Maria Soledad Pera

Orcid: 0000-0002-2008-9204

According to our database1, Maria Soledad Pera authored at least 149 papers between 2007 and 2024.

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2024
Introduction to this special issue on intelligent systems for people with diverse cognitive abilities.
Hum. Comput. Interact., March, 2024

Responsible Opinion Formation on Debated Topics in Web Search.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2024

1<sup>st</sup> Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users (IR4U2).
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2024

Good for Children, Good for All?
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2024

Not Just Algorithms: Strategically Addressing Consumer Impacts in Information Retrieval.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2024

From Potential to Practice: Intellectual Humility During Search on Debated Topics.
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2024

2023
Report on the 21st Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2023).
SIGIR Forum, December, 2023

Understanding the Contribution of Recommendation Algorithms on Misinformation Recommendation and Misinformation Dissemination on Social Networks.
ACM Trans. Web, November, 2023

Into the Unknown: Exploration of Search Engines' Responses to Users with Depression and Anxiety.
ACM Trans. Web, November, 2023

Users Meet Clarifying Questions: Toward a Better Understanding of User Interactions for Search Clarification.
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., January, 2023

Seeking Information with a More Knowledgeable Other.
Interactions, 2023

A Multi-Perspective Learning to Rank Approach to Support Children's Information Seeking in the Classroom.
CoRR, 2023

Conversational Agents and Children: Let Children Learn.
CoRR, 2023

Multi-Perspective Learning to Rank to Support Children's Information Seeking in the Classroom.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2023

Children on ChatGPT Readability in an Educational Context: Myth or Opportunity?
Proceedings of the Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, 2023

ChatGPT in the Classroom: A Preliminary Exploration on the Feasibility of Adapting ChatGPT to Support Children's Information Discovery.
Proceedings of the Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, 2023

Covering Covers: Characterization Of Visual Elements Regarding Sleeves.
Proceedings of the Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, 2023

"Who are you?": Identifying Young Users from a Single Search Query.
Proceedings of the Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, 2023

Children and Information Access: Fostering a Sense of Belonging 254-257.
Proceedings of the Joint Proceedings of the IUI 2023 Workshops: HAI-GEN, 2023

Learning Technologies & AI: Who are we designing for? 250-253.
Proceedings of the Joint Proceedings of the IUI 2023 Workshops: HAI-GEN, 2023

Where a Little Change Makes a Big Difference: A Preliminary Exploration of Children's Queries.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2023

How does Information Pollution Challenge Children's Right to Information Access?
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval 2023 co-located with The 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023), 2023

Searching for the Whole Truth: Harnessing the Power of Intellectual Humility to Boost Better Search on Debated Topics.
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023

2022
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, December, 2022

Ethical implications for children's use of search tools in an educational setting.
Int. J. Child Comput. Interact., 2022

KidSpell: Making a difference in spellchecking for children.
Int. J. Child Comput. Interact., 2022

Matching Consumer Fairness Objectives & Strategies for RecSys.
CoRR, 2022

Let's Learn from Children: Scaffolding to Enable Search as Learning in the Educational Environment.
Proceedings of the Joint Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics (INRA 2022) and the 3rd International Workshop on Investigating Learning During Web Search (IWILDS 2022) co-located with 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2022), 2022

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: Why Using the "Right" Readability Formula in Children's Web Search Matters.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2022

The Effect of Prolonged Exposure to Online Education on a Classroom Search Companion.
Proceedings of the Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, 2022

Have a Clue! The Effect of Visual Cues on Children's Search Behavior in the Classroom.
Proceedings of the CHIIR '22: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Regensburg, Germany, March 14, 2022

6th KidRec Workshop: Information Retrieval Systems for Children in the COVID-19 Era.
Proceedings of the IDC '22: Interaction Design and Children, Braga, Portugal, June 27, 2022

2021
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, 2021

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, 2021

Report on the 3rd workshop of knowledge-aware and conversational recommender systems (KARS/ComplexRec) at RecSys 2021.
SIGIR Forum, 2021

