At the Media Lab we are developing a resource called StoryNet, a very-large database of story scripts that can be used for commonsense reasoning by computers. This paper introduce...
A challenging question is how XML can be used to support distributed databases. This leads to the problem of how to obtain a suitable, cost-efficient distribution design for XML do...
Measuring semantic similarity among concepts is the core method for assessing the degree of semantic interoperability within and between ontologies. In this paper, we propose to ex...
Similarity queries in traditional databases work directly on attribute values. But, often similar attribute values do not indicate similar meanings. Semantic background information...
Small mobile robots typically have little on-board processing power for time-consuming vision algorithms. Here we show how they can quickly extract very dense yet highly useful inf...