Flexible Query Answering Systems: 5th International Conference, FQAS 2002. Copenhagen, Denmark, October 27-29, 2002, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, FQAS 2002, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in October 2002. The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. Among the fields covered are database management, information retrieval, domain modeling, knowledge representation and ontologies, knowledge discovery and data mining, artificial intelligence, classical and nonclassical logics, computational linguistics, natural language processing, multimedia information systems, and human-computer interaction.