| 2026 | ECIR | Query Performance Prediction Using a Child-Focused Definition of Relevance. | Hrishita Chakrabarti, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2026 | ECIR | All That Matters: Revisiting Children's Concept of Relevance in Primary School Context. | Diletta Micol Tobia, Hrishita Chakrabarti, Maria Soledad Pera, Monica Landoni |
| 2026 | ITiCSE | Teamwork for Computer Scientists in Education and Practice. | Merel Steenbergen, Maria Soledad Pera, Efthimia Aivaloglou |
| 2025 | ECIR | The Impact of Mainstream-Driven Algorithms on Recommendations for Children. | Robin Ungruh, Alejandro Bellogn, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2025 | RecSys | Impacts of Mainstream-Driven Algorithms on Recommendations for Children Across Domains: A Reproducibility Study. | Robin Ungruh, Alejandro Bellogn, Dominik Kowald, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2025 | RecSys | From Previous Plays to Long-Term Tastes: Exploring the Long-term Reliability of Recommender Systems Simulations for Children. | Robin Ungruh, Alejandro Bellogn, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2025 | SIGIR | Inside Out 2: Make Room for New Emotions & LLM: A Reproducibility Study of the Emotional Side of Search in the Classroom. | Hrishita Chakrabarti, Diletta Micol Tobia, Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2025 | SIGIR | 2nd Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users (IR4U2) - | Noemi Mauro, Angelo Geninatti Cossatin, Maria Soledad Pera, Federica Cena, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Emiliana Murgia |
| 2025 | SIGIR | Some Things Never Change: Overcoming Persistent Challenges in Children IR. | Maria Soledad Pera, Theo Huibers, Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni |
| 2025 | SIGIR | From Monolith to Mosaic: Uncovering Behavioral Differences for Choice Models in Recommender Systems Simulations. | Robin Ungruh, Alejandro Bellogn, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2024 | CHIIR | From Potential to Practice: Intellectual Humility During Search on Debated Topics. | Alisa Rieger, Frank Bredius, Marit Theune, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2024 | COLING | Incorporating Word-level Phonemic Decoding into Readability Assessment. | Christine Pinney, Casey Kennington, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails |
| 2024 | ECIR | Not Just Algorithms: Strategically Addressing Consumer Impacts in Information Retrieval. | Michael D. Ekstrand, Lex Beattie, Maria Soledad Pera, Henriette Cramer |
| 2024 | ECIR | Misinformation in video recommendations: an exploration of top-n tecommendation algorithms. | Benedikt Hornig, Maria Soledad Pera, Jan Scholtes |
| 2024 | ECIR | Good for Children, Good for All? | Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2024 | ECIR | 1 | Maria Soledad Pera, Federica Cena, Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Noemi Mauro, Emiliana Murgia |
| 2024 | ECIR | Responsible Opinion Formation on Debated Topics in Web Search. | Alisa Rieger, Tim Draws, Nicolas Mattis, David Maxwell, David Elsweiler, Ujwal Gadiraju, Dana McKay, Alessandro Bozzon, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2024 | RecSys | AltRecSys: A Workshop on Alternative, Unexpected, and Critical Ideas in Recommendation. | Michael D. Ekstrand, Maria Soledad Pera, Alan Said |
| 2024 | RecSys | Putting Popularity Bias Mitigation to the Test: A User-Centric Evaluation in Music Recommenders. | Robin Ungruh, Karlijn Dinnissen, Anja Volk, Maria Soledad Pera, Hanna Hauptmann |
| 2023 | CHI | Searching for the Whole Truth: Harnessing the Power of Intellectual Humility to Boost Better Search on Debated Topics. | Alisa Rieger, Frank Bredius, Nava Tintarev, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2023 | ECIR | How does Information Pollution Challenge Children's Right to Information Access? | Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2023 | ECIR | Where a Little Change Makes a Big Difference: A Preliminary Exploration of Children's Queries. | Maria Soledad Pera, Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Mohammad Aliannejadi |
| 2023 | IUI | Learning Technologies & AI: Who are we designing for? 250-253. | Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2023 | IUI | Children and Information Access: Fostering a Sense of Belonging 254-257. | Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails |
