Extreme Food Risk Analytics

Project Information

EFRA

Grant agreement ID: 101093026

DOI

10.3030/101093026

Project closed

EC signature date 17 November 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 4 833 797,50

EU contribution

€ 4 833 797,50

Coordinated by

AGROKNOW IKE
Greece

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Publications

Conference proceedings (30)

BitsAndBites at SemEval-2025 Task 9: Improving Food Hazard Detection with Sequential Multitask Learning and Large Language Models

Author(s): Aurora Gensale, Irene Benedetto, Luca Gioacchini, Luca Cagliero, and Alessio Bosca.
Published in: Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), pages 718–725,, 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics.

Power- and Fragmentation-aware Online Scheduling for GPU Datacenters

Author(s): Francesco Lettich, Emanuele Carlini, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Salvatore Trani
Published in: """The 25th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing"""
Publisher: Zenodo

Learning to Rank for Non Independent and Identically Distributed Datasets

Author(s): Jacopo Cecchetti; Nicola Tonellotto; Raffaele Perego 0001
Published in: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2024
DOI: 10.1145/3664190.3672513

Can Embeddings Analysis Explain Large Language Model Ranking?

Author(s): Claudio Lucchese, Giorgia Minello, Franco Maria Nardini, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Alberto Veneri
Published in: ACM CIKM 2023, 2023, ISBN 979-8-4007-0124-5
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3583780.3615225

Efficient Multi-vector Dense Retrieval with Bit Vectors

Author(s): Franco Maria Nardini & Cosimo Rulli
Published in: ECIR 2024, 2024, ISBN 978-3-031-56060-6
Publisher: ECIR 2024
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-56060-6_1

Computing the Why-Provenance for Datalog Queries via SAT Solvers

Author(s): Calautti M.; Livshits E.; Pieris A.; Schneider M.
Published in: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024
Publisher: AAAI Press
DOI: 10.1609/AAAI.V38I9.28914

Survival Analysis as a Risk Stratification Tool for Threshold Exceedance Forecasting

Author(s): George Marinos, Manos Karvounis, Ioannis Athanasiadis
Published in: Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, 2023, ISSN 2184-3228
Publisher: SciTePress
DOI: 10.5220/0012234700003598

Towards Robust Expert Finding in Community Question Answering Platforms

Author(s): Amendola, M., Passarella, A., Perego, R.
Published in: ECIR 2024, 2024, ISBN 978-3-031-56069-9
Publisher: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-56069-9_12

Pairing Clustered Inverted Indexes with κ-NN Graphs for Fast Approximate Retrieval over Learned Sparse Representations

Author(s): Sebastian Bruch 0001; Franco Maria Nardini; Cosimo Rulli; Rossano Venturini
Published in: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2408.04443

DESIRE-ME: Domain-Enhanced Supervised Information Retrieval Using Mixture-of-Experts

Author(s): Kasela, P., Pasi, G., Perego, R., Tonellotto, N.
Published in: ECIR 2024, 2024, ISBN 978-3-031-56060-6
Publisher: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-56060-6_8

Efficient Inverted Indexes for Approximate Retrieval over Learned Sparse Representations

Author(s): Sebastian Bruch 0001; Franco Maria Nardini; Cosimo Rulli; Rossano Venturini
Published in: Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2404.18812

The mod-minimizer: a simple and efficient sampling algorithm for long<i>k</i>-mers

Author(s): Ragnar Groot Koerkamp; Giulio Ermanno Pibiri
Published in: 24th International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI 2024), 2024
Publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
DOI: 10.3929/ETHZ-B-000694344

Named Entity Recognition using context similarity data augmentation.

Author(s): Ilaria Bartolini; Angelo Chianese; Vincenzo Moscato; Marco Postiglione; Giancarlo Sperlí; Andrea Vignali
Published in: 2024
Publisher: CEUR

SE-PEF: a Resource for Personalized Expert Finding

Author(s): Pranav Kasela, Gabriella Pasi, Raffaele Perego
Published in: ACM SIGIR AP, 2023, ISBN 979-8-4007-0408-6
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3624918.3625335

A Learning-to-Rank Formulation of Clustering-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search

Author(s): Thomas Vecchiato, Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini, Sebastian Bruch
Published in: Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3626772.3657931

