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    • 2D to 3D body pose estimation for sign language with Deep Learning 

      Perez Granero, Pol (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-06)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      This project aims at leveraging the challenge of using 3D poses for Sign Language translation or animation by transforming 2D pose datasets into 3D ones. The goal is, using a 3D dataset of American Sign Language, to train ...
    • A comparison of approaches for measuring cross-lingual similarity of wikipedia articles 

      Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto; Lestari Paramita, Monica; Clough, Paul; Rosso, Paolo (Springer, 2014)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Wikipedia has been used as a source of comparable texts for a range of tasks, such as Statistical Machine Translation and Cross-Language Information Retrieval. Articles written in different languages on the same topic are ...
    • A Constraint-Based Hypergraph Partitioning Approach to Coreference Resolution 

      Sapena Masip, Emilio; Padró, Lluís; Turmo Borras, Jorge (2013-12)
      Article
      Open Access
      This work is 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 that refer to the ...
    • A constraint-based hypergraph partitioning approach to coreference resolution 

      Sapena Masip, Emilio (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012-05-16)
      Doctoral thesis
      Open Access
      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 ...
    • A declarative control mechanism for parsing within a cooperative framework 

      Díaz de Ilarraza Sánchez, Arantza; Rodríguez Hontoria, Horacio; Verdejo Maillo, Maria Felisa (1990)
      Research report
      Open Access
      A control mechanism for dealing with NL processing is presented. The mechanism is implemented in a Natural Language Understanding System developed in the last years. In our approach, control is handled at two abstraction ...
    • A differentiable BLEU loss. Analysis and first results 

      Casas Manzanares, Noé; Rodríguez Fonollosa, José Adrián; Ruiz Costa-Jussà, Marta (2018)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      In natural language generation tasks, like neural machine translation and image captioning, there is usually a mismatch between the optimized loss and the de facto evaluation criterion, namely token-level maximum likelihood ...
    • A graph-based strategy to streamline translation quality assessments 

      Pighin, Daniele; Formiga Fanals, Lluís; Màrquez Villodre, Lluís (2012)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      We present a detailed analysis of a graph- based annotation strategy that we employed to annotate a corpus of 11,292 real-world En- glish to Spanish automatic translations with relative (ranking) and absolute ...
    • A Hybrid Environment for Syntax-Semantic Tagging 

      Padró, Lluís (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 1998-02-06)
      Doctoral thesis
      Open Access
      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 ...
    • A pipeline for large raw text preprocessing and model training of language models at scale 

      Armengol Estapé, Jordi (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-01-25)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Universitat de Barcelona / Universitat Rovira i Virgili
      The advent of Transformer-based (i.e., based on self-attention architectures) language models has revolutionized the entire field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Once pre-trained on large, unlabelled corpora, we can ...
    • A Speech-based Dialogue System for Household Robots 

      Pons Rueda, Susana (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Technische Universiteit Delft, 2011)
      Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
      Restricted access - author's decision
      This thesis studies mechanisms to improve human-robot-interaction through a spoken dialogue for household robots. Therefore, a full dialogue system, in which the semantics of the words play an important role, is ...
    • A study on universal language-agnostic sentence embeddings and applications 

      Ribalta Albado, Maria (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-06-28)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      In this project we make a study on universal language agnostic sentence embeddings: internal neural networks sentence representations that are independent with relation to the task and the language. To be more precise, we ...
    • Acquiring information extraction patterns from unannotated corpora 

      Catala Roig, Neus (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2003-07-14)
      Doctoral thesis
      Open Access
      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, ...
    • Adding semantic to solve ‘PP attachment’ in Spanish 

      Cuevas Rasgado, Alma Delia; Guzmán Arenas, Adolfo; Juárez Gambino, Joel Omar; Lake Moctezuma, Franz Ludwing; Padró, Lluís (2023)
      Article
      Open Access
      This paper describes a semantic module called Disambiguator of prepositions (DISPRE) in English, DESambiguador de PREposiciones in Spanish (hereinafter, DESPRE), that solves the prepositional phrase attachment for Spanish, ...
    • Advanced Computational Methods for Continuous Integration with Salesforce 

      Bonet Garcia, Genis (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-10-21)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Aquest projecte segueix el desenvolupament d'un sistema CI/CD per a un equip en un entorn empresarial. S'enfronta i supera el repte de automatitzar els processos per a la plataforma Salesforce e involucra l'ús d'agents de ...
    • AI on software engineering processes 

      Miralles Pena, Carles (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-01)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Universitat de Barcelona / Universitat Rovira i Virgili
      Due to the large quantity of available information as well as the huge computational power achieved today, the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in computer programs has become, now more than ever, much popular. ...
    • AI-Vocie: intel·ligència artificial aplicada al reconeixement de la veu 

      Gil Aguilar, Aleix (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-10)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      L’objectiu d’aquest treball de final de grau és dissenyar i implementar un Altaveu Intel·ligent, Lima, senzill, però pràctic, i que respongui a ordres, simulant la manera de pensar de l’ésser humà. La finalitat és que ...
    • Un algoritme per detectar la relació temporal de dues paraules. 

      Núñez Ruiz, Gerard (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-06-21)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      La informació sobre la relació temporal entre dues paraules és una informació que nosaltres deduïm del text però és un camp actualment en investigació al nivell d'intel·ligència artificial. Aquest projecte està basat en ...
    • An analysis of gender bias studies in natural language processing 

      Ruiz Costa-Jussà, Marta (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-10-14)
      Article
      Open Access
      Artificial intelligence systems copy and amplify existing societal biases, a problem that by now is widely acknowledged and studied. But is current research of gender bias in natural language processing actually moving ...
    • Analyzing Twitter data to discover gender biases in Spanish politics 

      Beltrán Jorba, Javier (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-06-27)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Universitat de Barcelona. Facultat de Matemàtiques i Informàtica / Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria
      This work uses Twitter data from Spanish politicians to discover differences in how men and women speak in politics, as well as differences in how men and women politicians are addressed by others. A tool for automatic ...
    • Anàlisi comparativa d'eines i algorismes de Reconeixement d'Entitats Nomenades 

      Montalvo Falcón, María (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2024-01-23)
      Bachelor thesis
      Restricted access - confidentiality agreement
      Covenantee:   Grupo Catalana Occidente
      Aquest estudi se centra en el reconeixement d'entitats nomenades (NER), una tasca essencial en el processament de llenguatge natural (NLP). L'objectiu principal és desenvolupar una solució de reconeixement d'entitats ...