Robustness, the ability to analyze any input regardless of its grammaticality, is a desirable property for any system dealing with unrestricted natural language text. Error-repair...
Due to the ubiquity and popularity of XML, users often are in the following situation: they want to query XML documents which contain potentially interesting information but they ...
Albrecht Schmidt 0002, Martin L. Kersten, Menzo Wi...
Distributed systems comprised of autonomous self-interested entities require some sort of control mechanism to ensure the predictability of the interactions that drive them. This ...
Felipe Rech Meneguzzi, Simon Miles, Michael Luck, ...
Estimating the selectivity of queries is a crucial problem in database systems. Virtually all database systems rely on the use of selectivity estimates to choose amongst the many ...
SHIRI 1 is an ontology-based system for integration of semistructured documents related to a specific domain. The system’s purpose is to allow users to access to relevant parts ...