Semantic Similarity of Words in a Taxonomy: A Fuzzy and Multiple-Context Approach.

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Anna Formica Ida Mele Francesco Taglino Semantic Similarity of Words in a Taxonomy: A Fuzzy and Multiple-Context Approach. 67149-67158 2025 13 IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3560151 db/journals/access/access13.html#FormicaMT25 streams/journals/access

Antonio De Nicola 0001 Anna Formica Ida Mele Francesco Taglino Information Content Methods for Semantic Similarity: An Experimental Assessment. 113953-113966 2025 13 IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3584192 db/journals/access/access13.html#NicolaFMT25 streams/journals/access

Anna Formica Ida Mele Francesco Taglino A Fuzzy and Multiple-Context Approach for Semantic Similarity by using BabelNet. 1-7 2025 AICCSA https://doi.org/10.1109/AICCSA66935.2025.11315375 conf/aiccsa/2025 db/conf/aiccsa/aiccsa2025.html#FormicaMT25

Antonio De Nicola 0001 Anna Formica Ida Mele Michele Missikoff Francesco Taglino A comparative study of LLMs and NLP approaches for supporting business process analysis. 2024 October 18 Enterp. Inf. Syst. 10 https://doi.org/10.1080/17517575.2024.2415578 db/journals/eis/eis18.html#NicolaFMMT24 streams/journals/eis

Anna Formica Ida Mele Francesco Taglino A template-based approach for question answering over knowledge bases. 453-479 2024 January 66 Knowl. Inf. Syst. 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-023-01966-8 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q125387375 db/journals/kais/kais66.html#FormicaMT24

Anna Formica Francesco Taglino Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy by Refining the Relatedness of Concept Intended Senses. 191-209 2023 42 Comput. Informatics 1 https://doi.org/10.31577/cai_2023_1_191 db/journals/cai/cai42.html#FormicaT23

Anna Formica Francesco Taglino Semantic relatedness in DBpedia: A comparative and experimental assessment. 474-505 2023 April 621 Inf. Sci. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2022.11.025 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131377004 db/journals/isci/isci621.html#FormicaT23

Anna Formica Francesco Taglino Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy by Evaluating the Relatedness of Concept Senses with the Linked Data Semantic Distance. 66-89 2023 53 Trans. Large Scale Data Knowl. Centered Syst. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66863-4_3 db/journals/tlsdkcs/tlsdkcs53.html#FormicaT22

Antonio De Nicola 0001 Anna Formica Michele Missikoff Elaheh Pourabbas Francesco Taglino A parametric similarity method: Comparative experiments based on semantically annotated large datasets. 100773 2023 April 76 J. Web Semant. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2023.100773 db/journals/ws/ws76.html#NicolaFMPT23

Antonio De Nicola 0001 Anna Formica Ida Mele Michele Missikoff Francesco Taglino A Knowledge-Based Approach to Business Process Analysis: From Informal to Formal. 493-507 2023 DEXA (1) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39847-6_39 conf/dexa/2023-1 db/conf/dexa/dexa2023-1.html#NicolaFMMT23 Antonio De Nicola 0001 Anna Formica Ida Mele Michele Missikoff Francesco Taglino A Formal Approach to a Knowledge Base for Business Process Analysis. 100-104 2023 Ital-IA https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3486/80.pdf conf/ital-ia/2023 db/conf/ital-ia/ital-ia2023.html#0001FMMT23 Antonio De Nicola 0001 Anna Formica Ida Mele Michele Missikoff Francesco Taglino Towards a Formal Approach to a Knowledge Base Supporting Business Process Analysis. 192-199 2023 SEBD https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3478/paper37.pdf conf/sebd/2023 db/conf/sebd/sebd2023.html#0001FMMT23

Antonio De Nicola 0001 Anna Formica Michele Missikoff Elaheh Pourabbas Francesco Taglino A Parametric Similarity Method: Comparative Experiments based on Semantically Annotated Large Datasets. 2023 abs/2302.04123 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2302.04123 db/journals/corr/corr2302.html#abs-2302-04123

Anna Formica Francesco Taglino Semantic relatedness in DBpedia: A comparative and experimental assessment. 2023 abs/2308.09502 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.09502 db/journals/corr/corr2308.html#abs-2308-09502

Anna Formica Francesco Taglino An Enriched Information-Theoretic Definition of Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy. 100583-100593 2021 9 IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3096598 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q125310195 db/journals/access/access9.html#FormicaT21

Anna Formica Concept Similarity in Formal Concept Analysis with Many-Valued Contexts. 2021 40 Comput. Informatics 3 https://doi.org/10.31577/cai_2021_3_469 db/journals/cai/cai40.html#Formica21

