Lexicon-based methods using syntactic rules for polarity classification rely on parsers that are dependent on the language and on treebank guidelines. Thus, rules are also dependent and require adaptation, especially in multilingual scenarios. We tackle this challenge in the context of the Iberian Peninsula, releasing the first symbolic syntax-based Iberian system with rules shared across five ...

Despite greater knowledge about gender (in)equality issues, women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are still largely portrayed in stereotypical ways in the media. We sought to uncover what both academic research and mainstream US and UK media communicate relative to the topic of women in STEM, in general, and women in computing, in particular. The notion of image cente...

Galician actress, playwright and theater director Vanesa Sotelo (1981) carries out, through her dramatic writing, a poetic search for identity in female characters. In texts like Nome: Bonita (2014) the same concern always beats: scope of knowledge discovery roots, encounter with ancestors or understanding deeply personal issues. Along this identity, develops memory, by recovering historical fi...

Tetrodotoxins (TTX) are a potent group of natural neurotoxins putatively produced by symbiotic microorganisms and affecting the aquatic environment. These neurotoxins have been recently found in some species of bivalves and gastropods along the European Coasts (Greece, UK, and The Netherlands) linked to the presence of high concentrations of Vibrio, in particular Vibrio parahaemolyticus. This s...

This paper presents an ongoing research project that involves the compilation and exploitation of the multimedia corpus of subtitled films Veiga as a method to investigate the practice of English intralingual subtitling and English-Galician interlingual subtitling. Our project draws on recent work in corpus-based translation studies and its applications in the field of audiovisual translation a...

When presenting the careers of entrepreneurs operating on Polish soil at turn 19th and 20th centuries, researchers usually focus individuals in most industrialised areas, especially Kingdom Poland. Much less attention has been paid to successful Galicia. Studies Galician entrepreneurship have mainly taken form biographical entries encyclopaedias lexicons Biographical Dictionary. These are profi...

Age and growth of Loligo vulgaris and L. forbesi were studied by the examination of growth increments in 96 and 135 selected (white zone 510%) statoliths, respectively. Squid were obtained by monthly sampling from the catches of commercial trawling and hand-jigs in Galician waters (north-west Spain) between February 1991 and October 1993. Mantle length (ML) of L. vulgaris ranged from 70 to 480m...

Information technologies (IT) can be used as an agent to foster social change. This case study describes an Internet start-up, Lonxanet, and analyzes its potential role as a catalyst of changes in the Galician (northwest Spain) artisanal seafood fisheries. These fisheries are traditionally associated to rural communities of fishers, selling their products in local auction markets known as lonxa...