Today's natural language processing systems are growing more complex with the need to incorporate a wider range of language resources and more sophisticated statistical metho...
Semantic databases are a stable starting point in developing knowledge based systems. Since creating language resources demands many temporal, financial and human resources, a pos...
To ensure the re-use of domain ontologies the usual approach relies on a pivot language, e.g., Kif, intoandfromwhich the domainontologyis translated. This requires several distinc...
A functional aspect is an aspect that has the semantics of a transformation; it is a function that maps a program to an advised program. Functional aspects are composed by functio...
A well-established principle of language is that there is a preference for closely related words to be close together in the sentence. This can be expressed as a preference for de...