Anna Formica Mauro Mazzei Elaheh Pourabbas Maurizio Rafanelli Approximate Query Answering Based on Topological Neighborhood and Semantic Similarity in OpenStreetMap. 87011-87030 2020 8 IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2992202 db/journals/access/access8.html#FormicaMPR20

Anna Formica Elaheh Pourabbas Francesco Taglino Semantic Search Enhanced with Rating Scores. 67 2020 12 Future Internet 4 https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12040067 db/journals/fi/fi12.html#FormicaPT20

Anna Formica Similarity reasoning in formal concept analysis: from one- to many-valued contexts. 715-739 2019 60 Knowl. Inf. Syst. 2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-018-1252-4 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q129278260 db/journals/kais/kais60.html#Formica19

Anna Formica Mauro Mazzei Elaheh Pourabbas Maurizio Rafanelli Querying Distributed GIS with GeoPQLJ based on GeoJSON. 175-182 2019 GISTAM https://doi.org/10.5220/0007657201750182 conf/gistam/2019 db/conf/gistam/gistam2019.html#FormicaMPR19 Antonio De Nicola 0001 Anna Formica Michele Missikoff Elaheh Pourabbas Francesco Taglino A Comparative Assessment of Ontology Weighting Methods in Semantic Similarity Search. 506-513 2019 ICAART (2) https://doi.org/10.5220/0007342805060513 conf/icaart/2019-2 db/conf/icaart/icaart2019-2.html#0001FMPT19

Anna Formica Mauro Mazzei Elaheh Pourabbas Maurizio Rafanelli Approximate answering of queries involving polyline-polyline topological relationships. 128-145 2018 17 Inf. Vis. 2 https://doi.org/10.1177/1473871617698516 db/journals/ivs/ivs17.html#FormicaMPR18

Michele Missikoff Anna Formica Elaheh Pourabbas Francesco Taglino Enriching semantic search with preference and quality scores. 1650002:1-1650002:8 2017 1 Encycl. Semantic Comput. Robotic Intell. 1 https://doi.org/10.1142/S2425038416500024 db/journals/escri/escri1.html#MissikoffFPT17

A. Barbagallo Anna Formica ELSE: an ontology-based system integrating semantic search and e-learning technologies. 650-666 2017 25 Interact. Learn. Environ. 5 https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2016.1172240 db/journals/ile/ile25.html#BarbagalloF17

Anna Formica Mauro Mazzei Elaheh Pourabbas Maurizio Rafanelli Enriching the semantics of the directed polyline-polygon topological relationships: the DLP -intersection matrix. 175-196 2017 19 J. Geogr. Syst. 2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10109-017-0246-1 db/journals/jgs/jgs19.html#FormicaMPR17

Anna Formica Michele Missikoff Elaheh Pourabbas Francesco Taglino A Bayesian Approach for Semantic Search Based on DAG-Shaped Ontologies. 126-140 2017 DEXA (2) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64471-4_12 conf/dexa/2017-2 db/conf/dexa/dexa2017-2.html#FormicaMPT17 Anna Formica Michele Missikoff Elaheh Pourabbas Francesco Taglino A Bayesian Approach for Weighted Ontologies and Semantic Search. 171-178 2016 KEOD https://doi.org/10.5220/0006073301710178 conf/ic3k/2016keod db/conf/ic3k/keod2016.html#FormicaMPT16

Anna Formica Michele Missikoff Elaheh Pourabbas Francesco Taglino Semantic search for matching user requests with profiled enterprises. 191-202 2013 64 Comput. Ind. 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2012.09.007 db/journals/cii/cii64.html#FormicaMPT13

Anna Formica Elaheh Pourabbas Maurizio Rafanelli Constraint relaxation of the polygon-polyline topological relation for geographic pictorial query languages. 1053-1075 2013 10 Comput. Sci. Inf. Syst. 3 https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS120302017F db/journals/comsis/comsis10.html#FormicaPR13

Anna Formica Similarity reasoning for the semantic web based on fuzzy concept lattices: An informal approach. 511-520 2013 15 Inf. Syst. Frontiers 3 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-011-9340-y db/journals/isf/isf15.html#Formica13

Anna Formica Michele Missikoff Elaheh Pourabbas Francesco Taglino A Linked Data Based Approach to Similarity Reasoning. 31-38 2013 NGEBIS Short Papers https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1006/paper6.pdf conf/caise/2013ngebis db/conf/caise/ngebis2013.html#FormicaMPT13a Anna Formica Michele Missikoff Elaheh Pourabbas Francesco Taglino Supporting Customer Choice with Semantic Similarity Search and Explanation. 317-328 2013 CAiSE Workshops https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38490-5_30 conf/caise/2013w db/conf/caise/caisews2013.html#FormicaMPT13

