Moreno La Quatra

Assistant Professor, Kore University of Enna
Enna, Italy

I'm a deep learning researcher with expertise in Natural Language Processing, Audio Processing, and Multimodal Learning.

Where: Bull (Atos Technology)
When: Feb. 2018 - Jul. 2018
Topics: Design and implementation of a novel active learning algorithm for optimizing the trade-off between label cost and model accuracy in a semi-automatic dataset annotation scenario.

Where: BASSETTI
When: Feb. 2017 - Jul. 2017
Topics: Using word-based vectorization techniques (e.g., Word2Vec) to implement semantic query matching in Apache Solr-based search engine.

Where: Politecnico di Torino
When: Nov. 2018 - Oct. 2022
Topic: Understanding the semantics of natural language with applications to text analysis and automatic summarization.
Activities: The research focused on deep learning in domains including scientometrics, time-related data, and spoken content.

La Quatra, M., Gallipoli, G., & Cagliero, L. (2024). Self-supervised Text Style Transfer using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. doi: 10.1145/3678179
Benedetto, I., La Quatra, M.,Cagliero, L., Vassio, L., & Trevisan, M. (2024). TASP: Topic-based abstractive summarization of Facebook text posts. Expert Systems with Applications, 255, 124567. doi: 10.1016/j.eswa.2023.124567
La Quatra, M., & Cagliero, L. (2023). BART-IT: An Efficient Sequence-to-Sequence Model for Italian Text Summarization. Future Internet, 15(1), 15. doi: 10.3390/fi15010015

La Quatra, M., Turco, M.F., Svendsen, T., Salvi, G., Orozco-Arroyave, J.R., Siniscalchi, S.M. (2024) Exploiting Foundation Models and Speech Enhancement for Parkinson's Disease Detection from Speech in Real-World Conditions. Proc. Interspeech 2024, 1405-1409. doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2024-522
La Quatra, M., Koudounas, A., Vaiani, L., Baralis, E., Cagliero, L., Garza, P., Siniscalchi, S. M. (2024). Benchmarking Representations for Speech, Music, and Acoustic Events. ICASSPW 2024. doi: 10.1109/ICASSPW62465.2024.10625960
Koudounas, A., La Quatra, M., Vaiani, L., Colomba, L., Attanasio, G., Pastor, E., Cagliero, L., Baralis, E. (2023) ITALIC: An Italian Intent Classification Dataset. Proc. INTERSPEECH 2023. doi: 10.21437/interspeech.2023-1980

Vaiani, L., La Quatra, M., Cagliero, L., & Garza, P. (2022). ViPER: Video-based Perceiver for Emotion Recognition. In 3rd International Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Workshop and Challenge (pp. 67-73).
Vaiani, L., La Quatra, M., Cagliero, L., & Garza, P. (2022). Leveraging multimodal content for podcast summarization. In 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (pp. 863-870).