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…

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…

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…

Heterogeneous azeotropic distillation is a widely used technique to separate binary azeotropic mixtures into their components. One of its most important applications is the dehydration of ethanol, which is blended with gasoline to obtain automobile fuel. Among all the compounds…

Design and optimization of distillation columns for ethanol dehydration, using a hydrocarbon as entrainer, implies a good knowledge of vapor-liquid (VLE), liquid-liquid (LLE) and vapor-liquid-liquid equilibrium (VLLE). Chemical process simulation programs always require the use of a thermodynamic model that…

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…

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…

En el presente trabajo se ha estudiado la diversidad de especies con interés piscícola y las técnicas de pesca tradicionales
que forman parte del patrimonio histórico y sociocultural de la comarca del Bajo Vinalopó (Alicante). La zona de estudio
engloba…

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…

Sierra Nevada es uno de los centros más importantes de diversidad ecológica y endemicidad de Europa, y constituye por ello un observatorio excepcional para estudiar el funcionamiento de sistemas y procesos naturales en un contexto de cambio global. Con vocación…