| 2022 | CHIIR | Have a Clue! The Effect of Visual Cues on Children's Search Behavior in the Classroom. | Monica Landoni, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Theo Huibers, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2022 | ECIR | Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: Why Using the "Right" Readability Formula in Children's Web Search Matters. | Garrett Allen, Ashlee Milton, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2022 | SIGIR | Let's Learn from Children: Scaffolding to Enable Search as Learning in the Educational Environment. | Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers |
| 2021 | CHIIR | Children's Perspective on How Emojis Help Them to Recognise Relevant Results: Do Actions Speak Louder Than Words? | Mohammad Aliannejadi, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2021 | ECIR | BiGBERT: Classifying Educational Web Resources for Kindergarten-12 | Garrett Allen, Brody Downs, Aprajita Shukla, Casey Kennington, Jerry Alan Fails, Katherine Landau Wright, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2021 | FQAS | The Impact of User Demographics and Task Types on Cross-App Mobile Search. | Mohammad Aliannejadi, Fabio Crestani, Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2021 | RecSys | ComplexRec 2021: Fifth Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Environments. | Himan Abdollahpouri, Toine Bogers, Bamshad Mobasher, Casper Petersen, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2021 | RecSys | An Empirical Analysis of Collaborative Recommender Systems Robustness to Shilling Attacks. | Anu Shrestha, Francesca Spezzano, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2021 | RecSys | Baby Shark to Barracuda: Analyzing Children's Music Listening Behavior. | Lawrence Spear, Ashlee Milton, Garrett Allen, Amifa Raj, Michael Green, Michael D. Ekstrand, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2021 | SIGIR | IR for Children 2000-2020: Where Are We Now? | Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2020 | LREC | KidSpell: A Child-Oriented, Rule-Based, Phonetic Spellchecker. | Brody Downs, Oghenemaro Anuyah, Aprajita Shukla, Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Casey Kennington |
| 2020 | RecSys | "Don't Judge a Book by its Cover": Exploring Book Traits Children Favor. | Ashlee Milton, Levesson Batista, Garrett Allen, Siqi Gao, Yiu-Kai Ng, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2019 | RecSys | StoryTime: eliciting preferences from children for book recommendations. | Ashlee Milton, Michael Green, Adam Keener, Joshua Ames, Michael D. Ekstrand, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2019 | RecSys | Here, There, and Everywhere: Building a Scaffolding for Children's Learning through Recommendations. | Ashlee Milton, Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2019 | RecSys | The Seven Layers of Complexity of Recommender Systems for Children in Educational Contexts. | Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2019 | RecSys | With a Little Help from my Friends: Use of Recommendations at School. | Maria Soledad Pera, Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers |
| 2019 | RecSys | ACM RecSys'19 late-breaking results (posters). | Marko Tkalcic, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2019 | WWW | Lightning Talk - Looking for the Movie Seven or Sven from the Movie Frozen? | Oghenemaro Anuyah, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Nevena Dragovic, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2019 | WWW | Using structured knowledge and traditional word embeddings to generate concept representations in the educational domain. | Oghenemaro Anuyah, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2018 | CHIIR | Looking for the Movie Seven or Sven from the Movie Frozen?: A Multi-perspective Strategy for Recommending Queries for Children. | Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Nevena Dragovic, Oghenemaro Anuyah, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2018 | RecSys | From Recommendation to Curation: When the System Becomes your Personal Docent. | Nevena Dragovic, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2018 | RecSys | Recommending social-interactive games for adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). | Yiu-Kai