Many geographic terms, such as "river" and "lake", are vague, with no clear boundaries of application. In particular, the spatial extent of such features is oft...
In this paper we present a novel approach to the incremental incorporation of semantic information in natural language processing which does not fall victim to the notorious probl...
Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) is a database and ontology that represents biochemical knowledge about small molecules. Recent changes to the ontology have created...
Firewalls are a cornerstone of todays security infrastructure for networks. Their configuration, implementing a firewall policy, is inherently complex, hard to understand, and diff...
Ontology evolution is a complex problem. In our work, we focus on issues related to change management, particularly consistency maintenance and we present in this paper, an overvie...