Episodic knowledge is often stored in the form of textual narratives written in natural language. However, a large repository of such narratives will contain both repetitive and n...
Situated, spontaneous speech may be ambiguous along acoustic, lexical, grammatical and semantic dimensions. To understand such a seemingly difficult signal, we propose to model th...
Extracting semantic relations among entities is an important first step in various tasks in Web mining and natural language processing such as information extraction, relation de...
One of the objectives of ooDBMSs is to use type-speci c methods for manipulating objects, in order to maintain the consistency of the database. This is, however, little help for t...
Nowadays, business rules receive a lot of attention from both industry and academia, as they are considered the ideal vehicle for capturing business logic. The purpose of our pape...