Report of MIRACLE team for Geographical IR in CLEF 2006

The main objective of the designed experiments is testing the effects of geographical information retrieval from documents that contain geographical tags. In the designed experiments we try to isolate geographical retrieval from textual retrieval replacing all geo-entity textual references from topics with associated tags and splitting the retrieval process in two phases: textual retrieval from the textual part of the topic without geo-entity references and geographical retrieval from the tagged text generated by the topic tagger. Textual and geographical results are combined applying different techniques: union, intersection, difference, and external join based. Our geographic information retrieval system consists of a set of basics components organized in two categories: (i) linguistic tools oriented to textual analysis and retrieval and (ii) resources and tools oriented to geographical analysis. These tools are combined to carry out the different phases of the system: (i) documents and topics analysis, (ii) relevant documents retrieval and (iii) result combination. If we compare the results achieved to the last campaign’s results, we can assert that mean average precision gets worse when the textual geo-entity references are replaced with geographical tags. Part of this worsening is due to our experiments return cero pertinent documents if no documents satisfy de geographical sub-query. But if we only analyze the results of queries that satisfied both textual and geographical terms, we observe that the designed experiments recover pertinent documents quickly, improving R-Precision values. We conclude that the developed geographical information retrieval system is very sensible to textual georeference and therefore it is necessary to improve the name entity recognition module

Miracle’s 2005 Approach to Cross-lingual Information Retrieval

This paper presents the 2005 Miracle’s team approach to Bilingual and Multilingual Information Retrieval. In the multilingual track, we have concentrated our work on the merging process of the results of monolingual runs to get the multilingual overall result, relying on available translations. In the bilingual and multilingual tracks, we have used available translation resources, and in some cases we have using a combining approach

Report of MIRACLE team for the Ad-Hoc track in CLEF 2006

This paper presents the 2006 MIRACLE’s team approach to the AdHoc Information Retrieval track. The experiments for this campaign keep on testing our IR approach. First, a baseline set of runs is obtained, including standard components: stemming, transforming, filtering, entities detection and extracting, and others. Then, a extended set of runs is obtained using several types of combinations of these baseline runs. The improvements introduced for this campaign have been a few ones: we have used an entity recognition and indexing prototype tool into our tokenizing scheme, and we have run more combining experiments for the robust multilingual case than in previous campaigns. However, no significative improvements have been achieved. For the this campaign, runs were submitted for the following languages and tracks: - Monolingual: Bulgarian, French, Hungarian, and Portuguese. - Bilingual: English to Bulgarian, French, Hungarian, and Portuguese; Spanish to French and Portuguese; and French to Portuguese. - Robust monolingual: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Dutch. - Robust bilingual: English to German, Italian to Spanish, and French to Dutch. - Robust multilingual: English to robust monolingual languages. We still need to work harder to improve some aspects of our processing scheme, being the most important, to our knowledge, the entities recognition and normalization

Miracle’s 2005 Approach to Monolingual Information Retrieval

This paper presents the 2005 Miracle’s team approach to Monolingual Information Retrieval. The goal for the experiments in this year was twofold: continue testing the effect of combination approaches on information retrieval tasks, and improving our basic processing and indexing tools, adapting them to new languages with strange encoding schemes. The starting point was a set of basic components: stemming, transforming, filtering, proper nouns extracting, paragraph extracting, and pseudo-relevance feedback. Some of these basic components were used in different combinations and order of application for document indexing and for query processing. Second order combinations were also tested, by averaging or selective combination of the documents retrieved by different approaches for a particular query

Access and retention: experiences of non-traditional learners in higher education: final report: public part

