Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) addresses the problem of extracting semantic meaning conveyed in an utterance. The traditional knowledge-based approach to this problem is very...
Communication systems, along with database systems, have attracted a lot of attention in software engineering research. Encouraged by the success of SQL systems, some early effort...
When a query is evaluated under bag semantics, each answer is returned as many times as it has derivations. Bag semantics has long been recognized as important, especially when ag...
Incomplete information arises naturally in numerous data management applications. Recently, several researchers have studied query processing in the context of incomplete informat...
Latest results of statistical learning theory have provided techniques such us pattern analysis and relational learning, which help in modeling system behavior, e.g. the semantics ...