Anna Formica Semantic Web search based on rough sets and Fuzzy Formal Concept Analysis. 40-47 2012 26 Knowl. Based Syst. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2011.06.018 db/journals/kbs/kbs26.html#Formica12

Anna Formica Mauro Mazzei Elaheh Pourabbas Maurizio Rafanelli A 16-Intersection Matrix for the Polygon-Polyline Topological Relation for Geographic Pictorial Query Languages. 302-316 2012 CD-ARES https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32498-7_23 conf/IEEEares/2012cd db/conf/IEEEares/cd-ares2012.html#FormicaMPR12

Anna Formica Concept Similarity in Fuzzy Formal Concept Analysis for Semantic Web. 153-167 2010 18 Int. J. Uncertain. Fuzziness Knowl. Based Syst. 2 https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218488510006465 db/journals/ijufks/ijufks18.html#Formica10

Anna Formica Michele Missikoff Elaheh Pourabbas Francesco Taglino Semantic Search for Enterprises Competencies Management . 183-192 2010 KEOD conf/ic3k/2010keod db/conf/ic3k/keod2010.html#FormicaMPT10

Anna Formica Concept similarity by evaluating information contents and feature vectors: a combined approach. 145-149 2009 52 Commun. ACM 3 https://doi.org/10.1145/1467247.1467281 db/journals/cacm/cacm52.html#Formica09

Arianna D'Ulizia Fernando Ferri Anna Formica Patrizia Grifoni Approximating Geographical Queries. 1109-1124 2009 24 J. Comput. Sci. Technol. 6 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11390-009-9284-6 db/journals/jcst/jcst24.html#DUliziaFFG09

Anna Formica Elaheh Pourabbas Content based similarity of geographic classes organized as partition hierarchies. 221-241 2009 20 Knowl. Inf. Syst. 2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-008-0177-8 db/journals/kais/kais20.html#FormicaP09

Anna Formica Michele Missikoff Elaheh Pourabbas Francesco Taglino Adding Concept Weights to Ontologies for Semantic Search. 73-80 2009 SEBD conf/sebd/2009 db/conf/sebd/sebd2009.html#FormicaMPT09

Anna Formica Similarity of XML-Schema Elements: A Structural and Information Content Approach. 240-254 2008 51 Comput. J. 2 https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxm051 db/journals/cj/cj51.html#Formica08

Anna Formica Concept similarity in Formal Concept Analysis: An information content approach. 80-87 2008 21 Knowl. Based Syst. 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2007.02.001 db/journals/kbs/kbs21.html#Formica08

Anna Formica Michele Missikoff Elaheh Pourabbas Francesco Taglino Weighted Ontology for Semantic Search. 1289-1303 2008 OTM Conferences (2) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88873-4_26 conf/otm/2008-2 db/conf/otm/otm2008-2.html#FormicaMPT08 Arianna D'Ulizia Fernando Ferri Anna Formica Patrizia Grifoni Maurizio Rafanelli Structural similarity in geographical queries to improve query answering. 19-23 2007 conf/sac/2007 SAC https://doi.org/10.1145/1244002.1244007 db/conf/sac/sac2007.html#DUliziaFFGR07

Anna Formica Ontology-based concept similarity in Formal Concept Analysis. 2624-2641 2006 176 Inf. Sci. 18 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2005.11.014 db/journals/isci/isci176.html#Formica06

Fernando Ferri Anna Formica Patrizia Grifoni Maurizio Rafanelli Query Approximation by Semantic Similarity in GeoPQL. 1670-1680 2006 conf/otm/2006-w2 OTM Workshops (2) https://doi.org/10.1007/11915072_73 db/conf/otm/otm2006-w2.html#FerriFGR06

Anna Formica Similarity Of Xml-Schema Elements Supported By Domain Ontologies. 117-130 2005 15 Int. J. Softw. Eng. Knowl. Eng. 1 https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218194005001872 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114614827 db/journals/ijseke/ijseke15.html#Formica05

Fernando Ferri Anna Formica Patrizia Grifoni Maurizio Rafanelli Evaluating Semantic Similarity Using GML in Geographic Information Systems. 1009-1019 2005 conf/otm/2005-1 OTM Workshops https://doi.org/10.1007/11575863_123 db/conf/otm/otm2005-1.html#FerriFGR05

