The OKKAM initiative1 has recently highlighted the need of moving from the traditional web towards a "web of entities", where real-world objects descriptions could be ret...
The research in information extraction (IE) regards the generation of wrappers that can extract particular information from semistructured Web documents. Similar to compiler gener...
Objectives: The aim of this study is to provide to indexers MeSH terms to be considered as major ones in a list of terms automatically extracted from a document. Material and metho...
In this paper we tackle the problem of automatic caption generation for news images. Our approach leverages the vast resource of pictures available on the web and the fact that ma...
An important and well-studied problem is the production of semantic lexicons from a large corpus. In this paper, we present a system named ASIA (Automatic Set Instance Acquirer), ...