An important issue for federated systems of diverse data sources is optimizing cross-source queries, without building knowledge of individual sources into the optimizer. This pape...
This paper introduces the MREF framework for representing and correlating information at a higher semantic level than is possible with Web-based information systems today. The rol...
This paper describes new techniques for assessing pedagogical discourse via threaded discussions that are based on an analysis of speech acts and course topics. The context is an u...
A major contributing factor to the complexity of creating and evolving distributed systems is the tangling of middleware-specific functionality with core business functionality in...
Growing up is in large measure learning about the world and our social and linguistic environment. We might call this data mining, although it is far more multimodal and immersive...