Abstract. The paper examines the semantics of the terms `environment' and `habitat' and presents a semi-formalised ontological framework in which these concepts are relat...
Considerations regarding predication in ordinary language as well as the ontology of relations suggest a refinement of the Ontological Square, a conceptual scheme used in many foun...
Affordances elude ontology. They have been recognized to play a role in categorization, especially of artifacts, but also of natural features. Yet, attempts to ontologize them face...
Abstract. The paper presents preliminary results in the area of ontological engineering for historical research. Historical information systems are still in the initial stage of de...
Pawel Garbacz, Robert Trypuz, Bogumil Szady, Piotr...
ABSTRACT. In the framework of the LegDoc project at Xerox Research Centre Europe, we are developing components for the semantic annotation of semi-structured documents. While certa...
This article focusses on images retrieval in XML documents. Images retrieval can use sementical information in addition to visual features. We propose here to explore some ideas to...
In this paper, we propose a fuzzy model to querying the XML documents, by taking into account not only the document contents, but also their structure. The concept of minimal size ...
A promising way to accelerate similarity search is semantic hashing which designs compact binary codes for a large number of documents so that semantically similar documents are ma...
Web search personalization aims to adapt search results to a user based on his tastes, interests and needs. The way in which such personal preferences are captured, modeled and exp...