Abstract. In this paper a rigorous mathematical framework of deterministic annealing and mean-field approximation is presented for a general class of partitioning, clustering and ...
Abstract. The task of information extraction can be seen as a problem of semantic matching between a user-defined template and a piece of information written in natural language. T...
We are concerned with temporalreasoning problems where there is uncertainty about the order in which events occur. The task of temporal reasoning is to derive an event sequence co...
This paper outlines a generic, core temporal object model that provides support for the modeling of temporal object roles. This model draws from notions introduced in some of our ...
In semantically rich hypertexts it is attractive to enable presentation of a network of nodes and links at different levels action. It is also important that the user can interact...