I lead the KMi's Intelligent Systems and Data Science research group, which carries out research in a variety of areas relevant to the development of user-centric, intelligent, data-intensive solutions, including Data Science, Semantic Web Technologies, Visual Analytics, Robotics, Large-Scale Data Infrastructures, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction and others. Application domains include (but are not limited to) Smart Cities, News Analytics, Scholarly Data and...

Keys: Knowledge Technologies, Semantic Technologies, Semantic Web, Smart Cities, Big Data, Visual Analytics, Scholarly Data, Problem Solving Methods

Meloni, A., Recupero, D., Osborne, F., Salatino, A., Motta, E., Vahadati, S. and Lehmann, J. (2025) Assessing Large Language Models for SPARQL Query Generation in Scientific Question Answering, ISWC 2024 Special Session on Harmonising Generative AI and Semantic Web Technologies,, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Salatino, A., Aggarwal, T., Mannocci, A., Osborne, F. and Motta, E. (2025) A Survey on Knowledge Organization Systems of Research Fields: Resources and Challenges, Quantitative Science Studies, pp. (early access), MIT Press

Borrego, A., Dessì, D., Ayala, D., Hernández, I., Osborne, F., Recupero, D., Buscaldi, D., Ruiz, D. and Motta, E. (2025) Research hypothesis generation over scientific knowledge graphs, Knowledge-Based Systems, pp. (Early access), Elsevier

Presutti, V., Motta, E. and Sabou, M. (2025) Opportunities for Knowledge Graphs in the AI landscape - An application-centric perspective, Journal of Web Semantics, Elsevier

Motta, E., Daga, E., Gangemi, A., Gjelsvik, M., Osborne, F. and Salatino, A. (2025) The Epistemology of Fine-Grained News Classification, Semantic Web Journal, 16, pp. 1-26, SAGE Publications

Dessí, D., Osborne, F., Buscaldi, D., Recupero, D. and Motta, E. (2025) CS-KG 2.0: A Large-scale Knowledge Graph of Computer Science, Scientific Data, 12, Nature Publishing Group UK

Motta, E., Osborne, F., Pulici, M., Salatino, A. and Naja, I. (2024) Capturing the Viewpoint Dynamics in the News Domain, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW-24), Amsterdam, Netherlands

Pisu, A., Pompianu, L., Salatino, A., Osborne, F., Riboni, D., Motta, E. and Recupero, D. (2024) Classifying Scientific Topic Relationships with SciBERT, Joint Proc. of Posters, Demos, Workshops, and Tutorials of the 20th Int.l Conf. on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS 2024), Amsterdam

Cadeddu, A., Chessa, A., Leo, V., Fenu, G., Motta, E., Osborne, F., Recupero, D., Salatino, A. and Secchi, L. (2024) Optimizing Tourism Accommodation Offers by Integrating Language Models and Knowledge Graph Technologies, Information, 15

Cadeddu, A., Chessa, A., Leo, V., Fenu, G., Motta, E., Osborne, F., Recupero, D., Salatino, A. and Secchi, L. (2024) A comparative analysis of knowledge injection strategies for large language models in the scholarly domain, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 133, Elsevier

Lehmann, J., Meloni, A., Motta, E., Osborne, F., Recupero, D., Salatino, A.A. and Vahdati, S. (2024) Large Language Models for Scientific Question Answering: An Extensive Analysis of the SciQA Benchmark, ESWC 2024, Hersonissos, Greece

Beetz, M., Cimiano, P., Kümpel, M., Motta, E., Tiddi, I. and Töberg, J. (2024) Transforming Web Knowledge into Actionable Knowledge Graphs for Robot Manipulation Tasks, ESWC 2024 Workshops and Tutorials Joint Proceedings, Heraklion, Greece

Innominato, P., Macdonald, J., Saxton, W., Longshaw, L., Granger, R., Naja, I., Alloca, C., Edwards, R., Rasheed, S., Folkvord, F., Batlle, J., Ail, R., Motta, E., Bale, C., Fuller, C., Mullard, A., Subbe, C., Griffiths, D., Wreglesworth, N., Pecchia, L., Fico, G. and Antonini, A. (2024) Digital Remote Monitoring Using an mHealth Solution for Survivors of Cancer: Protocol for a Pilot Observational Study, 13, pp. (Early access)

Bolanos Burgos, F., Salatino, A., Osborne, F. and Motta, E. (2024) Artificial intelligence for literature reviews: opportunities and challenges, Artificial Intelligence Review, 57, Springer Netherlands

Pisu, A., Pompianu, L., Salatino, A., Osborne, F., Riboni, D., Motta, E. and Recupero, D. (2024) Leveraging Language Models for Generating Ontologies of Research Topics, Text2KG 2024: International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Generation from Text, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece

Aggarwal, T., Salatino, A., Osborne, F. and Motta, E. (2024) Identifying Semantic Relationships Between Research Topics Using Large Language Models in a Zero-Shot Learning Setting, 4th International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge: Representation, Discovery, and Assessment, Sci-K 2024, Baltimore

Innominato, P., Macdonald, J., Saxton, W., Longshaw, L., Granger, R., Naja, I., Allocca, C., Edwards, R., Rasheed, S., Folkvord, F., Batle, J., Ail, R., Motta, E., Bale, C., Fuller, C., Mullard, A., Subbe, C., Griffiths, D., Wreglesworth, N., Pecchia, L., Fico, G. and Antonini, A. (2024) Digital remote monitoring using a mobile health solution in cancer survivors: an observational pilot trial protocol, 12

Leo, V., Fenu, G., Greco, D., Bidotti, N., Platter, P., Motta, E., Nuzzolese, A., Osborne, F. and Recupero, D. (2023) Ontology-Based Generation of Data Platform Assets, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), Sorrento, Italy

Meloni, A., Angioni, S., Salatino, A., Osborne, F., Birukou, A., Recupero, D. and Motta, E. (2023) AIDA-Bot 2.0: Enhancing Conversational Agents with Knowledge Graphs for Analysing the Research Landscape The Semantic Web - ISWC 2023, eds. Terry R., et al Payne, 14265, Springer Cham

Cadeddu, A., Chessa, A., Leo, V., Fenu, G., Motta, E., Osborne, F., Recupero, D., Salatino, A. and Secchi, L. (2023) Leveraging Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models for Classification Tasks in the Tourism Domain, Deep Learning for Knowledge Graphs 2023, Athens

Cadeddu, A., Chessa, A., Leo, V., Fenu, G., Motta, E., Osborne, F., Recupero, D., Salatino, A. and Secchi, L. (2023) Enhancing Scholarly Understanding: A Comparison of Knowledge Injection Strategies in Large Language Models, Deep Learning for Knowledge Graphs 2023, Athens

Buscaldi, D., Dessí, D., Motta, E., Murgia, M., Osborne, F. and Recupero, D. (2023) Citation prediction by leveraging transformers and natural language processing heuristics, Information Processing & Management, 61, Elsevier

Larasati, R., De Liddo, A. and Motta, E. (2023) Meaningful Explanation Effect on User's Trust in an AI Medical System: Designing Explanations for Non-Expert Users, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, pp. (Early Access)

Chessa, A., Fenu, G., Motta, E., Osborne, F., Recupero, D., Salatino, A.A. and Secchi, L. (2023) Data-Driven Methodology for Knowledge Graph Generation Within the Tourism Domain, IEEE Access, 11, pp. 67567-67599, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

, a., Bardaro, G., Matteucci, M. and Motta, E. (2023) Visual Model Building for Robot Sensemaking: Perspectives, Challenges, and Opportunities, Bridge Session on AI and Robotics of the thirty-seventh AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-23), Washington DC, USA

Meloni, A., Angioni, S., Salatino, A.A., Osborne, F., Recupero, D. and Motta, E. (2023) Integrating Conversational Agents and Knowledge Graphs Within the Scholarly Domain, IEEE Access, 11, pp. 22468-22489, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Opdahl, A., Tessem, B., Dang-Nguyen, D., Motta, E., Setty, V., Throndsen, E., Tverberg, A. and Trattner, C. (2023) Trustworthy journalism through AI, Data & Knowledge Engineering, pp. (Early access)

Larasati, R., De Liddo, A. and Motta, E. (2023) Human and AI Trust: Trust Attitude Measurement Instrument Development, Workshop on Trust and Reliance in AI-Assisted Tasks (TRAIT) at CHI 2023, Hamburg, Germany

Angioni, S., Salatino, A.A., Osborne, F., Birukou, A., Recupero, D. and Motta, E. (2022) Leveraging Knowledge Graph Technologies to Assess Journals and Conferences at Springer Nature, 21st International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2022, Hangzhou, China

Dessí, D., Osborne, F., Recupero, D., Buscaldi, D. and Motta, E. (2022) CS-KG: A Large-Scale Knowledge Graph of Research Entities and Claims in Computer Science, ISWC, Online

, a., Daga, E. and Motta, E. (2022) Towards a Knowledge Graph of Health Evolution, 23rd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Dessí, D., Osborne, F., Recupero, D., Buscaldi, D. and Motta, E. (2022) SCICERO: A deep learning and NLP approach for generating scientific knowledge graphs in the computer science domain, Knowledge-Based Systems, Elsevier

, a., Bardaro, G., Motta, E. and Daga, E. (2022) A Spatial Reasoning Framework for Commonsense Reasoning in Visually Intelligent Agents, Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition (AIC 2022), Örebro, Sweden

