Producing reliable information is the ultimate goal of data processing. The ocean of data created with the advances of science and technologies calls for integration of data comin...
The need for an automatic inference process able to deal with information coming from unreliable sources is becoming a relevant issue both on corporate networks and on the open Web...
Abstract In this paper, we describe our Question Answering (QA) system called QUANTUM. The goal of QUANTUM is to find the answer to a natural language question in a large document ...
Social networks play important roles in the Semantic Web: knowledge management, information retrieval, ubiquitous computing, and so on. We propose a social network extraction syst...
Dimensional reduction may be effective in order to compress data without loss of essential information. Also, it may be useful in order to smooth data and reduce random noise. The...