Large database schemata can be drastically simplified if techniques of modular and structural modeling are used. Applications and thus schemata have an inner meta-structure. The explicit treatment of the inner structuring may be used during development of large database schemata and may ease the development to a large extent. It is surprising that dimensions and internal separations have not be...

In the European Union, the schemata used to describe a natural person are very different. Each member state is free to apply its own model to various administrative applications. As a result there is a lack of interoperability between countries when personal data needs to be exchanged across national boundaries. The purpose of this work is to find a way to establish semantic interoperability am...

Parsing schemata are deened as an intermediate level of abstraction between context-free grammars and parsers. Clear, concise speciications of radically diierent parsing algorithms can be expressed as parsing schemata. Moreover, because of the uniformity of these speci-cations, relations between diierent parsing algorithms can be formally established. The framework is introced in an informal ma...

This paper presents results of an experiment integrating information from valency dictionary of Polish into a mention detection system. Two types of information is acquired: positions of syntactic schemata for nominal and verbal constructs and secondary prepositions present in schemata. The syntactic schemata are used to prevent (for verbal realizations) or encourage (for nominal groups) constr...

A logic is presented for reasoning on iterated sequences of formulæ over some given base language. The considered sequences, or schemata, are defined inductively, on some algebraic structure (for instance the natural numbers, the lists, the trees etc.). A proof procedure is proposed to relate the satisfiability problem for schemata to that of finite disjunctions of base formulæ. It is shown tha...

The schemata that are often at the basis of resistance to change in couples who are experiencing dysfunction in their relationships are rooted in ingrained experiences from family of origin. The belief systems that underlie such experiences and are influenced by transgenerational dynamics often become galvanized as a result of early learning and the power of parental influence. This article foc...

SI-Designer (Source Integrator Designer) is a designer support tool for semi automatic integration of heterogeneous sources schemata (relational, object and semi structured sources); it has been implemented within the MOMIS project and it carries out integration following a semantic approach which uses intelligent Description Logics-based techniques, clustering techniques and an extended ODMG-O...

If we want to understand how semantic information is represented and processed, there are two possible paths to take. The first, and the most common, is to study the intricacies of language and try to infer the underlying mechanisms. The second approach is to investigate language from inside out by questioning how semantic structure is represented without reference to language. Only when the se...