In this paper we present a method to automatically identify linguistic contexts which contain possible causes of emotions or emotional states from Italian newspaper articles (La Repubblica Corpus). Our methodology is based on the interplay between relevant linguistic patterns and…

The consideration of personalization politics in the context of any web application modelling method obliges to the revision of its different modelling activities, which must be adapted to take into account the information regarding the user (usually gathered in a…

Conceptual Modelling approaches for the web need extensions to specify dynamic personalization properties in order to design more powerful web applications. Current approaches provide techniques to support dynamic personalization, usually focused on implementation details. This article presents an extension of…

En este artículo se describe un sistema para la clasificación de la polaridad de tuits escritos en español. Se adopta una aproximación híbrida, que combina conocimiento lingüístico obtenido mediante PLN con técnicas de aprendizaje automático. Como paso previo, se realiza…

In this paper, we present SEDiL, a Software for Edit Distance Learning. SEDiL is an innovative prototype implementation grouping together most of the state of the art methods that aim to automatically learn the parameters of string and tree edit…

La mayoría de los sistemas de gestión de diálogo actuales se basan en conocimiento estructurado extraído del análisis de corpus. Esta es una de las primeras tareas que deben ser abordadas para alimentar y poner en funcionamiento un sistema de…

This article analyzes the appropriateness of a text summarization system, COMPENDIUM, for generating abstracts of biomedical papers. Two approaches are suggested: an extractive (COMPENDIUM E), which only selects and extracts the most relevant sentences of the documents, and an abstractive-oriented…

En este artículo proponemos dos alternativas para el tratamiento de consultas degradadas en aplicaciones de Recuperación de Información en español. La primera de ellas es una estrategia basada en n-gramas de caracteres e independiente del conocimiento y recursos lingüísticos disponibles.…

Presentation of existing curricula connected with usability and accessibility at the University of Alicante for the Leonardo da Vinci project "GUI Usability and Accessibility: Exchanging Knowledge and Experiences" (Grenoble, France, 27 November 2012)., Presentación del currículo actual relacionado con la…

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…