VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Riccardo Benassi
dblp:381/6131
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2ranked-venue papers
2as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 2 · 2 first-author · 2 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Trustworthy machine learning · 100% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Data integration and cleaning · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › interpretability › explanation evaluation
explanation faithfulness |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Explaining Entity Matching with Clusters of Words · ICDE 2024 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
interpretability |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Explaining Entity Matching with Clusters of Words · ICDE 2024 |
Data integration and cleaning
entity matching |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Explaining Entity Matching with Clusters of Words · ICDE 2024 |
Data integration and cleaning › entity resolution
explainable entity matching |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Explaining Entity Matching with Clusters of Words · ICDE 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
semantic similarity · 1.5clustering · 1.5
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Forecasting Irregularly Sampled Time Series with Transformer Encoders
Riccardo Benassi, Francesco Del Buono, Giacomo Guiduzzi, Francesco Guerra 0001 |
ECML/PKDD (8) | 1 |
| 2024 | Explaining Entity Matching with Clusters of WordsabstractDeep learning models achieve state-of-the-art per-formance in solving the task of Entity Matching, which aims to identify records that refer to the same real-world entity. However, they act as black-box models for the user, who has limited insights into the rationales behind their decisions. Several explainers (e.g., LIME, Mojito, Landmark, LEMON, and CERTA) have been proposed in the literature to address this issue. Their main focus is to generate explanations that are faithful to the model without considering their comprehensibility to the user. For example, verbose explanations could be very complex to analyze, hindering the model's understanding. In this paper, we propose CREW, an explanation system for Entity Matching models that combines the comprehensibility of the explanations and fidelity to the model. To achieve this, CREW creates explanations as clusters of words. The clusters are created by exploiting three different forms of knowledge: the semantic similarity of the words, their arrangement into the dataset attributes, and their importance in explaining the model. Experiments show that CREW generates explanations that are more interpretable for the user and more faithful to the model than those generated by competing explanation techniques. Riccardo Benassi, Francesco Guerra 0001, Matteo Paganelli, Donato Tiano |
ICDE | 1 |