Using Conversational Artificial Intelligence to Support Children's Search in the Classroom.
CoRR, 2021

To Infinity and Beyond! Accessibility is the Future for Kids' Search Engines.
CoRR, 2021

All Together Now: Teachers as Research Partners in the Design of Search Technology for the Classroom.
CoRR, 2021

CASTing a Net: Supporting Teachers with Search Technology.
CoRR, 2021

Right Way, Right Time: Towards a Better Comprehension of Young Students' Needs when Looking for Relevant Search Results.
Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, 2021

IR for Children 2000-2020: Where Are We Now?
Proceedings of the SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2021

Baby Shark to Barracuda: Analyzing Children's Music Listening Behavior.
Proceedings of the RecSys '21: Fifteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 27 September 2021, 2021

An Empirical Analysis of Collaborative Recommender Systems Robustness to Shilling Attacks.
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Online Misinformation- and Harm-Aware Recommender Systems co-located with 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2021), 2021

ComplexRec 2021: Fifth Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Environments.
Proceedings of the RecSys '21: Fifteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 27 September 2021, 2021

The Impact of User Demographics and Task Types on Cross-App Mobile Search.
Proceedings of the Flexible Query Answering Systems - 14th International Conference, 2021

BiGBERT: Classifying Educational Web Resources for Kindergarten-12<sup>th</sup> Grades.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2021

Somewhere over the Rainbow: Exploring the Sense for Relevance in Children.
Proceedings of the ECCE 2021: European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2021, 2021

Getting to Know You: Search Logs and Expert Grading to Define Children's Search Roles in the Classroom.
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems, 2021

Children's Perspective on How Emojis Help Them to Recognise Relevant Results: Do Actions Speak Louder Than Words?
Proceedings of the CHIIR '21: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2021

5th KidRec Workshop: Search and Recommendation Technology through the Lens of a Teacher.
Proceedings of the IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children, 2021

Engage!: Co-designing Search Engine Result Pages to Foster Interactions.
Proceedings of the IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children, 2021

2020
Hierarchical Mapping for Cross-lingual Word Embedding Alignment.
Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2020

4<i><sup>th</sup></i> KidRec - what does good look like: from design, research, and practice to policy.
SIGIR Forum, 2020

Is cross-lingual readability assessment possible?
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2020

A Canine Census to Influence Public Policy.
CoRR, 2020

Evaluating Information Retrieval Systems for Kids.
CoRR, 2020

A Framework for Hierarchical Multilingual Machine Translation.
CoRR, 2020

Enhancing classroom instruction with online news.
Aslib J. Inf. Manag., 2020

An empirical analysis of search engines' response to web search queries associated with the classroom setting.
Aslib J. Inf. Manag., 2020

A Ranking Strategy to Promote Resources Supporting the Classroom Environment.
Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2020

Inside Out: Exploring the Emotional Side of Search Engines in the Classroom.
Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, 2020

You've Got a Friend in Me: Children and Search Agents.
Proceedings of the Adjunct Publication of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, 2020

An Analysis of Transfer Learning Methods for Multilingual Readability Assessment.
Proceedings of the Adjunct Publication of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, 2020

"Don't Judge a Book by its Cover": Exploring Book Traits Children Favor.
Proceedings of the RecSys 2020: Fourteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2020

KidSpell: A Child-Oriented, Rule-Based, Phonetic Spellchecker.
Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2020

What Snippets Feel: Depression, Search, and Snippets.
Proceedings of the First Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe (CIRCLE 2020), 2020

We've Only Just Begun: Children Searching in the Classroom.
Proceedings of the First Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe (CIRCLE 2020), 2020

Say it with Emojis: Co-designing Relevance Cues for Searching in the Classroom.
Proceedings of the First Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe (CIRCLE 2020), 2020

4<sup><i>th</i></sup> KidRec workshop - "what does good look like?": from design, research, and practice to policy.
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2020

Guiding the selection of child spellchecker suggestions using audio and visual cues.
Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2020

2019
Multiattentive Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Network Architecture for Multilingual Readability Assessment.
Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2019

