Abstract. Many practical scenarios involve solving a social choice problem: a group of self-interested agents have to agree on an outcome that best fits their combined preferences...
A number of content management tasks, including term categorization, term clustering, and automated thesaurus generation, view natural language terms (e.g. words, noun phrases) as...
Alberto Lavelli, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Roberto Zano...
Business processes that span organizational borders describe the interaction between multiple parties working towards a common objective. They also express business rules that gov...
Alexander Lazovik, Marco Aiello, Mike P. Papazoglo...
The need for Natural Language Interfaces to databases (NLIs) has become increasingly acute as more and more people access information through their web browsers, PDAs, and cell ph...
Distributed heterogeneous search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers d...