The early days of database engines (1960’s) saw several competing “data models” (the formal specifications for how the system represents and reasons about data). Academic researchers had proposed several models that were rich, expressive, and provided admirable data independence, but that were impossible to implement efficiently. The models used by working systems, on the other hand, tended to ...

In 2005, the adult social care Green Paper, Independence, Well-being and Choice, set out a ‘new vision’ for the future of social care in England. Throughout the document, there was a strong emphasis on greater choice and control for service users, a more strategic, preventative approach, working with other services and promoting independence, well-being and inclusion. As the formal consultation...

Up-to-date information about CPR's research projects and other activities is available from our World Wide Web site at www-cpr.maxwell.syr.edu. All recent working papers and Policy Briefs can be read and/or printed from there as well. ABSTRACT In survival analysis, Cox's name is associated with the partial likelihood technique that allows consistent estimation of proportional hazard scale param...

We present a Logic Programming prototype implementation working as proof-of-concept for a unified strategy proposed in our past research to solve several non-standard reasoning problems in Description Logics (DLs), denoted by Constructive Reasoning. In order to proof both the problem-independence and the logic-independence of the adopted approach, the prototype is focused on the solution of thr...

Multiword expressions (MWEs) are linguistic objects containing two or more words and showing idiosyncratic behavior at different levels. Treebanks with annotated MWEs enable studies of such properties, as well as training and evaluation of MWE-aware parsers. However, few treebanks contain full-fledged MWE annotations. We show how this gap can be bridged in Polish by projecting 3 MWE resources o...

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