A scenario in ontology development and its use is hypothesis testing, such as finding new subconcepts based on the data linked to the ontology. During such experimentation, knowle...
Our goal is to automatically recognize and enroll new vocabulary in a multimodal interface. To accomplish this our technique aims to leverage the mutually disambiguating aspects o...
This paper presents a denotational model of inheritance. The model is based on an intuitive motivation of inheritance as a mechanism for deriving modified versions of recursive d...
We study the interaction of the "new" construct with a rich but common form of (first-order) communication. This interaction is crucial in security protocols, which are ...
We describe a two-layer architecture for supporting semantic interpretation and domain reasoning in dialogue systems. Building systems that support both semantic interpretation an...
Myroslava Dzikovska, James F. Allen, Mary D. Swift