In this report, we unify two quite distinct approaches to information retrieval: region models and language models. Region models were developed for structured document retrieval....
Sources of data uncertainty and imprecision are numerous. A way to handle this uncertainty is to associate probabilistic annotations to data. Many such probabilistic database mode...
Abstract. Classic parsing methods are based on complete search techniques to find the different interpretations of a sentence. However, the size of the search space increases expon...
This paper investigates the role of existing "probabilistic" schemes to reason about various everyday situations on the basis of data from multiple heterogeneous physical...