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Word Embeddings Go to Italy: A Comparison of Models and Training Datasets
2015
Italian Information Retrieval Workshop
We compare two popular word representation models, word2vec and GloVe, and train them on two datasets with different stylistic properties. ...
Results show that the tested models are able to create syntactically and semantically meaningful word embeddings despite the higher morphological complexity of Italian with respect to English. ...
Word embeddings are typically obtained as the by-product of the training of a neural language model [6, 10] that learns to predict the most probable word given a set of context words. ...
dblp:conf/iir/BerardiEM15
fatcat:2lxojrl2lze7tlmvwaelnwfm5u
Covid19/IT the digital side of Covid19: A picture from Italy with clustering and taxonomy
2022
PLoS ONE
A significant contribution to their success comes from the computer science and information technology communities, both in support to other disciplines and as the primary driver of solutions for, e.g. ...
The data obtained by the survey are here reported, discussed and further investigated by Natural Language Processing techniques, to generate semantic clusters based on embedding representations of the ...
CONF-2: exploiting the word embedding model proposed by Tripodi [64] pre-trained on the Italian version of Wikipedia to ensure high coverage of terms and words included in the model; 3. ...
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0269687
pmid:35679235
pmcid:PMC9182266
fatcat:iexivylcurbfzj4p2xtlf45a4i
A Reform Strategy for Italy
[chapter]
2020
International Studies in Entrepreneurship
It boasts a vibrant entrepreneurial economy of locally embedded, often family-owned small-and medium-sized firms ...
In this chapter, we outline a reform strategy to promote an entrepreneurial society in Italy. ...
Italy still has a rather diverse and locally embedded banking system. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-662-61007-7_6
fatcat:q6zjaxsiengsxcgwzrd6l22y3y
Beyond Standards And Regulations: Obstacles To Local Open Government Data Initiatives In Italy And France
[chapter]
2017
Zenodo
Chapter 3 in the book The Social Dynamics of Open Data. ...
Acknowledgments I would like to thank all the interviewees who agreed to be part of this research, as well as all those who contributed with their insights and experience. ...
I would also like to thank the reviewers who were an invaluable help to the improvement of this paper. ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.1117803
fatcat:wcznexy7wzdb5jy5iwbwpwfwb4
Integrating Social Media into a Pan-European Flood Awareness System: A Multilingual Approach
[article]
2019
arXiv
pre-print
Then, we adopt a multi-lingual approach to find flood-related messages by employing two state-of-the-art methodologies: language-agnostic word embeddings and language-aligned word embeddings. ...
This integration allows the collection of social media data to be automatically triggered by flood risk warnings determined by a hydro-meteorological model. ...
Thanks to Gabriele Mantovani Banella and Sasa Vranic for helping in the development of web layers and web services for the integration of SMFR into the existing EFAS/GloFAS systems. ...
arXiv:1904.10876v1
fatcat:yvzbrxn6wrf23ixfvse7r5ocba
4. Relaunching Public Investment in Italy
[chapter]
2021
Open Reports Series
He received his PhD in Public Economics from the University of Pavia (Italy). ...
His main expertise is in international political economy (IPE), in particular the problem of uneven deveolopment and the new challenges posed by rising countries to the current global governance scheme ...
Public investments, which declined from 3.7% to 2.1% from 2009 to 2019, gained a slight momentum. In 2019 they went up to 2.3% of GDP. ...
doi:10.11647/obp.0280.04
fatcat:fx2zinnpnvekljbxcslr34urke
An Imperfect Contraceptive Society: Fertility and Contraception in Italy
2009
Population and Development Review
Italy represents an unexpected and in some ways paradoxical outcome in terms of fertility control: a drop to one of the lowest birth rates in the world has been accompanied by the preponderant use of " ...
Through the use of non-technological methods individuals manipulate culturally produced norms and beliefs about the appropriate moment to have a child; simultaneously, their actions are embedded in larger ...
An earlier version of this article was presented at the annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Detroit, MI, May 2009. ...
doi:10.1111/j.1728-4457.2009.00296.x
pmid:25045191
pmcid:PMC4100579
fatcat:2qlujnry4bfmljbn2chbp727ta
Eurocity London: a qualitative comparison of graduate migration from Germany, Italy and Latvia
2016
Comparative Migration Studies
This paper compares the motivations and characteristics of the recent migration to London of young-adult graduates from Germany, Italy and Latvia. ...
The dataset analysed consists of 95 in-depth biographical interviews and the paper's main objective is to tease out the narrative similarities and differences between the three groups interviewed. ...
