Understanding the structure of knowledge communities, and particularly the organization of "epistemic communities", or groups of agents sharing common knowledge concerns...
Many recent statistical parsers rely on a preprocessing step which uses hand-written, corpus-specific rules to augment the training data with extra information. For example, head-...
Text representation is a central task for any approach to automatic learning from texts. It requires a format which allows to interrelate texts even if they do not share content w...
Inter-organizational cooperation has specific requirements for access control. The paper presents the results from a field study which looks at the cooperation between two enginee...
The World Wide Web can be considered as a large distributed information system that provides access to shared data objects. As one of the most popular applications currently runni...