Entonació i pressuposició en les declaratives, interrogatives totals, interrogatives totals d'apèndix i interrogatives totals indroduïdes per que, del català central

Treballs Finals de Grau de Lingüística. Facultat de Filologia. Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2019-2020, Tutor: Paolo Roseano[cat] Aquest estudi s’ocupa de la relació entre el contorn d’F0 i el posicionament epistèmic del parlant en les construccions declaratives, en les construccions interrogatives totals d’apèndix, en les construccions interrogatives totals i en les construccions interrogatives totals introduïdes per que, del català central. Per tal d’esbrinar quina és aquesta relació, s’han realitzat dos tipus de tasques o testos de percepció (una tasca d’adequació i una tasca d’avaluació del grau de pressuposició), basats en les tasques de l’estudi de Vanrell et al. (2010b). Els resultats d’aquest estudi confirmen que hi ha diferents graus de pressuposició, en funció del tipus de construcció i que els oients de català central són capaços de detectar quina és l’entonació adequada en dos contextos pragmàtics diferents.[eng] The aim of this dissertation is to study the relationship between the F0 contour and the speaker’s epistemic position on the declarative constructions, on the appendix’s total interrogative constructions, on the total interrogative constructions and on the total interrogative constructions introduced by que, of central Catalan dialectal variety. In order to find out which this relation is, two different perception tasks have been carried out (an adequation task and an evaluation of the presupposition’s degree task). The design of these tasks was based on the Vanrell et al. (2010b) study. The results have shown that there are different presuppositional degrees, according to the different kinds of construction. Moreover, the results have shown that central Catalan listeners are able to detect which is the adequate intonation in two different pragmatic contexts

Analysing specialized use of verbs: the case of some Catalan trajectory verbs in the sport domain

[EN]This master thesis presents a syntactic-semantic analysis of 5 Catalan verbs of trajectory class (aconseguir (to achieve), arribar (to arrive), avan ̧car (to move forward), entrar (to enter) and sortir (to come out)) in the sport domain. The master thesis starts from the hypothesis based on the Communicative Theory of Terminology (CTT) (Cabr ́e, 2001; Adelstein and Cabr ́e, 2003) and the study done by Casademont (2014) about specialized uses of verbs. To perform the analysis of verbs, reliance has basically been placed on the book Clasificaci ́on verbal. Alternancias de di ́atesis (V ́azquez et al., 2000) and on the AnCora’s verbal lexicon (Taul ́e et al., 2011). The analysis has been done on the data of a sport news corpus, actually created for this study. The results of this study have shown that some verb senses appear most often in the sports domain than others, they have also shown that some specific structures exist for the sport domain and that arguments referring to the trajectory can present ellipsis for some verbs. In addition, in this master thesis, a Natural Language Processing task on event argument extraction (EAE) has been carried out too. Due to lack of resources and that the model used was not trained for Catalan, no reliable results have been achieved. (English)[EU]Master-tesi honetan kokapen-aldaketa motako 5 aditz katalan aztertu dira kirol domeinuan: aconseguir (lortu), arribar (iritsi), avançar (aurrera egin), entrar (sartu) eta sortir (atera). Azterketa honen abiapuntua Terminologiaren Teoria Komunikatiboa (Cabré, 2001; Adelstein and Cabré, 2003) eta Casademont-ek (2014) aditzen erabilera espezializatuei buruz egindako azterketa dira. Horietan oinarrituta, aditzen analisia egiteko, Clasificación verbal. Alternancias de diátesis (Vázquez et al., 2000) liburua eta katalanezko AnCora lexikoa hartu dira oinarri gisa (Taulé et al., 2011). Azterketa egiteko, kirolari buruzko corpus bat bildu da. Azterketaren emaitzek erakutsi dute kokapen-aldaketa aditzen adiera batzuk maizago agertzen direla kirol-arloan beste batzuk baino. Orobat, emaitzek erakutsi dute, batetik, badirela kirol-arloan berariazkoak diren egitura batzuk, eta, bestetik, kokapen-aldaketa adierazten duten argumentuek elipsia izan dezaketela zenbait aditzetan. Horretaz gain, hastapeneko esperimentu bat egin da Hizkuntzaren Prozesamenduko ataza batean, ebentuen argumentuen erauzketan hain zuzen ere. Nolanahi ere, baliabide faltagatik eta erabilitako eredua ez delako katalanarentzat entrenatu, ez da emaitza fidagarririk lortu

Transfer Learning with Shallow Decoders: BSC at WMT2021’s Multilingual Low-Resource Translation for Indo-European Languages Shared Task

This paper describes the participation of the BSC team in the WMT2021{'}s Multilingual Low-Resource Translation for Indo-European Languages Shared Task. The system aims to solve the Subtask 2: Wikipedia cultural heritage articles, which involves translation in four Romance languages: Catalan, Italian, Occitan and Romanian. The submitted system is a multilingual semi-supervised machine translation model. It is based on a pre-trained language model, namely XLM-RoBERTa, that is later fine-tuned with parallel data obtained mostly from OPUS. Unlike other works, we only use XLM to initialize the encoder and randomly initialize a shallow decoder. The reported results are robust and perform well for all tested languages.Postprint (author's final draft

