University of Milano-Bicocca research lab

Questions traced to evidence.

At the University of Milano-Bicocca, the DatAI group develops semantic and human-in-the-loop methods for managing large, heterogeneous data and building value-added AI services. Each area below is connected to verified projects and public artifacts.

Follow the evidence chain.

Choose a line of research to connect its question, people and public work.

Specimen R/02Document analysis

Turn document collections into inspectable analytical spaces.

  1. 1QuestionHow can experts search, inspect and refine knowledge extracted from long or complex documents?
  2. 2MethodsEntity-centric search, information extraction, retrieval and human correction
  3. 3EvidenceDAVE framework
Specimen R/04Edge–cloud systems

Allocate and balance data-intensive workloads from edge to cloud.

  1. 1QuestionWhere should workloads run when demand, latency and available resources change?
  2. 2MethodsDecentralized orchestration, scheduling, simulation and resource allocation
  3. 3EvidenceDFaaS platform

Research projects.

Active and completed projects connect DatAI methods to data compliance, predictive maintenance, digital health, open data, knowledge graphs and public services.

Status reviewed 2 September 2026

Active projects

Active
2025–27

DataPACT

A compliance framework and toolbox for data and AI operations and pipelines, validated across seven application areas.

Horizon Europe
GA 101189771

CORDIS record

Active
2025–28

APM — Automotive Predictive Maintenance

A data- and AI-driven platform for anticipating failures, estimating degradation and improving maintenance planning across heterogeneous vehicle fleets.

MIMIT
Accordi per l’innovazione

UniMiB record

Active
2023–26

DIPPS

Digital Intervention in Psychiatric and Psychologist Services integrates clinical workflows, patient support and AI-assisted decision tools across web and mobile services.

MIMIT
F/310240/03/X56

UniMiB record

Completed projects

Completed
2022–25

enRichMyData

A toolbox for scalable data-enrichment pipelines spanning discovery, understanding, cleaning, transformation, integration and enrichment.

Horizon Europe
GA 101070284

CORDIS record

Completed
2017–21

FoodNet

Food Social Sensor Network combined territorial, dietary and biomedical evidence with digital services to support healthy ageing in metropolitan Milan.

Regione Lombardia
POR FESR 225155

Official project page

Completed
2018–19

Robo-journalism / GazelLex

An applied research prototype combining structured football data, knowledge graphs and neural generation while keeping journalists in control of review and revision.

Applied research
NLG + knowledge graphs

CLiC-it paper

Completed
2017–19

EW-Shopp

Cross-sector and cross-language data integration enriched with weather and event information for analytics along the shopper journey.

Horizon 2020
GA 732590

CORDIS record

Completed
2017–19

euBusinessGraph

Models and services for collecting, reconciling, linking, validating and providing cross-border company data from heterogeneous sources.

Horizon 2020
GA 732003

CORDIS record

Completed
2014–15

SPAC3

Smart, cloud-based and citizen-centred service scenarios designed to support reusable digital public-administration processes.

Regione Lombardia
CUP E41I13000220009

UniMiB record

Completed
2013–15

COMSODE

Components Supporting the Open Data Exploitation lowered technical and organisational barriers to repeatable, traceable Open Data publication and reuse.

EU FP7
GA 611358

CORDIS record

Completed
2011–14

SMART

Services and meta-services for planning, designing and implementing value-added e-government workflows around user needs.

MIUR — PON
PON01_00861

PON project record

Completed
2010–12

MS4A

Mobile Services for AgroFood used smart labels to deliver contextual product information and support interactions among producers, retailers and consumers.

Regione Lombardia
Mobile services

Institutional record

Selected results.

Peer-reviewed methods, datasets and prototypes provide inspectable evidence for the four research areas.

Demo
2025

DAVE

Assisted document analysis through entity-driven faceted search, conversational querying, annotation correction and human-in-the-loop knowledge refinement.

Research areaKnowledge-intensive document analysis

Dataset
2025

MammoTab25

A semantic table interpretation dataset containing 838,930 tables extracted from 63 million English Wikipedia pages.

Research areaSemantic data & knowledge graphs

Method
2025

ReFactX

A method for scalable reasoning with reliable facts, using constrained generation to improve access to factual knowledge.

Research areaKnowledge-intensive document analysis

Method
2025

Prompt2DAG

A modular prompting approach for generating directed acyclic graphs that represent data-enrichment pipelines.

Research areaData & AI pipeline engineering

Framework
2024

SemTUI

An interactive environment for visually defining and exploring semantic data-enrichment pipelines.

Research areaSemantic data & pipeline engineering

Framework
2024

ABSTAT

Compact pattern-based profiles of knowledge graphs for understanding, exploration and data-quality assessment.

Research areaSemantic data & knowledge graphs

Platform
2021

DFaaS

A decentralized Function-as-a-Service architecture using peer-to-peer coordination to redistribute load across federated edge nodes.

Research areaEdge–cloud orchestration

Dataset

Eventour

A GeoSPARQL knowledge graph for cultural and service-aware urban exploration in Milan.

RDF · GeoSPARQL · SHACL

Tools & source code.

Explore the software, frameworks and reusable resources behind these research areas, with direct links to project websites and Git repositories.

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