This paper gives a description of the statistical machine translation (SMT) systems developed at the TALP Research Center of the UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) for our participation in the IWSLT’08 evaluation campaign. We present Ngram-based (TALPtuples) and phrase-based (TALPphrases) SMT systems. The paper explains the 2008 systems’ architecture and outlines translation schemes we ...

This paper describe the SMT system developed by the TALP Research Center of the UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) for the Albayzin 2008 evaluation campaign (Spanish to Basque translation task). Apart from a standard set of feature models, the system introduces two target language models: one based on lemmas and the second based on linguistic classes (Part-of-Speech). The word-to-word a...

Este estudo teve como objetivo apreender as representações sociais (RS) da depressão entre mulheres idosas. Participaram pesquisa 64 idosas, divididas em dois grupos, com idade média de 68,6 anos (DP=7,2) e 68,5 (DP=8). Utilizou-se a técnica associação livre palavras (TALP), dados analisados através análise prototípica pelo software Iramuteq. Os resultados apontaram para RS do envelhecimento po...

The ability of domestic cat or leopard cat spermatozoa to penetrate zonae pellucidae (ZP) of salt-stored, domestic cat oocytes was examined as an assay for sperm capacitation. Ovarian oocytes were recovered after ovariectomy and matured in vitro for 18-36 h. Following removal of cumulus cells, the oocytes were used fresh, or stored (4°C, 0.5-24 weeks) in a HEPES-buffered hypertonic salt solutio...

The present study was designed to compare fertilization rates following oocyte exposure to spermatozoa from different buffalo bulls, using three sperm preparation methods i.e. percoll density gradient, swim-up (modified Ca free Tyrode’s medium and TALP medium) and sodium citrate washing prior to co-incubation with oocytes. Buffalo oocytes were aspirated from ovarian follicles within 1.5 to 2 ho...

The effects of routine sperm work are often overlooked. We assessed the effect of washing cryopreserved epididymal spermatozoa from red deer (Cervus elaphus hispanicus, Helzheimer 1909). After thawing, epididymal samples (four stags) were diluted in TALP-HEPES. A split was left untouched, another was centrifuged (300 x g, 5 min) and resuspended, and a third was centrifuged and the supernatant s...

This paper describes our experiments in Geographical Information Retrieval (GIR) in the context of our participation in the GeoCLEF 2007 Monolingual English task. Our system, called TALPGeoIR, follows a similar architecture of our previous system presented at GeoCLEF 2006 [2] with some changes in the Retrieval modes and the Geographical Knowledge Base. The system has four phases performed seque...

This paper describes the TALP system on the English Lexical Sample task of the Senseval-31 event. The system is fully supervised and relies on a particular Machine Learning algorithm, namely Support Vector Machines. It does not use extra examples than those provided by Senseval-3 organisers, though it uses external tools and ontologies to extract part of the representation features. Three main ...