Ontology is playing an increasingly important role in knowledge management and the
Semantic Web. This study presents a novel episode-based ontology construction …

In this paper we present a novel approach, called Concept Search, which extends syntactic
search, ie, search based on the computation of string similarity between words, with …

Friend suggestion is one of the most popular social networking sites since it helps users
connect with others who are similar or known to them. The notion of friend recommendation …

The user interaction in online social networks can not only reveal the social relationships
among users in e-commerce systems, but also imply the social preferences of a target user …

Over the last decade, the rapid growth and adoption of the World Wide Web has further
exacerbated the user need for efficient mechanisms for information and knowledge location …

With digital repositories and databases available since the 1990s, Dante scholarship has
always been at the forefront of the digital humanities and the digitization of medieval texts …

This study introduces semantic network analysis of natural language processing in collective
social settings. It utilizes the spreading-activation theory of human long-term memories from …

The quantity and complexity of available information is rapidly increasing. This potential
information overload challenges the standard information retrieval models, as users find it …

We present here an approach to conceptual querying where the aim is, given a collection of
textual database objects or documents, to target an abstraction of the entire database …

Ontologies is playing an increasingly important role in knowledge management and the
Semantic Web. The tourism information ontology is becoming a core research field in the …