The paper investigates discourse particles on the example of German doch, assigning to them very specific semantic interpretations that still cover a wide range of their uses. The...
Peer-to-peer Data Networks (PDNs) are large-scale, selforganizing, distributed query processing systems. Familiar examples of PDN are peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, which su...
Modern information retrieval systems need the capability to reason about the knowledge conveyed by text bases. In this paper a methodology to automatically create ontologies and cl...
With the aim of building a "Semantic Web", the content of the documents must be explicitly represented through metadata in order to enable contents-guided search. Our app...
We introduce a general framework that is based on distance semantics and investigate the main properties of the entailment relations that it induces. It is shown that such entailm...