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…

In numerous animal groups, individuals within the group often wish to impose
their preferences and guide the group in a certain direction. Conflicting preferences are
common in these situations and, in order to maintain group cohesion, collective decisionmaking
needs to…

In polyandrous species, sexual selection acts both before (precopulatory) and after
(postcopulatory) mating on traits that are important for reproductive success. Precopulatory traits
are important for mate acquisition and include weapons and ornaments. Postcopulatory traits
include components of sperm quantity…

The aim of this paper is to show the application of moodle software to help the knowledge of graphic representation of valves with an online application. This online application has being used in a specific subject of the University of…

La biodiversidad cultivada es un elemento clave para la conservación de agroecosistemas sostenibles que debe abordarse tanto desde una perspectiva ecológica como también desde una perspectiva social. Ambos componentes, natural y social, se conjugan coevolutivamente para dar como resultado una…

Challenges and new horizons for the strengthening of family farming; Embrapa?s studies benefit family farming and Brazilian traditional populations; Basic sanitation: a solution to improve quality of life in the fields; Technology for sustainable agricultural and livestock system; Adoption of…

La Gramática del Papel y la Referencia es una teoría funcional del lenguaje que permite la representación de un texto de entrada en términos de su estructura lógica. Con el fin de ir más allá de la gramática nuclear, el…

This paper describes a new method for cross-lingual textual entailment (CLTE) detection based on machine translation (MT). We use sub-segment translations from different MT systems available online as a source of cross-lingual knowledge. In this work we describe and evaluate…

Previous work on an interactive system aimed at helping non-expert users to enlarge the monolingual dictionaries of rule-based machine translation (MT) systems worked by discarding those inflection paradigms that cannot generate a set of inflected word forms validated by the…

A request from the Essex health and social care mental health commissioners for a series of broad consultations to seek the views of service users and carers emerged as a response to the potential need for service redesign engendered by…