We propose a description-logic style extension of OWL 2 with nominal schemas which can be used like“variable nominal classes”within axioms. This feature allows ontology langua...
WeproposeanewapproachtoEMlearning of PCFGs. We completely separate the process of EM learning from that of parsing, andfor theformer, weintroduce a new EM algorithm called the gra...
The need to integrate several versions of a program into a common one arises frequently, but it is a tedious and time consuming task to merge programs by hand. The program-integrat...
Lifting can greatly reduce the cost of inference on firstorder probabilistic graphical models, but constructing the lifted network can itself be quite costly. In online applicatio...
Contification is a compiler optimization that turns a function that always returns to the same place into a continuation. Compilers for functional languages use contification to e...