Abstract. Extracting information automatically from texts for database representation requires previously well-grouped phrases so that entities can be separated adequately. This pr...
The growing popularity of hypertext navigation systems and the availability of large documentary databases is leading to the design of navigation systems that allow to explore the...
Frantz Vichot, Francis Wolinski, Joseph Tomeh, Syl...
We define a type system for COWS, a formalism for specifying and combining services, while modelling their dynamic behaviour. Our types permit to express policies constraining dat...
Alessandro Lapadula, Rosario Pugliese, Francesco T...
In the logical approach to information retrieval (IR), retrieval is considered as uncertain inference. Whereas classical IR models are based on propositional logic, we combine Dat...
Answering queries over an incomplete database w.r.t. a set of constraints is an important computational task with applications in fields as diverse as information integration and ...