DE VOLTA ÀS RUAS

Do Facebook às Ruas - Comunidades em Interação

In June 2013, Brazil witnessed several manifestations different from anything previously seen, since president Collor’s impeachment. However, there is a big difference: now they are organized in few days. With Facebook, physical and virtual communities spread fast and easily organize demonstations. Popular mobilization for mutual concern issues, supported by technology, allowed the gathering of...

Extração Automática de Termos Candidatos às Ontologias: um Estudo de Caso no Domínio da Hemoterapia

This paper describes a case study conducted within the domain of blood transfusion aiming at non-exhaustively extraction of candidate terms for an ontology of human blood. The process involved both the construction of a corpus and its automatic processing, and the retrieval of specialized terms. As our main result, we have obtained candidate medical terms to be used in a ontology of blood trans...

Um panorama do Núcleo Interinstitucional de Linguística Computacional às vésperas de sua maioridade

Resumo Este artigo faz uma breve apresentação do Núcleo Interinstitucional de Linguística Computacional (NILC), que é um dos principais grupos brasileiros dedicado a pesquisas na área de Processamento de Línguas Naturais, particularmente do português brasileiro. Após apresentar um breve histórico de sua formação, mostramos como as atuais áreas de pesquisa do grupo foram consolidando-se ao longo...

Caracteriza\c{c}\~ao de tempos de ida-e-volta na Internet

Round-trip times (RTTs) are an important metric for the operation of many applications in the Internet. For instance, they are taken into account when choosing servers or peers in streaming systems, and they impact the operation of fault detectors and congestion control algorithms. Therefore, detailed knowledge about RTTs is important for application and protocol developers. In this work we pre...

As Normas ISO 9000/EN 29000 Aplicadas às Tecnologias de Informação