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Sapena Masip, Emili (Date of defense: 2012-05-16)
The objectives of this thesis are focused on research in machine learning for coreference resolution. Coreference resolution is a natural language processing task that consists of determining the expressions in a discourse ...
Orduña, Fernando (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
An optimal performance of a Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) system means, the CBR system must be efficient both in time and in size, and must be optimally competent. The efficiency in time is closely related to an efficient and ...
Fuentes Fort, Maria (Date of defense: 2008-03-31)
Automatic Summarization is probably crucial with the increase of document generation. Particularly when retrieving, managing and processing information have become decisive tasks. However, one should not expect perfect ...
Fernández de la Rosa, Javier (Date of defense: 2022-01-18)
Sports analytics is an emerging field focused on the application of advanced data analysis for assessing the performance of professional athletes and teams. In soccer, the integration of data analysis is in its initial ...
Padró, Lluís (Date of defense: 1998-02-06)
The thesis describes the application of the relaxation labelling algorithm to NLP disambiguation. Language is modelled through context constraint inspired on Constraint Grammars. The constraints enable the use of a real ...
Pascual Pañach, Josep (Date of defense: 2023-11-10)
(English) One of the major problems to design and implement control and supervision systems for real-world processes lies in the need to stablish an ad-hoc solution for each process, i.e., environmental systems in this ...
Busquets, Dídac (Date of defense: 2003-07-28)
La navegació en entorns desconeguts no estructurats és encara un problema obert en el camp de la robòtica. En aquesta tesi presentem una aproximació per a la navegació de robots basada en la combinació de navegació basada ...
González Romero, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-03-07)
The thesis starts by giving an introduction to the game of Scrabble, then mentions state-of-the-art computer Scrabble programs and presents some characteristics of our developed Scrabble engine Heuri. Some brief notions ...
Català Roig, Neus (Date of defense: 2003-07-14)
Information Extraction (IE) can be defined as the task of automatically extracting preespecified kind of information from a text document. The extracted information is encoded in the required format and then can be used, ...
Isern Alarcón, David (Date of defense: 2009-02-05)
Les guies de pràctica clínica (GPC) contenen un conjunt d'accions i dades que ajuden a un metge a prendre decisions sobre el diagnòstic, tractament o qualsevol altre procediment a un pacient i sobre una determinada malaltia. ...
König, Caroline Leonore (Date of defense: 2018-10-30)
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are cell membrane proteins with a key role in regulating the function of cells. This is the result of their ability to transmit extracellular signals, which makes them relevant for ...
Arias Duart, Anna (Date of defense: 2023-12-11)
(English) Machine learning and, more specifically, deep learning applications have grown in number in recent years. These intelligent systems have shown remarkable performance across various domains, including sensitive ...
Álvarez Napagao, Sergio (Date of defense: 2016-02-08)
As distributed systems grow in complexity, the interactions among individuals (agents, services) of such systems become increasingly more complex and therefore more difficult to constrain and monitor. We propose to view ...
Blondel, Gilles (Date of defense: 2023-06-07)
(English) This thesis focuses on the discovery of causal relations and on the prediction of causal effects. Regarding causal discovery, this thesis introduces a novel and generic method to learn causal graphs by performing ...
Valls, Aïda (Date of defense: 2002-12-13)
Aquesta tesi presenta una nova metodologia per resoldre problemes de presa de decisions. Hem<br/>estudiat els casos en què cal considerar més d'un criteri. Aquests tipus de mètodes de decisió es<br/>coneixen com MCDM ...
Cárdenas Domínguez, Martha Ivón (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
Arguably, drug research has contributed more to the progress of medicine during the past decades than any other scientific factor. One of the main areas of drug research is related to the analysis of proteins. The world ...
Castro Cros, Martí de (Date of defense: 2023-12-18)
(English) Digitalization has revolutionized many industries, including the power generation sector. The availability of a vast amount of data from various systems has transformed decision-making processes in Industry. ...
Manero Font, Jaume (Date of defense: 2020-07-14)
Forecasting is a critical task for the integration of wind-generated energy into electricity grids. Numerical weather models applied to wind prediction, work with grid sizes too large to reproduce all the local features ...
González Bermúdez, Meritxell (Date of defense: 2010-10-22)
Current dialogue systems can handle friendly and collaborative communication that supports diverse types of interactions, such as menus in which the user is asked to choose an option, form filling in which the user is ...
Martínez Garcia, Eva (Date of defense: 2019-12-19)
In this thesis, we study the automatic translation of documents by taking into account cross-sentence phenomena. This document-level information is typically ignored by most of the standard state-of-the-art Machine ...