A continuous random vector (X,Y) uniquely determines a copula C : [0,1]2 → [0,1] such that when the distribution functions of X and Y are properly composed into C , the joint distribution function of (X,Y) results. A copula is said to be D4-invariant if its mass distribution is invariant with respect to the symmetries of the unit square. A D4-invariant copula leads naturally to a family of meas...

Résumé. Le Catalogue et Index des Sites Médicaux Francophones (CISMeF) recense les principales ressources institutionnelles de santé en français. La description de ces ressources, puis leur accès par les utilisateurs, se fait grâce à la terminologie CISMeF, fondée sur le thésaurus américain Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). La version française du MeSH comprend tous les descripteurs MeSH, mais d...

Background: Infertility is defined as 1 year of unprotected intercourse without pregnancy. The main causes of infertility are as follows: male factor, Both mail and female, as well as unexplained etiologies. Tubal and peritoneal factors Aceount for 30%-40% of causes of female infertility. Tubal factors include damage and obstraction of the fallopian tube, usually associated with previous pelvic...

In this paper we are going to explain some of the problems we have found in our attempts to mechanize the Historical Dictionary (D.H.) of the Spanish language. Our experimental project is a collaboration of the Royal Spanish Academy (R.A.E.) and the Computer Center of the University of Madrid (CCVM). There are, indeed, many procedures for making concordances of a text, and those procedures are,...

In this paper, we report on the construction of a resource of Swiss legislative texts that is automatically annotated with structural, morphosyntactic and content-related information, and we discuss the exploitation of this resource for the purposes of legislative drafting, legal linguistics and translation and for the evaluation of legislation. Our resource is based on the classified compilati...