XML is by now the de facto standard for exporting and exchanging data on the web. The need for querying XML data sources whose structure is not fully known to the user and the need...
This paper is a July 1999 snapshot of a "whitepaper" that I've been working on. The purpose of the whitepaper, which I initially drafted in April 1999, was to formu...
The Web is now a huge information repository with a rich semantic structure that, however, is primarily addressed to human understanding rather than automated processing by a compu...
Much of the information on the Web is found in articles from online news outlets, magazines, encyclopedias, review collections, and other sources. However, extracting this content...
—We propose a novel scenario called “writer retrieval” consisting in the retrieval from a set of documents all those produced by the same writer. The retrieval is based on a ...