In this paper I discuss some of the criteria that are widely used in the linguistic and philosophical literature to classify an aspect of meaning as either semantic or pragmatic. W...
The entity–relationship (ER) model, a powerful means for business and data modeling, needs to be enriched with new semantics as the real world changes and its understanding impr...
Abstract In this paper, we describe our Question Answering (QA) system called QUANTUM. The goal of QUANTUM is to find the answer to a natural language question in a large document ...
This paper presents techniques for multimedia annotation and their application to video summarization and translation. Our tool for annotation allows users to easily create annota...
In search of semantic richer and more flexible database modelling and database querying techniques, different approaches based on fuzzy set theory have been developed. Among the m...