Generating query-answering plans for information gathering agents requires to translate a user query, formulated in terms of a set of virtual relations, to a query that uses relat...
Abstract. Context-aware systems must be able to deal with uncertain context information. We propose a generic context architecture and representation that incorporates the uncertai...
A semi-structured information space consists of multiple collections of textual documents containing fielded or tagged sections. The space can be highly heterogeneous, because eac...
In this paper, we consider the decidability of two problems related to information flow in a system with respect to some property. A flow occurs in a system if the conditional pr...
This paper investigates query translation in cross-lingual information retrieval, especially the challenges caused by ambiguity and polysemi. We base our ideas on feature vectors a...