Most Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems traditionally use a sequential architecture that represents the classical linguistic levels (lexical-morphological, syntactical, semantic, etc.), but they claim for huge and monolithic modules, that make the backtracking among such modules difficult. By using a…

Our approach for automating the negotiation of business
contracts proceeds in three broad steps. First, determine
the structure of the negotiation process by applying general
knowledge about auctions and domain-specific knowledge
about the contract subject along with preferences from po-

Knowledge acquisition for systems based on knowledge can be called knowledge engineering, according to Feigenbaum (1980) who used the term to describe the reduction of a wide context of knowledge for a set of facts and rules. The term Knowledge…

Drawing on an empirical study on automakers? management of supplier
involvement in product development in Japan, this paper shows that when the design of
a component is outsourced to a supplier, how much and what automakers know about
the component…

Abstract:
This paper analyzes the reasons for
the marginalization of feminist thought in the interdiscipline
of communication studies and elucidates the potential contributions
of this approach to social communication theorizing.


Résumé:
Cet article fait l'analyse des causes
de…

The tools for fault impact analysis are important for the deployment of critical mission systems. These tools can be also used as a development phase aid. We introduce several concepts related to "business alarms". Business alarms are an approximation to…

Abstract:
Located in the
context of discussion in urban British Columbia as to whether
contemporary First Nations art should properly be referred to
as ``art'' in the Western sense or whether it is, rather, the repository
and communicator of culturally…

Abstract:
There is a certain parallel between arguments
about the decline of the public sphere and the decline of the
university today. Both institutions are said to be increasingly
fragmented and politicized. In this paper, I mobilize Nancy Fraser's
alternative…

Abstract:
Recently, Canadian university campuses
have begun to display signs of increasing corporate influence
in their affairs. In spite of the recent appearance of these
signs, the foundation was laid in the early 1980s for this increasing
corporate influence through…

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