A Geometric Framework for Query Performance Prediction in Conversational Search

Author(s): Guglielmo Faggioli, Nicola Ferro, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto
Published in: ACM SIGIR 2023, 2023, ISBN 978-1-4503-9408-6
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3539618.3591625

Dimension Importance Estimation for Dense Information Retrieval

Author(s): Guglielmo Faggioli, Nicola Ferro, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto
Published in: Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3626772.3657691

FoodSafeSum: Enabling Natural Language Processing Applications for Food Safety Document Summarization and Analysis

Author(s): Juli Bakagianni, Korbinian Randl, Guido Rocchietti, Cosimo Rulli, Franco Maria Nardini, Salvatore Trani, Aron Henriksson, Anna Romanova, John Pavlopoulos
Published in: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2025.FINDINGS-EMNLP.911

Post-hoc Selection of Pareto-Optimal Solutions in Search and Recommendation

Author(s): Vincenzo Paparella, Vito Walter Anelli, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Tommaso Di Noia
Published in: ACM CIKM 2023, 2023, ISBN 979-8-4007-0124-5
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3583780.3615010

CAMEO: Fostering Joint Conversational Search and Recommendation.

Author(s): Di Noia T.; Faggioli G.; Ferrante M.; Ferro N.; Narducci F.; Perego R.; Santucci G.
Published in: 2024
Publisher: CEUR

Efficient and Effective Multi-Vector Dense Retrieval with EMVB.

Author(s): Nardini F. M.; Rulli C.; Venturini R.
Published in: Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems, 2024
Publisher: ACM

PHOBIC: Perfect Hashing With Optimized Bucket Sizes and Interleaved Coding

Author(s): Stefan Hermann; Hans-Peter Lehmann; Giulio Ermanno Pibiri; Peter Sanders 0001; Stefan Walzer
Published in: 2024
Publisher: KIT
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2404.18497

SemEval-2025 Task 9: The Food Hazard Detection Challenge

Author(s): Korbinian Randl; John Pavlopoulos; Aron Henriksson; Tony Lindgren; Juli Bakagianni
Published in: Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), 2025
Publisher: ACL ANTHOLOGY

Rewriting Conversational Utterances with Instructed Large Language Models

Author(s): Elnara Galimzhanova, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Guido Rocchietti
Published in: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT), 2023, ISBN 979-8-3503-0918-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2410.07797

Commonsense injection in Conversational Systems: An adaptable framework for query expansion

Author(s): Guido Rocchietti, Ophir Frieder, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego
Published in: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT), 2023, ISBN 979-8-3503-0918-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WI-IAT59888.2023.00013

ReNeuIR at SIGIR 2024: The Third Workshop on Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval

Author(s): Maik Fröbe; Joel Mackenzie; Bhaskar Mitra 0001; Franco Maria Nardini; Martin Potthast
Published in: Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3626772.3657994

LR2: A Legal RAG for Legal Reasoning over Cases

Author(s): Irene Benedetto, Luca Cagliero, Francesco Tarasconi
Published in: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, 2025
Publisher: IOS Press
DOI: 10.3233/FAIA251614

BrightCookies at SemEval-2025 Task 9: Exploring Data Augmentation for Food Hazard Classification

Author(s): Foteini Papadopoulou, Osman Mutlu, Neris Özen, Bas Van Der Velden, Iris Hendrickx, and Ali Hurriyetoglu
Published in: Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2025), 2025
Publisher: ACL ANTHOLOGY

CICLe: Conformal In-Context Learning for Largescale Multi-Class Food Risk Classification

Author(s): Korbinian Randl; John Pavlopoulos; Aron Henriksson; Tony Lindgren
Published in: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, 2024
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2403.11904

Beyond the Veil of Similarity: Quantifying Semantic Continuity in Explainable AI

Author(s): Qi Huang, Emanuele Mezzi, Osman Mutlu, Miltiadis Kofinas, Vidya Prasad, Shadnan Azwad Khan, Elena Ranguelova, Niki van Stein
Published in: Communications in Computer and Information Science, Explainable Artificial Intelligence, 2024
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-63787-2_16

Peer reviewed articles (26)

Locality-preserving minimal perfect hashing of <i>k</i>-mers

Author(s): Giulio Ermanno Pibiri, Yoshihiro Shibuya, Antoine Limasset
Published in: Bioinformatics, Issue 39, 2023, ISSN 1367-4803
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2210.13097

