This paper will present the design of a Galician syntactic corpus with application to intonation modeling. Our paper paid attention to phonetics and syntactic phenomena to achieve a comparison beetwen its appearances. A corpus of around 3000 sentences was designed with variation in the syntactic structure and the number of accent groups, and recorded by a professional speaker to study the influ...

In this paper, we discuss the historical and current perspectives on women in computer science and the recent downward trend of women's participation in this field We then present results from a survey that asked respondents their views on why women's participation in the field of computing is decreasing, what we can do to reverse this trend, and what they predict the future holds for women in ...

The purpose of this study was to test the psychometric properties of a vertical version of horizontally oriented three Appraisal of Violent Situation scales that elicit women's subjective appraisals of severity, dangerousness, and controllability of violence. Construct validity of the vertical scale eliciting 64 abused women's perceptions of severity of violence experienced was supported by a l...

This article analyses the short stories by writers of late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Irishman James Joyce Ukrainian writer Nataliia Kobrynska. The research investigates typological similarities differences authors’ concept a human being based on images inhabitants Dublin (Joyce) Galicia (Kobrynska). There is distinctive duality material world in writers; it aimed both at reprodu...

This paper analyses the factors that determine solid waste service costs. The empirical analysis is based on information derived from a survey conducted in a sample of Galician municipalities. The results reveal economies of scale in municipalities of fewer than 50,000 inhabitants, such that cooperation between these municipalities could lead to cost savings. It also appears that private delive...

Statistical machine translation systems between Spanish and other regional languages from Spain has become an interest of research during the last decade. However, regional languages are usually characterized by the lack of linguistic resources necessary to build such systems. This paper describes the development of three statistical machine translation systems between Spanish and three other l...

In this paper, we present an ongoing research project focused on the building, processing and exploitation of a multimedia parallel corpus of English-Galician film subtitling, showing the TMXbased XML specification designed to encode both audiovisual features and translation alignments in the corpus, and the solutions adopted for making the data available over the web in multimedia format. 1998...