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  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,258 Views
34 Pages

Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Ontology Engineering: A Comparative Analysis of GPT-4 and Mistral

  • Dimitrios Doumanas,
  • Andreas Soularidis,
  • Dimitris Spiliotopoulos,
  • Costas Vassilakis and
  • Konstantinos Kotis

18 February 2025

Ontology engineering (OE) plays a critical role in modeling and managing structured knowledge across various domains. This study examines the performance of fine-tuned large language models (LLMs), specifically GPT-4 and Mistral 7B, in efficiently au...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,829 Views
25 Pages

Diurnal and Seasonal Variability of the Atmospheric Boundary-Layer Height in Marseille (France) for Mistral and Sea/Land Breeze Conditions

  • Aurélie Riandet,
  • Irène Xueref-Remy,
  • Ioana Popovici,
  • Ludovic Lelandais,
  • Alexandre Armengaud and
  • Philippe Goloub

21 February 2023

Marseille (France) is a city on the Mediterranean coast characterized by two specific wind patterns: mistral (northwesterly wind blowing above 10 m/s) and sea/land breezes (southwesterly wind during daytime/northeasterly wind during the nighttime, bl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
7,342 Views
20 Pages

Breath Analysis: Comparison among Methodological Approaches for Breath Sampling

  • Alessia Di Gilio,
  • Jolanda Palmisani,
  • Gianrocco Ventrella,
  • Laura Facchini,
  • Annamaria Catino,
  • Niccolò Varesano,
  • Pamela Pizzutilo,
  • Domenico Galetta,
  • Massimo Borelli and
  • Gianluigi de Gennaro
  • + 2 authors

10 December 2020

Despite promising results obtained in the early diagnosis of several pathologies, breath analysis still remains an unused technique in clinical practice due to the lack of breath sampling standardized procedures able to guarantee a good repeatability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,223 Views
22 Pages

This study investigates the strategic decision-making abilities of large language models (LLMs) via the game of Tic-Tac-Toe, renowned for its straightforward rules and definitive outcomes. We developed a mobile application coupled with web services,...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
454 Views
9 Pages

Clinician Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence Summaries of Pediatric CVICU Progress Notes

  • Vanessa I. Klotzman,
  • Albert Kim,
  • Brian Walker,
  • Sabrina Leong,
  • Louis Ehwerhemuepha and
  • Robert B. Kelly

Effective communication in critical care units, such as the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU), is vital for patient safety; however, clinical notes from multiple professionals are often lengthy and complex. This study evaluated the Mistral l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
10,802 Views
31 Pages

Web Application for Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Implementation and Testing

  • Irina Radeva,
  • Ivan Popchev,
  • Lyubka Doukovska and
  • Miroslava Dimitrova

The purpose of this paper is to explore the implementation of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) technology with open-source large language models (LLMs). A dedicated web-based application, PaSSER, was developed, integrating RAG with Mistral:7b, Ll...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,162 Views
21 Pages

17 December 2025

In this article, we present a tool for matching resumes to job posts and vice versa (job post to resumes). With minor modifications, it may also be adapted to other domains where text matching is necessary. This tool may help organizations save time...

  • Article
  • Open Access
495 Views
19 Pages

5 February 2026

Background: The rapid diffusion of large language models (LLMs) such as Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, LLaMA, and Mistral is reshaping logistics and supply chain management by embedding generative intelligence into planning, coordination, and governance pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,968 Views
22 Pages

This paper investigates, applies, and evaluates state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) for the classification of posts from a dark web hackers’ forum into four cyber-security categories. The LLMs applied included Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,069 Views
15 Pages

22 June 2022

The Mediterranean region is a densely populated and economically relevant area with complex orography including mountain ranges, islands, and straits. In combination with pressure gradients, this creates many mesoscale wind systems that cause, e.g.,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,811 Views
19 Pages

The rapid increase in scientific publications has made it challenging to keep up with the latest advancements. Conducting systematic reviews using traditional methods is both time-consuming and difficult. To address this, new review formats like rapi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
832 Views
21 Pages

