Francesco Sovrano
https://usi.to/bmrk
Publications
Key publications (4)
- Sovrano F., Hine E., Anzolut S., Bacchelli A. (2025) Simplifying software compliance: AI technologies in drafting technical documentation for the AI Act
- Sovrano F., Vitali F. (2023) An objective metric for Explainable AI: How and why to estimate the degree of explainability
- Sovrano F., Vitali F. (2022) Explanatory artificial intelligence (YAI): human-centered explanations of explainable AI and complex data
- Sovrano F., Raymond A., Prorok A. (2022) Explanation-Aware Experience Replay in Rule-Dense Environments
Journal Article (12)
- Sovrano F., Vonlanthen S., Bacchelli A. (2025) Beyond the lab: An in-depth analysis of real-world practices in government-to-citizen software user documentation, Information and Software Technology, 181
- Sovrano F., Hine E., Anzolut S., Bacchelli A. (2025) Simplifying software compliance: AI technologies in drafting technical documentation for the AI Act, Empirical Software Engineering, 30 (4)
- Pirouzkhah S., Rani P., Sovrano F., Hellendoorn V., Bacchelli A. (2025) The price of precision: the cost of preprocessing for automated code revision in code review, Empirical Software Engineering, 31 (2)
- Sovrano F., Ashley K., Brusilovsky P. L., Vitali F. (2024) How to Improve the Explanatory Power of an Intelligent Textbook: a Case Study in Legal Writing, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 35 (3)
- Sovrano F., Palmirani M., Sapienza S., Pistone V. (2024) DiscoLQA: zero-shot discourse-based legal question answering on European Legislation, Artificial Intelligence and Law, 33 (2)
- Sovrano F., Vitali F. (2023) An objective metric for Explainable AI: How and why to estimate the degree of explainability, Knowledge-Based Systems, 278
- Sovrano F., Vitali F. (2022) Explanatory artificial intelligence (YAI): human-centered explanations of explainable AI and complex data, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 38 (5)
- Sovrano F., Vitali F. (2022) Generating User-Centred Explanations via Illocutionary Question Answering: From Philosophy to Interfaces, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 12 (4)
- Sovrano F., Sapienza S., Palmirani M., Vitali F. (2022) Metrics, Explainability and the European AI Act Proposal, J, 5 (1)
- Sovrano F., Raymond A., Prorok A. (2022) Explanation-Aware Experience Replay in Rule-Dense Environments, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7 (2)
- Sovrano F., Palmirani M., Vitali F. (2022) Combining shallow and deep learning approaches against data scarcity in legal domains, Government Information Quarterly, 39 (3)
- Asperti A., Cortesi D., De Pieri C., Pedrini G., Sovrano F. (2020) Crawling in Rogue's Dungeons With Deep Reinforcement Techniques, IEEE Transactions on Games, 12 (2)
Book chapter (1)
- Sovrano F., Miller T. (2025) MAGIX: A Unified Framework for the Use of XAI in Enterprises. Enterprise AI. Springer Nature Switzerland
Article in conference proceedings (21)
- Sovrano F., Bauer A., Bacchelli A. (2025) Large language models for in-file vulnerability localization can be “Lost in the End”. ACM on Software Engineering. ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE). Trondheim, Norway. Mon 23 - Fri 27 June 2025
- Sovrano F., Lognoul M., Bacchelli A. (2024) An Empirical Study on Compliance with Ranking Transparency in the Software Documentation of EU Online Platforms. ICSE-SEIS'2024. ICSE-SEIS'24: 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society. Lisbon, Portugal. April 14–20, 2024
- Sovrano F., Lognoul M., Vilone G. (2024) Aligning XAI with EU Regulations for Smart Biomedical Devices: A Methodology for Compliance Analysis. ECAI'2024. 27TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 19-24 OCTOBER 2024
- Vilone G., Sovrano F., Lognoul M. (2024) On the Explainability of Financial Robo-Advice Systems. xAI'2024. 2nd World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence. Malta, Valletta. 17-19 July, 2024
- Pistone V., Sovrano F., Distefano B. (2023) Aligning UN Goals and legal norms in a case weighting system: a case study on environmental crimes in Italy. ICEGOV '2023. ICEGOV 2023: 16th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance. Belo Horizonte Brazil. 26 – 29 September 2023
