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... considering as storage units8Only noun types occurring a minimum of ten times wereincluded in this study. Singular and plural forms as well asmasculine and feminine were kept as distinct types.48 ... approach. In Proceedings of ACL2003. 176-183.53 pendent, the AnCora-Es corpus was mined to in- fer some linguistic hypotheses that could help in the automatic identification of chain-starting def-inites. ... approachThe first way in which the linguistic findings in Section 3.2 are tested is by building a rule-basedclassifier. The heuristics are combined and or-dered in the most efficient way, yielding the hand-crafted...
... common in Spanish, as can be seen in this figure (49%).This fact represents one of the main difficultiesfound in resolving anaphora in Spanish: thestructure of a sentence is more flexible than in English. ... since the POS tagger does notindicate whether the object has both masculineand feminine linguistic forms7 (i.e. informationobtained from the object when the verb iscopulative). Gender information ... frequency in Spanish texts as this paper will show.We are focussing on zero-pronouns in Spanish texts, although they also appear in otherlanguages, such as Japanese, Italian andChinese. In English...
... makers and those working in the industry. Along these lines, the insurance industry has also provoked much interest, and even more so in recent times, since the firms working within the sector are ... banking cartel in 1921, and the CECA in 1928, served to institutionally formalize both lobbies in the Spanish banking market. Finally, in 1933, the creation of the Savings Banks Credit Institute ... conflicts inSpanish Savings Banks 1975-89) Savings bank activity Supervising Body Regulation Sectorial conflicts Financial Bank of Spain 1975: ã Free opening of offices in each savings...
... populationwilling to do business. In Andalusia they introduced thelocals to coinage, olives, grapes and even donkeys,taking home minerals in return.The visitors built citieson Spanish soil, ... Carthage (in modern dayTunisia), capital of the western Phoenician lands,began to outshine empire HQ inTyre. By 250 BC theCarthaginians were flexing their muscles in southernSpain, sinkingTartessos ... tales of derring-do andromance in the 16thcentury, ensuring that Spain keptone literary foot in the medieval period. However, nonecould match the innovation or insight of La Celestina –essentially...
... subjectsoccurring in the training data. In addition, reach-ing a precision of 92.0% for explicit subjects us-ing just 20% of the training data is far more ex-pensive in terms of the number of training in- stances ... 2005.Identifying non-referential it: a machine learningapproach incorporating linguistically motivated pat-terns. In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Fea-ture Engineering for Machine Learning in NaturalLanguage ... plateau using 90% of thetraining instances. Using different ordering of thetraining set we obtain the same result.Figure 1 (right) presents the precision for eachclass and overall in relation...
... title: Teaching reading and writing inSpanishin the bilingualclassroom.Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN 0-325-00801-9 (alk. paper)1. Spanish language—Study and teaching—United ... read first inSpanish do well in reading in both lan-guages by fifth grade (Lindholm-Leary 2001).From our understanding of reading, there is no strong preference for teachingreading in one language ... Teaching Reading inSpanish 966 A Principled Approach to Teaching Reading 1237 Effective Writing Instruction 1518 Stages and Levels of Writing Development 1809 Thematic Teaching to Develop...
... in the following:Introduction 22Perfect Phrases inSpanish for Household Maintenance and Child CareDiscussing Pay PeriodsMaking this clear at the beginning will help avoid misunderstandings.I’ll ... regarding working in your home. Chapter 3 includes expressions for introducing your home to a potential employee and giving general cleaning instructions that tell the way you would like things ... twenty-nine: veintiuno (“twenty and one”), veintidós (“twenty and two”), etc. Beginning with the thir-ties, and up to ninety-nine, similar combinations are written as three words in Spanish: thirty-one...
... dangerous. In this book, employers will find key words and phrases that will help them begin communicating with their Spanish- speaking employees in a clear and correct manner right from the beginning. ... certain level of mutual understanding, but it is certainly less than ideal, especially in a job setting, as it often ends in misunderstandings by both parties, can cause mishaps and bad feelings, ... following phrase, inserting a number between two and twelve: xiIntroductionIn many parts of the United States, hotels, motels, and guest houses are employing at an increasing rate Spanish- speaking...
... always more distinctive than in English; an ‘r’ at the beginning ofaword and a ‘rr’, within a word,should be rollede.g. rosa, Inglaterra*Inthe south of Spain and in Latin America in these circumstances ... to developlanguage-learning skills.3 CAMINO AL ESPA˜NOLLearning aimsHow to greet people in Spanish Giving and asking for personal informationSpelling names in Spanish Presentaci ´onypr´acticas1. ... image of something or someone Spanish that you find inspiring.8 P ART ICaminoalespa ˜nol5 LEARNER GUIDEManaging your timerLocate a time in the week you can dedicate torevising your progress.rPlan...
... wouldalso seem to apply to Spain. Almost half the studiesincluded in this review were indexed in PsycINFO. Fewerpapers were published from the medical side. Indeed, theleading medical bibliographic ... general recommendation to include HRQL as anoutcome in clinical studies involving breast cancerpatients [49], and the fact that HRQL questionnaires areroutinely used in clinical research. This ... the inclusion criteria adoptedcoul d be seen as a limitat ion of the review in it s goal toreflect the resear ch made in Spain o n HRQL in BreastCancer patients. In brief, there is clearly insufficient...
... considering that plotand plot ì cork harvest levels jointly explain 26% of non-explained variability in the fitting data set, it is unlikely thatthe results obtained would be improved by including ... [8] in their analysis of cork growth vari-ability, in which they reported a slight trend of increasing corkincrements with tree diameter. In the other hand, Vieira [45] Variables in uencing ... Pinus pinasterand Pinus sylvestris plantations [13], as well as in multipleregression models to predict the site index variation in Pinusradiata stands [19]. In future research, it would be interestingto...
... deviation (in bracket) absolute and relative stem diameter increment of Q. pyrenaica trees in unthinned andthinned treatments (C – light thinning; D – moderate thinning; E – heavy thinning).TreatmentsPeriod1994–1998 ... representedTable III. Main stand variables per plot at the beginning of the expe-riment (30-years-old): C – light thinning; D – moderate thinning; E –heavy thinning.TreatmentStand before thinning Stand ... moderate thinning; E – heavy thinning. Va ri a ble s Ti m eInventories11994 1998 2002Dg Before thinning A CDE* A EC CD A* EDC DCA* After thinningECD A*IcDg After thinningED CA*EDC...
... microsatellitedetermine the variable number of aspartic acid residues in theamino-terminal end of the asporin protein. Asporin binds directlyto the growth factor transforming growth factor beta and inhibitsits ... microsatellite in theASPN coding sequence that determines a variable number ofaspartic acid (D) residues in the amino terminal region. TheD14 allele is associated with increased OA susceptibility in the ... variation in the number of Dresidues in ASPN in hip OA, knee OA or hand OA susceptibil-ity inSpanish Caucasians. This result reinforces the overalllack of association reported in other studies in...