The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into daily life, particularly through information
retrieval and recommender systems, has necessitated advanced user modeling and …

Using semantic technologies for mining and intelligent information access to social media is
a challenging, emerging research area. Traditional search methods are no longer able to …

Recently, we have witnessed entity profiling (EP) becoming increasingly one of the most
important topics in information extraction, personalized applications, and web data analysis …

In this article, we present a platform that allows the creation of a comprehensive
representation of the user that we call a holistic user model (HUM). Such a representation is …

In this article, we present MyrrorBot, a personal digital assistant implementing a natural
language interface that allows the users to:(i) access online services, such as music, video …

User models have been defined since the 1980s, mainly for the purpose of building context-
based, user-adaptive applications. However, the advent of social networked media, serious …

In this article we introduce the concept of queryable user profile, that is to say, a
representation of the user that can be queried through natural language requests. Such a …

Social networking sites (SNSs) like Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn have become a
very important part of our daily life. People are connected to multiple SNSs for networking …

This document constitutes a brief report from the Dagstuhl Seminar on the" Multilingual
Semantic Web" which took place at Schloss Dagstuhl between September 3rd and 7th …

This paper presents the transdisciplinary work on digital tools in the field of textual analysis.
The availability of digitized or digital born textual sources provides opportunities for …