Information overload is a problem many of us can relate to nowadays. The deluge of user
generated content on the Internet, and the easy accessibility to a vast amount of data …

Fully understanding an older news article requires context knowledge from the time of article
creation. Finding information about such context is a tedious and time-consuming task …

Archive collections are nowadays mostly available through search engines interfaces, which
allow a user to retrieve documents by issuing queries. The study of these collections may be …

The evolution of language follows the rule of gradual change. Grammar, vocabulary, and
lexical semantic shifts take place over time, resulting in a diachronic linguistic gap. As such …

Thanks to the spread of digital photography and available devices, taking photographs has
become effortless and tolerated nearly everywhere. This makes people easily ending up …

Each year makes it easier to accumulate large numbers of photos and videos in the social
and personal digital space. Their long-term existence is mostly driven by chance rather than …

Crowdsourcing has become a standard approach for the collection of the human input
required by scientists and practitioners alike to execute their experiments, or to train, control …

Abstract Entities and temporal information associated with the entities can be extracted from
the documents using natural language processing. A graph structure can be created …

Document understanding requires discovery of meaningful patterns in text, which in turn
involves analyzing documents and extracting useful information for a certain purpose. There …

Events have always been fundamental building blocks of individual lives as well as of the
whole world. Nowadays, thanks to the several technological advances achieved within the …