Background: Word sense disambiguation (WSD) algorithms attempt to select the proper sense of ambiguous terms in text. Resources like the UMLS provide a reference thesaurus to be u...
Background: The multitude of motif detection algorithms developed to date have largely focused on the detection of patterns in primary sequence. Since sequence-dependent DNA struc...
In large social networks, nodes (users, entities) are influenced by others for various reasons. For example, the colleagues have strong influence on one's work, while the fri...
Protection of one's intellectual property is a topic with important technological and legal facets. The significance of this issue is amplified nowadays due to the ease of da...
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...