The web contains lots of interesting factual information about entities, such as celebrities, movies or products. This paper describes a robust bootstrapping approach to corrobora...
Automated reasoning about systems with infinite domains requires an extension of regular automata to infinite alphabets. Existing formalisms of such automata cope with the infinite...
This paper complements McCarthy's "The well designed child", in part by putting it in a broader context, the space of possible well designed progeny, and in part by...
Addressed in this paper is the issue of semantic relationship extraction from semi-structured documents. Many research efforts have been made so far on the semantic information ex...
This special issue describes a number of applications that utilize lifelike characters that teach indirectly, by playing some role in a social interaction with a user. The design ...