Anna Formica Legality of XML-Schema Type Hierarchies. 591-601 2004 47 Comput. J. 5 https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/47.5.591 db/journals/cj/cj47.html#Formica04

Anna Formica Michele Missikoff Inheritance processing and conflicts in structural generalization hierarchies. 263-290 2004 36 ACM Comput. Surv. 3 https://doi.org/10.1145/1035570.1035572 db/journals/csur/csur36.html#FormicaM04

Anna Formica Satisfiability of object-oriented database constraints with set and bag attributes. 213-224 2003 28 Inf. Syst. 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0306-4379(02)00010-8 db/journals/is/is28.html#Formica03

Michele Missikoff Hannes Werthner Wolfram Höpken Mirella Dell'Erba Oliver Fodor Anna Formica Francesco Taglino Harmonise - Towards Interoperability in the Tourism Domain. 58-66 2003 ENTER https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6027-5_7 conf/enter/2003 db/conf/enter/enter2003.html#MissikoffWHDFFT03 Anna Formica Michele Missikoff Ontology Validation in OPAL. 198-202 2003 conf/icws/2003 ICWS db/conf/icws/icws2003.html#FormicaM03

Anna Formica Michele Missikoff Concept Similarity in SymOntos: An Enterprise Ontology Management Tool. 583-594 2002 45 Comput. J. 6 https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/45.6.583 db/journals/cj/cj45.html#FormicaM02

Anna Formica Heinz Frank Consistency of the static and dynamic components of object-oriented specifications. 195-215 2002 40 Data Knowl. Eng. 2 db/journals/dke/dke40.html#FormicaF02 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0169-023X(01)00052-0

Anna Formica Finite Satisfiability of Integrity Constraints in Object-Oriented Database Schemas. 123-139 2002 14 IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/69.979977 http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/69.979977 db/journals/tkde/tkde14.html#Formica02

Anna Formica Michele Missikoff Semantic Integration of Tourism Enterprises: an Ontological Approach. 187-198 2001 conf/sbbd/2001 SBBD db/conf/sbbd/sbbd2001.html#FormicaM01

Catriel Beeri Anna Formica Michele Missikoff Inheritance Hierarchy Design in Object-Oriented Databases. 191-216 1999 30 Data Knowl. Eng. 3 db/journals/dke/dke30.html#BeeriFM99 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0169-023X(99)00011-7

Anna Formica Hans Dietmar Gröger Michele Missikoff An Efficient Method for Checking Object-Oriented Database Schema Correctness. 333-369 TODS23/P334.PDF 1998 23 ACM Trans. Database Syst. 3 db/journals/tods/tods23.html#FormicaGM98 https://doi.org/10.1145/293910.293152 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130972955 ... conf/sigmod/AgrawalG89 journals/jlp/Ait-KaciP93 journals/tods/AlbanoCO85 journals/vldb/AlbanoGO95 journals/toplas/AmadioC93 conf/oopsla/AndrewsH87 ... journals/tcs/BalstersF91 journals/tois/BanerjeeCGKWBK87 journals/dke/Beeri90 conf/sigmod/Borgida88 books/aw/kimL89/BretlMOPSSWW89 journals/iandc/Cardelli88 journals/csur/CardelliW85 ... ... conf/oopsla/CookP89 conf/popl/CookHC90 conf/edbt/FormicaM94 journals/dke/FormicaGM97 books/cs/HorowitzS78 ... conf/oopsla/KhoshafianC86 conf/sigmod/KiferL89 books/mit/Kim90 journals/tkde/Kim90 books/mk/bancilhonDK92/LecluseR92 ... conf/sigmod/MissikoffT94 ... ... ... conf/fgcs/YasukawaTY92 books/mk/bancilhonDK92/Zicari92

Anna Formica Hans Dietmar Gröger Michele Missikoff Object-Oriented Database Schema Analysis and Inheritance Processing: A Graphtheoretic Approach. 157-181 1997 24 Data Knowl. Eng. 2 db/journals/dke/dke24.html#FormicaGM97 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0169-023X(97)00018-9 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114826247

Anna Formica Michele Missikoff A Verification Algorithm for Inheritance Hierarchies in Object-Oriented Databases. 269-279 1997 62 Inf. Process. Lett. 5 db/journals/ipl/ipl62.html#FormicaM97 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0020-0190(97)00062-8