Ng, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2017 | FlAIRS | Exploiting Reviews to Generate Personalized and Justified Recommendations to Guide Users' Selections. | Nevena Dragovic, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2017 | FlAIRS | UBR: A Book Search - Recommender Hybrid. | Jason Hall, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2017 | RecSys | Can Readability Enhance Recommendations on Community Question Answering Sites? | Oghenemaro Anuyah, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, David McNeill, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2017 | RecSys | The Demographics of Cool: Popularity and Recommender Performance for Different Groups of Users. | Michael D. Ekstrand, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2017 | RecSys | KidRec: Children & Recommender Systems: Workshop Co-located with ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017). | Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, Franca Garzotto, Mirko Gelsomini |
| 2016 | RecSys | Is Readability a Valuable Signal for Hashtag Recommendations? | Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2016 | RecSys | Anything Fun Going On? A Simple Wizard to Avoid the Cold-Start Problem for Event Recommenders. | Stacey Donohue, Nevena Dragovic, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2016 | RecSys | Genre Prediction to Inform the Recommendation Process. | Nevena Dragovic, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2016 | RecSys | "One Size Doesn't Fit All": Helping Users Find Events from Multiple Perspectives. | Sean MacLachlan, Nevena Dragovic, Stacey Donohue, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2016 | SIGIR | Finding, Understanding and Learning: Making Information Discovery Tasks Useful for Children and Teachers. | Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Nevena Dragovic, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2016 | SIGIR | "Is Sven Seven?": A Search Intent Module for Children. | Nevena Dragovic, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2015 | RecSys | Exploiting Reviews to Guide Users' Selections. | Nevena Dragovic, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2015 | RecSys | Recommendations to Enhance Children Web Searches. | Shahrzad Karimi, Maria Soledad Pera |
| 2015 | RecSys | A Recommendation-Based Book-Exchange System Without Using Wish Lists. | Maria Soledad Pera, Yiu-Kai Ng |
| 2014 | ICALT | SOLE-R: A Semantic and Linguistic Approach for Book Recommendations. | ngel L. Garrido, Maria Soledad Pera, Sergio Ilarri |
| 2014 | RecSys | Assisting Emergent Readers in Finding Books to Read. | Maria Soledad Pera, Yiu-Kai Ng |
| 2014 | RecSys | Automating readers' advisory to make book recommendations for K-12 readers. | Maria Soledad Pera, Yiu-Kai Ng |
| 2013 | ICTAI | A Probabilistic Query Suggestion Approach without Using Query Logs. | Meher T. Shaikh, Maria Soledad Pera, Yiu-Kai Ng |
| 2013 | RecSys | What to read next?: making personalized book recommendations for K-12 users. | Maria Soledad Pera, Yiu-Kai Ng |
| 2012 | CIKM | Personalized recommendations on books for K-12 readers. | Maria Soledad Pera, Yiu-Kai Ng |
| 2012 | SIGIR | BReK12: a book recommender for K-12 users. | Maria Soledad Pera, Yiu-Kai Ng |
| 2011 | CIKM | A personalized recommendation system on scholarly publications. | Maria Soledad Pera, Yiu-Kai Ng |
| 2011 | CIKM | A query-based multi-document sentiment summarizer. | Maria Soledad Pera, Rani Qumsiyeh, Yiu-Kai Ng |
| 2010 | WISE | Personalized Book Recommendations Created by Using Social Media Data. | Maria Soledad Pera, Nicole Condie, Yiu-Kai Ng |
| 2010 | WISE | An Unsupervised Sentiment Classifier on Summarized or Full Reviews. | Maria Soledad Pera, Rani Qumsiyeh, Yiu-Kai Ng |
| 2009 | ICTAI | Classifying Sentence-Based Summaries of Web Documents. | Maria Soledad Pera, Yiu-Kai Ng |
| 2008 | ICCSA | Generating Fuzzy Equivalence Classes on RSS News Articles for Retrieving Correlated Information. | Nathaniel Gustafson, Maria Soledad Pera, Yiu-Kai Ng |
| 2008 | ICCSA | Identifying Spam Web Pages Based on Content Similarity. | Maria Soledad Pera, Yiu-Kai Ng |
| 2007 | CIKM | Using word similarity to eradicate junk emails. | Maria Soledad Pera, Yiu-Kai Ng |
| 2007 | KSEM | Finding Similar RSS News Articles Using Correlation-Based Phrase Matching. | Maria Soledad Pera, Yiu-Kai Ng |