Lexical Simplification is the task of reducing the lexical complexity of textual documents by replacing difficult words with easier to read (or understand) expressions while preserving the original meaning. The development of robust pipelined multilingual architectures able to adapt to new languages is of paramount importance in lexical simplification. This paper describes and evaluates a modul...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE Residential radon is the second most important risk factor for lung cancer and the first among never-smokers. The objective of this study is to report the concentrations of residential radon in a series of never-smoker cases recruited in a multicenter study of cases and controls in northwestern Spain. In this study, all the hospitals in the Spanish province of Galicia...

So far, research on extraction of word translations from comparable, non-parallel corpora has not been very popular. The main reason was the poor results when compared to those obtained from aligned parallel corpora. The method proposed in this paper, relying on seed contexts generated from external bilingual dictionaries, allows us to achieve results similar to those from parallel corpus. In t...

This paper presents a phonetic conversion system with phonological knowledge for Galician. The system allows us to evaluate several phonological processes, like syllabification or phonological derivation, as well as to transcript lexicons with phonetic annotation of different linguistic varieties automatically. The system consists of the following modules: (i) phonological conversion, which gen...

So far, research on extraction of translation equivalents from comparable, non-parallel corpora has not been very popular. The main reason was the poor results when compared to those obtained from aligned parallel corpora. The method proposed in this paper, relying on seed patterns generated from external bilingual dictionaries, allows us to achieve similar results to those from parallel corpus...

In this paper, we present the experience of teaching functional programming in the Computer Engineering programme of a Galician University, the University of A Coruña. Erlang is introduced as part of an optional course on functional programming as an example of application of functional paradigm to the real world and most of the students really appreciate the beauty of the language when describ...

This paper describes a pan-European multilingual audio and video database of broadcast news shows. The database was constructed by seven institutions that are collaborating in the European COST278 action on Spoken Language Interaction in Telecommunications. At present, the database comprises broadcast news shows in seven languages, namely Dutch, Portuguese, Galician, Czech, Slovenian, Slovakian...

This paper describes the participation of the GTI research group of AtlantTIC, University of Vigo, and Gradiant (Galician Research and Development Centre in Advanced Telecommunications), in the tass 2015 workshop. Both groups have worked together in the development of a hybrid approach for sentiment analysis, at a global level, of Twitter, proposed in task 1 of tass. A system based on classifie...