The Web has many sites where users can exchange goods and services. Often, the end-users must write free-text descriptions of the goods and services they have available, or the goo...
MPEG-7 is an excellent choice for the description of audiovisual content due to its flexibility and comprehensiveness. The drawback is that these properties also increase the comp...
Terminologies are increasingly based on “ontologies” developed in description logics and related languages such as the new Web Ontology Language, OWL. The use of description l...
Abstract. In this short paper we describe the DFL hybrid knowledge base, that integrates descriptions with expressive object-oriented rules. The knowledge base manages a database o...
Speech enabled interfaces and spoken dialog systems are mostly based on statistical speech and language processing modules. Their behavior is therefore not deterministic and hardl...