Bridging Dense and Sparse Maximum Inner Product Search

Author(s): Sebastian Bruch, Franco Maria Nardini, Amir Ingber, Edo Liberty
Published in: ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Issue 42, 2024, ISSN 1046-8188
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2309.09013

What Lies Behind Mycotoxin Presence in Animal Feed? A Case Study☆

Author(s): Maria-Eleni Dimitrakopoulou, George Marinos, Manos Karvounis, Giannis Stoitsis, Nikolaos Manouselis, Charalampos Thanopoulos, Chris Elliott
Published in: Journal of Food Protection, Issue 88, 2025, ISSN 0362-028X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JFP.2025.100464

Leveraging Topic Specificity and Social Relationships for Expert Finding in Community Question Answering Platforms

Author(s): Amendola, Maddalena; Passarella, Andrea; Perego, Raffaele
Published in: ACM Transactions on Information Systems, ISSN 1046-8188
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2407.04018

Automotive fault nowcasting with machine learning and natural language processing

Author(s): John Pavlopoulos, Alv Romell, Jacob Curman, Olof Steinert, Tony Lindgren, Markus Borg, Korbinian Randl
Published in: Machine Learning, Issue 113, 2023, ISSN 0885-6125
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S10994-023-06398-7

The open-closed mod-minimizer algorithm

Author(s): Ragnar Groot Koerkamp, Daniel Liu, Giulio Ermanno Pibiri
Published in: Algorithms for Molecular Biology, Issue 20, 2025, ISSN 1748-7188
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.02.621600

Federated learning in food research

Author(s): Zuzanna Fendor; Bas H.M. van der Velden; Xinxin Wang; Andrea Jr. Carnoli; Osman Mutlu; Ali Hürriyetoğlu
Published in: Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 2025, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2406.06202

Learning bivariate scoring functions for ranking

Author(s): Nardini F. M.; Trani R.; Venturini R.
Published in: Discover Computing, Issue Vol. 27, 2024, ISSN 2948-2992
Publisher: SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/S10791-024-09444-7

An Optimal Algorithm for Finding Champions in Tournament Graphs

Author(s): Beretta L., Nardini F. M., Trani R., Venturini R.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Issue Vol. 35, Issue: 10, 2023, ISSN 1041-4347
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2023.3267345

Neural network compression using binarization and few full-precision weights

Author(s): Franco Maria Nardini; Cosimo Rulli; Salvatore Trani; Rossano Venturini
Published in: Information Sciences, Issue Vol. 716, 2024, ISSN 1872-6291
Publisher: ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.4927691

Comprehensive analysis of PFAS presence from environment to plate

Author(s): Maria-Eleni Dimitrakopoulou; Manos Karvounis; George Marinos; Zacharoula Theodorakopoulou; Eleni Aloizou; George Petsangourakis; Mihalis Papakonstantinou; Giannis Stoitsis
Published in: npj Science of Food, 2024, ISSN 2396-8370
Publisher: SPRINGER Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41538-024-00319-1

Explainable, Effective, and Efficient Learning-to-Rank Models Using ILMART

Author(s): Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Alberto Veneri
Published in: ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Issue 43, 2025, ISSN 1046-8188
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
DOI: 10.1145/3733232

Efficient Multi-Vector Dense Retrieval Using Bit Vectors

Author(s): Franco Maria Nardini; Cosimo Rulli; Rossano Venturini
Published in: European Conference on Information Retrieval, Issue Vol. 14609, 2024, ISSN 1611-3349
Publisher: SPRINGER
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2404.02805

Early Exit Strategies for Learning-to-Rank Cascades

Author(s): Francesco Busolin, Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Salvatore Trani
Published in: IEEE ACCESS, Issue Vol. 11, 2023, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3331088

Meta-colored Compacted de Bruijn Graphs

Author(s): Giulio Ermanno Pibiri, Jason Fan, Rob Patro
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2023, ISSN 2692-8205
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.21.550101V2.FULL

Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Deep Learning in Food: Challenges and Opportunities for Food Systems

Author(s): Osman Mutlu, Bas H.M. van der Velden, Ali Hurriyetoglu, and Anna Fensel
Published in: Nature Food, 2025, ISSN 2693-5015
Publisher: Research Square
DOI: 10.21203/RS.3.RS-7289201/V1

