:https://pure.tudelft.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/154643060/paper2_jot.pdf

Mohammad Aliannejadi, Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2022. “ChatGPT in the Classroom: A Preliminary Exploration on the Feasibility of Adapting ChatGPT to Support Children’s Information Discovery”. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2023). ACM, pp. 22 - 27. DOI:10.1145/3563359.3597399

Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2023. “Children on ChatGPT Readability in an Educational Context: Myth or Opportunity?”. In IAdjunct Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2023). Online. DOI:10.1145/3563359.3596996

Benjamin Bettencourt, Assoumer Redempta Manzi Muneza, Michael Green, Samantha Anguiano, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, Katherine Landau Wright, Maria Soledad Pera. 2023. “Who are you?: Identifying Young Users from a Single Search Query”. In IAdjunct Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2023). ACM, pp. 305-310. DOI:10.1145/3563359.3596992

Beyhan, Yessin and Pera, Maria Soledad. “Covering Covers: Characterization Of Visual Elements Regarding Sleeves”. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. ACM, 2023. pp. 28-33. DOI:10.1145/3563359.3597404

Alisa Rieger, Frank Bredius, Nava Tintarev, Maria Soledad Pera. “Searching for the Whole Truth: Harnessing the Power of Intellectual Humility to Boost Better Search on Debated Topics”. In CHI 2023 - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.. AM, 8 pages. DOI:10.1145/3544549.3585693

Michael D. Ekstrand, M.S. Pera, Katherine Landau Wright. “Seeking Information with a More Knowledgeable Other”. In Interactions.. pp. 70-73. DOI:10.1145/3573364

Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Maria Soledad Pera. “Learning Technologies & AI: Who are we designing for?”. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings,Workshops at the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2023: Joint Proceedings of the IUI 2023 Workshops: HAI-GEN, ITAH, MILC, SHAI, SketchRec, SOCIALIZE co-located with the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.. pp. 250-253. DOI:https://pure.tudelft.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/150154584/paper33.pdf

Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails. “Children and Information Access: Fostering a Sense of Belonging”. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings,Workshops at the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2023: Joint Proceedings of the IUI 2023 Workshops: HAI-GEN, ITAH, MILC, SHAI, SketchRec, SOCIALIZE co-located with the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.. pp. 254-257. DOI:https://pure.tudelft.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/150154584/paper34.pdf

2022

Mohammad Aliannejadi, Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2022. “The Effect of Prolonged Exposure to Online Education on a Classroom Search Companion”. In International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages (CLEF 2022). Online. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-13643-6_5

Maria Soledad Pera, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, THeo Huibers. 2022. “Let’s Learn from Children: Scaffolding to Enable Search as Learning in the Educational Environment”. In 3rd International Workshop on Investigating Learning During Web Search (IWILDS 2022), at SIGIR 2022.

Jie Zou, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Evangelos Kanoulas, Maria Soledad Pera, and Yiqun Liu. 2022. “Users Meet Clarifying Questions: Toward a Better Understanding of User Interactions for Search Clarification”. In ACM Transactions on Information Systems. Online. DOI:10.1145/3524110

Maria Soledad Pera, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, and Jerry Alan Fails. 2022. “6th KidRec Workshop: Information Retrieval Systems for Children in the COVID-19 Era”. In Proceedings of the 21th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2022).

Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “Ethical Implications for Children’s Use of Search Tools in an Educational Setting”. In International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction- Special Issue: Ethics in CCI, Volume 32, June 2022, 100386. DOI:10.1016/j.ijcci.2021.100386.

Maria Soledad Pera, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, Jerry Alan Fails. 2022. “6th KidRec Workshop: Information Retrieval Systems for Children in the COVID-19 Era”. In proceedings of IDC ‘22: Interaction Design and Children.

Monica Landoni, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Theo Huibers, Emiliana Murgia, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2022. “Have a Clue! The Effect of Visual Cues on Children’s Search Behavior in the Classroom”. Short paper in Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR ‘22). ACM, 301-305 pp. DOI:10.1145/3498366.3505845.

Garrett Allen, Ashlee Milton, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2022. “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: Why Using the “Right” Readability Formula in Children’s Web Search Matters”. Full paper to appear in Proceedings of the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ‘22).

Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “4Report on the 1st IR for children 2000–2020: where are we now? (IR4C) workshop at SIGIR 2021: the need to spotlight research on children information retrieval”. In SIGIR Forum. Volume 55, Issue 2, December 2021, Article 11pp 1–7. DOI:10.1145/3527546.3527560.

2021

Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera, Jerry Alan Fails, Emiliana Murgia, Natalia Kucirkova, Theo Huibers. 2021. “Report on the 1st IR for children 2000–2020: where are we now? (IR4C) workshop at SIGIR 2021: the need to spotlight research on children information retrieval”. In SIGIR Forum. Volume 55, Issue 2, December 2021, Article No.: 11, pp 1–7. DOI:10.1145/3527546.3527560.

Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera, Jerry Alan Fails, Emiliana Murgia, Natalia Kucirkova, Theo Huibers. 2021. “4th KidRec - what does good look like: from design, research, and practice to policy”. In SIGIR Forum. Volume 54, Issue 2, December 2020, Article No.: 6pp 1–7. DOI:10.1145/3483382.3483391.

Himan Abdollahpouri, Toine Bogers, Bamshad Mobasher, Casper Petersen, Maria Soledad Soledad Pera. 2021. “ComplexRec 2021: Fifth Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Environments”. In Proceedings of the 15th Fifteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys’21). ACM, 775-777 pp. DOI:10.1145/3460231.3470928.

Garrett Allen, Jie Yang, Maria Soledad Pera and Ujwal Gadiraju. 2021. “Using Conversational Artificial Intelligence to Support Children’s Search in the Classroom”. Presented at CUI@CSCW ‘21 Workshop.

Mohammad Aliannejadi, Fabio Crestani, Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “The Impact of User Demographics and Task Types on Cross-App Mobile Search”. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS), pp. 223-234.

Lawrence Spear, Ashlee Milton, Garrett Allen, Amifa Raj, Michael Green, Michael D. Ekstrand, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “Baby Shark to Barracuda: Analyzing Children’s Music Listening Behavior”. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2021 Late-Breaking Results).

Anu Shrestha, Francesca Spezzano, Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “An Empirical Analysis of Collaborative Recommender Systems Robustness to Shilling Attacks”. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Online Misinformation-and Harm-Aware Recommender Systems (OHARS 2021).

Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Emiliana Murgia, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “Getting to Know You: Search Logs and Expert Grading to Define Children’s Search Roles in the Classroom”. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems (DESIRES).

Brody Downs, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails. 2021. “KidSpell: Making a difference in spellchecking for children”. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction. DOI:10.1016/j.ijcci.2021.100373.

Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Jerry Alan Fails, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “5th KidRec Workshop: Search and Recommendation Technology through the Lens of a Teacher (KidRec)”. In Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children (IDC 21). ACM, 658-661 pp. DOI:10.1145/3459990.3460655.

Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “IR for Children 2000-2020: Where Are We Now?”. In Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2021). ACM, 2689-2692 pp. DOI:10.1145/3404835.3462822.

Ashlee Milton, Garrett Allen, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “To Infinity and Beyond! Accessibility is the Future for Kids’ Search Engines”. In Proceedings of the IR for Children 2000-2020: Where Are We Now? Workshop co-located with the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

Mohammad Aliannejadi, Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “Right Way, Right Time: Towards a Better Comprehension of Young Students’ Needs when Looking for Relevant Search Results”. Short paper in Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ‘21). ACM, 95-100 pp. DOI:10.1145/3450613.3456843.

Garrett Allen, Benjamin L Peterson, Dhanush kumar Ratakonda, Mostofa Najmus Sakib, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, Katherine Landau Wright, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “Engage!: Co-designing Search Engine Result Pages to Foster Interactions”. In Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children (IDC ‘21’). ACM, pp 583-587.

Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “All Together Now: Teachers as Research Partners in the Design of Search Technology for the Classroom”. In Proceedings of the 5th International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems: Search and Recommendation Technology through the Lens of a Teacher (KidRec 2021), co-located with ACM IDC 2021.

Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Maria Soledad Pera, and Jerry Alan Fails. 2021. “5th KidRec Workshop: Search and Recommendation Technology through the Lens of a Teacher”. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2021). ACM, 658-661 pp. DOI:10.1145/3459990.3460655.

