Textual Evolution

Model Evolution: Comparative Study between Clafer and Textual UML

This paper presents a comparative study between two modeling languages; Clafer and Textual UML. In this work, we present our motivation for domain modeling, we perform a pilot study to provide preliminarily results about the differences between both modeling languages with respect to structural model evolution at the requirements stage. We conclude with lessons learnt and considerations to take...

Textual Entailment

The task of Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) requires automated systems to identify when two spans of text share a common meaning -for example, that ``Alphaville Inc.'s attempted acquisition of Bauhaus led to a jump in both companies' stock prices'' entails ``Bauahaus' stock rose'', but not ``Alphaville acquired Bauhaus''. This general capability would be a solid proxy for Natural Language ...

Textual Entailment

Drawing about images: textual and non-textual interpretation

° full paper Context and Conditions This paper addresses a familiar situation from a novel point of view. The familiar situation has two aspects: (1) that writing about architecture and drawing architecture produces two different types of outcome that are difficult to reconcile; and (2) that drawing about architecture does not produce uniform results and those experts who are used to interpreti...

Mining Temporal Evolution of Entities in a Stream of Textual Documents

One of the recently addressed research directions focuses on the problem of mining topic evolutions from textual documents. Following this main stream of research, in this paper we face the different, but related, problem of mining the topic evolution of entities (persons, companies, etc.) mentioned in the documents. To this aim, we incrementally analyze streams of time-stamped documents in ord...