Maria Federico

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Ph.D.


Dipartimento di Comunicazione ed Economia
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Viale Allegri, 9 - 42121 Reggio Emilia (Italy)

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Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
Università di Ferrara
Via Machiavelli, 35 - 44121 Ferrara (Italy)

Email Address:   maria.federico AT unimore.it
and    fdrmra AT unife.it
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Short Resume

Maria Federico currently is professor with a temporary appointment for two courses at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and one course at the University of Ferrara.

Her main research interests include bioinformatics, multimedia content accessibility, web accessibility, computational linguistics, combinatorial algorithms and machine learning.

She graduated cum laude in Information Technologies at the University of Pisa in 2006 with a thesis titled "Notions of Maximality for Motifs in Biological Sequences".
She received the PhD on March 2011 at the Doctorate School in Multiscale Modelling, Computational Simulations and Characterization in Material and Life Sciences of Modena and Reggio Emilia University.
From January 2007 to December 2007 she was a research fellow at the Institute of Computational Linguistics of the National Research Council (CNR) of Pisa and her main activity was the development of stochastic models based on the method of Maximum Entropy applied to Natural Language Processing.

Detailed information can be found in CV: english version, italian version.

The detailed PhD attended activity is available here.

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Doctorate Research Activity

The main goal of the doctorate research activity was the development of algorithms and combinatorial methods to solve problems inspired by biology. The main problems we investigated are:

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Papers

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2012
  • M. Federico, P. Peterlongo, N. Pisanti, M.-F. Sagot. Rime: Repeat Identification, Discrete Applied Mathematics, To appear. [pdf]
  • M. Federico, M. Furini. An Automatic Caption Alignment Mechanism for off-the-shelf Speech Recognition Technologies, Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal, To appear. Springer Netherlands Editor. [Epub ahead of print] ISSN: 1380-7501 [link]
  • M. Federico, M. Leoncini, M. Montangero, P. Valente. Direct vs 2-Stage Approaches to Structured Motif Finding, Algorithms for Molecular Biology, 2012 Aug 21;7(1):20. [Epub ahead of print] ISSN: 1748-7188 [pdf]
  • M. Federico, M. Furini. Enhancing Learning Accessibility through Fully Automatic Captioning, Proceedings of the 9th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility, Lyon (France), April 16-17th, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-4503-1019-2 [link]
2011
  • N. Dusi, M. Federico, M. Furini. MovieRemix: Having Fun Playing with Videos, International Journal of Computer Games Technology, vol. 2011, Article ID 857371, 13 pages, 2011. doi:10.1155/2011/857371 [pdf]
  • M. Federico, P. Peterlongo, N. Pisanti, M.-F. Sagot. Finding Long and Multiple Repeats with Edit Distance, Proceedings of the Prague Stringology Conference 2011, pag. 83-97, Prague (Czech Republic), August 29-31, 2011. ISBN: 978-80-01-04870-2. [pdf]
  • M. Federico, N. Pisanti. Removing artifacts of approximated motifs, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics (ITBAM 2011), Tolouse (France), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) vol. 6865 pag. 153-167, Toulouse (France), August 29-September 2, 2011. ISBN: 978-3-642-23207-7. [link]
  • L. Palmieri, M. Federico, M. Leoncini and M. Montangero. A High Performing Tool for Residue Solvent Accessibility Prediction using Sequence Homology, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics (ITBAM 2011), Tolouse (France), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) vol. 6865 pag. 138-152, Toulouse (France), August 29-September 2, 2011. ISBN: 978-3-642-23207-7. [link]
2010
  • M. Federico, P. Peterlongo, N. Pisanti. An optimized filter for finding multiple repeats in DNA sequences, Proceedings of the 8th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2010), Hammamet (Tunisia), 2010, ISBN: 978-1-4244-7715-9. [link]
2009
  • M. Federico, N. Pisanti. Suffix Tree Characterization of Maximal Motifs in Biological Sequences, Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 410, Issue 43, pages 4391-4401, 2009, ISSN:0304-3975. [link]
  • M. Federico, P. Valente, M. Leoncini, M. Montangero, R. Cavicchioli. An Efficient Algorithm for Planted Structured Motif Extraction. In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (COMPBIO'09), Ischia (Italy), 2009, ISBN:978-1-60558-556-7. [link]
2008
  • M. Federico, N. Pisanti. Suffix Tree Characterization of Maximal Motifs in Biological Sequences. In Proceedings of BIoinformatics Research and Development (BIRD), Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science 13, pages 456--465, Wien (Austria), 2008, ISBN: 978-3-540-70598-7. [link]
2007
  • F. Dell'Orletta, M. Federico, A. Lenci, S. Montemagni, V. Pirrelli. Maximum Entropy for Italian PoS Tagging. Intelligenza artificiale, IV(2), pages 10--11, 2007, ISSN: 1724-8035. [pdf]
2005
  • A. Cappelli, E. Giovannetti, M. Federico. The Role of Communication in Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the Second Robocare Workshop, pages 19-24, Rome (Italy), 2005, ISBN: 88-85059-19-8. [pdf]

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Conferences

2012
  • M. Federico, M. Furini.
    Enhancing Learning Accessibility through Fully Automatic Captioning. 9th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility - W4A 2012, Lyon (France), April 16-17th, 2012.
2011
  • M. Federico, P. Peterlongo, N. Pisanti., M.F. Sagot.
    Removing artifacts of approximated motifs. 2nd International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics - ITBAM 2011, Toulouse (France), August 29-September 2, 2011.
2010
  • M. Federico, P. Peterlongo, N. Pisanti.
    An optimized filter for finding multiple repeats in DNA sequences. 8th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2010), Hammamet (Tunisia), May 16-19, 2010.
2009
  • M. Federico, P. Valente, M. Leoncini, M. Montangero, R. Cavicchioli.
    An Efficient Algorithm for Planted Structured Motif Extraction. Workshop on Breaking Frontiers of Computational Biology (COMPBIO'09), Ischia (Italy), May 18-20, 2009.
  • M. Federico, N. Pisanti.
    Suffix Tree Characterization of Maximal Motifs in Biological Sequences. FIRB'09 Annual Project Meeting for Pattern Discovery in Discrete Structures with Applications to Bioinformatics, University of Palermo, Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni (Italy), February 23-24, 2009.
2008
  • M. Federico, N. Pisanti.
    Suffix Tree Characterization of Maximal Motifs in Biological Sequences. Workshop on Algorithms in Molecular Biology (ALBIO'08), Wien (Austria), July 7-9, 2008.

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Posters

  • L. Palmieri, M. Federico, M. Leoncini, M.C. Menziani, M. Montangero.
    Physiochemical properties-based prediction of solvent accessibility from protein sequence. Therapeutic Applications of Computational Biology and Chemistry (TACBAC). Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, 2010.
  • F. Dell'Orletta, M. Federico, A. Lenci, S. Montemagni, V. Pirrelli.
    Maximum Entropy for Italian PoS Tagging EVALITA 2007, Rome (Italy), 2007.

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Didattica/Teaching (in italian)

  • Algoritmi e strutture dati, a partire dall'A.A. 2012/13, Corso di Laurea Informatica, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Ferrara
  • Web usability, a partire dall'A.A. 2010/11, Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Pubblicità, Editoria e Creatività d'Impresa, Facoltà di Scienze della Comunicazione e dell'Economia, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
  • Laboratorio di grafica e videocomunicazione, a partire dall'A.A. 2011/12, Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione, Facoltà di Scienze della Comunicazione e dell'Economia, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia (in presenza e in modalità formazione a distanza (FAD))

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Last update: October 1st, 2013.