We examine clarification dialogue, a mechanism for refining user questions with follow-up questions, in the context of open domain Question Answering systems. We develop an algori...
In logic, the spatio-temporal location of a proposition is characterized precisely within a Cartesian system of space and time coordinates. This is suitable for characterizing the ...
Abstract. We describe a partial order reduction technique for a realtime component model. Components are described as timed automata with data ports, which can be composed in stati...
Though inevitable for effective cost-based query rewriting, the derivation of meaningful cardinality estimates has remained a notoriously hard problem in the context of XQuery. By...
Jens Teubner, Torsten Grust, Sebastian Maneth, She...
We typically think of documents as carrying information. However, certain kinds of documents do more than that: they are not only informative but also performative in that they re...