Though overriding as a single and default mode of inheritance is adequate for most knowledge bases, a large class of applications naturally requires several inheritance modes and ...
The ability to correctly classify sentences that describe events is an important task for many natural language applications such as Question Answering (QA) and Summarisation. In ...
This text analyses the papers accepted for the workshop "Reuse of designs: an interdisciplinary cognitive approach" (Visser, 1993). Several dimensions and questions consi...
MoBIoS is a specialized database management system whose storage manager is based on metric-space indexing, and whose query language entails biological data types. When relational...
Text is a pervasive information type, and many applications require querying over text sources in addition to structured data. This paper studies the problem of query processing i...