Erion Çano

University of Vienna

Vienna, Austria

erion.canounivie.ac.at

University of Vienna

Politecnico di Torino

Me

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Group Data Mining and Machine Learning, University of Vienna, working on the projects "Knowledge-Infused Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing" and "Cognitive Plausibility of Deep Learning Language Models". I have previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (UFAL), Charles University in Prague, conducting research on Text Summarization as part of the European Live Translator project.

My research interests include Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing, more specifically for Sentiment Analysis, Topic Recognition, and Text Summarization. I conducted my PhD studies within the SoftEng Group at Politecnico di Torino university in Italy where I finished my thesis on Text-based Sentiment Analysis and Music Emotion Recogniton. I also worked in a collaborative project about On-Car Music Recommender Systems within JOL MobiLab of TIM.

News

2022/06/30: The project proposal titled "Cognitive Plausibility of Deep Learning Language Models" that I coordinate as Principal Investigator was granted by the Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW).
2020/12/20: I presented my paper at NLPIR 2020: "How Many Pages? Paper Length Prediction from the Metadata."
2020/02/11: My paper titled "Two Huge Title and Keyword Generation Corpora of Research Articles" was accepted for publication at LREC 2020, Marseille, France."
2019/11/07: I presented my paper at FRUCT 2019 in Helsinki, Finland: "Keyphrase Generation: A Multi-Aspect Survey."
2019/10/31: I presented my paper at INLG 2019 in Tokyo, Japan: "Efficiency Metrics for Data-Driven Models: A Text Summarization Case Study."

Projects

Current

Cognitive Plausibility of Deep Learning Language Models - Coordinating Principal Investigator @ University of Vienna
Knowledge-Infused Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing - Postdoc Researcher @ University of Vienna

Past

European Live Translator - Postdoc Researcher @ UFAL, Charles University in Prague
On-Car Music Recommender Systems - PhD Student @ Politecnico di Torino, TIM

Resources

AlbSpellFix for cleaning corpora of Albanian texts GITHUB
AlbNews corpus for topic modeling in Albanian LINDAT
AlbNER corpus for named entity recognition in Albanian LINDAT
AlbMoRe movie reviews for sentiment analysis in Albanian LINDAT
OAGL paper metadata corpus for analysing paper lengths LINDAT
OAGT corpus of paper texts for topic recognition ZENODO
OAGSX title generation corpus for text summarization LINDAT
OAGKX keyword generation corpus for keyword analysis LINDAT

Students

Mirkan Albayrak
Emin Guliev

Publications

Books

Erion Çano, Edmond Tupja: Terma dhe koncepte nga inteligjenca artificiale. ISBN: 978-9928-807-34-2, Albas, Tiranë, nëntor 2023.
Erion Çano, Edmond Tupja: Fjalor i teknologjisë së informacionit. ISBN: 978-9928-371-35-5, Pegi, Tiranë, nëntor 2022.
Erion Çano, Edmond Tupja: Terminologji informatike: problematika dhe zgjidhje. ISBN: 978-9928-320-83-4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6378930, Tiranë, mars 2022. Zenodo PDF EPUB MOBI
Erion Çano: Text-based Sentiment Analysis and Music Emotion Recognition. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, 2018. WEB PDF

Papers

2024

Erion Çano, Dario Lamaj: AlbNews: A Corpus of Headlines for Topic Modeling in Albanian. ArXiv DATA

2023

Lukas Thoma, Ivonne Weyers, Erion Çano, Stefan Schweter, Jutta L Mueller, Benjamin Roth: CogMemLM: Human-Like Memory Mechanisms Improve Performance and Cognitive Plausibility of LLMs. ACL
Erion Çano: AlbNER: A Corpus for Named Entity Recognition in Albanian. ArXiv DATA
Vasiliki Kougia, Simon Fetzel, Thomas Kirchmair, Erion Çano, Sina Moayed Baharlou, Sahand Sharifzadeh, Benjamin Roth: MemeGraphs: Linking Memes to Knowledge Graphs. SPRINGER CODE
Erion Çano, Xhesilda Vogli: CSREU: A Novel Dataset about Corporate Social Responsibility and Performance Indicators. ArXiv DATA
Erion Çano: AlbMoRe: A Corpus of Movie Reviews for Sentiment Analysis in Albanian. ArXiv DATA CODE
Xhesilda Vogli, Erion Çano: CSRCZ: A Dataset About Corporate Social Responsibility in Czech Republic. ArXiv DATA CODE

