Large and complex graphs representing relationships among sets of entities are an increasingly common focus of interest in data analysis--examples include social networks, Web gra...
The task of coreference resolution requires people or systems to decide when two referring expressions refer to the `same' entity or event. In real text, this is often a diff...
We introduce a general model of refinement. This is defined in terms of what contexts an entity can appear in, and what observations can be made of it in those contexts. We show e...
This paper describes a method to cope with denormalized relational schemas in a database reverse engineering process. We propose two main steps to irnprove the understanding of da...
Since XML tends to become the main format to exchange data over the Internet, it is necessary to define a security model to control the access to the content of these documents. S...