This paper describes the 2010 phrase-based statistical machine translation system developed at the TALP Research Center of the UPC in cooperation with BMIC and VMU. In phrase-based SMT, the phrase table is the main tool in translation. It is created extracting phrases from an aligned parallel corpus and then computing translation model scores with them. Performing a collocation segmentation ove...

In this paper we compare and contrast two approaches to Machine Translation (MT): the CMU-UKA Syntax Augmented Machine Translation system (SAMT) and UPC-TALP N-gram-based Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). SAMT is a hierarchical syntax-driven translation system underlain by a phrase-based model and a target part parse tree. In N-gram-based SMT, the translation process is based on bilingual ...

Objetiva-se analisar as concepções de graduandos(as) em Pedagogia, uma universidade pública paulista, sobre gênero. Recorreu-se a dados coletados por um questionário aberto, utilizando-se da Técnica Associação Livre Palavras (TALP). Os(as) participantes consistiram 165 matriculados(as) nos anos inicial e final do curso. Gerou-se teste associação palavras que gênero tiveram sua frequência evocaç...

A depressão tem sido retratada como o mal do século, tornando-se um problema de saúde pública que afetado milhões pessoas no mundo. Este estudo objetivou compreender os adolescentes representam a depressão. Participaram 168 estudantes ensino médio, com idades 14 18 anos, escolas públicas e privadas João Pessoa-Paraíba, Brasil. Utilizou-se Técnica Associação Livre Palavras (TALP), Questionário s...

This paper reports on the participation of the TALP Research Center of the UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) to the ACL WMT 2008 evaluation campaign. This year’s system is the evolution of the one we employed for the 2007 campaign. Main updates and extensions involve linguistically motivated word reordering based on the reordering patterns technique. In addition, this system introduces...

This paper describes GeoTALP-IR system, a Geographical Information Retrieval (GIR) system. The system is described and evaluated in the context of our participation in the CLEF 2005 GeoCLEF Monolingual English task. The GIR system is based on Lucene and uses a modified version of the Passage Retrieval module of the TALP Question Answering (QA) system presented at CLEF 2004 and TREC 2004 QA eval...

We present a heuristic framework for attacking the undecidable termination problem of logic programs, as an alternative to current termination/non-termination proof approaches. We introduce an idea of termination prediction, which predicts termination of a logic program in case that neither a termination nor a non-termination proof is applicable. We establish a necessary and sufficient characte...

O presente estudo tem como objetivo analisar as representações sociais (RS) da depressão infantil. Trata-se de um quanti-qualitativo, ancorado ao aporte teórico Teoria das Representações Sociais (RS). Participaram do 120 crianças, com idades entre 8 e 12 anos (M = 2,0; DP 0,47), cidade Campina Grande-PB, no contexto escolar que maioritariamente habita seus pais (83,3%). Os dados foram advindos ...

Objective The aim of this study was to determine the effect of revival soymilk consumption and moderate exercise on vasomotor symptoms, total antioxidant capacity (TAC) and alkaline phosphates activity in postmenopausal women. Materials and Methods In this study, daily for 3 months, 37 postmenopausal women (mean age = 52.2± 4.6 years) were randomly assigned to soymilk (n=15), exercise +soymi...

This paper describes and analyzes the results of our experiments in Geographical Information Retrieval (GIR) in the context of our participation in the CLEF 2007 GeoCLEF Monolingual English task. Our system uses Linguistic and Geographical Analysis to process topics and document collections. Geographical Document Retrieval is performed with Terrier and Geographical Knowledge Bases. Our experime...