Research

Publications and research I have published online as open books: two master’s theses and a university project. Each book can be read online in a light or dark theme, or downloaded as PDF or EPUB.

Books

Master's thesis, 2021 Artificial Intelligence as a General Purpose Technology

Asks whether AI is a General Purpose Technology and a method of invention in its own right, analysing about 92,000 AI-related international (PCT) patent applications filed between 1995 and 2017 with indicators of technological dynamism, pervasiveness and complementarity.

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Master's thesis, 2023 A Method for the Semantic Annotation of Legal Documents with Doccano

A reproducible pipeline for the semantic annotation of legislation. Akoma Ntoso texts are annotated in an extended version of Doccano against legal ontologies and exported as Lynx-compliant data, demonstrated on Italian copyright law.

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University project Mapping the US politician community on Twitter

A computational social science exercise in R on the 2019–2020 Twitter follower network of US members of Congress and Cabinet, using centrality, reciprocity and homophily measures. Further chapters are in progress.

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Publications

Papers

Guasch, C., Nardin, A., Audrito, D. (2026). A semantic approach to digital-ready policymaking: the Legislative Financial and Digital Statement. ENDORSE 2025, 3rd European Data Conference on Reference Data and Semantics, proceedings, Publications Office of the European Union, pp. 43-51. Not peer reviewed.
PDF · Extract of the proceedings, © European Union, 2026, CC BY 4.0

Reports

Sziranyi, Z., Guasch, C., Nardin, A., Bachmaier, P., Bleys, E., Vossot, S. (2023). Unlocking the power of common European data spaces for streamlined regulatory reporting. Issue paper, European Commission, DG DIGIT, Publications Office of the European Union, 27 pp.

Specifications

European Commission (2026). Legal Obligation Metadata Ontology (LOMO), release 1.0.0. Adopted Specification, European Commission, DG DIGIT, CC BY 4.0.

Audrito, D., Guasch, C., Nardin, A. (2026). Legislative Financial and Digital Statement (LFDS) Vocabulary, release 1.0.0. SEMIC specification, European Commission, DG DIGIT.

Audrito, D., Guasch, C., Nardin, A., Palmirani, M., Van Nuffelen, B. (2025). Reporting Requirements Metadata Vocabulary (RRMV), release 1.0.0. SEMIC Recommendation, European Commission, DG DIGIT.

Datasets

Nardin, A. (2023). Building a knowledge graph of the Benetton group's suppliers network. Dataset, Zenodo, CC BY 4.0. Coursework for the AI4Gov master's programme.