We describe the re-annotation of selected types of named entities (persons, organizations, locations) from the MUC7 corpus. The focus of this annotation initiative is on recording...
In evolving applications, there is a need for the dynamic selection of algorithms or algorithm parameters. Such selection is hardly ever governed by exact theory, so intelligent r...
Even sophisticated techniques start out from simple ideas. Later, in reply to application needs or theoretical problems new concepts are introduced and new formalisations proposed...
Good components need precise contracts. In the practice of Design by ContractTM , applications and libraries typically express, in their postconditions and class invariants, only a...
We develop the default logic for pragmatic analysis of natural language queries. Ambiguous sentences are considered so that each set of meanings is assigned an extension of defaul...