Ernesto Damiani Anna Formica Maria Grazia Fugini Michele Missikoff R. Pizzicannella Reusing Analysis Schemas in ODB Applications: a Chart Based Approach. 406-415 adbis97/P406.pdf 1997 conf/adbis/97 ADBIS db/conf/adbis/adbis97.html#DamianiFFMP97 journals/tse/BankerKZ93 journals/tosem/BatoryO92 ... books/mk/Cattell94 ... ... conf/edbt/FormicaM94 journals/tse/FrakesP94 journals/csur/Krueger92 journals/tse/MaarekBK91 ... ... ... journals/tosem/OstertagHDB92 ... journals/cacm/SaltonAB94 Anna Formica Hans Dietmar Gröger Michele Missikoff A Method for Inheritance Processing in Object-Oriented Databases. 139-160 1996 conf/sebd/1996 SEBD db/conf/sebd/sebd1996.html#FormicaGM96 Anna Formica Michele Missikoff Roberto Terenzi A Theorem Prover for Checking Satisfiability of Object-Oriented Database Schemas. 819 1995 conf/iclp/1995 ICLP db/conf/iclp/iclp95.html#FormicaMT95 Anna Formica Michele Missikoff A Graph-Theoretic Approach to the Verification of Inheritance Hierarchies in Object-Oriented Databases. 273-282 1995 conf/sebd/1995 SEBD db/conf/sebd/sebd1995.html#FormicaM95 Anna Formica Michele Missikoff Correctness of ISA Hierarchies in Object-Oriented Database Schemas. 231-244 EDBT94/P231.pdf conf/edbt/94 1994 EDBT db/conf/edbt/edbt94.html#FormicaM94 https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57818-8_54 journals/tods/AlbanoCO85 conf/dood/AtkinsonBDDMZ89 journals/tois/BanerjeeCGKWBK87 ... conf/aaai/BrachmanL84 ... ... ... conf/edbt/CauvetPR88 ... ... ... ... journals/tkde/Kim90 ... ... conf/vldb/LecluseR89 ... Anna Formica Michele Missikoff Roberto Terenzi Constraint Satisfiability in Object-Oriented Databases. 48-60 1994 conf/ewdw/94 East/West Database Workshop db/conf/ewdw/ewdw94.html#FormicaMT94 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3577-7_4 Anna Formica Michele Missikoff On Structural Correctness of Object-Oriented Database Schemas. 139-150 1993 conf/sebd/1993 SEBD db/conf/sebd/sebd1993.html#FormicaM93 Anna Formica Michele Missikoff Modeling Semantic Interity Contraints in Object-Oriented Database Schemas. 129-147 1993 books/sp/Atzeni93 LOGIDATA+: Deductive Databases with Complex Objects db/journals/lncs/lncs701.html#FormicaM93 https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0021894 Alessandro Artale Jean Paul Ballerini Filippo Cacace Stefano Ceri Francesca Cesarini Anna Formica Herman Lam Sergio Greco Giorgio Marrella Michele Missikoff Luigi Palopoli 0001 Luigi Pichetti Domenico Saccà Silvio Salza Claudio Sartori 0001 Giovanni Soda Letizia Tanca M. Toiati Prototypes in the LOGIDATA+ Project. 252-273 1993 books/sp/Atzeni93 LOGIDATA+: Deductive Databases with Complex Objects db/journals/lncs/lncs701.html#ArtaleBCCCFLGMM93 https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0021901 https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57419-0_5 Anna Formica Michele Missikoff Integrity Constraints Representation in Object-Oriented Databases. 69-85 CIKM/1992/P069.pdf 1992 conf/cikm/1992 CIKM db/conf/cikm/cikm92.html#FormicaM92 Anna Formica Michele Missikoff S. Vazzana An Object-Oriented Data model for Artificial Intelligence Applications. 26-41 1990 conf/ewdw/90 East/West Database Workshop db/conf/ewdw/ewdw90.html#FormicaMV90 https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54141-1_3 Alessandro Artale Jean Paul Ballerini A. Barbagallo Catriel Beeri Filippo Cacace Stefano Ceri Francesca Cesarini Ernesto Damiani Mirella Dell'Erba Arianna D'Ulizia Fernando Ferri Oliver Fodor Heinz Frank Maria Grazia Fugini Sergio Greco Patrizia Grifoni Hans Dietmar Gröger Wolfram Höpken Herman Lam Giorgio Marrella Mauro Mazzei Ida Mele Michele Missikoff Antonio De Nicola 0001 Luigi Palopoli 0001 Luigi Pichetti R. Pizzicannella Elaheh Pourabbas Maurizio Rafanelli Domenico Saccà Silvio Salza Claudio Sartori 0001 Giovanni Soda Francesco Taglino Letizia Tanca Roberto Terenzi M. Toiati S. Vazzana Hannes Werthner