Narratives are a fundamental part of human life. Every human being encounters countless stories during their life, and these stories contribute to form a common understanding of reality. This is reflected in the current digital landscape, and especially on the Web, wher...

Dictionaries could be considered as the most comprehensive reservoir of human knowledge, which carry not only the lexical description of words in one or more languages, but also the common awareness of a certain communityabout every known piece of knowledge in a time fr...

In this thesis, we report on our work on developing Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms to aid readers and authors of scientific (biomedical) articles in detecting spin (distorted presentation of research results). Our algorithm focuses on spin in abstracts of ...

Knowledge discovery in database (KDD) is a process which is applied to possibly large volumes of data for discovering patterns which can be significant and useful. In this thesis, we are interested in data transformation and data mining in knowledge discovery applied to...

This current PhD thesis aims at researching solutions to the long-standing gap in the research infrastructure field of formal modelling and discovery of information. Research Infrastructures (RIs) are facilities, resources and services used by the research community to ...

Product Line Engineering (PLE) is a crucial practice in many software development environments where systems are complex and developed for multiple customers with varying needs. At the same time, many business contexts are use case-driven where use cases are the main ar...

One of the main problems of the current Digital Libraries (DLs) is the limitation of the informative services offered to the user who aims at discovering the resources of the DL by queries in natural language. Indeed, all DLs provide simple search functionalities that r...