This paper describes the development of an image retrieval
system that combines probabilistic and ontological information1. The
process is divided in two different stages: indexing and retrieval. Three
information flows have been created with different kind of information
each one:…

This article explores the way in which text worlds are created in advertising discourse by analysing linguistic choices and features of context which are crucial in the determination of specific relations between sender(s) and target audience(s), in particular, deixis and…

Para el historiador, los epistolarios se han convertido en una fuente de conocimientos de primer orden. En este artículo se valora la aportación historiográfica que han supuesto en el campo de la política, la cultura, la religión y la sociedad,…

Recent work on the application of relevance theory to humorous speech-acts (jokes) defines these as being characterised by an increased demand in processing effort for the attainment of maximum contextual effects. This increase, however, is limited to the resolution of…

Novelty is a concept of great importance in the writing of a research paper, given that the author has to persuade the audience of the news value of the reported research, which makes it worth publishing. In this paper I…

The present work deals with the polyfuncionality of two tenses of Spanish
indicativo: the presente and the imperfecto, and with the hierarchy of these functions
as well.
Tenses aren't an isolated grammatical category, there are rather expressions of
relations among…

Estudio descriptivo que muestra capacidad de
autocuidado (AC) del adulto mayor (A.M.) y factores
sociodemográficos y de salud que inciden en ella.
Se aplicó un cuestionario con Escala Barthel,
Escala Pfeiffer y Escala Visual Análoga del Dolor a
196 AM…

In this paper, a restricted domain question answering (QA) system is described. The design architecture of this QA system and the features that allow the adaptation of the QA system to the medical domain are also presented. The advantages of…

El proceso de informatizar el conocimiento necesario para conservar la biodiversidad de un país o región requiere de varias etapas de
desarrollo de sistemas de información. Típicamente se inicia con el manejo de datos en formatos analógicos y se continúa…

Aquesta investigació s’emmarca en el context del projecte de recerca per a la “Promoció exterior de la llengua, la literatura i la cultura valenciana a través de diferents programes d'actuacions” [IVITRA-UA/Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua (ACADEMIAVALENCIANA2-05N)]. A més, també se…