We investigate the semantics for Knowledge Query Manipulation Language KQML and we propose a semantic framework for the language. KQML is a language and a protocol to support comm...
A representation of the World Wide Web as a directed graph, with vertices representing web pages and edges representing hypertext links, underpins the algorithms used by web search...
An indexing model is the heart of an Information Retrieval (IR) system. Data structures such as term based inverted indices have proved to be very effective for IR using vector sp...
Partial information in databases can arise when information from several databases is combined. Even if each database is complete for some \world", the combined databases wil...
This paper presents a study of three statistical query translation models that use different units of translation. We begin with a review of a word-based translation model that us...