Mario Bunge, <i>La edad del universo</i>

Linguistic research in the empirical paradigm as outlined by Mario Bunge

In view of the critique of the methodology of the dominant interdisciplinary research involving language studies as the main component, in particular clinical linguistics, Cummings (Pragmatic disorders. Perspectives in pragmatics, philosophy and psychology, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht, 2014) proposes that "It is perhaps appropriate at this point to move the debate onto non-empirical grounds." In...

Author Profiling en Social Media: Identificación de Edad, Sexo y Variedad del Lenguaje

The possibility of knowing people traits on the basis of what they write is a field of growing interest named author profiling. To infer a user’s gender, age, native language or personality traits, simply by analysing her texts, opens a wide range of possibilities from the point of view of forensics, security and marketing. Furthermore, social media proliferation, which allows for new communica...

Text Categorization with ILA

The sudden expansion of the web and the use of the internet has caused some research fields to regain (or even increase) its old popularity. Of them, text categorization aims at developing a classification system for assigning a number of predefined topic codes to the documents based on the knowledge accumulated in the training process. We propose a framework based on an automatic inductive cla...

Predicción del desarrollo mental a los 20 meses de edad por medio de la evaluación del desarrollo psicomotor a los seis meses de vida en niños sanos

Introduction The study of the possible protector factors and the risk factors can favour or harm women during pregnancy, and so, the infant during the preand post-natal periods, has today become a necessary and a high priority objective of world health. In agreement with this proposal, carrying out follow-up programs to prevent, detect and treat consequences in infant development is one of the ...

Locus ( del Common Deletion of the Ig Heavy Chain A Recurrent Breakpoint in the Most Bottaro and Mario DeMarchi