Abstract. We define a language for Web services contracts as a parallelfree fragment of ccs and we study a natural notion of compliance between clients and services in terms of th...
Different formal learning models address different aspects of learning. Below we compare learning via queries—interpreting learning as a one-shot process in which the learner i...
XML Topic maps enable multiple, concurrent views of sets of information objects and can be used to different applications. For example, thesaurus-like interfaces to corpora, navig...
Challenging the implicit reliance on document collections, this paper discusses the pros and cons of using query logs rather than document collections, as self-contained sources o...
We present a strategy for answering fact-based natural language questions that is guided by a characterization of realworld user queries. Our approach, implemented in a system cal...