In this study I deal with the conception of "elocutio" as described and explained in the "Institutio oratoria". My main point of view is the semiotic one, since the analysis of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of this rhetorical operation…

Ensuring environmental sustainability is the aim of the seventh Millennium Development Goal (MDG7). United Nations data shows insufficient progress, especially in developing countries. In order to generate new information about this progress and the main barriers that hinder it, we…

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…

Nuestro trabajo tiene como objetivo principal, la formulación de un modelo explicativo de la adquisición del aprendizaje complejo, y por extensión, del desarrollo inicial de la competencia
experta en un dominio específico. Modelo que tiene en cuenta los principales aspectos…

This paper evaluates the different tasks carried out in the translation of pronominal anaphora in a machine translation (MT) system. The MT interlingua approach named AGIR (Anaphora Generation with an Interlingua Representation) improves upon other proposals presented to date because…

Esta tesis presenta un método para resolver la ambigüedad léxica pura (semántica) en textos de dominios no registrados en cualquier lengua que tenga un repositorio de sentidos organizado como una base de conocimiento léxica. A este método de resolución de…

La imagen del enfermero en el siglo XVIII no
es nada favorecedora. Los manuales ofrecen
una imagen más adecuada a la realidad,
permitiendo la difusión epistemológica y la toma
de conciencia de su existencia. La imagen es definida
en función…

This paper presents an algorithm for identifying noun phrase antecedents of third person personal
pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, reflexive pronouns, and omitted pronouns (zero pronouns)
in unrestricted Spanish texts. We define a list of constraints and preferences for different types
of…

Diagnosis is an important process in patient care. A suitable diagnosis helps a physician determine a precise treatment. Physicians also have a tendency to seek collaboration from other colleagues and expert systems for better confidence in their decision. The sources…

The complexity and variety of possible behaviours of the quaternary liquid-liquid, liquid-liquid-solid equilibrium at constant temperature and pressure and the ternary isobaric or isothermal liquid-liquid-vapor equilibria are very high and, sometimes, the phase equilibria diagrams appear incomplete and not clearly…