—When information or control in a multiagent system is private to the agents, they may misreport this information or refuse to execute an agreed outcome, in order to change the r...
In a multidatabase system, schematic con icts between two objects are usually of interest only when the objects have some semantic a nity. In this paper we try to reconcile the tw...
The semi-structured information available in HTML and similar documents provide valuable information that can be used for information extraction applications. This information tog...
We describe recent work on MedSLT, a medium-vocabulary interlingua-based medical speech translation system, focussing on issues that arise when handling languages of which the gra...
We discuss current approaches to the development of natural language dialogue systems, and claim that they do not sufficiently consider the unique qualities of man-machine intera...