The similarity relation of a number of texts is important not only for congress organizers (who need to group the proposed contributions to meaningful sessions) but to everybody who wants to find certain information within a larger number of texts. Existing information retrieval methods compare texts according to their similarity. Because these methods mostly remain on the surface of the words,...

Abstract Esteemed President Roberto Antonelli, Professor Luciano Maiani and Organizers.

Formulaic sequence (FS) is a general term often used to refer to various types of recurrent clusters. One particular type of FSs common in different registers is lexical bundles (LBs). This study investigated whether LBs are stored and processed as a whole in the mind of language users and whether their functional discourse type has any effect on their processing. To serve these objectives, thr...

This paper describes the design and implementation of the slot filling system prepared by Stanford’s natural language processing group for the 2010 Knowledge Base Population (KBP) track at the Text Analysis Conference (TAC). Our system relies on a simple distant supervision approach using mainly resources furnished by the track organizers: we used slot examples from the provided knowledge base,...

book Organizers: Jocelyne Demengeot Ivo Marguti Carlos E. Tadokoro Jorge Carneiro Thiago Carvalho Welcome to the XXXVII SPI Annual Meeting! This year's Reunion of the Portuguese immunological community will start with an exceptional session shared with the symposium “Jerne100: a century of Niels K Jerne”, a gathering of the colleagues, associates, and friends of one of the most remarkable and i...