Text in/and Places

An OWL Framework for Rule-based Recognition of Places in Italian Non-structured Text

In this paper we present a technique for recognising location names in non-structured texts. Our approach is based on grammar rules devised for the Italian language and semantic web tools such as geographic linked datasets, OWL ontologies, and SWRL rules, to handle data and reason about them, even in presence of name ambiguities. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt of addres...

Changing places

The announcement this spring followed months of speculation: Kim Nasmyth will assume the Whitley Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford at the start of 2006, taking over from Ed Southern. Nasmyth is presently Director of the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna and is well known for his work on the yeast cell cycle and chromosome segregation (for more details see Curr. Bi...

Relative places

Distributed Places

Distributed Places bring new support for distributed, message-passing parallelism to Racket. This paper gives an overview of the programming model and how we had to modify our existing, runtime-system to support distributed places. We show that the freedom to design the programming model helped us to make the implementation tractable. The paper presents an evaluation of the design, examples of ...

Changing Places

By allowing any social institution to structure activity in any place, wireless information services break down the traditional mapping between institutions and places. This phenomenon greatly complicates the analysis of context for purposes of designing context-aware computing systems. Context has a physical, architectural aspect, but most aspects of context will also be defined in institution...