In this paper, we will study semantics that have been used for conditionals in the area of knowledge representation and reasoning: A purely qualitative semantics based on the popu...
A probabilistic learning model for vague queries and missing or imprecise information in databases is described. Instead of retrieving only a set of answers, our approach yields a...
This paper presents a novel approach for extracting high-quality <thread-title, reply> pairs as chat knowledge from online discussion forums so as to efficiently support the...
In this report, we unify two quite distinct approaches to information retrieval: region models and language models. Region models were developed for structured document retrieval....
This paper presents a three-step approach for interoperabilising heterogeneous semantic resources. Firstly, we construct homogeneous representations of these resources in a pivot ...