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…

The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) progress targets have not been met. Nevertheless, the United Nations (UN) has not yet undertaken in-depth review in order to discover the reasons behind this lack of progress in achieving the MDG. From a political…

The main purpose of this paper is to highlight the socializing value of motor activity, a factor often overlooked in the planning of the Italian school. To achieve this goal, we developed a research project that can rigorously demonstrate a…

El conocimiento de las relaciones entre la cultura ibera del sureste peninsular y el mundo púnico se ha construido a medida que se sucedían los modelos historiográficos. En las primeras décadas del s. XX, los estudiosos Francisco Figueras y José…

Los cambios registrados en el clima durante las últimas décadas están afectando a la distribución y dinámica poblacional de las especies a una escala global, induciendo cambios en la fenología, en el crecimiento o en las interacciones bióticas. Estas alteraciones…

Geographic knowledge discovery (GKD) is the process of extracting information and knowledge from massive georeferenced databases. Usually the process is accomplished by two different systems, the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the data mining engines. However, the development of those…

Web-based learning environments are becoming increasingly popular in higher education. One of the most important web-learning resources is the virtual laboratory (VL), which gives students an easy way for training and learning through the Internet. Moreover, on-line collaborative communication represents…

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…

INVENIO es un sistema que dota de la capacidad de búsqueda semántica sobre la plataforma Google Search Appliance de Google. Es un sistema basado en tecnologías de la Web Semántica y que transforma las consultas realizadas por el usuario en…

The object of this article is to explain, that Transformational Grammars
take Linguistic Universals as Grammar Universals. From the point
of view of this hypothesis, a discourse identification with its object is
implied, and it shows one of the common…