: Horizontal fragments of a class in an object-oriented database system contain subsets of the class extent or instance objects. These fragments are created with a set of system in...
Previous works on automatic query clustering most generate a flat, un-nested partition of query terms. In this work, we are pursuing to organize query terms into a hierarchical s...
The paper presents a prototype of a system for querying the Web in natural language (French) for a limited domain. The domain knowledge, represented in description logics (DL), is ...
General-purpose ontologies (e.g. WordNet) are convenient, but they are not always scientifically valid. We draw on techniques from semantic class learning to improve the scientific...
We describe a scheme for moving living code between a set of distributed processes coordinated with unification based Linda operations, and its application to building a comprehen...