This page contains a list of peer-reviewed conference papers and journal articles I have authored. For additional publications and talks, please see my resumé.

2021

• Rujun Han, Luca Soldaini, and Alessandro Moschitti. “Modeling Context in Answer Sentence Selection Systems on a Latency Budget”. Annual Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). 2021.

2020

• Mingda Li, Xinyue Liu, Weitong Ruan, Luca Soldaini, Wael Hamza, and Chengwei Su. “Multi-task Learning of Spoken Language Understanding by Integrating N-Best Hypotheses with Hierarchical Attention”. Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). 2020.
• Luca Soldaini and Alessandro Moschitti. “The Cascade Transformer: Efficient Answer Sentence Selection”. Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2020.
• Subendhu Rongali, Luca Soldaini, Emilio Monti, and Wael Hamza. “Don’t Parse, Generate! A Sequence to Sequence Architecture for Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing”. The Web Conference (formerly WWW). 2020.
• Sean MacAvaney, Luca Soldaini, and Nazli Goharian. “Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks: Resurrecting Multilingual Retrieval Using Zero-shot Learning”. European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR). 2020.

2018

• Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Kai Hui, Nazli Goharian, and Ophir Frieder. “Overcoming Low-Utility Facets for Complex Answer Retrieval”. Information Retrieval Journal, 2018.
• Ziling Fan, Luca Soldaini, Arman Cohan, and Nazli Goharian. “Relation Extraction for Protein-Protein Interactions Affected by Mutation”. ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB). 2018.
• Arman Cohan, Bart Desmet, Andrew Yates, Luca Soldaini, Sean MacAvaney, and Nazli Goharian. “SMHD: a Large-Scale Resource for Exploring Online Language Usage for Multiple Mental Health Conditions”. Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). 2018.
• Luca Soldaini, Timothy Walsh, Arman Cohan, Julien Han, and Nazli Goharian. “Helping or Hurting? Predicting Changes in Users' Risk of Self-Harm Through Online Community Interactions”. CLPsych Workshop, Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT). 2018.
• Sean MacAvaney, Bart Desmet, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Andrew Yates, Ayah Zirikly, and Nazli Goharian. “RSDD-Time: Temporal Annotation of Self-Reported Mental Health Diagnoses”. CLPsych Workshop, Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT). 2018.
• Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Kai Hui, Nazli Goharian, and Ophir Frieder. “Characterizing Question Facets for Complex Answer Retrieval”. ACM conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR). 2018.
• Sean MacAvaney, Luca Soldaini, Arman Cohan, and Nazli Goharian. “Tree-LSTMs for Scientific Relation Classification”. SemEval Workshop, Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT). 2018.

2017

• Luca Soldaini, Andrew Yates, and Nazli Goharian. “Denoising Clinical Notes for Medical Literature Retrieval with Convolutional Neural Model”. Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). 2017.
• Luca Soldaini, Andrew Yates, and Nazli Goharian. “Learning to Reformulate Long Queries for Clinical Decision Support”. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Special Issue on Biomedical Information Retrieval. 2017.
• Luca Soldaini and Elad Yom-Tov. “Inferring Individual Attributes from Search Engine Queries and Auxiliary Information”. Wide World Web conference (WWW). 2017.
• Luca Soldaini and Nazli Goharian. “Learning to Rank for Consumer Health Search: a Semantic Approach”. European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR). 2017.

2016

• Luca Soldaini and Nazli Goharian. “QuickUMLS: a Fast, Unsupervised Approach for Medical Concept Extraction”. MedIR workshop, ACM conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR). 2016.
• Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, and Nazli Goharian. “Identifying Significance of Discrepancies in Radiology Reports”. Workshop on Data Mining for Medicine and Healthcare (DMMH), SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM). 2016.
• Luca Soldaini, Andrew Yates, Elad Yom-Tov, Ophir Frieder, and Nazli Goharian. “Enhancing Web Search in the Medical Domain via Query Clarification”. Information Retrieval Journal, 2016.

2015

• Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, and Nazli Goharian. “Matching Citation Text and Cited Spans in Biomedical Literature: a Search–Oriented Approach”. Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT). 2015.
• Luca Soldaini, Arman Cohan, Andrew Yates, Nazli Goharian, and Ophir Frieder. “Retrieving Medical Literature for Clinical Decision Support”. European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR). 2015.

2014

• Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Andrew Yates, Nazli Goharian, and Ophir Frieder. “On Clinical Decision Support”. ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (BCB). 2014.