In this paper we introduce the new task of social event extraction from text. We distinguish two broad types of social events depending on whether only one or both parties are awa...
Bootstrapping has a tendency, called semantic drift, to select instances unrelated to the seed instances as the iteration proceeds. We demonstrate the semantic drift of bootstrapp...
The generation of a set of rules underlying a classification problem is performed by applying a new algorithm, called Hamming Clustering (HC). It reconstructs the and-or expressio...
In environments containing many text search engines a federated search system provides people with a single point of access. When search engines are managed by independent organiz...
Background: Real-time PCR analysis is a sensitive DNA quantification technique that has recently gained considerable attention in biotechnology, microbiology and molecular diagnos...
Michele Guescini, Davide Sisti, Marco B. L. Rocchi...