Abstract. Conversational agents interact with users using natural language interface. Especially in Internet space, their role has been recently highlighted as a virtual representa...
This paper presents a system that retrieves descriptive phrases of proper nouns from free text. Sentences holding the specified noun are ranked using a technique based on pattern ...
Advances in networking and transmission of digital multimedia data will bring soon huge catalogues of music to users. Accessing these catalogues raises a problem for users and con...
Predicate dispatching generalizes previous method dispatch mechanisms by permitting arbitrary predicates to control method applicability and by using logical implication between pr...
Application domains, such as multimedia, databases, and parallel computing, require operating system services with high performance and high functionality. Existing operating syst...
Brian N. Bershad, Craig Chambers, Susan J. Eggers,...