I am a PhD student of the Artificial Intelligence Research Group at the Department of Computer Science, Systems, and Production in the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", where I graduated in Computer Science Engineering in May 2006 with a thesis on "A geometric model for Interactive Question Answering".

Research Interests

• Information Retrieval
• Interactive Question Answering
• Text Categorization
• Natural Language Processing
• Artificial Intelligence

Address: Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemi e Produzione,
Via del Politecnico, 1 - 00133 Rome (Italy)

Office: D1-19

Office phone: +39 06 7259 7718

e-mail: decao@info.uniroma2.it

• Marco Pennacchiotti, Diego De Cao, Roberto Basili, Danilo Croce. Automatic induction of FrameNet lexical units. To appear in Proceedings of The Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2008) Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii. October 25-27, 2008



• Diego De Cao, Cristina Giannone, Roberto Basili. Frame-based Ontology Learning for Information Extraction. To appear in Proceedings of The 16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Knowledge Patterns (EKAW 2008) Acitrezza, Catania, Italy. 29th September-3rd October 2008



• Diego De Cao, Danilo Croce, Marco Pennacchiotti, Roberto Basili. Combining word sense and usage for modeling frame semantics. To appear in Proceedings of The Symposium on Semantics in Systems for Text Processing (STEP 2008) Venice, Italy. September 22-24, 2008



• Roberto Basili, Cristina Giannone, Diego De Cao. Learning domain-specific framenets from texts. In Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Ontology Learning and Population (OLP3). Patras, Greece. July 21/22, 2008.



• Marco Pennacchiotti, Diego De Cao, Paolo Marocco, Roberto Basili. Towards a Vector Space Model for FrameNet-like Resources. In Proceedings of The 6th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2008) Marrakech, Marocco. May 28-30, 2008

• Roberto Basili, Diego De Cao, Cristina Giannone and Paolo Marocco. Data-driven dialogue for Interactive Question Answering. In Proceedings of the 10th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIIA 2007) Roma, Italy, September 10-13, 2007



• Roberto Basili, Diego De Cao, Paolo Marocco and Marco Pennacchiotti. Learning Selectional Preferences for Entailment or Paraphrasing Rules. In Proceedings of RANLP 2007. Borovets, Bulgaria. September, 2007.



• Roberto Basili, Diego De Cao and Cristina Giannone. Ontological modeling for Interactive Question Answering. In Proceedings of OnToContent 2007. Algarve, Portugal. October 28 November, 2007.