Maria Soledad Pera

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2007-2024
Publications (10 Years): 120

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Christine Pinney, Casey Kennington, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails
Incorporating Word-level Phonemic Decoding into Readability Assessment. LREC/COLING (2024)
Benedikt Hornig, Maria Soledad Pera, Jan Scholtes
Misinformation in video recommendations: an exploration of top-n tecommendation algorithms. ROMCIR@ECIR (2024)
Noemi Mauro, Federica Cena, Cynthia Putnam, Maria Soledad Pera, David Roldán-Álvarez
Introduction to this special issue on intelligent systems for people with diverse cognitive abilities. Hum. Comput. Interact. 39 (1-2) (2024)
Alisa Rieger, Tim Draws, Nicolas Mattis, David Maxwell, David Elsweiler, Ujwal Gadiraju, Dana McKay, Alessandro Bozzon, Maria Soledad Pera
Responsible Opinion Formation on Debated Topics in Web Search. ECIR (4) (2024)
Robin Ungruh, Maria Soledad Pera
Ah, that's the great puzzle: On the Quest of a Holistic Understanding of the Harms of Recommender Systems on Children. CoRR (2024)
Joost Kruis, Maria Soledad Pera, Zoë ten Napel, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, Remco Feskens
Toward Personalised Learning Experiences: Beyond Prompt Engineering. IDC (2024)
Maria Soledad Pera, Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Federica Cena, Noemi Mauro, Theo Huibers
Report on the 1st Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users (IR4U2 2024) at ECIR 2024. SIGIR Forum 58 (1) (2024)
Christine Pinney, Benjamin J. Bettencourt, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, Katherine Landau Wright, Maria Soledad Pera
How Readability Cues Affect Children's Navigation of Search Engine Result Pages. IDC (2024)
Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera
Good for Children, Good for All? ECIR (4) (2024)
Michael D. Ekstrand, Lex Beattie, Maria Soledad Pera, Henriette Cramer
Not Just Algorithms: Strategically Addressing Consumer Impacts in Information Retrieval. ECIR (4) (2024)
Alisa Rieger, Suleiman Kulane, Ujwal Gadiraju, Maria Soledad Pera
Disentangling Web Search on Debated Topics: A User-Centered Exploration. UMAP (2024)
Benjamin J. Bettencourt, Maria Soledad Pera, Casey Kennington, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails
Kid Query: Co-designing an Application to Scaffold Query Formulation. IDC (2024)
Alisa Rieger, Frank Bredius, Mariët Theune, Maria Soledad Pera
From Potential to Practice: Intellectual Humility During Search on Debated Topics. CHIIR (2024)
Maria Soledad Pera, Federica Cena, Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Noemi Mauro, Emiliana Murgia
Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users (IR4U2). ECIR (5) (2024)
Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers
Children on ChatGPT Readability in an Educational Context: Myth or Opportunity? UMAP (Adjunct Publication) (2023)
Garrett Allen, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, Maria Soledad Pera
Multi-Perspective Learning to Rank to Support Children's Information Seeking in the Classroom. WI/IAT (2023)
Garrett Allen, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, Maria Soledad Pera
A Multi-Perspective Learning to Rank Approach to Support Children's Information Seeking in the Classroom. CoRR (2023)
Royal Pathak, Francesca Spezzano, Maria Soledad Pera
Understanding the Contribution of Recommendation Algorithms on Misinformation Recommendation and Misinformation Dissemination on Social Networks. ACM Trans. Web 17 (4) (2023)
Emiliana Murgia, Zahra Abbasiantaeb, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera
ChatGPT in the Classroom: A Preliminary Exploration on the Feasibility of Adapting ChatGPT to Support Children's Information Discovery. UMAP (Adjunct Publication) (2023)
Michael D. Ekstrand, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright
Seeking Information with a More Knowledgeable Other. Interactions 30 (1) (2023)
Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, Maria Soledad Pera
How does Information Pollution Challenge Children's Right to Information Access? ROMCIR@ECIR (2023)
Ashlee Milton, Maria Soledad Pera
Into the Unknown: Exploration of Search Engines' Responses to Users with Depression and Anxiety. ACM Trans. Web 17 (4) (2023)
Yessin Beyhan, Maria Soledad Pera
Covering Covers: Characterization Of Visual Elements Regarding Sleeves. UMAP (Adjunct Publication) (2023)
Benjamin Bettencourt, Assoumer Redempta Manzi Muneza, Michael Green, Samantha Anguiano, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, Katherine Landau Wright, Maria Soledad Pera
"Who are you?": Identifying Young Users from a Single Search Query. UMAP (Adjunct Publication) (2023)
Maria Soledad Pera, Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Mohammad Aliannejadi
