Annalina Caputo

Dr. Annalina Caputo is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at Dublin City University and Academic Lead for the part-time MSc in Artificial Intelligence program. Since 2022, she serves as Assistant Head for Research Management. She is a funded investigator in the ADAPT and I-Form research centres, leading the Proactive Experience & Agency challenge. Her research spans Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Machine Learning, with applications in personalization systems.

Dr. Caputo holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Bari Aldo Moro, where she researched Semantics and Information Retrieval. She previously held research positions at Trinity College Dublin as an EDGE COFUND Marie Curie Fellow and at the University of Bari. She has participated in numerous evaluation campaigns including CLEF, SemEval, and WSDM Cup.

Her current research focuses on Intelligent Information Access, Text Representation, Temporal Dynamics in IR, Personalized Retrieval, Semantic IR, Quantum IR, Cross-Language Retrieval, Question Answering, and Recommender Systems in NLP and Additive Manufacturing contexts.

Dr. Caputo serves as Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Knowledge Graphs for Search and Recommendation and is General Co-Chair for ECIR 2023. Her recent publications demonstrate strong focus on transformer-based recommender systems, NLP applications in healthcare/manufacturing, and interactive retrieval systems.