Maurizio Romano

Assistant Professor (RTD-A) in Statistics · University of Cagliari

Publications

Listed below are journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings and working papers. Recent links to DOI are provided where available. A full citation list is also maintained on Google Scholar.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

  1. 2026

    A distance-based aggregation method for finding consensus in preference-approvals

    Albano A., Romano M.

    Advances in Data Analysis and Classification · doi:10.1007/s11634-025-00663-4

  2. 2025

    Balancing performance and environmental efficiency: a multiclass classification study of textual data

    Priola M. P., Romano M.

    Electronic Journal of Applied Statistical Analysis (EJASA) · doi:10.1285/I20705948V18N2P238

  3. 2025

    Stairway to Heaven: An emotional journey in Divina Commedia with Threshold-based Naïve Bayes classifier

    Romano M., Conversano C.

    Machine Learning with Applications · doi:10.1016/j.mlwa.2024.100613

  4. 2025

    Particle swarm optimization for preference rankings

    Romano M., Conversano C., Siciliano R., D'Ambrosio A.

    Advances in Data Analysis and Classification · doi:10.1007/s11634-025-00626-9

  5. 2024

    Automatic topic title assignment with word embedding

    Zammarchi G., Romano M., Conversano C.

    Journal of Classification · doi:10.1007/s00357-024-09476-0

  6. 2024

    Semi-supervised topic representation through sentiment analysis and semantic networks

    Ortu M., Romano M., Carta A.

    Big Data Research · doi:10.1016/j.bdr.2024.100474

  7. 2023

    Iterative Threshold-based Naïve Bayes Classifier

    Romano M., Zammarchi G., Conversano C.

    Statistical Methods & Applications · doi:10.1007/s10260-023-00721-1

  8. 2023

    Semi-supervised sentiment clustering on natural language texts

    Frigau L., Romano M., Ortu M., Contu G.

    Statistical Methods & Applications · doi:10.1007/s10260-023-00691-4

  9. 2023

    Threshold-based Naïve Bayes classifier

    Romano M., Contu G., Mola F., Conversano C.

    Advances in Data Analysis and Classification · doi:10.1007/s11634-023-00536-8

  10. 2020

    University student achievements and international mobility. The case of University of Cagliari

    Contu G., Frigau L., Mola F., Romano M., Conversano C.

    Electronic Journal of Applied Statistical Analysis, 13(2), 474–497 · doi:10.1285/i20705948v13n2p474

Book chapters

  1. 2025

    An Hybrid Preference Learning Framework to Refine the Consensus Ranking

    Romano M., Zammarchi G.

    In Supervised and Unsupervised Statistical Data Analysis (CLADAG-VOC 2025), Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization, Springer · doi:10.1007/978-3-032-03042-9_25

  2. 2024

    SMARTS: SeMi-Supervised Clustering for Assessment of Reviews Using Topic and Sentiment

    Ortu M., Romano M., Carta A.

    In Recent Trends and Future Challenges in Learning from Data (ECDA 2022), Springer, pp. 95–106 · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-54468-2_9

  3. 2021

    Decomposing tourists' sentiment from raw NL text to assess customer satisfaction

    Romano M., Mola F., Conversano C.

    In ASA 2021 — Statistics and Information Systems for Policy Evaluation, Firenze University Press, pp. 147–151 · doi:10.36253/978-88-5518-304-8.29

  4. 2019

    Four community detection algorithms for direct and indirect graphs

    Contu G., Frigau L., Romano M.

    In Il Mondo che cambia (A. Pavan, A. Diliberto eds.), Franco Angeli, Milano, pp. 250–262 · ISBN 9788891798701

Conference proceedings

  1. 2025

    CLADAG-VOC 2025 — Book of Abstracts

    Romano M., Zammarchi G. (eds.)

    15th Scientific Meeting CLADAG 2025, Zaccaria srl · ISBN 9788899594244

  2. 2025

    Statistics for Innovation I (invited session)

    Romano M.