Where a Little Change Makes a Big Difference: A Preliminary Exploration of Children's Queries. ECIR (2) (2023)
Jie Zou, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Evangelos Kanoulas, Maria Soledad Pera, Yiqun Liu
Users Meet Clarifying Questions: Toward a Better Understanding of User Interactions for Search Clarification. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 41 (1) (2023)
Avishek Anand, Maria Soledad Pera, Maria Heuss, Venktesh V, Matteo Corsi
Report on the 21st Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2023). SIGIR Forum 57 (2) (2023)
Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails
Children and Information Access: Fostering a Sense of Belonging 254-257. IUI Workshops (2023)
Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Maria Soledad Pera
Learning Technologies & AI: Who are we designing for? 250-253. IUI Workshops (2023)
Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails, Katherine Landau Wright, Maria Soledad Pera
Conversational Agents and Children: Let Children Learn. CoRR (2023)
Alisa Rieger, Frank Bredius, Nava Tintarev, Maria Soledad Pera
Searching for the Whole Truth: Harnessing the Power of Intellectual Humility to Boost Better Search on Debated Topics. CHI Extended Abstracts (2023)
Garrett Allen, Ashlee Milton, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, Maria Soledad Pera
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: Why Using the "Right" Readability Formula in Children's Web Search Matters. ECIR (1) (2022)
Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers
Let's Learn from Children: Scaffolding to Enable Search as Learning in the Educational Environment. INRA/IWILDS@SIGIR (2022)
Monica Landoni, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Theo Huibers, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera
Have a Clue! The Effect of Visual Cues on Children's Search Behavior in the Classroom. CHIIR (2022)
Michael D. Ekstrand, Maria Soledad Pera
Matching Consumer Fairness Objectives & Strategies for RecSys. CoRR (2022)
Mohammad Aliannejadi, Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera
The Effect of Prolonged Exposure to Online Education on a Classroom Search Companion. CLEF (2022)
Brody Downs, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails
KidSpell: Making a difference in spellchecking for children. Int. J. Child Comput. Interact. 32 (2022)
Theo Huibers, Maria Soledad Pera, Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Jerry Alan Fails
Report on the 6th International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children & Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems (KidRec 2022) Workshop at ACM IDC 2022: Information Retrieval Systems for Children in the COVID-19 Era. SIGIR Forum 56 (2) (2022)
Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers
Let's Learn from Children: Scaffolding to Enable Search as Learning in the Educational Environment. CoRR (2022)
Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera
Ethical implications for children's use of search tools in an educational setting. Int. J. Child Comput. Interact. 32 (2022)
Maria Soledad Pera, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, Jerry Alan Fails
6th KidRec Workshop: Information Retrieval Systems for Children in the COVID-19 Era. IDC (2022)
Garrett Allen, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, Maria Soledad Pera
CASTing a Net: Supporting Teachers with Search Technology. CoRR (2021)
Garrett Allen, Jie Yang, Maria Soledad Pera, Ujwal Gadiraju
Using Conversational Artificial Intelligence to Support Children's Search in the Classroom. CoRR (2021)
Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, Maria Soledad Pera
Report on the 1st IR for children 2000-2020: where are we now? (IR4C) workshop at SIGIR 2021: the need to spotlight research on children information retrieval. SIGIR Forum 55 (2) (2021)
Mohammad Aliannejadi, Fabio Crestani, Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera
The Impact of User Demographics and Task Types on Cross-App Mobile Search. FQAS (2021)
Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Maria Soledad Pera, Jerry Alan Fails
5th KidRec Workshop: Search and Recommendation Technology through the Lens of a Teacher. IDC (2021)
Anu Shrestha, Francesca Spezzano, Maria Soledad Pera
An Empirical Analysis of Collaborative Recommender Systems Robustness to Shilling Attacks. OHARS@RecSys (2021)
Monica Landoni, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Theo Huibers, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera
Right Way, Right Time: Towards a Better Comprehension of Young Students' Needs when Looking for Relevant Search Results. UMAP (2021)
Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera
IR for Children 2000-2020: Where Are We Now? SIGIR (2021)
Mohammad Aliannejadi, Fabio Crestani, Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera
The Impact of User Demographics and Task Types on Cross-App Mobile Search. CoRR (2021)
Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Emiliana Murgia, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Maria Soledad Pera
Somewhere over the Rainbow: Exploring the Sense for Relevance in Children. ECCE (2021)
Garrett Allen, Benjamin L. Peterson, Dhanush kumar Ratakonda, Mostofa Najmus Sakib, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, Katherine Landau Wright, Maria Soledad Pera
Engage!: Co-designing Search Engine Result Pages to Foster Interactions. IDC (2021)
Jerry Alan Fails, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Maria Soledad Pera
Report on the 5th workshop on international and interdisciplinary perspectives on children & recommender and information retrieval systems (KidRec 2021) at IDC 2021: the teacher lens. SIGIR Forum 55 (2) (2021)
Garrett Allen, Brody Downs, Aprajita Shukla, Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails, Katherine Landau Wright, Maria Soledad Pera
Grades. ECIR (2) (2021)
Ashlee Milton, Garrett Allen, Maria Soledad Pera
To Infinity and Beyond! Accessibility is the Future for Kids' Search Engines. CoRR (2021)
Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Maria Soledad Pera
All Together Now: Teachers as Research Partners in the Design of Search Technology for the Classroom. CoRR (2021)
Lawrence Spear, Ashlee Milton, Garrett Allen, Amifa Raj, Michael Green, Michael D. Ekstrand, Maria Soledad Pera
Baby Shark to Barracuda: Analyzing Children's Music Listening Behavior. RecSys (2021)
Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera
Getting to Know You: Search Logs and Expert Grading to Define Children's Search Roles in the Classroom. DESIRES (2021)
Mohammad Aliannejadi, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera
Children's Perspective on How Emojis Help Them to Recognise Relevant Results: Do Actions Speak Louder Than Words? CHIIR (2021)
Vito Walter Anelli, Pierpaolo Basile, Toine Bogers, Tommaso Di Noia, Francesco Maria Donini, Bamshad Mobasher, Cataldo Musto, Fedelucio Narducci, Casper Petersen, Maria Soledad Pera, Markus Zanker
Report on the 3rd workshop of knowledge-aware and conversational recommender systems (KARS/ComplexRec) at RecSys 2021. SIGIR Forum 55 (2) (2021)
Himan Abdollahpouri, Toine Bogers, Bamshad Mobasher, Casper Petersen, Maria Soledad Pera
ComplexRec 2021: Fifth Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Environments. RecSys (2021)
Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, Maria Soledad Pera
You've Got a Friend in Me: Children and Search Agents. UMAP (Adjunct Publication) (2020)
Brody Downs, Oghenemaro Anuyah, Aprajita Shukla, Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Casey Kennington
KidSpell: A Child-Oriented, Rule-Based, Phonetic Spellchecker. LREC (2020)
Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Maria Soledad Pera
An Analysis of Transfer Learning Methods for Multilingual Readability Assessment. UMAP (Adjunct Publication) (2020)
Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, Maria Soledad Pera
We've Only Just Begun: Children Searching in the Classroom. CIRCLE (2020)
Ashlee Milton, Levesson Batista, Garrett Allen, Siqi Gao, Yiu-Kai Ng, Maria Soledad Pera
"Don't Judge a Book by its Cover": Exploring Book Traits Children Favor. RecSys (2020)
Mohammad Aliannejadi, Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera
Say it with Emojis: Co-designing Relevance Cues for Searching in the Classroom. CIRCLE (2020)
Ashlee Milton, Maria Soledad Pera
What Snippets Feel: Depression, Search, and Snippets. CIRCLE (2020)
Ashlee Milton, Maria Soledad Pera
Evaluating Information Retrieval Systems for Kids. CoRR (2020)
Michael D. Ekstrand, Katherine Landau Wright, Maria Soledad Pera
Enhancing classroom instruction with online news. Aslib J. Inf. Manag. 72 (5) (2020)
Matias Apa, Maria Cecilia Faini, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Maria Soledad Pera
A Canine Census to Influence Public Policy. CoRR (2020)
Monica Landoni, Jerry Alan Fails, Theo Huibers, Natalia Kucirkova, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera
KidRec workshop - "what does good look like?": from design, research, and practice to policy. IDC (Extended Abstracts) (2020)
Ashlee Milton, Oghenemaro Anuyah, Lawrence Spear, Katherine Landau Wright, Maria Soledad Pera
A Ranking Strategy to Promote Resources Supporting the Classroom Environment. WI/IAT (2020)
Brody Downs, Aprajita Shukla, Mikey Krentz, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails
Guiding the selection of child spellchecker suggestions using audio and visual cues. IDC (2020)
Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera, Jerry Alan Fails, Emiliana Murgia, Natalia Kucirkova, Theo Huibers
KidRec - what does good look like: from design, research, and practice to policy. SIGIR Forum 54 (2) (2020)
Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers
Inside Out: Exploring the Emotional Side of Search Engines in the Classroom. UMAP (2020)
Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Maria Soledad Pera
Hierarchical Mapping for Cross-lingual Word Embedding Alignment. Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics 8 (2020)
Oghenemaro Anuyah, Ashlee Milton, Michael Green, Maria Soledad Pera
An empirical analysis of search engines' response to web search queries associated with the classroom setting. Aslib J. Inf. Manag. 72 (1) (2020)
Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Maria Soledad Pera
Is cross-lingual readability assessment possible? J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 71 (6) (2020)
Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Maria Soledad Pera
A Framework for Hierarchical Multilingual Machine Translation. CoRR (2020)
Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera
The Seven Layers of Complexity of Recommender Systems for Children in Educational Contexts. ComplexRec@RecSys (2019)
Ashlee Milton, Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Maria Soledad Pera
Here, There, and Everywhere: Building a Scaffolding for Children's Learning through Recommendations. ImpactRS@RecSys (2019)
Oghenemaro Anuyah, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Maria Soledad Pera
Using structured knowledge and traditional word embeddings to generate concept representations in the educational domain. WWW (Companion Volume) (2019)
Maria Soledad Pera, Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers
With a Little Help from my Friends: Use of Recommendations at School. RecSys (Late-Breaking Results) (2019)
Brody Downs, Tyler French, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails
Searching for spellcheckers: What kids want, what kids need. IDC (2019)
Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, Oghenemaro Anuyah, Casey Kennington, Katherine Landau Wright, William Bigirimana
Query Formulation Assistance for Kids: What is Available, When to Help & What Kids Want. IDC (2019)
Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Maria Soledad Pera
Multiattentive Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Network Architecture for Multilingual Readability Assessment. Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics 7 (2019)
Oghenemaro Anuyah, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Nevena Dragovic, Maria Soledad Pera
Lightning Talk - Looking for the Movie Seven or Sven from the Movie Frozen? WWW (Companion Volume) (2019)
Marko Tkalcic, Maria Soledad Pera
ACM RecSys'19 late-breaking results (posters). RecSys (2019)
Monica Landoni, Davide Matteri, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, Maria Soledad Pera
Sonny, Cerca! Evaluating the Impact of Using a Vocal Assistant to Search at School. CLEF (2019)
Theo Huibers, Natalia Kucirkova, Emiliana Murgia, Jerry Alan Fails, Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera
3rd KidRec Workshop: What does good look like? IDC (2019)
Ashlee Milton, Michael Green, Adam Keener, Joshua Ames, Michael D. Ekstrand, Maria Soledad Pera
StoryTime: eliciting preferences from children for book recommendations. RecSys (2019)
Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera, Jerry Alan Fails, Emiliana Murgia, Natalia Kucirkova
International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children & Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems (KidRec) at IDC 2019. SIGIR Forum 53 (2) (2019)
Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Nevena Dragovic, Oghenemaro Anuyah, Maria Soledad Pera
Looking for the Movie Seven or Sven from the Movie Frozen?: A Multi-perspective Strategy for Recommending Queries for Children. CHIIR (2018)
Nevena Dragovic, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Maria Soledad Pera
From Recommendation to Curation: When the System Becomes your Personal Docent. IntRS@RecSys (2018)
Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Michael Green, Oghenemaro Anuyah, Maria Soledad Pera
Can we leverage rating patterns from traditional users to enhance recommendations for children? CoRR (2018)
Maria Soledad Pera, Jerry Alan Fails, Mirko Gelsomini, Franca Garzotto
Building Community: Report on KidRec Workshop on Children and Recommender Systems at RecSys 2017. SIGIR Forum 52 (1) (2018)
Yiu-Kai Ng, Maria Soledad Pera
Recommending social-interactive games for adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). RecSys (2018)
Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, Natalia Kucirkova, Franca Garzotto
International and interdisciplinary perspectives on children & recommender systems (KidRec). IDC (2018)
Oghenemaro Anuyah, Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera
Investigating query formulation assistance for children. IDC (2018)

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Maria Soledad Pera