Angioni, S., Salatino, A.A., Osborne, F., Recupero, D. and Motta, E. (2022) AIDA: a Knowledge Graph about Research Dynamics in Academia and Industry, Quantitative Science Studies, pp. (In Press)

Allocca, C., Jilali, S., Ail, R., Lee, J., Kim, B., Antonini, A., Motta, E., Schellong, J., Stieler, L., Haleem, M., Georga, E., Pecchia, L., Gaeta, E. and Fico, G. (2022) Toward a Symbolic AI Approach to the WHO/ACSM Physical Activity Sedentary Behavior Guideline, Applied Sciences, 12, MDPI

, a., Motta, E. and Daga, E. (2022) Robots with Commonsense: Improving Object Recognition through Size and Spatial Awareness, Workshop: the 2022 AAAI Spring Symposium on Machine Learning and Knowledge Engineering for Hybrid Intelligence (AAAI-MAKE 2022), CEUR

Bardaro, G., Daga, E., Carvalho, J., , a. and Motta, E. (2022) Introducing a Smart City Component in a Robotic Competition: A Field Report, 9, Frontiers Media S.A.

Angioni, S., Salatino, A.A., Osborne, F., Recupero, D. and Motta, E. (2022) The AIDA Dashboard: a Web Application for Assessing and Comparing Scientific Conferences, IEEE Access, pp. (In press)

, a., Daga, E. and Motta, E. (2022) CONRAD - Health Condition Radar: an Intelligent System for Emergency Support, Proceedings of 5th Workshop on Semantic Web solutions for large-scale biomedical data analytics co-event with The ESWC 2022: Extended Semantic Web Conference, Hersonissos, Greece

, a., Daga, E. and Motta, E. (2022) HECON: Health Condition Evolution Ontology, Proceedings of 5th Workshop on Semantic Web solutions for large-scale biomedical data analytics co-event with The ESWC 2022: Extended Semantic Web Conference, Hersonissos, Greece

Chessa, A., Fenu, G., Motta, E., Recupero, D., Osborne, F., Salatino, A.A. and Secchi, L. (2022) Enriching Data Lakes with Knowledge Graphs, Knowledge Graph Generation from Text Workshop, Creete, Greece

Aggarwal, T., Salatino, A.A., Osborne, F. and Motta, E. (2022) R-classify: Extracting research papers' relevant concepts from a controlled vocabulary, Software Impacts, 14

Borrego, A., Dessi, D., Hernandez, I., Osborne, F., Recupero, D., Ruiz, D., Buscaldi, D. and Motta, E. (2022) Completing Scientific Facts in Knowledge Graphs of Research Concepts, IEEE Access, pp. (Early Access), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Allocca, C., Jilal, S., Ail, R., Lee, J., Kim, B., Antonini, A., Motta, E., Schellong, J., Stieler, L., Haleem, M., Georga, E., Pecchia, L., Gaeta, E. and Fico, G. (2022) Towards a Symbolic AI Approach to the WHO/ACSM Physical Activity & Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines, Applied Sciences, 12

, a., Daga, E. and Motta, E. (2021) Reasoning on health condition evolution for enhanced detection of vulnerable people in emergency settings, K-CAP '21: Proceedings of the 11th on Knowledge Capture Conference, Virtual Event, USA

Meloni, A., Angioni, S., Salatino, A.A., Osborne, F., Recupero, D. and Motta, E. (2021) AIDA-Bot: A Conversational Agent to Explore Scholarly Knowledge Graphs, The International Semantic Web Conference, Online

Angioni, S., Salatino, A.A., Osborne, F., Birukou, A., Recupero, D. and Motta, E. (2021) Assessing Scientific Conferences through Knowledge Graphs, Proceedings of the ISWC 2021 Posters, Demos and Industry Tracks: From Novel Ideas to Industrial Practice, Virtual, Online

Nayyeri, M., Cil, G., Vahdati, S., Osborne, F., Kravchenko, A., Angioni, S., Salatino, A.A., Recupero, D., Motta, E. and Lehmann, J. (2021) Link Prediction of Weighted Triples for Knowledge Graph Completion Within the Scholarly Domain, IEEE Access, 9, pp. 116002-116014

Salatino, A.A., Osborne, F. and Motta, E. (2021) CSO Classifier 3.0: a scalable unsupervised method for classifying documents in terms of research topics, International Journal on Digital Libraries, pp. (Early Access)

Larasati, R., De Liddo, A. and Motta, E. (2021) AI Healthcare System Interface: Explanation Design for Non-Expert User Trust, ACM IUI 2021. Workshop 7: Transparency and Explanations in Smart Systems - TExSS