An Agent-Based RAG Architecture for Intelligent Tourism Assistance: The Valencia Case Study

  • Andrea Bonetti,
  • Adrián Salcedo-Puche,
  • Joan Vila-Francés,
  • Xaro Benavent-Garcia,
  • Emilio Fernández-Vargas,
  • Rafael Magdalena-Benedito and
  • Emilio Soria-Olivas

5 December 2025

The contemporary digital landscape overwhelms visitors with fragmented and dynamic information, complicating travel planning and often leading to decision paralysis. This paper presents a real-world case study on the design and deployment of an intel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,994 Views
21 Pages

Effective student feedback is fundamental to enhancing learning outcomes in higher education. While traditional assessment methods emphasise both achievements and development areas, the process remains time-intensive for educators. This research expl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,370 Views
11 Pages

Organic Electrochemical Transistors as Versatile Tool for Real-Time and Automatized Viral Cytopathic Effect Evaluation

  • Francesco Decataldo,
  • Catia Giovannini,
  • Laura Grumiro,
  • Maria Michela Marino,
  • Francesca Faccin,
  • Martina Brandolini,
  • Giorgio Dirani,
  • Francesca Taddei,
  • Davide Lelli and
  • Alessandra Scagliarini
  • + 7 authors

26 May 2022

In-vitro viral studies are still fundamental for biomedical research since studying the virus kinetics on cells is crucial for the determination of the biological properties of viruses and for screening the inhibitors of infections. Moreover, testing...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,566 Views
7 Pages

The Impact of Regenerative Agriculture on Provisioning Ecosystem Services: An Example in Southeast Spain

  • Mistral Van Oudenhove,
  • María Martínez-Mena,
  • María Almagro,
  • Elvira Díaz-Pereira,
  • Efraín Carrillo,
  • Joris de Vente,
  • Cristina Fernández-Soler,
  • Raquel Luján-Soto and
  • Carolina Boix-Fayos

The objective of this work is to evaluate the impact of regenerative agriculture alternatives in rainfed almond crops on a range of ecosystems services. A Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) was conducted to evaluate the different land management alternati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,434 Views
20 Pages

Exploring Microphone Technologies for Digital Auscultation Devices

  • Matteo Zauli,
  • Lorenzo Mistral Peppi,
  • Luca Di Bonaventura,
  • Valerio Antonio Arcobelli,
  • Alberto Spadotto,
  • Igor Diemberger,
  • Valerio Coppola,
  • Sabato Mellone and
  • Luca De Marchi

12 November 2023

The aim of this work is to present a preliminary study for the design of a digital auscultation system, i.e., a novel wearable device for patient chest auscultation and a digital stethoscope. The development and testing of the electronic stethoscope...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,783 Views
12 Pages

Evaluation of Biofilm Production and Antifungal Susceptibility to Fluconazole in Clinical Isolates of Candida spp. in Both Planktonic and Biofilm Form

  • Anna Marzucco,
  • Giulia Gatti,
  • Maria Sofia Montanari,
  • Michela Fantini,
  • Claudia Colosimo,
  • Maria Vittoria Tamburini,
  • Valentina Arfilli,
  • Manuela Morotti,
  • Pasqualina Schiavone and
  • Monica Cricca
  • + 10 authors

Candida spp. are an important opportunistic pathogen that can represent a possible cause of severe infections, especially in immunocompromised individuals. The clinical impact of Candida spp. depends, in part, on the ability to form biofilms, communi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,254 Views
17 Pages

The Global Evolutionary History of Orf Virus in Sheep and Goats Revealed by Whole Genomes Data

  • Elisabetta Coradduzza,
  • Fabio Scarpa,
  • Angela Maria Rocchigiani,
  • Carla Cacciotto,
  • Giada Lostia,
  • Mariangela Stefania Fiori,
  • Yoel Rodriguez Valera,
  • Alessandra Mistral De Pascali,
  • Martina Brandolini and
  • Giantonella Puggioni
  • + 8 authors

