En este artículo presentamos el desarrollo de un nuevo recurso de código abierto para el español: el treebank Tibidabo. La anotación se está llevando a cabo de forma semi–automática en la que, en primer lugar, el corpus es analizado automáticamente…

En este artículo se presenta WRPA, un sistema para la Adquisición de Paráfrasis de Relaciones de la Wikipedia. Aprovechando la estructura de la Wikipedia, WRPA extrae patrones de paráfrasis que expresan una determinada relación entre dos entidades. La novedad de…

Mixing upper level undergraduates majoring in engineering with those majoring in biology, we have devised a course on biologically-inspired design (BID) that provides practical training in methods and techniques that facilitate the identification and translation of biological principles into solutions…

ABSTRACTApplication of renewal process most commonly requires the knowledge of the mean value function and the variance function. In this study, Xie's RS method (1) is adapted to the computation of the variance function for the both ordinary and stationary…

This paper is based on the analysis of job advertisements by Turkish furniture companies that appeared in main daily newspapers in Turkey between April 1998 and May 2002. During this period, a total of 204 advertisements for different positions in…

En el desarrollo de sistemas basados en la interacción, es necesario transcribir y analizar una gran cantidad de corpus. Este análisis es desarrollado a través de distintos niveles lingüísticos, entre los que se encuentra el nivel pragmático. Este trabajo presenta…

Trypanosoma cruzi isolates from 23 acute chagasic patients from localities of Western Venezuela (state
of Barinas) where Chagas’ disease is endemic were typed using ribosomal and mini-exon gene markers.
Results showed that isolates of the two major phylogenetic lineages, T.…

This paper presents a proposal enabling the modelling of manufacturing processes independently of the structure and composition of the industrial plant where these processes will ultimately be implemented. The rationale for the proposal is in the incorporation of knowledge, supported…

AIM: To discover whether nursing students believed that a post-registration cardiac module was meeting their needs.

METHOD: A descriptive qualitative approach was used in this study. Semi-structured interviews were recorded with a purposive sample of six registered nurses who…

Purpose – Information and communication technologies have became pervasive in people’s lives and in this changing world education cannot remain anchored in old-fashioned models which ignore the evolution through which society is going. This paper seeks to present the gamble…