In this position paper we present the research on verb predicates that we have carried out until now for Catalan, Spanish, and Basque, and we outline the framework of our future research, which is based on the idea that it is necessary to include syntagmatic and statistic information in lexical resources, such as WordNet, in order to use it in tasks of information extraction from annotated corp...

We study the tournament fixing problem (TFP), which asks whether a tournament organizer can rig a single-elimination (SE) tournament such that their favorite player wins, simply by adjusting the initial seeding. Prior results give two perspectives of TFP: on the one hand, deciding whether an arbitrary player can win any SE tournament is known to be NP-complete; on the other hand, there are a nu...

In this article, we address the problem of age identification of Twitter users, after their online text. We used a set of text mining, sociolinguistic-based and content-related text features, and we evaluated a number of well-known and widely used machine learning algorithms for classification, in order to examine their appropriateness on this task. The experimental results showed that Random F...

The Macedonian Kings and the Two Wreaths of Zeus This paper aims to investigate reasons why, since reign Philip II, “national” Zeus, venerated on Olympus Dion characterized by oak crown, was abandoned in favor Olympian Elis, olive/oleaster wreath. We notice that while members royal family display, life death, an wreath as insignia their kingship, at same time also a symbol highest divinity, kin...

Acknowledgements This monograph summarizes five years of research studies, an everlasting struggle for publications, numerous perceived nervous breakdowns, and above all a very pleasant time with my colleagues who by now have all become dear friends of mine. This work would not have been possible if it had not been for them and a number of other people who all helped and supported me in differe...