21 January 2024

Orf virus (ORFV) belongs to the genus Parapoxvirus (Poxviridae family). It is the causative agent of contagious ecthyma (CE) that is an economically detrimental disease affecting small ruminants globally. Contagious ecthyma outbreaks are usually repo...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2,334 Views
9 Pages

Isolation and Genomic Analysis of a Case of Staphylococcus argenteus ST2250 Related to Sepsis in Italy

  • Giulia Gatti,
  • Francesca Taddei,
  • Anna Marzucco,
  • Maria Sofia Montanari,
  • Giorgio Dirani,
  • Silvia Zannoli,
  • Laura Grumiro,
  • Martina Brandolini,
  • Claudia Colosimo and
  • Monica Cricca
  • + 5 authors

Staphylococcus argenteus, identified in 2006, represents a challenging case of bacterial taxonomic identification because of its high similarity to Staphylococcus aureus. In this context, neither mass spectrometry (MS) nor 16S gene analysis cannot pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,727 Views
20 Pages

ARMA Model for Tracking Accelerated Corrosion Damage in a Steel Beam

  • Sina Zolfagharysaravi,
  • Denis Bogomolov,
  • Camilla Bahia Larocca,
  • Federica Zonzini,
  • Lorenzo Mistral Peppi,
  • Marco Lovecchio,
  • Luca De Marchi and
  • Alessandro Marzani

9 April 2025

This paper proposes an enhanced vibration-based damage detection index leveraging autoregressive moving average (ARMA) time-series modeling. The method relies on the fact that material deterioration alters the vibration features of the structure. Thu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
292 Views
19 Pages

Unravelling the Evolutionary Complexity of Orf Virus: A Global and Multi-Host Perspective

  • Giada Lostia,
  • Chiara Locci,
  • Angela Maria Rocchigiani,
  • Carla Cacciotto,
  • Mariangela Stefania Fiori,
  • Ilenia Azzena,
  • Yoel Rodriguez-Valera,
  • Alessandra Mistral De Pascali,
  • Martina Brandolini and
  • Giantonella Puggioni
  • + 7 authors

10 February 2026

Orf virus (ORFV), a member of the Parapoxvirus genus, is commonly associated with a highly infectious skin disease primarily affecting sheep and goats, with a reported zoonotic potential. Initially identified in the 18th century, ORFV has been sporad...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,914 Views
13 Pages

Large language models (LLMs) are transformer-based neural networks that can provide human-like responses to questions and instructions. LLMs can generate educational material, summarize text, extract structured data from free text, create reports, wr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,252 Views
16 Pages

Background: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performances in clinical question-answering (QA) benchmarks, yet their effectiveness in addressing real-world consumer medical queries remains underexplored. This study evaluates the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,381 Views
13 Pages

Comparison of Multiple State-of-the-Art Large Language Models for Patient Education Prior to CT and MRI Examinations

  • Semil Eminovic,
  • Bogdan Levita,
  • Andrea Dell’Orco,
  • Jonas Alexander Leppig,
  • Jawed Nawabi and
  • Tobias Penzkofer

Background/Objectives: This study compares the accuracy of responses from state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) to patient questions before CT and MRI imaging. We aim to demonstrate the potential of LLMs in improving workflow efficiency, whil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,694 Views
23 Pages

Multi-Model Dialectical Evaluation of LLM Reasoning Chains: A Structured Framework with Dual Scoring Agents

  • Catalin Anghel,
  • Andreea Alexandra Anghel,
  • Emilia Pecheanu,
  • Ioan Susnea,
  • Adina Cocu and
  • Adrian Istrate

(1) Background and objectives: Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT, Mistral, and LLaMA exhibit strong capabilities in text generation, yet assessing the quality of their reasoning—particularly in open-ended and argumentative contexts&mdash...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,648 Views
36 Pages

20 December 2024

In today’s digital age, ensuring the appropriateness of content for children is crucial for their cognitive and emotional development. The rise of automated text generation technologies, such as Large Language Models like LLaMA, Mistral, and Ze...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,110 Views
29 Pages

