The need for robust and easily extensible systems for word sense disambiguation coupled with successes in training systems for a variety of tasks using large on-line corpora has led to extensive research into corpus-based statistical approaches to this problem. Promising…

This thesis studies al-Ghazali's theory of knowledge, particularly his concept of knowledge of God in his three later works: "The book of Knowledge" of the Ih&dotbelow;ya', al-Munqidh, and Iljam al-`Awamm. From his conception of knowledge of God the first book…

La comprensión de la noción de derivada presenta dificultades para los estudiantes de Bachillerato (16-18 años) y primeros años de Cálculo en la Universidad. En este contexto, este trabajo revisa y organiza las aportaciones de las investigaciones realizadas en Educación…

In this paper, we present SEDiL, a Software for Edit Distance Learning. SEDiL is an innovative prototype implementation grouping together most of the state of the art methods that aim to automatically learn the parameters of string and tree edit…

The contemporary study in the philosophy of language concentrates extensively on a cluster of questions defining the problem of linguistic knowledge (Evans 1981, Davies 1989, Dummett 1991). What explains a speaker's language mastery? Is it knowledge that underwrites our linguistic…

El presente trabajo propone un modelo pedagógico basado en el conocimiento experto de docentes de la Facultad de Ingeniería de la UNMDP. Para su construcción, se ha usado el modelo de Anthony Grasha el cual propone una tipología fundamentada en…

Se estudia un total de 42 especies del género Cheilosia, de las cuales tres: Cheilosia faucis
Becker, Cheilosia gagatea Loew y Cheilosia ahenae Von Roser, son nuevas para la entomofauna
ibérica. Se confirma la presencia en la misma de Cheilosia…

Focusing on the A-text (1604) version of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus , this study further assesses biographical information on the poet and intellectual currents of the Counter Reformation, so as to investigate the play's relation to emergent trends of individualism in…

This thesis considers the design of receivers for multi-user communication systems based on asynchronous direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA). Its primary aim is to improve current receiver designs which exhibit shortcomings in systems using long sequence spreading (where the spreading sequence…

This dissertation offers both a theoretical investigation into the relationships between narrative, knowledge and personhood and a literary critical analysis of a group of Samuel Beckett's works in which narrative, knowledge and personhood are the central themes., I present an…