Thenotion of context is indispensable in discussions of meaning,but the wordcontext has often beenusedin conflicting senses. In logic, the first representation of contextas a forma...
Preference queries aim to retrieve from large databases those objects that better match user’s requirements. Approaches proposed so far in the DB field for specifying preference...
The annotation of words and phrases by ontology concepts is extremely helpful for semantic interpretation. However many ontologies, e.g. WordNet, are too fine-grained and even hu...
We describe a semantic type soundness result, formalized in the Coq proof assistant, for a compiler from a simple imperative language with heap-allocated data into an idealized as...
The paper investigates the characterisation of vague concepts within the framework of modal logic. This work builds on the supervaluation approach of Fine and exploits the idea of...