Medical LLMs: Fine-Tuning vs. Retrieval-Augmented Generation

  • Bhagyajit Pingua,
  • Adyakanta Sahoo,
  • Meenakshi Kandpal,
  • Deepak Murmu,
  • Jyotirmayee Rautaray,
  • Rabindra Kumar Barik and
  • Manob Jyoti Saikia

Large language models (LLMs) are trained on huge datasets, which allow them to answer questions from various domains. However, their expertise is confined to the data that they were trained on. In order to specialize LLMs in niche domains like health...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
10,434 Views
26 Pages

Understanding Social Biases in Large Language Models

  • Ojasvi Gupta,
  • Stefano Marrone,
  • Francesco Gargiulo,
  • Rajesh Jaiswal and
  • Lidia Marassi

20 May 2025

Background/Objectives: Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, LLAMA, and Mistral are widely used for automating tasks such as content creation and data analysis. However, due to their training on publicly available internet data, they may inherit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,131 Views
24 Pages

26 September 2025

Large Language Models are often fine-tuned on proprietary corpora, motivating reliable provenance signals. A corpus-level watermark method is proposed for fine-tuning datasets that survives training and common text transformations. The method subtly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,545 Views
19 Pages

Benchmarking Psychological Lexicons and Large Language Models for Emotion Detection in Brazilian Portuguese

  • Thales David Domingues Aparecido,
  • Alexis Carrillo,
  • Chico Q. Camargo and
  • Massimo Stella

1 October 2025

Emotion detection in Brazilian Portuguese is less studied than in English. We benchmarked a large language model (Mistral 24B), a language-specific transformer model (BERTimbau), and the lexicon-based EmoAtlas for classifying emotions in Brazilian Po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
9,690 Views
22 Pages

28 July 2022

In this work, the ERA5 reanalysis dataset, with its fine spatial and temporal resolution, is used to study the wind speed and direction characteristics in the Mediterranean basin from 1979 to 2020. Their variability, trend and mean values, as well as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,554 Views
21 Pages

SAPERI: An Emergency Modeling Chain for Simulating Accidental Releases of Pollutants into the Atmosphere

  • Bianca Tenti,
  • Massimiliano Romana,
  • Giuseppe Carlino,
  • Rossella Prandi and
  • Enrico Ferrero

9 September 2024

Timely forecast of atmospheric pollutants fallout due to accidental fires can provide decision-makers with useful information for effective emergency response, for planning environmental monitoring and for conveying essential alerts to the population...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,406 Views
35 Pages

11 December 2025

This paper evaluates multi-agent coordination strategies against single-agent retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for open-source language models. Four coordination strategies (collaborative, sequential, competitive, hierarchical) were tested across...

  • Article
  • Open Access
619 Views
21 Pages

AgroLLM: Connecting Farmers and Agricultural Practices Through Large Language Models for Enhanced Knowledge Transfer and Practical Application

  • Dinesh Jackson Samuel Ravindran,
  • Inna Skarga-Bandurova,
  • Sivakumar V,
  • Muhammad Awais and
  • Mithra S

Large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities for agricultural education and decision support, yet their adoption is limited by domain-specific terminology, ambiguous retrieval, and factual inconsistencies. This work presents AgroLLM, a domain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
186 Views
18 Pages

13 February 2026

Motorcyclists face a disproportionately high risk of severe injury or death compared to other road users, highlighting the need for intelligent rider assistance technologies. This paper presents an initial, modular, and interpretable AI pipeline that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
838 Views
21 Pages

KGEval: Evaluating Scientific Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models

  • Vladyslav Nechakhin,
  • Jennifer D’Souza,
  • Steffen Eger and
  • Sören Auer

3 January 2026

This paper explores the novel application of large language models (LLMs) as evaluators for structured scientific summaries—a task where traditional natural language evaluation metrics may not readily apply. Leveraging the Open Research Knowled...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,435 Views
18 Pages