Acknowledgements The authors thank five reviewers for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper. ...
doi:10.1186/s40878-016-0023-1
fatcat:dvwaplrgyredxjeop3yqclmuq4
The Hydrothermal System of Solfatara Crater (Campi Flegrei, Italy) Inferred From Machine Learning Algorithms
2019
Frontiers in Earth Science
Comparison between the results of K-means and self-organizing maps on the datasets with the largest number of nodes confirms that, with respect to the K-means, self-organizing maps compress the data in ...
Unsupervised integration of the three multivariate datasets allowed us to spatially correlate, with a high-degree of confidence, the geophysical anomalies recorded at the surface of the crater with those ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors thank Vincenzo di Fiore, Marceau Gresse and Jean Vandemeulebrouck for making it available the electric measurements data along the two profiles. ...
doi:10.3389/feart.2019.00286
fatcat:6ntk2mdtuzbmtagt4saaq4rjwa
Getting funded. Multi-level network of physicists in Italy
2012
Social Networks
Social Networks 30, 157-176) and analyses the local system of public funding to physics in Italy using bipartite networks. ...
independently analysed, and results are used to model the total amount of money physicists have received over the 10 years against the variables that meaningfully describe the network structure of collaborations ...
Acknowledgements I would like to thank Mark Tranmer, Johan Koskinen and Martin Everett for the helpful discussions and advices, and the two anonymous reviewers for the useful comments and suggestions. ...
doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2011.12.002
fatcat:aahnnh2sfbcnplrx2esxpulm3y
Measuring Social Capital: Official Statistics Initiatives in Italy
2013
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
A standardization of social reports in fact could be beneficial to the development of new measures and studies on SC in the perspective of the sustainable well-being. ...
The aim of this paper is to present -after a review of the theoretical literature and the main international/national measurement experiences -the latest initiatives in measuring the Social capital (SC ...
According to Coleman, the SC is not an individual resource but an attribute of social networks and social structure. SC is embedded in relations among people and it is a public good. ...
doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.02.002
fatcat:gsmckbqvwzgjhimmpxbyt32n24
Social origins, geographical mobility and occupational attainment in contemporary Italy
2021
Genus
Third, it studies whether the effects of geographical mobility change according to social class of origin and geographical area of origin.Our analyses, based on linear probability panel models with fixed ...
effects, show a strong gender divide concerning the probability of employment and avoidance of the working class. ...
Availability of data and materials The datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are not publicly available
Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ...
doi:10.1186/s41118-020-00112-4
fatcat:kuctp6jzqfejlpm6gursuqyt4i
Migrating Alone, Living Together Reframing Unaccompanied Minors in Italy across Local Bologna Policies and Citizenship
[chapter]
2021
Società e trasformazioni sociali
Of the many formulas and practices involved in minor migrant reception, the analysis focuses on a shared housing project in Bologna called Vesta in which young migrants about to reach the age of majority ...
This paper discusses reception practices for unaccompanied minors in Italy by juxtaposing legislative changes, ideas about and social representations of the condition of minors, contingent events such ...
In other words, the 'Bologna model' narrative that even local institutions hold up as a point of pride appears to be a misappropriation of bottom-up efforts. ...
doi:10.30687/978-88-6969-532-2/006
fatcat:o47myrn7yrch5ibk53fmke3phy
Double Time-Bind in Paid Domestic Work: (Migrant) Workers and Their Employers in Italy and Poland
2018
Kultura i Spoleczenstwo
This paper puts forward a two-sided approach to late capitalist time regimes in paid household work by comparing the experience of time of domestic workers and domestic employers. ...
Second, the experience of time of professionally active domestic employers, who in turn are pressured in their professional lives and employ domestic workers to meet these demands, is examined. ...
Moldovan migration to Italy is a recent phenomenon, which began around 20 years ago and steadily grew in scale, making Italy the main EU destina-Marie Curie Action Initial Training Networks (ITN) and is ...
doi:10.35757/kis.2018.62.4.2
fatcat:ouxc73ghzzda3k2fewsfdtlnvi
Distributive/integrative negotiation strategies in cross-cultural contexts: a comparative study of the USA and Italy
2021
Journal of Management & Organization
Adopting a cross-cultural view, we analyze a sample of 214 foreigners who detailed the negotiation behavior they faced in Italy (134) and in the United States (80). ...
Our findings show how the Country is a predictor for cluster membership, and peculiar cultural traits of the two groups contribute to explain the differences in negotiation strategies. ...
Results are available upon request. 12 https://www.hofstede-insights.com/country-comparison/italy/. 13 Data on positional rankings of Italy and USA on the Hofstede's cultural dimensions are reported ...
doi:10.1017/jmo.2020.47
fatcat:6e4danrboje3ddx7r6muua6zpu
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