Archaeological studies are a trans-disciplinary endeavor, where a number of different scientists collaborate to get a reasonable account of material artefacts, through the various phases of recovery, analysis, and, recently, also exhibition. A large amount of digital da...

While exponential growth in public genomic data can afford great insights into biological processes underlying diseases, a lack of structured metadata often impedes its timely discovery for analysis. In the Gene Expression Omnibus, for example, descriptions of genomic s...

One of the most basic functions of language is to refer to objects in a shared scene. Modeling reference with continuous representations is challenging because it requires individuation, i.e., tracking and distinguishing an arbitrary number of referents. We introduce a ...

The interdisciplinary EU funded project INCEPTION – Inclusive Cultural Heritage in Europe through 3D semantic modelling, coordinated by the Department of Architecture of the University of Ferrara, is focused on bringing together innovative 3D modelling and ICT applicati...

Digital reproductions of historical documents from Late Antiquity to early medieval Europe contain annotations in handwritten graphic symbols or signs. The study of such symbols may potentially reveal essential insights into the social and historical context. However, f...

The ongoing EU funded project “INCEPTION – Inclusive Cultural Heritage in Europe through 3D semantic modelling” proposes a workflow aimed at the achievements of efficient 3D digitization methods, post-processing tools for an enriched semantic modelling, web-based soluti...

The document aboutness problem asks for creating a succinct representation of a document’s subject matter via keywords, sentences or entities drawn from a Knowledge Base. In this paper we propose an approach to solve this problem which improves the known solutions over ...

Named entity recognition (NER) and disambiguation (NED) are subtasks of information extraction that aim to recognize named entities mentioned in text, to assign them pre-defined types, and to link them with their matching entities in a knowledge base. Many approaches, o...

While sentiment analysis has received significant attention in the last years, problems still exist when tools need to be applied to microblogging content. This because, typically, the text to be analysed consists of very short messages lacking in structure and semantic...

The ongoing EU funded INCEPTION project proposes a significant improvement in the 3D modelling for the enhancement of Cultural Heritage knowledge by the use of a BIM approach for the semantic enrichment and management of models. Indeed, when used in the CH field, semant...