The ability to answer temporal-oriented questions based on clinical narratives is essential to clinical research. The temporal dimension in medical data analysis enables clinical r...
Cui Tao, Harold R. Solbrig, Deepak K. Sharma, Wei-...
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...
We consider multiagent systems situated in unpredictable environments. Agents viewed as abductive logic programs with abducibles being literals the agent could sense or receive fro...
A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...
Answering queries over an incomplete database w.r.t. a set of constraints is an important computational task with applications in fields as diverse as information integration and ...