Garrett Allen, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “CASTing a Net: Supporting Teachers with Search Technology”. In Proceedings of the 5th International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems: Search and Recommendation Technology through the Lens of a Teacher (KidRec 2021), co-located with ACM IDC 2021.

Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Emiliana Murgia, Mohammad Aliannejadi, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “Somewhere over the Rainbow: Exploring the Sense for Relevance in Children”. Short paper in Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2021 (ECCE 2021). ACM, 1-5 pp. DOI:10.1145/3452853.3452885.

Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails, Katherine Landau Wright, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “Spellchecking for Children in Web Search: a Natural Language Interface Case-study”. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing. ACL, 6 pp.

Garrett Allen, Brody Downs, Aprajita Shukla, Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails, Katherine Landau Wright, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “BiG-BERT: Classifying Educational Web Resources for Kindergarten-12th Grades”. Short paper in Proceedings of the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ‘21). ACM, pp 176-184.

Mohammad Aliannejadi, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Emiliana Murgia, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “Children’s Perspective on How Emojis Help Them to Recognise Relevant Results: Do Actions Speak Louder Than Words?”. Short paper in Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR ‘21). ACM, 301-305 pp. DOI:10.1145/3406522.3446058.

Ashlee Milton, Oghenemaro Anuyah, Lawrence Spear, Katherine Landau Wright, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2020. “A Ranking Strategy to Promote Resources Supporting the Classroom Environment”. Long Paper in Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-AIT ‘20). IEEE/WIC/ACM, to appear.

2020

Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera, Jerry Alan Fails, Emiliana Murgia, Natalia Kucirkova and Theo Huibers. 2020. “4th KidRec – What does Good Look Like: From Design, Research, and Practice to Policy”. In SIGIR Forum 54, 2 (December 2020).

Ashlee Milton, Levesson Batista, Garrett Allen, Siqi Gao, Yiu-Kai D Ng, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2020. “‘Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover’: Exploring Book Traits Children Favor”. Short paper in Proceedings of the Fourteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys ’20). ACM, 6 pp. DOI:10.1145/3383313.3418490.

Ion Madrazo Azpiazu and Maria Soledad Pera. 2020. “An Analysis of Transfer Learning Methods for Multilingual Readability Assessment”. Poster paper in Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ‘20). ACM, 95-100 pp. DOI:10.1145/3386392.3397605.

Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera, Emiliana Murgia, and Theo Huibers. 2020. “Inside Out: Exploring the Emotional Side of Search Engines in the Classroom”. Long paper in Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ‘20). ACM, 95-100 pp. DOI:10.1145/3340631.3394847.

Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2020. “You’ve Got a Friend in Me: Children and Search Agents”. Poster paper in Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ‘20). ACM, 95-100 pp. DOI:10.1145/3386392.3397604.

Ashlee Milton and Maria Soledad Pera. 2020. “What Snippets Feel: Depression, Search, and Snippets”. Short paper in Proceedings of the 2020 Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe (CIRCLE ‘20). ACM, 5 pp.

Brody Downs, Aprajita Shukla, Mikey Krentz, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Casey Kennington, and Jerry Fails. 2020. “Guiding the selection of child spellchecker suggestions using audio and visual cues”. Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference. DOI:10.1145/3392063.3394390.

Michael D. Ekstrand, Katherine Landau Wright, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2020. “Enhancing Classroom Instruction with Online News”. Aslib Journal of Information Management. DOI:10.1108/AJIM-11-2019-0309.

Ashlee Milton and Maria Soledad Pera. 2020. “The Horror: Evaluating Information Retrieval Systems for Kids”. In Proceedings of the 4th International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children & Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems (KidRec 2020), co-located with ACM IDC 2020.

Ion Madrazo Azpiazu and Maria Soledad Pera. 2020. “A Framework for Hierarchical Multilingual Machine Translation”. In arXiv.

Brody Downs, Oghenemaro Anuyah, Aprajita Shukla, Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Wright, and Casey Kennington. 2020. “KidSpell: A Child-Oriented, Rule-Based, Phonetic Spellchecker”. In Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020).

