The quantity and quality of the resources and tools for natural language processing for a given language depend on such a language. In the Iberian Peninsula, Galician is one of the languages that lack this type of tools and resources. To contribute to their development, this paper shows a stemmer specifically designed for the Galician language. It was first introduced in 2002, but since then it...

Abstract This chapter reports on the current state of Language Technology (LT) for Galician. The main conclusion is that there are a limited number resources, products, and technologies Galician language with text-based services being more mature than those based speech processing. We start general facts about Galician, followed by high-level qualitative description LT situation conclude recomm...

Description of the Gari-Coter project for the development of the necessary linguistic resources in Galician for a multilingual query re-elaborator.

The marine snail Littorina saxatilis exhibits extreme morphological variation between and within geographical regions and represents an excellent model for assessing local adaptation. Previous studies support the hypothesis of parallel evolution in sympatry of two morphologically different ecotypes (named as RB and SU) that co-inhabit different habitats from Galician rocky shores (NW Spain), an...

This paper examines the digital divides for women in rural areas within the Information Society, referring particularly to the Galician experience (Autonomous Region in the North West of Spain). In order to explore the barriers to social and labor exclusion it was elaborated a survey relating with the use and impact of ITC in social and labor experiences of rural women. The results showed that ...

This paper will present the morphosintactic tagger and the corpus of contemporary written Galician which are being employed in the development of the Galician version of our tex-to-speech synthesizer. Their quality and accuracy make them useful for speech technology applications and turn them into possible references for further investigation and research projects about Galician language. In es...

BACKGROUND Screening Atlantic cetacean populations for Cetacean Morbillivirus (CeMV) is essential to understand the epidemiology of the disease. In Europe, Portugal and Spain have the highest cetacean stranding rates, mostly due to the vast extension of coastline. Morbillivirus infection has been associated with high morbidity and mortality in cetaceans, especially in outbreaks reported in the ...