Temporal patterns composed of symbolic intervals are commonly formulated with Allen's interval relations originating in temporal reasoning. This representation has severe dis...
One of the unresolved problems faced in the construction of intelligent tutoring systems is the acquisition of background knowledge, either for the specification of the teaching st...
The organizational architecture of the multi-agent systems and the structure of social knowledge that the members of the community administer are critical factors for assuring suc...
This paper describes a system that automatically links study materials to encyclopedic knowledge, and shows how the availability of such knowledge within easy reach of the learner ...
Open-class semantic lexicon induction is of great interest for current knowledge harvesting algorithms. We propose a general framework that uses patterns in bootstrapping fashion ...