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…

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…

Chemical ecology comprises the study of interactions of organisms with their environment that are mediated by the chemicals they produced. In general, chemicals that mediate interactions between organisms are called semiochemicals. Semiochemicals are divided into two major groups depending on…

This paper presents the automatic extension of TERSEO to other languages,
a knowledge-based system for the recognition and
normalization of temporal expressions, originally developed for
Spanish.

TERSEO was extended to English and Italian through the
automatic translation of the…

This paper presents an interactive computer simulator that can be used in the
field of practical training in Robotics. The tool can provide basic training for workers as
well as increase their knowledge about robotic concepts. The application offers a…

Most Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems traditionally use a sequential architecture that represents the classical linguistic levels (lexical-morphological, syntactical, semantic, etc.), but they claim for huge and monolithic modules, that make the backtracking among such modules difficult. By using a…

This paper analyzes general features and most important objectives of feminist translation. One of the main principles of this theory is the non-acceptance of the traditional definition of equivalence. For this reason, we will compare feminist conception of equivalence with…

This paper presents and analyzes the influence of chronological distance between an original medieval text and its translation on the type of translation and the translation strategies –modernization/arcaization and philological/communicative translation– followed by a contemporary translator. Extracts of the medieval…

Short survey carried out at the beginning of the course in order to elicit information about the students' background, future prospects and knowledge of ICT.

En la societat actual, una de les millors maneres de donar a conéixer una llengua i la seua cultura —i encara més a nivell internacional— és la traducció. La tasca traductològica té com a objectiu primordial posar en contacte dues…