Abstract. Variables make rule-based systems more abstract and expressive, as witnessed by term rewriting systems and two-level grammars. In this paper we show that variables can be...
Abstract. In this paper the methodology followed to build a questionanswering system for the Portuguese language is described. The system modules are built using computational ling...
— Since Witsenhausen put forward his remarkable counterexample in 1968, there have been many attempts to develop efficient methods for solving this non-convex functional optimiz...
Contemporary use of the term ’intension’ derives from the traditional logical doctrine that an idea has both an extension and an intension. In this paper we introduce an intens...
We show how to combine the two most powerful approaches for automated termination analysis of logic programs (LPs): the direct approach which operates directly on LPs and the trans...