In this paper, a supervised learning system of word sense disambiguation is presented. It is based on conditional maximum entropy models. This system acquires the linguistic knowledge from an annotated corpus and this knowledge is represented in the form of…

One of the main problems in anaphora resolution is how to find the correct antecedent for each anaphoric expression that appears in the discourse. As shown in a previous study (Rico, 1993), the type of knowledge required to select an…

This article offers an interpretation in terms of metapoetic theory of The Wanderings of
Oisin, Yeats's first important work. Our purpose is to prove that an analysis of the poem
upon this basis can be useful to solve the semantic…

In recent research, it is claimed that deviant features of interlanguage grammars arise only
from the users' knowledge of the rule system of the target language. This paper examines
the relative contribution of the rule system of each of the…

Los mecanismos financieros y la mediatización de los medios de comunicación ha
determinado la universalización de formas de vida, en los últimos años de este siglo, que
se difunde a través de los centros urbanos. Por todo ello los programas…

Este trabajo plantea la publicación de dos fragmentos cerámicos decorados con rostros frontales como
imagen de una diosa local de carácter fúnebre, que amplían el conocimiento iconográfico en lo referente
a las representaciones de las divinidades íberas y a las…

This article explores the stylistic devices and narrative techniques that the late 19th-century
great American satirist employed to subvert and ridicule his contemporaries'
understanding of language and of its relationship to reality. According to Bierce, language
is not merely a…

An important tool for teaching is used at University of Alicante: the virtual campus. We think that information and communication technologies can help us to improve our teaching. Last year, we prepared some materials for our students and checked whether…

El análisis actual sobre las profesiones se centra en su relación con la estructura
social, las organizaciones y la política, de tal manera que las tendencias más recientes
están configurando su estudio sobre la base del conocimiento abstracto y de…

After an impressive development throughout the last two decades, supported by a great
amount of research and innovation, science education seemed to be becoming a new scientific domain.
This transformation of Science Education into a specific field of research and…