Animate, or Inanimate, That Is the Question for Large Language Models

  • Giulia Pucci,
  • Fabio Massimo Zanzotto and
  • Leonardo Ranaldi

13 June 2025

The cognitive core of human beings is closely connected to the concept of animacy, which significantly influences their memory, vision, and complex language comprehension. While animacy is reflected in language through subtle constraints on verbs and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,273 Views
42 Pages

This study presents a comprehensive evaluation of embedding techniques and large language models (LLMs) for Information Retrieval (IR) and question answering (QA) across languages, focusing on English and Italian. We address a significant research ga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,129 Views
21 Pages

Exploring LLM Embedding Potential for Dementia Detection Using Audio Transcripts

  • Brandon Alejandro Llaca-Sánchez,
  • Luis Roberto García-Noguez,
  • Marco Antonio Aceves-Fernández,
  • Andras Takacs and
  • Saúl Tovar-Arriaga

17 July 2025

Dementia is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive cognitive impairment that significantly affects daily living. Early detection of Alzheimer’s disease—the most common form of dementia—remains essential for prompt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,743 Views
12 Pages

13 September 2024

The aim of this study is to investigate the potential of ChatGPT in analyzing the financial sentiment analysis of entrepreneurs. Sentiment analysis involves detecting if it is positive, negative, or neutral from a text. We examine several prompts on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
218 Views
15 Pages

Background/Objectives: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) offer potential for automated fracture detection, yet their diagnostic stability under repeated inference remains underexplored. This study evaluates the diagnostic accuracy, stability,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,019 Views
36 Pages

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital marketing and electronic commerce, short-form content—particularly on platforms like Twitter (now X)—has become pivotal for real-time branding, community engagement, and product promotion. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
301 Views
27 Pages

SteadyEval: Robust LLM Exam Graders via Adversarial Training and Distillation

  • Catalin Anghel,
  • Marian Viorel Craciun,
  • Adina Cocu,
  • Andreea Alexandra Anghel and
  • Adrian Istrate

14 January 2026

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as rubric-guided graders for short-answer exams, but their decisions can be unstable across prompts and vulnerable to answer-side prompt injection. In this paper, we study SteadyEval, a guardrailed e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,688 Views
15 Pages

Design and Evaluation of an Expert System in a Crushing Plant

  • Claudio A. Leiva,
  • Katheryn V. Arcos,
  • Diego A. Poblete,
  • Eduardo A. Serey,
  • Cynthia M. Torres and
  • Yousef Ghorbani

19 October 2018

This document presents a proposal for designing an expert system in the Gabriela Mistral Division’s crushing plant belonging to Codelco (Chile) with the objective of maximizing stacked tonnage, allowing the improvement of operational variables...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,654 Views
18 Pages

23 August 2025

Nutrition plays a pivotal role in preventive health, yet existing digital solutions often lack personalization and accessibility. This study presents an AI-driven framework that integrates machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,672 Views
40 Pages

Robust Clinical Querying with Local LLMs: Lexical Challenges in NL2SQL and Retrieval-Augmented QA on EHRs

  • Luka Blašković,
  • Nikola Tanković,
  • Ivan Lorencin and
  • Sandi Baressi Šegota

Electronic health records (EHRs) are typically stored in relational databases, making them difficult to query for nontechnical users, especially under privacy constraints. We evaluate two practical clinical NLP workflows, natural language to SQL (NL2...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,208 Views
30 Pages

Explaining Misinformation Detection Using Large Language Models

  • Vishnu S. Pendyala and
  • Christopher E. Hall

Large language models (LLMs) are a compressed repository of a vast corpus of valuable information on which they are trained. Therefore, this work hypothesizes that LLMs such as Llama, Orca, Falcon, and Mistral can be used for misinformation detection...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,333 Views
19 Pages

29 April 2025

In the field of databases, Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently been studied for generating SQL queries from textual descriptions, while their use for conceptual or logical data modeling remains less explored. The conceptual design of relationa...

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