Several research efforts have shown that a similarity function synthesized from examples may capture an application-specific similarity criterion in a way that fits the application needs more effectively than a generic distance definition. In this …
Peer review is widely viewed as an essential step for ensuring scientific quality of a work and is a cornerstone of scholarly publishing. On the other hand, the actors involved in the publishing process are often driven by incentives which may, and …
We describe the approach that we submitted to the 2015 PAN competition for the author profiling task. The task consists in predicting some attributes of an author analyzing a set of his/her Twitter tweets.We consider several sets of stylometric and …
With the wide diffusion of smartphones and their usage in a plethora of processes and activities, these devices have been handling an increasing variety of sensitive resources. Attackers are hence producing a large number of malware applications for …
There is an increasing interest in the development of techniques for automatic relation extraction from unstructured text. The biomedical domain, in particular, is a sector that may greatly benefit from those techniques due to the huge and ever …
The problem of extracting knowledge from large volumes of unstructured textual information has become increasingly important. We consider the problem of extracting text slices that adhere to a syntactic pattern and propose an approach capable of …
The ability to generate security-related alerts while analyzing network traffic in real time has become a key mechanism in many networking devices. This functionality relies on the application of large sets of regular expressions describing attack …
Regex golf has recently emerged as a specific kind of code golf, i.e., unstructured and informal programming competitions aimed at writing the shortest code solving a particular problem. A problem in regex golf consists in writing the shortest …
High-frequency percussive ventilation (HFPV) is a non-conventional mechanical ventilatory strategy which has proven useful in the treatment of a number of pathological conditions. HFPV usually involves the usage of endotracheal tubes (EET) connecting …
Search-and-replace is a text processing task which may be largely automated with regular expressions: the user must describe with a specific formal language the regions to be modified (search pattern) and the corresponding desired changes …