ielab member

Joao Palotti

External Member

Research Associate, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI)

Projects

Consumer Health Search trectools

Publications (22)

As listed on Google Scholar (since 2019) · metadata via OpenAlex · updated 2026-10-04 Google Scholar OpenAlex

2025

1 publication

Fasting during Ramadan is associated with changes in activity and blood glucose excursion in people with type 2 diabetes on three or more anti-hyperglycemic agents PROFAST-3
Mohammed Bashir, Abdulaziz Al-Homaid, Sabri Boughorbel, Billel Mokeddem, João Palotti, Syed Hashim, Ummar Abbas, Tarik Abdelkareim Elhadd

Qatar medical journal · 2025

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2024

1 publication

Experimental IR meets Multilinguality, multimodality, and interaction
L Goeuriot, P Mulhem, G Quénot, D Schwab, L Soulier, GM Di Nunzio, ...

Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference of the CLEF · 2024

2023

2 publications

Analysis of Emotion Annotation Strength Improves Generalization in Speech Emotion Recognition Models
João Palotti, Gagan Narula, Lekan Raheem, Herbert Bay

2023
Towards Accurate and Efficient Sleep Period Detection Using Wearable Devices
Fatemeh Jokar, George Azzopardi, João Palotti

Lecture notes in computer science · 2023

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2022

5 publications

LifeSnaps, a 4-month multi-modal dataset capturing unobtrusive snapshots of our lives in the wild
Sofia Yfantidou, Christina Karagianni, Stefanos Efstathiou, Athena I. Vakali, João Palotti, Dimitrios Panteleimon Giakatos, Thomas Marchioro, Andrei Kazlouski, Elena Ferrari, Šarūnas Girdzijauskas

Scientific Data · 2022

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Detecting sleep outside the clinic using wearable heart rate devices
Ignacio Perez-Pozuelo, Marius Posa, Dimitris Spathis, Kate L. Westgate, Nicholas J. Wareham, Cecilia Mascolo, Søren Brage, João Palotti

Scientific Reports · 2022

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Multilingual Detection of Personal Employment Status on Twitter
Manuel Tonneau, Dhaval Adjodah, João Palotti, Nir Grinberg, Samuel P. Fraiberger

Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2022

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Maiby's Algorithm: A Two-stage Deep Learning Approach for Murmur Detection in Mel Spectrograms for Automatic Auscultation of Congenital Heart Disease
Matheus Araujo, Dewen Zeng, João Palotti, Xinrong Hu, Yiyu Shi, Lee A. Pyles, Quan Ni"

Computing in cardiology · 2022

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Tasrif: processing wearable data in Python
Abdulaziz Al Homaid, Syed Hashim, Fadhil Abubaker, Ummar Abbas, Faisal Farooq, João Palotti

2022 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops) · 2022

2021

1 publication

Predicting Several Sleep Quality Metrics Based On Same Day Physical Activity
J Palotti, I Perez-Pozuelo, A Al Homaid, R Mall, M Posa, H Berlin, D Jin, ...

ICLR AI for public health Workshop · 2021

2020

5 publications

The future of sleep health: a data-driven revolution in sleep science and medicine
Ignacio Perez-Pozuelo, Bing Zhai, João Palotti, Raghvendra Mall, Michael J Marie Aupetit, Juan Miguel Garcia-Gomez, Shahrad Taheri, Yu Guan, Luis Fernández-Luque

npj Digital Medicine · 2020

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Making sense of sleep: Multimodal sleep stage classification in a large, diverse population using movement and cardiac sensing
B Zhai, I Perez-Pozuelo, EAD Clifton, J Palotti, Y Guan

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous · 2020
Artificial Intelligence (AI) based machine learning models predict glucose variability and hypoglycaemia risk in patients with type 2 diabetes on a multiple drug regimen who fast during ramadan (The PROFAST – IT Ramadan study)
Tarik Abdelkareim Elhadd, Raghvendra Mall, Mohammed Bashir, João Palotti, Luis Fernández-Luque, Faisal Farooq, Dabia Al Mohanadi, Zainab Dabbous, Rayaz Ahmed Malik, Abdul‐Badi Abou‐Samra

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice · 2020

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Monitoring of the Venezuelan exodus through Facebook’s advertising platform
João Palotti, Natalia Adler, Alfredo J. Morales, Jeffrey Villaveces, Vedran Sekara, Manuel García–Herranz, Musa Al-Asad, Ingmar G. Weber

PLoS ONE · 2020

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Detecting sleep in free-living conditions without sleep-diaries: a device-agnostic, wearable heart rate sensing approach
Ignacio Perez-Pozuelo, Marius Posa, Dimitris Spathis, Kate L. Westgate, Nicholas J. Wareham, Cecilia Mascolo, Søren Brage, João Palotti

medRxiv · 2020

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2019

7 publications

Benchmark on a large cohort for sleep-wake classification with machine learning techniques
João Palotti, Raghvendra Mall, Michael J Marie Aupetit, Michael Rueschman, Meghna Singh, Aarti Sathyanarayana, Shahrad Taheri, Luis Fernández-Luque

npj Digital Medicine · 2019

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Trectools: an open-source python library for information retrieval practitioners involved in trec-like campaigns
J Palotti, H Scells, G Zuccon

Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and · 2019
Overview of the CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2019
Liadh Kelly, Hanna Suominen, Lorraine Goeuriot, Mariana Neves, Evangelos Kanoulas, Dan Li, Leif A. Azzopardi, René Spijker, Guido Zuccon, Harrisen Scells, João Palotti

Lecture notes in computer science · 2019

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Consumer health search on the web: study of web page understandability and its integration in ranking algorithms
J Palotti, G Zuccon, A Hanbury

Journal of medical Internet research 21 (1), e10986 · 2019
Health Lifestyle Data-Driven Applications Using Pervasive Computing
Luis Fernández-Luque, Michael J Marie Aupetit, João Palotti, Meghna Singh, AYMAN M. FADLELBARI, Abdelkader Baggag, Kamran Khowaja, Dena Al‐Thani

Lecture notes in bioengineering · 2019
CLEF eHealth 2019 Evaluation Lab
Liadh Kelly, Lorraine Goeuriot, Hanna Suominen, Mariana Neves, Evangelos Kanoulas, René Spijker, Leif A. Azzopardi, Dan Li, Jimmy Jimmy, João Palotti, Guido Zuccon

Lecture notes in computer science · 2019

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Understandability and expertise in consumer health search: retrieving topically relevant and understandable health information on the Web
JRM Palotti

Technische Universität Wien · 2019