Traditional approaches to distributed problem solving have treated the problem as one of distributed search. In this paper, we propose an alternative, logic-based view of distribut...
Early question and answering (QA) systems focused on keyword search among documents for answers. However, such systems can only answer fact-based questions. It becomes clear that ...
Drawing on a growing database of systematic relationships between word-senses, the authors argue that a significant class of these represent Lexical Implication Rules, a set of fo...
Ontologies represent the next important phase of the World Wide Web, creating a semantic web which links together disparate pieces of information and knowledge. Creating ontologie...
We show how to use linear belief functions to represent market information and financial knowledge, including complete ignorance, statistical observations, subjective speculations...