The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is the defacto industry standard for exchanging data on the Web and elsewhere. While the relational model of data enjoys a well-accepted definition of a key, several competing notions ...

Random indexing (RI) is an incremental method for constructing a vector space model (VSM) with a reduced dimensionality. Previously, the method has been justified using the mathematical framework of Kanerva's sparse ...

The Irish Record Linkage 1864-1913 is a multi-disciplinary project aiming to create a platform for analyzing events captured in historical birth, marriage and death records by applying semantic technologies for annotating, ...

This paper describes the second edition of the shared task on Taxonomy Extraction Evaluation organised as part of SemEval 2016. This task aims to extract hypernym-hyponym relations between a given list of domain-specific ...

When studying large social media data sets, it is useful to reduce the dimensionality of both the network (e.g. by finding communities) and user-generated data such as text (e.g. using topic models). Algorithms exist for ...

This paper introduces ACL RD-TEC: a dataset for evaluating the extraction and classification of terms from literature in the domain of computational linguistics. The dataset is derived from the Association for Computational ...

In the recent years, location based services (LBS) on mobile devices have become very popular. With the growing number of smartphone users, the demand for services that can provide recommendation of places based on ...

Cancer genomics researchers have greatly benefited from high-throughput technologies for the characterization of genomic alterations in patients. These voluminous genomics datasets when supplemented with the appropriate ...

RDF is structured, dynamic, and schemaless data, which enables a big deal of flexibility for Linked Data to be available in an open environment such as the Web. However, for RDF data, flexibility turns out to be the source ...

A significant portion of the LOD cloud consists of Life Sciences data sets. The LOD cloud contains billions of clinical facts linked together forming an interlinked Web of Clinical Data . However, tools for new publishers ...