Data mining is at the core of the knowledge discovery process. However, an initial preprocessing step is crucial for assuring reliable results within this process. Preprocessing of data is a time-consuming and non-trivial task since data quality issues should be…

The effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPAs) and the conservation of marine environments must be based on reliable information on the quality of the marine environment that can be obtained in a reasonable timeframe. We reviewed studies that evaluated all…

La figura de Luis del Mármol Carvajal, uno de los grandes cronistas de la guerra de los moriscos, ha de ser reivindicada como la de un personaje no sólo de gran conocimiento de los hechos y de abundante caudal informativo,…

Con el objetivo de ampliar los conocimientos en relación a los cambios recientes del nivel en la plataforma continental de Alicante se ha procedido al estudio de diferentes perfiles sísmicos de alta resolución. En el presente trabajo se ha identificado…

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 article contains a rapid review of the abundant information furnished by the Latin inscriptions to our knowledge of Ancient History. To this effect a rapid balance is made of the Latin epigraphs known today and the advances made in…

Este ensayo sitúa y caracteriza las teorías holistas del Derecho, y trata de dar respuesta a las críticas más comúnmente dirigidas contra ellas. Las teorías holistas se presentan como teorías de la justificación según las cuales la conclusión de un…

The Answer Validation Exercise (AVE) is a pilot track within the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2006. The AVE competition provides an evaluation frame-
work for answer validations in Question Answering (QA). In our participation in AVE, we propose a system…

In this paper, we describe the process to extend TERSEO
system to Italian using an automatic porting to this new
language, as it was performed to English., In questo report viene descritto il processo in base al
quale TERSEO, un…

Scientific knowledge and skills acquired by students during pre-university education has diminished since legislative changes were introduced in Spain during the 1990's. As a result, education in the field of science is suffering. Some initiatives are currently underway in Great…