This paper describes the methodology used by the TALP-UPC team for the SEPLN 2013 shared task of tweet normalization (Tweet-Norm). The system uses a set of modules that propose different corrections for each out-of-vocabulary word. The final correction is chosen by weighted voting according to each module accuracy.

This paper describes the TALP participation in the WMT13 evaluation campaign. Our participation is based on the combination of several statistical machine translation systems: based on standard phrasebased Moses systems. Variations include techniques such as morphology generation, training sentence filtering, and domain adaptation through unit derivation. The results show a coherent improvement...

Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho and Fermı́n Moscoso del Prado Mart́ın 1 Complexity & Quantitative Linguistics Lab Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics, TALP Research Center, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord, Edifici Omega Jordi Girona Salgado 1-3. 08034 Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain) 2 Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive (UMR6146) CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université I, Marseille, F...

This paper describes the TALP–UPC system in the Spanish–English WMT 2016 biomedical shared task. Our system is a standard phrase-based system enhanced with vocabulary expansion using bilingual word embeddings and a characterbased neural language model with rescoring. The former focuses on resolving outof-vocabulary words, while the latter enhances the fluency of the system. The two modules prog...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between coffee consumption and bone status (bone mineral density and bone metabolism-related markers) according to calcium intake level in Korean young adult males. Healthy and nonsmoking males (19-26 years, n = 330) participated in this study. Anthropometric measurements, dietary habits, and nutrient intakes were surveyed. Bone statu...

This document describes the work performed by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in its second participation at TAC-KBP 2013 in both the Entity Linking and the Slot Filling tasks.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of Ca, HCO3 and BSA on the in vitro capacitation-associated protein tyrosine phosphorylation, hyperactivation and acrosome reaction in guinea pig sperm. Caudal epididymal sperm were incubated in four different groups: modified TALP (Tyrode’s albumin lactate pyruvate) or TALP without one of the medium constituents (Ca, HCO3 and BSA). After incuba...

This study sought to understand the social representations of health and immunization for elderly individuals vaccinated and unvaccinated with influenza vaccine. The theoretical benchmark adopted was the Theory of Social Representations of a qualitative nature. The research was carried out with thirty elderly individuals, fifteen of whom were vaccinated against influenza and fifteen who were no...

This study presents the TALP-UPC submission to the EACL Fourth Worskhop on Statistical Machine Translation 2009 evaluation campaign. It outlines the architecture and configuration of the 2009 phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT) system, putting emphasis on the major novelty of this year: combination of SMT systems implementing different word reordering algorithms. Traditionally, w...