    In SIS 2025 — Statistics for Innovation, Springer · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-96736-8_41

  3. 2025

    Balancing performance and environmental efficiency: a multiclass classification study of textual data

    Ibba G., Calderón Ramírez S., Abreu Cárdenas M., Masis-Solano M., Romano M.

    2025 IEEE 7th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Processing (BIP) · ISBN 979-8-3315-7014-9

  4. 2025

    Book of Short Papers — 12th Meeting SVQS (IES 2025)

    Boi S., Tedesco N., Romano M., Salaris L. (eds.)

    IES 2025 — Innovation & Society: Statistics and Data Science for Evaluation and Quality, University of Padova, Cleup · ISBN 978-88-5495-849-4

  5. 2025

    Particle Swarm Optimization in preference rankings (invited session)

    Romano M.

    In ISI 2025 — 65th ISI World Statistics Congress

  6. 2024

    Multi-class text classification of news data (invited session)

    Romano M., Priola M. P.

    In Book of Short Papers SDS 2024, Palermo

  7. 2023

    A new accurate heuristic algorithm to solve the rank aggregation problem with a large number of objects (invited session)

    Romano M., Siciliano R.

    In CLADAG 2023 — 14th Scientific Meeting, Salerno, pp. 269–272 · ISBN 978-88-9193-563-2

  8. 2022

    Evolution of Media Coverage on Climate Change and Environmental Awareness: an Analysis of Tweets from UK and US Newspapers

    Zammarchi G., Romano M., Conversano C.

    In IFCS 2022 — Classification and Data Science in the Digital Age, CLAD, Porto, p. 122 · ISBN 978-989-98955-9-1

  9. 2022

    Iterative Threshold-based Naïve Bayes Classifier: an efficient Tb-NB improvement

    Romano M., Zammarchi G., Contu G.

    In Book of Short Papers SIS 2022 (51st SIS Meeting), Caserta, pp. 1656–1661 · ISBN 9788891932310

  10. 2022

    A semi-supervised clustering method to extract information from the electronic Word Of Mouth

    Contu G., Frigau L., Romano M., Ortu M.

    In Book of Short Papers SIS 2022, Caserta, pp. 1558–1563 · ISBN 9788891932310

  11. 2022

    Evolution of scientific literature on climate change: a bibliometric analysis

    Zammarchi G., Contu G., Romano M.

    In Book of Short Papers SIS 2022, Caserta, pp. 1273–1278 · ISBN 9788891932310

  12. 2022

    Textual Semi-Supervised Clustering: an Application on Booking.com Data

    Contu G., Romano M., Zammarchi G.

    In ISBIS 2022 Book of Short Abstracts, p. 50 · ISBN 979-12-210-1389-4

  13. 2022

    Threshold-based Naïve Bayes Classifier: Customer Satisfaction evaluation

    Romano M., Zammarchi G., Conversano C.

    In Book of Short Papers IES 2022, Caserta, pp. 90–94 · ISBN 978-88-94593-35-8

  14. 2019

    Hotel search engine architecture based on online reviews' content

    Conversano C., Romano M., Mola F.

    In Smart Statistics for Smart Applications, SIS, Milano, pp. 213–218 · ISBN 9788891915108

  15. 2019

    Customer Satisfaction from Booking

    Romano M., Frigau L., Contu G., Mola F., Conversano C.

    In GARR 18 Conference — Data (R)evolution, Selected Papers, Roma, pp. 111–118 · doi:10.26314/GARR-Conf18-proceedings-21

Ph.D. thesis

  1. 2021

    General Sentiment Decomposition: opinion mining based on raw Natural Language text

    Romano M.

    Ph.D. thesis in Economic and Business Sciences (Quantitative — Statistics, SECS-S/01), University of Cagliari. Supervisors: Prof. C. Conversano, Prof. F. Mola.

Working papers

  1. wp

    Context AdapteR Tree-based framework

    Romano M., Wilhelm A., Conversano C.

    Working paper

  2. 2026

    General Sentiment Decomposition on Japanese Text

    Romano M., Nakayama A.

    Working paper

  3. 2026

    Benchmarking Naïve Bayes classifiers

    Romano M.

    Working paper