The problems of query containment, equivalence, and minimization are recognized as very important in the context of query processing, specifically of query optimization. In their...
Studies of discourse relations have not, in the past, attempted to characterize what serves as evidence for them, beyond lists of frozen expressions, or markers, drawn from a few ...
To fix the semantics of different kinds of parthood relations we require axioms which go beyond those characterizing partial orderings. I formulate such axioms and show their impl...
In this paper, we propose a logic of action and causality. The most important part of our contribution is a semantics that integrates action, temporal structure, and probability. ...
We describe an algorithm for constructing a set of acyclic conjunctive relational features by combining smaller conjunctive blocks. Unlike traditional level-wise approaches which ...