Product data integration is an essential issue for many e-commerce interoperable business systems. Core to this issue is how to maintain semantic consistency between heterogeneous...
Synonymy – different words with the same meaning – is a major problem for text mining systems. We have proposed asymmetric word similarities as a possible solution to this prob...
There is no clear distinction between service-oriented systems (SOS) and component-based systems (CBS). However, there are several characteristics that could let one consider SOS ...
The concept of cyclical influence between individuals and society is widely accepted, but hard to understand in all details. This paper proposes the use of three processes of socia...
We propose a unified framework in which to treat semantic underspecification and parallelism phenomena in discourse. The framework employs a constraint language that can express e...