Distilled Neural Networks for Efficient Learning to Rank

Author(s): Franco Maria Nardini, Cosimo Rulli, Salvatore Trani, Rossano Venturini
Published in: IEEE TKDE, Issue Vol. 35, Issue: 5, 2024, ISSN 1558-2191
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2022.3152585

Mind the gap: from plausible to valid self-explanations in large language models

Author(s): Korbinian Randl, John Pavlopoulos, Aron Henriksson, Tony Lindgren
Published in: Machine Learning, Issue 114, 2025, ISSN 0885-6125
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S10994-025-06838-6

Fulgor: a fast and compact k-mer index for large-scale matching and color queries

Author(s): Jason Fan, Jamshed Khan, Noor Pratap Singh, Giulio Ermanno Pibiri, Rob Patro
Published in: Algorithms for Molecular Biology, Issue 19, 2024, ISSN 1748-7188
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/S13015-024-00251-9

On weighted k-mer dictionaries

Author(s): Giulio Ermanno Pibiri
Published in: Algorithms for Molecular Biology, Issue 18, 2023, ISSN 1748-7188
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.21203/RS.3.RS-2755997/V1

Where the Patterns Are: Repetition-Aware Compression for Colored de Bruijn Graphs

Author(s): Alessio Campanelli, Giulio Ermanno Pibiri, Jason Fan, Rob Patro
Published in: Journal of Computational Biology, ISSN 2692-8205
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2024.07.09.602727V1.FULL

Caching Historical Embeddings in Conversational Search

Author(s): Ophir Frieder, Ida Mele, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto
Published in: ACM Transactions on the Web, Issue 18, 2024, ISSN 1559-1131
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2211.14155

ChatGPT Versus Modest Large Language Models: An Extensive Study on Benefits and Drawbacks for Conversational Search

Author(s): Guido Rocchietti, Cosimo Rulli, Franco Maria Nardini, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Raffaele Perego, Ophir Frieder
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 13, 2025, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3529741

Early Exit Strategies for Approximate <i>k</i> -NN Search in Dense Retrieval

Author(s): Francesco Busolin; Claudio Lucchese; Franco Maria Nardini; Salvatore Orlando; Raffaele Perego; Salvatore Trani
Published in: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2024, ISSN 2155-0751
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2408.04981

Food safety trends across Europe: insights from the 392-million-entry CompreHensive European Food Safety (CHEFS) database

Author(s): Nehir Kızılilsoley, Floor van Meer, Osman Mutlu, Wouter Hoenderdaal, Rosan Hobé, Wenjuan Mu, Arjen Gerssen, H.J. van der Fels-Klerx, Ákos Jóźwiak, Ioannis Manikas, Ali Hürriyetoglu, Bas van der Velden
Published in: Food Control, Issue 182, 2025, ISSN 0956-7135
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.FOODCONT.2025.111816

Matchtigs: minimum plain text representation of kmer sets

Author(s): Sebastian Schmidt; Shahbaz Khan; Jarno N. Alanko; Giulio E. Pibiri; Alexandru I. Tomescu
Published in: Genome Biology, Issue Vol.24, 2023, ISSN 1465-6906
Publisher: SPRINGER nature
DOI: 10.1101/2021.12.15.472871

Book chapters (3)

Efficient and Effective Tree-based and Neural Learning to Rank

Author(s): Sebastian Bruch, Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini
Published in: Foundations and Trends® in Information Retrieval, Issue Vol. 17: No. 1, 2023, ISBN 978-1-63828-198-6
Publisher: Now Publishers
DOI: 10.1561/1500000071

Evaluating the Reliability of Self-explanations in Large Language Models

Author(s): Korbinian Randl, John Pavlopoulos, Aron Henriksson, Tony Lindgren
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Discovery Science, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2407.14487

Explainable AI: current status and future potential

Author(s): Bas H. M. van der Velden
Published in: European Journal of Radiology, Issue Vol. 34, 2023, ISSN 2024-2024
Publisher: European Radiology
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-023-10121-4

Other (2)

Enhancing Conversational Search with Large Language Models

Author(s): Guido Rocchietti, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini
Published in: ERCIM News, Issue Vol. 136, 2024
Publisher: ERCIM EEIG

Project Management Handbook

Author(s): Thanopoulos Babis
Publisher: Zenodo