Pêlos pelos fora da ordem

Comparable Fora

As the title suggests, our paper deals with web discussion fora, whose content can be considered to be a special type of comparable corpora. We discuss the potential of this vast amount of data available now on the World Wide Web nearly for every language, regarding both general and common topics as well as the most obscure and specific ones. To illustrate our ideas, we propose a case study of ...

Impacto da Adoção de Tecnologia de Informação no Desempenho Organizacional Percebido utilizando o paradigma de modelagem de segunda ordem

Toward indicative discussion fora summarization

Summarization of electronic discussion fora is a unique challenge; techniques that work startlingly well on monolithic documents tend to fare poorly in this informal setting. Additionally, conventional techniques ignore much of the structures that have the potential to serve as valuable features in the summarization task. We present several novel examples of such features, including the catalys...

Predicting Medical Roles in Online Health Fora

Online health fora are increasingly visited by patients to get help and information related to their health. However, these fora are not limited to patients: a significant number of health professionals actively participate in many discussions. As experts their posted information are very important since, they are able to well explain the problems, the symptoms, correct false affirmations and g...

Seeking Novel Leads Through Structure-Based Pharmacophore Design

Neste artigo mostramos um procedimento desenvolvido em nossos laboratórios que identifica “novos” compostos biologicamente ativos distintos de compostos previamente conhecidos no que diz respeito à especificidade da ação e outras características. O procedimento envolve o mapeamento de uma série de compostos ativos (série de treinamento), através de interações lipofílicas e de ligações hidrogêni...