The studies of anatomy and physiology are fundamental ingredients of medical education. This paper identifies six ways in which such functional knowledge serves as the underpinnings for general medical reasoning, and outlines the design of a computational model of common…

Many systems have been developed for constructing decision trees from collections of examples. Although the decision trees generated by these methods are accurate and efficient, they often suffer the disadvantage of excessive complexity that can render them incomprehensible to experts.…

This is a partial theory of thinking, combining a number of classical and modern concepts from psychology, linguistics, and AI. Whenever one encounters a new situation (or makes a substantial change in one's viewpoint) he selects from memory a structure…

A key problem in model-based object recognition is selection, namely, the problem of isolating regions in an image that are likely to come from a single object. This isolation can be either based solely on image data (data-driven) or can…

Investigamos la posibilidad de obtener patrones semánticos a gran escala para cualquier lengua usando solamente análisis superficial y generalizaciones semánticas básicas. Siendo este un experimento exploratorio sólo hemos realizado una evaluación cualitativa. Hemos comparado varios patrones semánticos de traducción de…

The development of systems with the ability to reason about change notion and actions has been of great importance for the artificial intelligence community. The definition and implementation of systems capable of managing defeasible, incomplete, unreliable, or uncertain information has…

En las dos últimas décadas se ha asistido a un importante avance en el
conocimiento de las comunidades neolíticas del territorio de Alicante.
A las antiguas noticias proporcionadas por investigadores como José Mª Soler García y a los programas de…

In our view, there is a general need to gain insights into what a listener
does in linguistic interaction and to provide a comprehensive account
of listenership from a pragmatic standpoint. This paper examines listener
roles and processes in three…

Actualmente existe una cierta tendencia investigadora hacia el área de
la búsqueda de respuestas en dominios restringidos. En este papel se detalla la parte
de nuestro sistema de búsqueda de respuestas en el dominio médico que se encarga
del análisis…

Por el trabajo que se describe se ha formulado un marco general de representación semántica de los adjetivos en una base de conocimiento léxica basada en estructuras de rasgos en la que operan la herencia y la unificación. Como principales…