Abstract. Temporal expressions—references to points in time or periods of time—are widespread in text, and their proper interpretation is essential for any natural language pro...
XML query processing is one of the most active areas of database research. Although the main focus of past research has been the processing of structural XML queries, there are gro...
Abstract. Discourse segmentation is the division of a text into minimal discourse segments, which form the leaves in the trees that are used to represent discourse structures. A de...
Abstract. In this paper, we present the preliminary results of an ongoing research activity concerning the temporal management of normative texts in XML format. In particular, four...
Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli, Paolo Tiberio, M...
There exist several methods of calculating a similarity curve, or a sequence of similarity values, representing the lexical cohesion of successive text constituents, e.g., paragra...