We show that the idea of predicates on heap objects can be cast in the framework of predicate abstraction. This leads to an alternative view on the underlying concepts of three-val...
A probabilistic learning model for vague queries and missing or imprecise information in databases is described. Instead of retrieving only a set of answers, our approach yields a...
Following results are sketched in this extended abstract: (1) Datalog recursive programs where each rule has at most one subgoal called unit recursions are shown to be bounded, wit...
The model used by the CCG parser of Hockenmaier and Steedman (2002b) would fail to capture the correct bilexical dependencies in a language with freer word order, such as Dutch. T...