This final report will primarily be of interest to those working in the higher education (HE) sector across Europe and beyond. Within higher education institutions it will be of especial interest to senior management and policy makers, middle managers responsible for programmes, lecturers, researchers, those working in student support services, admissions and widening participation initiatives as well as students themselves and the Students’ Unions. It is also aimed at policy organisations and bodies working in higher education, such as the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) in England, Government departments and EU policy makers. The project focused on access, retention and drop-out in higher education institutions in relation to non-traditional students (younger and adults) on undergraduate degree programmes and the factors which promote or inhibit this. With the growth of mass higher education systems retention has become an important and rising concern for policy-makers at national and European levels. It is considered a measure of efficiency of higher education with implications in terms of the needs of the economy and as a return on investment to individuals, society and the whole EU. It is also a key factor in promoting a growing diversification and equity across the higher education sector. By ‘non-traditional’ we mean students who are under-represented in higher education and whose participation in HE is constrained by structural factors. This includes, for example, first generation entrants, students from low-income families, students from (particular) minority ethnic groups, mature age students, and students with disabilities. (This definition takes into account issues of class and gender). We were particularly interested in looking at and understanding why some students from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds learn effectively, assume an undergraduate learner identity and complete their degree successfully while others from similar backgrounds do not. We were also interested in identifying the learning, teaching and support processes which help non-traditional students to become effective and successful learners. Institutional cultures and structures also impact on a learners’ identity so these aspects were also explored and examined

Miguel Moya y la revista La América (1879-1882)

En 1879, un año clave dentro de su trayectoria profesional, el periodista, político y empresario Miguel Moya comenzó a escribir en la revista quincenal La América, cabecera doctrinal de las más importantes, longevas y difundidas de todo el siglo XIX español. En ella se ocuparía, durante algo más de dos años, hasta marzo de 1882, de efectuar la crónica de política interior y de actualidad cultural, al mismo tiempo que su maestro y amigo Emilio Castelar llevaba a cabo el comentario de la política exterior. Su lectura resulta hoy de gran interés y amenidad para seguir de cerca la vida pública de nuestro país durante el intervalo que duró su colaboración, y proporcionó a su autor un decisivo espaldarazo intelectual, además de servirle de plataforma de difusión para sus múltiples actividades político-sociales.In 1879, a key year for his career path, the journalist, politician, and entrepreneur Miguel Moya began his contribution at the fortnightly magazine La América, one of the most important, long-lasting, and widely spread publications throughout the entire 19th century. For over two years, until March 1882, he wrote on domestic policy and the contemporary culture scene, while his master and friend Emilio Castelar analyzed foreign policy issues. His interesting articles offer a close follow-up of Spain’s public life during the period of his contribution as a journalist. They also helped to boost his intellectual prestige and became a useful way of promoting his various socio-political initiatives

Efectos de las estrategias empresariales de los AGENTES BANPRO en la SATISFACCION DE LOS CLIENTES en la ciudad de Estelí en el año 2014

El presente trabajo determina los efectos de las estrategias empresariales de los agentes BANPRO para diseñar propuestas que mejore la satisfacción de los clientes y agentes en la ciudad de Estelí en el año 2014. El desarrollo de este estudio se hizo tomando en cuenta el enfoque cualitativo. El universo de estudio fue 23 agentes los cuales se encuentran ubicados en el municipio, con un tipo de muestreo no probabilístico porque los sujetos de consulta son elegidos en base a criterios selectivos como: Propietarios de establecimientos bancarios, clientes de BANPRO que usan este servicio, disponibilidad de las personas en brindar la información. Los instrumentos utilizados en el estudio fue la entrevista, guía de observación y por carácter del segundo objetivo se aplico encuestas dirigidas a clientes. Una limitante para el crecimiento de estos agentes es la publicidad muchos clientes desconoce este servicio y es inevitable su desconfianza al utilizarlo por primera vez, otra es la ubicación del POS dentro del local porque no garantiza la seguridad del cliente, haciendo que los usuarios recurran a las sucursales bancarias para realizar sus pagos. Es fundament al que BANPRO diseñe planes estratégicos para mejorar las limitantes que tienen como diseñar ventanillas para estos establecimientos y la importancia de invertir en publicidad para dar a conocer lo que se ofert

Crisis financiera, reformas en marcha. Basilea III

Universidad de Sevilla. Grado en Finanzas y Contabilida