This paper describes a method to enhance the performance ofa unification-style bottom-up chart parser by means oftop-down filtering techniques. The filter developed consists of a s...
We present a denotational semantics for the hardware compilation language Handel-C that maps language constructs to a set of equations, which describe the structure of the resulti...
This paper proposes an approach to automatically generate semantics for scientific e-documents, and presents its applications in e-document understanding, question answering and q...
Abstract. In a component-based system, connectors are used to compose components. Connectors should have a semantics that makes them simple to construct and use. At the same time, ...
We present here the current prototype of the text understanding system HELENE. The objective of this system is to achieve a deep understanding of small reports dealing with a rest...