What does good look like?: report on the 3<sup><i>rd</i></sup> International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children & Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems (KidRec) at IDC 2019.
SIGIR Forum, 2019

Using structured knowledge and traditional word embeddings to generate concept representations in the educational domain.
Proceedings of the Companion of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference, 2019

Lightning Talk - Looking for the Movie Seven or Sven from the Movie Frozen?
Proceedings of the Companion of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference, 2019

ACM RecSys'19 late-breaking results (posters).
Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2019

With a Little Help from my Friends: Use of Recommendations at School.
Proceedings of ACM RecSys 2019 Late-Breaking Results co-located with the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2019

The Seven Layers of Complexity of Recommender Systems for Children in Educational Contexts.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios co-located with 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2019), 2019

Here, There, and Everywhere: Building a Scaffolding for Children's Learning through Recommendations.
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on the Impact of Recommender Systems co-located with 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2019

StoryTime: eliciting preferences from children for book recommendations.
Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2019

Sonny, Cerca! Evaluating the Impact of Using a Vocal Assistant to Search at School.
Proceedings of the Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, 2019

3rd KidRec Workshop: What does good look like?
Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2019

Query Formulation Assistance for Kids: What is Available, When to Help & What Kids Want.
Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2019

Searching for spellcheckers: What kids want, what kids need.
Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2019

2018
Building Community: Report on KidRec Workshop on Children and Recommender Systems at RecSys 2017.
SIGIR Forum, 2018

Building Community: Report on the 2nd International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children & Recommender Systems (KidRec) at IDC 2018.
SIGIR Forum, 2018

Recommending books to be exchanged online in the absence of wish lists.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2018

Can we leverage rating patterns from traditional users to enhance recommendations for children?
CoRR, 2018

Who is Really Affected by Fraudulent Reviews? An analysis of shilling attacks on recommender systems in real-world scenarios.
CoRR, 2018

Recommending social-interactive games for adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2018

From Recommendation to Curation: When the System Becomes your Personal Docent.
Proceedings of the 5th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems, 2018

All The Cool Kids, How Do They Fit In?: Popularity and Demographic Biases in Recommender Evaluation and Effectiveness.
Proceedings of the Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency, 2018

Looking for the Movie Seven or Sven from the Movie Frozen?: A Multi-perspective Strategy for Recommending Queries for Children.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2018

International and interdisciplinary perspectives on children & recommender systems (KidRec).
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2018

Investigating query formulation assistance for children.
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2018

2017
Using online data sources to make query suggestions for children.
Web Intell., 2017

Online searching and learning: YUM and other search tools for children and teachers.
Inf. Retr. J., 2017

Mining Twitter features for event summarization and rating.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, 2017

KidRec: Children & Recommender Systems: Workshop Co-located with ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017).
Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2017

The Demographics of Cool: Popularity and Recommender Performance for Different Groups of Users.
Proceedings of the Poster Track of the 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017), 2017

Can Readability Enhance Recommendations on Community Question Answering Sites?
Proceedings of the Poster Track of the 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017), 2017

Measuring Personality for Automatic Elicitation of Privacy Preferences.
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Privacy-Aware Computing, 2017

UBR: A Book Search - Recommender Hybrid.
Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2017

Exploiting Reviews to Generate Personalized and Justified Recommendations to Guide Users' Selections.
Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2017

2016
A readability level prediction tool for K-12 books.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2016

"Is Sven Seven?": A Search Intent Module for Children.
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016

Finding, Understanding and Learning: Making Information Discovery Tasks Useful for Children and Teachers.
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Search as Learning, 2016

"One Size Doesn't Fit All": Helping Users Find Events from Multiple Perspectives.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism co-located with 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2016), 2016

Genre Prediction to Inform the Recommendation Process.
Proceedings of the Poster Track of the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2016), 2016

Anything Fun Going On? A Simple Wizard to Avoid the Cold-Start Problem for Event Recommenders.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism co-located with 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2016), 2016

Is Readability a Valuable Signal for Hashtag Recommendations?
Proceedings of the Poster Track of the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2016), 2016

