One of the key problems when extending relational database query languages to include deductive capabilities, is to provide them with efficient methods for answering recursive que...
This paper discusses an information extraction (IE) system, Textract, in natural language (NL) question answering (QA) and examines the role of IE in QA application. It shows: (i)...
—Image category recognition is important to access visual information on the level of objects and scene types. So far, intensity-based descriptors have been widely used for featu...
Koen E. A. van de Sande, Theo Gevers, Cees G. M. S...
Lexical chaining is a technique for identifying semanticallyrelated terms in text. We propose concept chaining to link semantically-related concepts within biomedical text togethe...
Abstract. In this paper the focus is on object-oriented analysis of information systems. We assume that the communication within an application domain can be described by a logbook...