2022

Amir Ziaee, Erion Çano: Batch Layer Normalization: A new normalization layer for CNNs and RNNs. ACM CODE
Erion Çano, Benjamin Roth: Topic Segmentation of Research Article Collections. ArXiv DATA
Stefan Schweter, Luisa März, Katharina Schmid, Erion Çano: hmBERT: Historical Multilingual Language Models for Named Entity Recognition. ArXiv CODE

2021

Benjamin Roth, Erion Çano: Focused Contrastive Training for Test-based Constituency Analysis. ArXiv NeurIPS

2020

Erion Çano, Ondřej Bojar: How Many Pages? Paper Length Prediction from the Metadata, In: NLPIR, Seoul, Korea. ACM DATA CODE
Erion Çano, Ondřej Bojar: Automating Text Naturalness Evaluation of NLG Systems. ArXiv
Erion Çano, Ondřej Bojar: Human or Machine: Automating Human Likeliness Evaluation of NLG Texts. ArXiv
Erion Çano, Ondřej Bojar: Two Huge Title and Keyword Generation Corpora of Research Articles, In: LREC, Marseille, France. ACL BibTeX DATA

2019

Erion Çano, Ondřej Bojar: Keyphrase Generation: A Multi-Aspect Survey, In: FRUCT, Helsinki, Finland. IEEE DATA
Erion Çano, Ondřej Bojar: Efficiency Metrics for Data-Driven Models: A Text Summarization Case Study, In: INLG, Tokyo, Japan. ACL BibTeX DATA
Erion Çano, Ondřej Bojar: Keyphrase Generation: A Text Summarization Struggle, In: NAACL, Minneapolis, USA. ACL BibTeX DATA
Erion Çano, Ondřej Bojar: Sentiment Analysis of Czech Texts: An Algorithmic Survey, In: ICAART, Prague, Czechia. SCITEPRESS
Erion Çano, Maurizio Morisio: Word Embeddings for Sentiment Analysis: A Comprehensive Empirical Survey. ArXiv

2018

Erion Çano, Maurizio Morisio: A data-driven neural network architecture for sentiment analysis, In: Data Technologies and Applications (53) 1. EMERALD
Erion Çano, Maurizio Morisio: A Deep Learning Architecture for Sentiment Analysis, In: Geoinformatics and Data Analysis, Prague, Czechia. ACM
Erion Çano, Maurizio Morisio: Role of Data Properties on Sentiment Analysis of Texts via Convolutions, In: WorldCist, Naples, Italy. SPRINGER BibTeX

2017

Erion Çano, Maurizio Morisio: Quality of Word Embeddings on Sentiment Analysis Tasks, In: NLDB, Liege, Belgium. SPRINGER BibTeX DATA
Erion Çano, Maurizio Morisio: MoodyLyrics: A Sentiment Annotated Lyrics Dataset, In: ISMSI, Hong Kong. ACM DATA
Erion Çano, Maurizio Morisio: Hybrid Recommendations, Recommender Systems, Systematic Review, In: Intelligent Data Analysis (21) 6. IOSPRESS
Erion Çano, Maurizio Morisio: Music Mood Dataset Creation Based on Lastfm Tags, In: AIAP, Vienna, Austria. PDF DATA
Erion Çano, Maurizio Morisio: Crowdsourcing Emotions in Music Domain, In: Artificial Intelligence & Applications (8) 4. PDF DATA

2016

Erion Çano, Riccardo Coppola, Eleonora Gargiulo, Marco Marengo, Maurizio Morisio: Mood-based On-Car Music Recommendations, In: INISCOM, Leicester, UK. SPRINGER BibTeX

2015

Erion Çano, Maurizio Morisio: Characterization of Public Datasets for Recommender Systems, In: RTSI, Torino, Italy. IEEE