2015
Suggesting Simple and Comprehensive Queries to Elementary-Grade Children.
Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2015

A Recommendation-Based Book-Exchange System Without Using Wish Lists.
Proceedings of the Poster Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2015

Recommendations to Enhance Children Web Searches.
Proceedings of the Poster Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2015

Exploiting Reviews to Guide Users' Selections.
Proceedings of the Poster Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2015

Analyzing Book-Related Features to Recommend Books for Emergent Readers.
Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media, 2015

2014
Exploiting the wisdom of social connections to make personalized recommendations on scholarly articles.
J. Intell. Inf. Syst., 2014

How Can We Help Our K-12 Teachers?: Using a Recommender to Make Personalized Book Suggestions.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technologies (IAT), Warsaw, Poland, August 11-14, 2014, 2014

Automating readers' advisory to make book recommendations for K-12 readers.
Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2014

Assisting Emergent Readers in Finding Books to Read.
Proceedings of the Poster Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2014

SOLE-R: A Semantic and Linguistic Approach for Book Recommendations.
Proceedings of the IEEE 14th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 2014

2013
Web-based closed-domain data extraction on online advertisements.
Inf. Syst., 2013

A group recommender for movies based on content similarity and popularity.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2013

What to read next?: making personalized book recommendations for K-12 users.
Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2013

A Probabilistic Query Suggestion Approach without Using Query Logs.
Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 2013

2012
Using maximal spanning trees and word similarity to generate hierarchical clusters of non-redundant RSS news articles.
J. Intell. Inf. Syst., 2012

BReK12: a book recommender for K-12 users.
Proceedings of the 35th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2012

Personalized recommendations on books for K-12 readers.
Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories and Complementary Media, 2012

2011
SimPaD: A word-similarity sentence-based plagiarism detection tool on Web documents.
Web Intell. Agent Syst., 2011

Generating Exact- and Ranked Partially-Matched Answers to Questions in Advertisements.
Proc. VLDB Endow., 2011

With a Little Help from My Friends: Generating Personalized Book Recommendations Using Data Extracted from a Social Website.
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, 2011

A community question-answering refinement system.
Proceedings of the HT'11, 2011

A query-based multi-document sentiment summarizer.
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2011

A personalized recommendation system on scholarly publications.
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2011

2010
A naïve Bayes Classifier for Web Document Summaries Created by Using Word Similarity and Significant Factors.
Int. J. Artif. Intell. Tools, 2010

An Unsupervised Sentiment Classifier on Summarized or Full Reviews.
Proceedings of the Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2010, 2010

Personalized Book Recommendations Created by Using Social Media Data.
Proceedings of the Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2010 Workshops, 2010

A Performance Evaluation Framework for Library Search Engines.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems, 2010

2009
<i>SpamED</i>: A spam E-mail detection approach based on phrase similarity.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2009

A sophisticated library search strategy using folksonomies and similarity matching.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2009

A structural, content-similarity measure for detecting spam documents on the web.
Int. J. Web Inf. Syst., 2009

Synthesizing correlated RSS news articles based on a fuzzy equivalence relation.
Int. J. Web Inf. Syst., 2009

Retrieving good, better, and best answers to questions in advertisements.
Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2009), 2009

Classifying Sentence-Based Summaries of Web Documents.
Proceedings of the ICTAI 2009, 2009

2008
Utilizing phrase-similarity measures for detecting and clustering informative RSS news articles.
Integr. Comput. Aided Eng., 2008

Nowhere to Hide: Finding Plagiarized Documents Based on Sentence Similarity.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, 2008

Identifying Spam Web Pages Based on Content Similarity.
Proceedings of the Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2008, International Conference, Perugia, Italy, June 30, 2008

Generating Fuzzy Equivalence Classes on RSS News Articles for Retrieving Correlated Information.
Proceedings of the Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2008, International Conference, Perugia, Italy, June 30, 2008

2007
Finding Similar RSS News Articles Using Correlation-Based Phrase Matching.
Proceedings of the Knowledge Science, 2007

Using word similarity to eradicate junk emails.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2007


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