Explaining how the meaning of words relate to the meaning of the utterance in which they are used is of utmost importance. The most common approaches view the meaning of an uttera...
Contrary to popular belief, relation schemes in good classical normal forms are not necessarily devoid of redundancies. This arises from the fact that classical data dependencies ...
We propose a programming paradigm that tries to get close to both the semantic simplicity of relational algebra, and the expressive power of unrestricted programming languages. It...
Querying any information system requires the knowledge of some formal language, making it inaccessible to computer-na?ve potential users. We propose a new intuitive querying mecha...
Feature structures are informational elements that have been used in several linguistic theories and in computational systems for natural-language processing. A logicaJ calculus h...