This work has important implications for many kinds of distributed semantic systems, such as shared web ontologies, agent communication protocols, collaborative tagging, database schema integration, and biological networks.

This dissertation explores the use of personal health messages collected from online message forums to predict drug safety using natural language processing and machine learning techniques. Drug safety is defined as any ...

Contributions from this project include the first detailed, empirically grounded description of the information practices used by a distributed F/OSS development organization to manage software problems, including the first ...