Due to the imminent creation of the degree "Building Engineer", it has been thought appropriate to verify if the criteria set by the EHEA is being applied to the subject of "Construction of Non-structural Elements" in the third year of…

Most Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems traditionally use a sequential architecture that represents the classical linguistic levels (lexical-morphological, syntactical, semantic, etc.), but they claim for huge and monolithic modules, that make the backtracking among such modules difficult. By using a…

Worldwide, there is a well-documented crisis for bees and other pollinators which represent a fundamental biotic capital for wild life conservation, ecosystem function, and crop production. Among all pollinators of the world, bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) constitute the major group in…

En el trabajo se analizan las consecuencias de la crisis económica internacional de 2008 sobre el turismo en el destino Rio Grande do Norte (Brasil), dedicándose especial atención a los efectos de esta crisis y a las medidas implantadas para…

Data mining is at the core of the knowledge discovery process. However, an initial preprocessing step is crucial for assuring reliable results within this process. Preprocessing of data is a time-consuming and non-trivial task since data quality issues should be…

Metacognition loosely refers to one’s “thinking about thinking” and is often defined by its accompanying skills (such as monitoring and evaluating). Despite the tendency for researchers to use metacognition as an overarching umbrella term, cognitive and educational theorists argue as…

La adecuada ordenación de los sistemas de aprendizaje y su alineación con los objetivos de la organización, requiere de un esfuerzo materializado en la introducción de criterios para decidir cuál es el conocimiento relevante que la organización debe poseer e…

In the present paper I describe the conceptual level of representation of a database, currently in development, which aims at fulfilling the Functional-Lexematic model. I will concentrate on the semantic component, as it is central for the theory of Functional…

Este ensayo sitúa y caracteriza las teorías holistas del Derecho, y trata de dar respuesta a las críticas más comúnmente dirigidas contra ellas. Las teorías holistas se presentan como teorías de la justificación según las cuales la conclusión de un…

The Answer Validation Exercise (AVE) is a pilot track within the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2006. The AVE competition provides an evaluation frame-
work for answer validations in Question Answering (QA). In our participation in AVE, we propose a system…