This paper explores several aspects together for a fine-grained Chinese discourse analysis. We deal with the issues of ambiguous discourse markers, ambiguous marker linkings, and more than one discourse marker. A universal feature representation is proposed. The pair-once postulation, cross-discourse-unit-first rule and word-pair-marker-first rule select a set of discourse markers from ambiguou...

An axiomatic modeling approach to multi-issue debates is proposed. A debate is viewed as a decision procedure consisting of two stages: (1) an “argumentation rule” determines what arguments are admissible for each party, given the “raw data”, depending on the issue or set of issues under discussion; (2) a “persuasion rule” determines the strength of the admissible arguments and selects the winn...

“Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future” provides a broadranging discussion of issues raised by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) 2011 Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) to revise the Common Rule. Three years on, it’s unclear whether this effort to revise the Common Rule is still alive, but this volume confirms that there are good reason...

In this paper we address several issues of rule modeling on the basis of UML. We discuss the relationship between UML class models and OWL vocabularies. We show how certain rules can be specified in a class diagram with the help of OCL. We also show how rule concepts can be described, and how the abstract syntax of RDF, OWL, SWRL and RuleML can be defined, by means of UML class diagrams in a co...

The concept of the Knowledge Bazaar as a paradigm for the development of Expert Systems, whereby knowledge bases are created dynamically using knowledge supplied by self appointed Internet communities is proposed. The idea espouses the creation of individual Knowledge Bazaars, operating in specific domains, but all operating through a generic Knowledge Bazaar XML Web application. Issues address...

Quality and reliability issues are important in development and exploration of rule-based systems. In the paper a formalized knowledge representation for rules called XTT2 is considered. It is a rule language based on an expressive attribute logic called ALSV(FD). A custom runtime and veri cation framework for XTT2 called HalVA is proposed. It allows for veri cation of certain formal properties...

State presence and longevity have long been associated with growth and development, and yet analyzing their relationship remains challenging as both the length of state rule and geographical boundaries change over time. After addressing conceptual and practical concerns on its construction, we present a measure of the mean duration of state rule that is aimed at resolving some of these issues. ...

The rule-based paradigm for knowledge representation appears in many disguises within computer science. In this paper we address special issues which arise when the rule-based programming paradigm is employed in the development of reactive systems. We begin by presenting a rule-based language RL which has emerged while developing intelligent cruise control systems. We de ne a desired declarativ...

Event detection is the rst and the most important step for Event-Condition-Action (ECA) rule execution in active database systems. Composite event detection is not easy for most existing active database systems. In this paper, a Conditional Colored Petri Net model (CCPN) is proposed for composite events speci cation and detection. Composite events are detected by checking composite transition e...

Classification is one of the key issues in the fields of decision sciences and knowledge discovery. This paper presents a new approach for constructing a classifier, based on an extended association rule mining technique in the context of classification. The characteristic of this approach is threefold: first, applying the information gain measure to the generation of candidate itemsets; second...