Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum
Education
- March 2002 - She received a Laurea Degree with full marks and
honors in Computer Science from the University of Bari. She discussed a thesis on "Machine learning techniques for analysis, classification and understanding of documents images". Following graduation, she kept on making research in machine learning and data mining in the Knowledge Acquisition and Machine Learning Laboratory (LACAM).
- November 2002 - She started the Ph.D. Course in Computer Science at the Department of Informatics, University of Bari, under the supervision of Prof. Malerba Donato. The topic of her thesis concerns the applications of machine learning techniques for semantic-based information retrieval.
- March 2003 - She attended the advanced course on New Frontiers Of Information Society Technologies held in Turin (Italy).
- September 2003 - She attended the advanced course on Computational
Linguistics “Statistical Methods for Natural Language Processing” held in
Venice (Italy).
- June 2004 - She attended the first International School on Advanced BioMedicine and Bioinformatics held
in Lipari (Italy).
Teaching and Tutoring
- Academic year 2002/2003 - Tutoring in the Programming Languages
course (laboratory), Laurea Degree in Informatics.
- Academic year 2003/2004 - Tutoring in the Computer Programming
course (laboratory), Laurea Degree in Informatics.
- Academic year 2003/2004 - Tutoring in the Programming Languages
course (laboratory), Laurea Degree in Informatics.
Research Projects
She is currently/has been involved in the following projects:
- COLLATE Collaboratory for Annotation,
Indexing and Retrieval of Digitized Historical Archive Material
EU Vth Framework Programme Information Society Technologies, Key Action III
(IST-1999-20882)
- IBM-1999 project on "Knowledge Management and Data Mining techniques in Bioinformatics".
- Ateneo-2003 project on "Methods of machine learning and data mining semantic based knowledge systems".
Her main research activity is in semantic-based Information Retrieval and, in particular, in the investigation of data mining and machine learning to support the semantic indexing process.
She has been working for two years to the application of machine learning to intelligent document processing.
She is interested in applications of data mining and text mining techniques to bioinformatics.
Affiliations
- 2003-present: member of the Italian Association for Artificial
Intelligence
List of Publications
- International Collections
- Ingo Frommholz, Holger Brocks, Ulrich Thiel, Erich Neuhold,Luigi Iannone, Giovanni Semeraro, Margherita Berardi, and Michelangelo Ceci. Document-centered Collaboration for Scholars in the Humanities - The COLLATE System. In: Proc, of the 7th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2003), Trondheim, Norway, August 2003.
- Donato Malerba, Michelangelo Ceci, and Margherita Berardi. XML and Knowledge Technologies for Semantic-Based Indexing of Paper Documents. In: V. Marik, W. Retschintzegger & O. Stepankova (Eds.), Database and Expert Systems Applications, (DEXA 2003), 256-265, LNCS 2736, Springer, Berlin.
- Berardi Margherita, Lapi Michele, and Malerba Donato. An integrated approach for automatic semantic structure extraction in document images. In: Proc. of the 6th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2004), Florence, Italy, September 8-10, 2004, to appear in A. Dengel & S. Marinai (Eds.).
- Berardi Margherita, Varlaro Antonio, and Malerba Donato. On the effect of caching in recursive theory learning. In: Proc. of 14th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2004). Porto, Portugal, September 6-8, 2004, to appear in A. Ashwin, R. King & R. Camacho (Eds.).
- International Conferences
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Margherita Berardi, Michelangelo Ceci, Floriana Esposito, and Donato Malerba. Learning Logic Programs for Layout Analysis Correction. In: Proc. of the 20th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2003), 27-34, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California, (USA).
- Donato Malerba, Floriana Esposito, Oronzo Altamura, Michelangelo Ceci, and Margherita Berardi.
Correcting the Document Layout: A Machine Learning Approach. In: Proc. of the 7th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2003), 97-102, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California, USA.
- International Workshops
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Margherita Berardi, Michelangelo Ceci, and Donato Malerba. Mining spatial association rules from document layout structures. In: Proc. of the 3rd Workshop on Document Layout Interpretation and its Application (DLIA 2003), 9-13, Deutsches Forschungszentrum fur Kunstliche Intelligenz, GmbH, Germany.
- Michelangelo Ceci, Margherita Berardi, and Donato Malerba. Mining association rules in document images. Workshop on Multimedia Discovery and Mining (MDM 2003) in conjunction with ECML/PKDD 2003. Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 22, 2003.
- Floriana Esposito, Donato Malerba, Giovanni Semeraro, Stefano Ferilli, Oronzo Altamura, Teresa Maria A.Basile, Margherita Berardi, Michelangelo Ceci, and Nicola Di Mauro. Machine Learning methods for automatically processing historical documents: from paper acquisition to XML transformation. Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL 2004), Palo Alto, CA, USA, January 2004.
- Margherita Berardi, Michele Lapi, Pietro Leo, Donato Malerba, Caterina Marinelli, and Gaetano Scioscia. A data mining approach to PubMed query refinement. 2nd International Workshop on Biological Data Management (BIDM 2004), in conjunction with DEXA 2004, Zaragoza, Spain, September 2, 2004.
- Margherita Berardi, Michele Lapi, Pietro Leo, Donato Malerba, Caterina Marinelli, and Gaetano Scioscia. A data mining approach for disease-genes relationship discovery in biomedical literature. KDNet Symposium on Knowledge-Based Services for the Public Sector: Knowledge-based systems and services for health care. Bonn, Germany, June 3-4, 2004.
- National Conferences
- Annalisa Appice,Margherita Berardi, Michelangelo Ceci, Michele Lapi, Donato Malerba, and Antonio Turi. Mining interesting spatial association rules: two case studies. Twelfth Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2004). S.Margherita di Pula (CAGLIARI), June 21-23, 2004.
- Antonio Varlaro, Margherita Berardi, and Donato Malerba. Improving efficiency of recursive theory learning. Convegno italiano di Logica Computazionale (CILC 2004). Parma, Italy, June 16-17, 2004.
Software
WISDOM++: An intelligent document processing system
ATRE: A machine learning system for the induction of recursive logical theories
