A Modular and Flexible Architecture for an Integrated Corpus Query System

The paper describes the architecture of an integrated and extensible corpus query system developed at the University of Stuttgart and gives examples of some of the modules realized within this architecture. The modules form the core of a corpus workbench. Within the proposed architecture, information required for the evaluation of queries may be derived from different knowledge sources (the corpus text, databases, on-line thesauri) and by different means: either through direct lookup in a database or by calling external tools which may infer the necessary information at the time of query evaluation. The information available and the method of information access can be stated declaratively and individually for each corpus, leading to a flexible, extensible and modular corpus workbench.Comment: 10 pages, uuencoded gzip'ped PostScript; presented at COMPLEX'9

Global C^\nf Irregularity of the ∂ˉ\bar\partial--Neumann Problem for Worm Domains

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Near equality in the Riesz-Sobolev inequality in higher dimensions

The Riesz-Sobolev inequality provides an upper bound for a trilinear expression involving convolution of indicator functions of sets. It is known that equality holds only for homothetic ordered triples of appropriately situated ellipsoids. We characterize ordered triples of subsets of Euclidean space $R^d$ that nearly realize equality, for arbitrary dimensions $d$, extending a result already known for $d=1$