Extracting Emerging Knowledge from Social Media

Knowledge in the world continuously evolves, and ontologies are largely incomplete. We propose a method and a tool for discovering emerging entities by extracting them from social media. Once instrumented by experts through very simple initialization, the method is capable of finding emerging entities; we propose a mixed syntactic + semantic method.

Reason and meaning of (top) models

After a semester in teaching model driven software engineering in my Advanced Software Engineering course at Politecnico, I feel the urgency of echoing once again a few words about the reason of models, inspired also from some content in our last book on Model-driven Software Development, or MDSE (see more here or on www.mdse-book.com).By the way, … Continue reading Reason and meaning of (top) models