Real world events, such as historic incidents, typically contain both spatial and temporal
aspects and involve a specific group of persons. This is reflected in the descriptions of …

Microblogging platforms such as Twitter have been increasingly used nowadays to share
information between users. They are also convenient means for propagating content related …

Web archives preserve an unprecedented abundance of materials regarding major events
and transformations in our society. In this paper, we present an approach for building event …

Documents which contain accounts of historical events are quite common. Biographies or
descriptions of entity histories like histories of places or organizations are examples of such …

Archive collections are nowadays mostly available through search engines interfaces, which
allow a user to retrieve documents by issuing queries. The study of these collections may be …

There is large and growing amounts of textual data that contains information about human
activities. Mining interesting knowledge from this textual data is a challenging task because …

Categorization is a common solution used for organizing entities. For example, there are
over 1.13 million categories in Wikipedia which group various types of entities such as …

Events are central in human history and thus also in Web queries, in particular if they relate
to history or news. However, ambiguity issues arise as queries may refer to ambiguous …

The importance of studying history and applying this knowledge is widely recognized. In this
study, we propose a search algorithm to promote historical analogy by immediately …

In this article, I present the questions that I seek to answer in my PhD research. I posit to
analyze natural language text with the help of semantic annotations and mine important …