We present a general machine learning framework for modelling the phenomenon of missing information in data. We propose a masking process model to capture the stochastic nature of...
The research field of "extracting knowledge bases from text collections" seems to be mature: its target and its working hypotheses are clear. In this paper we propose a ...
This paper deals with a multilingual relational lexical database of proper name, Prolexbase, a free resource available on the CNRTL website. The Prolex model is based on two main ...
Regular Expressions (REs) form the basis of most XML type languages, such as DTDs, XML Schema types, and XDuce types (Thompson et al. 2004; Hosoya and Pierce 2003). In this contex...
We consider the problem of rewriting a query efficiently using materialized views. In the context of information integration, this problem has received significant attention in th...