Presentamos CARPANTA, un sistema de resumen automático de correo electrónico que aplica técnicas de conocimiento intensivo para obtener resúmenes coherentes. El uso de herramientas de PLN de amplia cobertura garantiza la robusteza y portabilidad del sistema, pero también se explota…

Using an audiovisual perception task, two groups of native English listeners
(monolinguals, and L2 learners of Spanish) were asked to identify
which /p,t,k/ tokens had been produced by native English speakers
and which ones by foreigners. The experiment found that…

This paper discusses the recognition of textual entailment in a text-hypothesis pair by applying a wide variety of lexical measures. We consider that the entailment phenomenon can be tackled from three general levels: lexical, syntactic and semantic. The main goals…

This paper present the structure, function and performance of SPOST, a broad coverage, rule-based part-of-speech tagger developed as a component of the Pagnlyzer Spanish Analysis Component of the Pangloss Knowledge-based Machine Translation System. It also describes preparations for the general…

The design and analysis of research may cause systematic gender dependent errors to be produced in results because of gender insensitivity or androcentrism. Gender bias in research could be defined as a systematically erroneous gender dependent approach related to social…

When researchers in the field of Applied Linguistics or L2 teachers
try to carry out any kind of research, several problems arise. The first
one is knowing how to start the process of ‘researching’. The second
problem, perhaps more frustrating,…

PET is a nuclear medical examination which constructs a three-dimensional image of metabolism inside the body; in this article is particular, images are taken from the brain. The high complexity inherent to the interpretation of the brain images makes that…

A concept of pedagogical process knowledge (PPK) is introduced to partner pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). This concept arises from observing the learning of teachers engaged in a course supporting them in introducing more inquiry-based methods into their practice. This course…

A knowledge of the shape of the cornea is of major importance for the planning and monitoring of surgery, and for the correct diagnosis of corneal diseases. Many authors have studied the geometry of the second corneal surface in the…

Purpose – Faced with increasing environmental problems, traditional methods for transmitting information regarding corporate environmental actions are insufficient. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to suggest the environmental capital report, the knowledge map and the balanced scorecard as alternative…