The volume of information in natural languages in electronic format is increasing exponentially. The demographics of users of information management systems are becoming increasin...
The majority of text retrieval and mining techniques are still based on exact feature (e.g. words) matching and unable to incorporate text semantics. Many researchers believe that...
There have been many recent research efforts on temporal databases for managing current and historical data and on active databases for monitoring real-world events as well as dat...
Semantic web applications based on the web ontology language (OWL) often require the use of numbers in class descriptions for expressing cardinality restrictions on properties or ...
Many current object class models build on visual parts that constitute an object. However, visually different entities may actually refer to the same object part. This may be harm...