Abstract--When 60 years ago Shannon established "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" nobody could know the consequences for science and technology in the second half ...
Upper and lower bounds are obtained for the joint entropy of a collection of random variables in terms of an arbitrary collection of subset joint entropies. These inequalities gene...
Lexical chaining is a technique for identifying semanticallyrelated terms in text. We propose concept chaining to link semantically-related concepts within biomedical text togethe...
We discuss an ontological framework for approximation, i.e., to approximation of concepts and vague dependencies specified in a given ontology. The presented approach is based on ...
In this paper, a signature file method for indexing document database systems is presented. For this purpose, the concept of presentative word hierarchy is introduced, based on whi...