Companies frequently face the challenge of screening the continuously increasingnumber of (Web) documents and assessing the contained information with respectto its relevance and novelty. For instance, technology scouts need to discover andmonitor new technologies, while investors and stock brokers would like to beinformed about recent acquisitions. The systems that have been developed so farfo…
Dissemination can be seen as a communication process between sci-entists. Over the course of several publications, they expose andsupport their findings, while discussing claims stated in these publi-cations. Unfortunately, such discourse structures are trapped withinthe content of the publications, thus making the semantics discover-able only by humans, and only by reading the publications. I…