- Sovrano F., Vitali F. (2023) Perlocution vs Illocution: How Different Interpretations of the Act of Explaining Impact on the Evaluation of Explanations and XAI. xAI'2023. xAI: World Conference on Explainable Artificial Intelligence. Lisbon, Portugal. July 26–28, 2023
- Sovrano F., Ashley K., Bacchelli A. (2023) Toward Eliminating Hallucinations: GPT-based Explanatory AI for Intelligent Textbooks and Documentation. iTextbooks@AIED'2023. Fifth Workshop on Intelligent Textbooks (iTextbooks) at the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED’2023),. Tokyo, Japan. July 3-7, 2023
- Sovrano F., Masetti G. (2022) Foreseeing the Impact of the Proposed AI Act on the Sustainability and Safety of Critical Infrastructures. ICEGOV '2022. ICEGOV 2022: 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance. Guimarães, Portugal. October 4 - 7, 2022
- Sovrano F., Vitali F. (2022) How to Quantify the Degree of Explainability: Experiments and Practical Implications. FUZZ-IEEE'2022. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE). Padua, Italy. 2022
- Sovrano F., Vitali F., Palmirani M. (2021) Making Things Explainable vs Explaining: Requirements and Challenges Under the GDPR. AICOL-XII@JURIX'2020. International Workshop on AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems. Brno, Czechia. December 9, 2020
- Sovrano F., Sapienza S., Palmirani M., Vitali F. (2021) A Survey on Methods and Metrics for the Assessment of Explainability Under the Proposed AI Act. JURIX'2021. JURIX 2021: The Thirty-fourth Annual Conference,. Vilnius, Lithuania. 8–10 December 2021
- Palmirani M., Sovrano F., Liga D., Sapienza S., Vitali F. (2021) Hybrid AI Framework for Legal Analysis of the EU Legislation Corrigenda. JURIX'2021. JURIX 2021: The Thirty-fourth Annual Conference,. Vilnius, Lithuania. 8–10 December 2021
- Sovrano F., Palmirani M., Distefano B., Sapienza S., Vitali F. (2021) A dataset for evaluating legal question answering on private international law. ICAIL '2021. ICAIL '21: Eighteenth International Conference for Artificial Intelligence and Law. São Paulo, Brazil. June 21 - 25, 2021
- Sovrano F., Vitali F. (2021) From Philosophy to Interfaces: an Explanatory Method and a Tool Inspired by Achinstein’s Theory of Explanation. IUI '2021. IUI '21: 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. College Station, TX, USA. April 13-17
- Palmirani M., Bincoletto G., Leone V., Sapienza S., Sovrano F. (2020) Hybrid Refining Approach of PrOnto Ontology. EGOVIS'2020. The 9th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective - EGOVIS2020. Bratislava, Slovakia. September 14 - 17, 2020
- Sovrano F., Palmirani M., Vitali F. (2020) Deep learning based multi-label text classification of UNGA resolutions. ICEGOV'2020. ICEGOV 2020: 13th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance. Athens, Greece. September 23 - 25, 2020
- Sovrano F., Palmirani M., Vitali F. (2020) Legal Knowledge Extraction for Knowledge Graph Based Question-Answering. JURIX'2020. JURIX 2020: The Thirty-third Annual Conferenc. Brno, Czech Republic. December 9–11, 2020
- Sovrano F., Vitali F., Palmirani M. (2020) Modelling GDPR-Compliant Explanations for Trustworthy AI. EGOVIS'2020. International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective. Bratislava, Slovakia. September 14 - 17, 2020
- Asperti A., Cortesi D., Sovrano F. (2019) Crawling in Rogue’s Dungeons with (Partitioned) A3C. LOD'2019. International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science. Certosa di Pontignano, Siena. September 10-13, 2019
- Monica P., Giorgia B., Valentina L., Salvatore S., Sovrano F. (2019) PrOnto Ontology Refinement Through Open Knowledge Extraction. JURIX'2019. International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems. Madrid, Spain. 11 to 13 December 2019
- Sovrano F. (2019) Combining Experience Replay with Exploration by Random Network Distillation. CoG'2019. 2019 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG). London, United Kingdom. 2019
