Abstract As Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows are becoming very relevant for
the different stages of the project's lifecycle, more data is produced and managed across it …

This paper surveys some of the fundamental problems in natural language (NL)
understanding (syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse) and the current approaches …

This paper is an introduction to natural language interfaces to databases (NLIDBS). A brief
overview of the history of NLIDBS is first given. Some advantages and disadvantages of …

Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data is the first book devoted
entirely to techniques for producing knowledge from the vast body of unstructured Web data …

We introduce (1) a novel stochastic inversion transduction grammar formalism for bilingual
language modeling of sentence-pairs, and (2) the concept of bilingual parsing with a variety …

Memory-based language processing (MBLP) views language processing as being based on
the direct reuse of previous experience rather than on the use of rules or other structures …

Paradigms of AI Programming is the first text to teach advanced Common Lisp techniques in
the context of building major AI systems. By reconstructing authentic, complex AI programs …

This series is directed to healthcare professionals who are leading the transfor-tion of health
care by using information and knowledge to advance the quality of patient care. Launched in …

The work published here has been composed by a computer program: Experiments in
Musical Intelligence. I began Experiments in Musical Intelligence in 1981 as an attempt to …

With over 800 million pages covering most areas of human endeavor, the World-wide Web
is a fertile ground for data mining research to make a difference to the effectiveness of …