This paper describes the development of an image retrieval
system that combines probabilistic and ontological information1. The
process is divided in two different stages: indexing and retrieval. Three
information flows have been created with different kind of information
each one:…

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 article explores the way in which text worlds are created in advertising discourse by analysing linguistic choices and features of context which are crucial in the determination of specific relations between sender(s) and target audience(s), in particular, deixis and…

In this paper a new conception of science is defined, which opposes apocalyptic points of view —science is a perverse knowledge leading to world destruction—, to irenist points of view —science is an armonic knowledge, as a puzzle where we…

Para el historiador, los epistolarios se han convertido en una fuente de conocimientos de primer orden. En este artículo se valora la aportación historiográfica que han supuesto en el campo de la política, la cultura, la religión y la sociedad,…

Recent work on the application of relevance theory to humorous speech-acts (jokes) defines these as being characterised by an increased demand in processing effort for the attainment of maximum contextual effects. This increase, however, is limited to the resolution of…

Novelty is a concept of great importance in the writing of a research paper, given that the author has to persuade the audience of the news value of the reported research, which makes it worth publishing. In this paper I…

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…

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…

The present work deals with the polyfuncionality of two tenses of Spanish
indicativo: the presente and the imperfecto, and with the hierarchy of these functions
as well.
Tenses aren't an isolated grammatical category, there are rather expressions of
relations among…