--- title: "Simone Filice — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Simone Filice, Technology Innovation Institute: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2015–2026), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-filice/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-filice/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Simone Filice # Simone Filice Simone Filice has 4 papers in our library, in 2015–2026, most of them on [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/); often with [Florin Cuconasu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/florin-cuconasu/), [Fabrizio Silvestri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fabrizio-silvestri/), [Giovanni Trappolini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giovanni-trappolini/). 4 papers in our library · 2015–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5093826503) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6735-9950) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130843898) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5093826503) · [64 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5093826503) · [895 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5093826503&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-filice/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 193 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-filice/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4296](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/43/#star-4296) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Simone+Filice) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Simone+Filice) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Simone+Filice) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Simone+Filice) ## Affiliations [🔬**Technology Innovation Institute** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 2021–2026 · 11 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/technology-innovation-institute/) · [🎓**University of Rome Tor Vergata** Rome · Italy 2012–2019 · 15 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-rome-tor-vergata/) · [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2020–2023 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🎓**Hamad bin Khalifa University** Doha · Qatar 2015–2019 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hamad-bin-khalifa-university/) · [🎓**Sapienza University of Rome** Rome · Italy 2015–2018 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sapienza-university-of-rome/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Information Systems · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 6 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information retrieval & search · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Retrieval-augmented generation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/retrieval-augmented-generation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-filice/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-filice/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-filice/year/2024/) ### 2010s [**2015** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-filice/year/2015/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The Power of Noise: Redefining Retrieval for RAG Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cuconasu-2024-power-noise-redefining-retrieval-rag/)** *(2024 · 312 citations)* Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) supplies an LLM with passages from an IR system so it can answer questions beyond its pre-trained knowledge. 2. **[QCRI: Answer Selection for Community Question Answering - Experiments for Arabic and English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nicosia-2015-qcri-answer-selection-community-question/)** *(2015 · 76 citations)* The paper reports QCRI's entry in SemEval-2015 Task 3, which asks whether a comment in a Web forum thread actually answers the question that opened the thread. 3. **[The Distracting Effect: Understanding Irrelevant Passages in RAG](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/amiraz-2025-distracting-effect-understanding-irrelevant-passages/)** *(2025 · 21 citations)* This paper examines a familiar weakness of Retrieval Augmented Generation: passages that do not answer a question but are topically close to it can lead the generating LLM to a wrong answer. 4. **[Redefining Retrieval Evaluation in the Era of LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/trappolini-2026-redefining-retrieval-evaluation-era-llms/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Classic retrieval metrics such as nDCG, MAP and MRR were built for people who read result lists from the top down. ## All works 7 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[The Power of Noise: Redefining Retrieval for RAG Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cuconasu-2024-power-noise-redefining-retrieval-rag/) [International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/)**Florin Cuconasu, Giovanni Trappolini, Federico Siciliano, et al.*2024 · 312 citations* 2. **[KeLP at SemEval-2016 Task 3: Learning Semantic Relations between Questions and Answers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S16-1172/) Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2016) · no summary yet**Simone Filice et al.*2016 · 116 citations* 3. **[Continual Learning for Named Entity Recognition ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v35i15.17600) Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Natawut Monaikul et al.*2021 · 95 citations* 4. **[QCRI: Answer Selection for Community Question Answering - Experiments for Arabic and English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nicosia-2015-qcri-answer-selection-community-question/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Massimo Nicosia, Simone Filice, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, et al.*2015 · 76 citations* 5. **[The Distracting Effect: Understanding Irrelevant Passages in RAG](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/amiraz-2025-distracting-effect-understanding-irrelevant-passages/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Chen Amiraz, Florin Cuconasu, Simone Filice, et al.*2025 · 21 citations* 6. **[Learning to Recognize Ancillary Information for Automatic Paraphrase Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1129/) Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · no summary yet**Simone Filice, Alessandro Moschitti*2016 · 4 citations* 7. **[Redefining Retrieval Evaluation in the Era of LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/trappolini-2026-redefining-retrieval-evaluation-era-llms/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Giovanni Trappolini, Florin Cuconasu, Simone Filice, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 12 of 13 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Florin Cuconasu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/florin-cuconasu/) ×3 - [Fabrizio Silvestri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fabrizio-silvestri/) ×2 - [Giovanni Trappolini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giovanni-trappolini/) ×2 - [Yoelle Maarek](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoelle-maarek/) ×2 - [Alberto Barrón-Cedeño](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alberto-barron-cedeno/) - [Alessandro Moschitti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-moschitti/) - [Giovanni Da San Martino](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giovanni-da-san-martino/) - [Hamdy Mubarak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamdy-mubarak/) - [Kareem Darwish](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kareem-darwish/) - [Lluís Màrquez](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lluis-marquez/) - [Preslav Nakov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/preslav-nakov/) - [Shafiq Joty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shafiq-joty/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/) ×2: [SemEval 2015](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2015/) - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - [International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/): [SIGIR 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/2024/) - Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 193 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [32 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-filice/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026