The paper investigates the characterisation of vague concepts within the framework of modal logic. This work builds on the supervaluation approach of Fine and exploits the idea of...
We consider non-Horn Deductive Data Bases (DDB) represented in a First Order language without function symbols. In this context the DDB is an incomplete description of the world. ...
Feature selection for unsupervised tasks is particularly challenging, especially when dealing with text data. The increase in online documents and email communication creates a nee...
Nirmalie Wiratunga, Robert Lothian, Stewart Massie
Abstract. Solving conflicts between overlapping databases requires an understanding of the reasons that lead to the inconsistencies. Provided that conflicts do not occur randomly b...
In this paper we deal with the problem of providing natural language front-ends to databases upon which an ontology layer has been added. Specifically, we are interested in expres...
Raffaella Bernardi, Diego Calvanese, Camilo Thorne