2019

Oghenemaro Anuyah, Ashlee Milton, Michael Green, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2019. “An empirical analysis of search engines response to web search queries associated with the classroom setting”. In Aslib Journal of Information Management (ASLIB 2019).

Oghenemaro Anuyah, Ashlee Milton, Michael Green, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2019. “An empirical analysis of search engines’ response to web search queries associated with the classroom setting”. Aslib Journal of Information Management.

Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera, Jerry Alan Fails, Emiliana Murgia, and Natalia Kucirkova. 2019. “What does good look like? Report on the 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children & Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems (KidRec) at IDC 2019”. In SIGIR Forum 53, 2 (December 2019).

Ashlee Milton, Michael Green, Adam Keener, Joshua Ames, Michael D Ekstrand, Maria Soledad Pera. 2019. “StoryTime: eliciting preferences from children for book recommendations”. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2019 Demo Proceedings).

Ashlee Milton, Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2019. “Here, There, and Everywhere: Building a Scaffolding for Children’s Learning Through Recommendations”. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on the Impact of Recommender Systems co-located with the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (ImpactRS 2019).

Marko Tkalcic, Maria Soledad Pera. 2019. “ACM RecSys’19 late-breaking results (posters)”. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2019).

Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo W.C. Huibers, Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera. 2019. “The Seven Layers of Complexity of Recommender Systems for Children in Educational Contexts”. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios (CEUR 2019).

Monica Landoni, Davide Matteri, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2019. “Sonny, Cerca! evaluating the impact of using a vocal assistant to search at school”. In International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages (CLEF 2019).

Ion Madrazo Azpiazu and Maria Soledad Pera. 2019. “Is cross‐lingual readability assessment possible?”. In Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST 2019).

Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera, Theo Huibers. 2019. “When will the promises of search technology in the classroom come true?”. In Proceedings of the 12th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2019).

Ion Madrazo Azpiazu and Maria Soledad Pera. 2019. “Multiattentive Recurrent Neural Network Architecture for Multilingual Readability Assessment”. In Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL 2019).

Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, Oghenemaro Anuyah, Casey Kennington, Katherine Landau Wright, and William Bigirimana. 2019. “Query formulation assistance for kids: What is available, when to help & what kids want”. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2019).

Monica Landoni, Emmiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, Maria Soledad Pera. 2019. “My Name is Sonny, How May I help You Searching for Information?”. In Proceedings of the 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children & Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems (KidRec 2019), co-located with ACM IDC 2019.

Michael Green, Oghenemaro Anuyah, Devan Karsann, MS Pera. 2019. “Evaluating prediction-based recommenders for kids”. In Proceedings of the 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children & Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems (KidRec 2019), co-located with ACM IDC 2019.

Brody Downs, Tyler French, Katherine Landau Wright, Maria Soledad Pera, Casey Kennington, and Jerry Alan Fails. 2019. “Children and search tools: Evaluation remains unclear”. In Proceedings of the 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children & Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems (KidRec 2019), co-located with ACM IDC 2019.

Brody Downs, Tyler French, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Casey Kennington, and Jerry Alan Fails. 2019. “Searching for spellcheckers: What kids want, what kids need”. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2019) [Best Work–in–Progress (Poster)].

Theo Huibers, Natalia Kucirkova, Emiliana Murgia, Jerry Alan Fails, Monica Landoni, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2019. “3rd KidRec Workshop: What does good look like?”. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2019).

Oghenemaro Anuyah, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Maria Soledad Pera. 2019. “Using structured knowledge and traditional word embeddings to generate concept representations in the educational domain”. In Companion Proceedings of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference.

Oghenemaro Anuyah, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Nevena Dragovic, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2019. “Lightning Talk-Looking for the Movie Seven or Sven from the Movie Frozen?”. In Companion Proceedings of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference.

2018

Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, and Natalia Kucirkova. 2019. “Building community: Report on the 2nd international and interdisciplinary perspectives on children & recommender systems (kidrec) at IDC 2018”. In SIGIR Forum 52, 2 (December 2018).

Yiu-Kai Ng and Maria Soledad Pera. 2018. “Recommending Social-Interactive Games for Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)”. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018).

Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Micahel Green, Oghenemaro Anuyah, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2018. “Can we leverage rating patterns from traditional users to enhance recommendations for children?”. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018 Late-Breaking Results).

Anu Shresta, Francesca Spezzano, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2018. “Who is Really Affected by Fraudulent Reviews?: An analysis of shilling attacks on recommender systems in real-world scenarios”. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018 Late-Breaking Results).

Michael D. Ekstrand, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Katherine Landau Wright, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2018. “Retrieving and Recommending for the Classroom: Stakeholders, Objectives, Resources, and Users”. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios (ComplexRec 2018), at RecSys 2018.

Nevena Dragovic, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2018. “From Recommendation to Curation: When the system becomes your personal docent”. In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS 2018), co-located with ACM RecSys 2018.

Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, Natalia Kucirkova, Franca Garzotto. 2018. “International and interdisciplinary perspectives on children & recommender systems (kidrec)”. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children.

Maria Soledad Pera, Jerry Alan Fails, Mirko Gelsomini, and Franca Garzotto. 2018. “Building Community: Report on KidRec Workshop on Children and Recommender Systems at RecSys 2017”. In SIGIR Forum 52, 1 (June 2018).

Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Wright, Michael D. Ekstrand. 2018. “Recommending Texts to Children with an Expert in the Loop”. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Children & Recommender Systems (KidRec 2018), co-located with ACM IDC 2018.

Katherine Landau Wright, David McNeill, Michael D. Ekstrand, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2018. “Supplementing Classrooms Texts with Online Resources”. At the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Northwest Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association.

Katherine Landau Wright, David McNeill, Michael D. Ekstrand, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2018. “Supplementing Classrooms Texts with Online Resources”. In American Educational Research Association Conference.

Michael D. Ekstrand, Mucun Tian, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Jennifer D. Ekstrand, Oghenemaro Anuyah, David McNeill, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2018. “All The Cool Kids, How Do They Fit In?: Popularity and Demographic Biases in Recommender Evaluation and Effectiveness”. In Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAT* 2018).

2017

Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, Franca Garzotto, and Mirko Gelsomini. 2017. “KidRec: Children & Recommender Systems: Workshop Co-located with ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017)”. In Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys ’17).

Michael D. Ekstrand and Maria Soledad Pera. 2017. “The Demographics of Cool: Popularity and Recommender Performance for Different Groups of Users”. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017 Poster Proceedings).

Oghenemaro Anuyah, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, David McNeill, Maria Soledad Pera. 2017. “Can Readability Enhance Recommendations on Community Question Answering Sites?”. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017 Poster Proceedings).

Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, Franca Garzotto, Mirko Gelsomini. 2017. “KidRec: Children & recommender systems: Workshop co-located with ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017)”. In of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Recommender Systems.

Jason Hall and Sole Pera. 2017. “UBR: A Book Search–Recommender Hybrid”. In Proceedings of the 30th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2017).

Nevena Dragovic and Sole Pera. 2017. “Exploiting Reviews to Generate Personalized and Justified Recommendations to Guide Users’ Selections”. In Proceedings of the 30th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2017).

2016

Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Nevena Dragovic and Maria Soledad Pera. 2016. “Finding, understanding and learning: Making information discovery tasks useful for children and teachers”. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2016 Poster Proceedings).

Sean MacLachlan, Stacey Donohue, Nevena Dragovic and Maria Soledad Pera. 2016. “‘One Size Doesn’t Fit All’’:’ Helping Users Find Events from Multiple Perspectives”. In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism (RecTour 2016), co-located with ACM RecSys 2016 .

Nevena Dragovic and Maria Soledad Pera. 2016. “Genre prediction to inform the recommendation process”. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2016 Poster Proceedings).

Ion Madrazo Azpiazu and Maria Soledad Pera. 2016. “Is Readability a Valuable Signal for Hashtag Recommendations?”. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2016 Poster Proceedings).

Stacey Donohue, Nevena Dragovic and Maria Soledad Pera. 2016. “Anything Fun Going On?’:’ A Simple Wizard to Avoid the Cold-Start Problem for Event Recommenders”. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2016 Poster Proceedings).

Nevena Dragovic, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu and Maria Soledad Pera. 2016. “Is sven seven?’:’ A search intent module for children”. In Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2016).