Challenges of adapting English médium instruction into the Spanish university curricula and some novel solutions

The integration of the Spanish university system in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) demands a series of concrete proposals. As we advance in the implementation of the process of Bologna, it is necessary to contemplate a new paradigm of teaching/learning. Central to this new paradigm is the adaptation of the curricula into the English language medium (EMI). Among many strategies for internationalization of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) under adoption, this university has funded a project TechEnglish intends to facilitate the conversion of subjects and eventually degree programs into the delivery in the English Language. This paper details a work in progress and describes the collaboration between content teachers and applied linguistics. The three collaborative actions are currently underway: observation of classes by applied linguists, seminar delivery on topics requested by the content teachers, and materials development with the help of teaching assistants. We are convinced that this collaboration is the necessary ingredient to promote teaching and learning through English at our university

Effectiveness of an mHealth intervention combining a smartphone app and smart band on body composition in an overweight and obese population: Randomized controlled trial (EVIDENT 3 study)

Background: Mobile health (mHealth) is currently among the supporting elements that may contribute to an improvement in health markers by helping people adopt healthier lifestyles. mHealth interventions have been widely reported to achieve greater weight loss than other approaches, but their effect on body composition remains unclear. Objective: This study aimed to assess the short-term (3 months) effectiveness of a mobile app and a smart band for losing weight and changing body composition in sedentary Spanish adults who are overweight or obese. Methods: A randomized controlled, multicenter clinical trial was conducted involving the participation of 440 subjects from primary care centers, with 231 subjects in the intervention group (IG; counselling with smartphone app and smart band) and 209 in the control group (CG; counselling only). Both groups were counselled about healthy diet and physical activity. For the 3-month intervention period, the IG was trained to use a smartphone app that involved self-monitoring and tailored feedback, as well as a smart band that recorded daily physical activity (Mi Band 2, Xiaomi). Body composition was measured using the InBody 230 bioimpedance device (InBody Co., Ltd), and physical activity was measured using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire. Results: The mHealth intervention produced a greater loss of body weight (–1.97 kg, 95% CI –2.39 to –1.54) relative to standard counselling at 3 months (–1.13 kg, 95% CI –1.56 to –0.69). Comparing groups, the IG achieved a weight loss of 0.84 kg more than the CG at 3 months. The IG showed a decrease in body fat mass (BFM; –1.84 kg, 95% CI –2.48 to –1.20), percentage of body fat (PBF; –1.22%, 95% CI –1.82% to 0.62%), and BMI (–0.77 kg/m2, 95% CI –0.96 to 0.57). No significant changes were observed in any of these parameters in men; among women, there was a significant decrease in BMI in the IG compared with the CG. When subjects were grouped according to baseline BMI, the overweight group experienced a change in BFM of –1.18 kg (95% CI –2.30 to –0.06) and BMI of –0.47 kg/m2 (95% CI –0.80 to –0.13), whereas the obese group only experienced a change in BMI of –0.53 kg/m2 (95% CI –0.86 to –0.19). When the data were analyzed according to physical activity, the moderate-vigorous physical activity group showed significant changes in BFM of –1.03 kg (95% CI –1.74 to –0.33), PBF of –0.76% (95% CI –1.32% to –0.20%), and BMI of –0.5 kg/m2 (95% CI –0.83 to –0.19). Conclusions: The results from this multicenter, randomized controlled clinical trial study show that compared with standard counselling alone, adding a self-reported app and a smart band obtained beneficial results in terms of weight loss and a reduction in BFM and PBF in female subjects with a BMI less than 30 kg/m2 and a moderate-vigorous physical activity level. Nevertheless, further studies are needed to ensure that this profile benefits more than others from this intervention and to investigate modifications of this intervention to achieve a global effect

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Outcomes from elective colorectal cancer surgery during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

This study aimed to describe the change in surgical practice and the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on mortality after surgical resection of colorectal cancer during the initial phases of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

Search for new particles in events with energetic jets and large missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV

A search is presented for new particles produced at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV, using events with energetic jets and large missing transverse momentum. The analysis is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 101 fb(-1), collected in 2017-2018 with the CMS detector. Machine learning techniques are used to define separate categories for events with narrow jets from initial-state radiation and events with large-radius jets consistent with a hadronic decay of a W or Z boson. A statistical combination is made with an earlier search based on a data sample of 36 fb(-1), collected in 2016. No significant excess of events is observed with respect to the standard model background expectation determined from control samples in data. The results are interpreted in terms of limits on the branching fraction of an invisible decay of the Higgs boson, as well as constraints on simplified models of dark matter, on first-generation scalar leptoquarks decaying to quarks and neutrinos, and on models with large extra dimensions. Several of the new limits, specifically for spin-1 dark matter mediators, pseudoscalar mediators, colored mediators, and leptoquarks, are the most restrictive to date.Peer reviewe

Probing effective field theory operators in the associated production of top quarks with a Z boson in multilepton final states at root s=13 TeV

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Search for top squark production in fully hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV

A search for production of the supersymmetric partners of the top quark, top squarks, is presented. The search is based on proton-proton collision events containing multiple jets, no leptons, and large transverse momentum imbalance. The data were collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb(-1). The targeted signal production scenarios are direct and gluino-mediated top squark production, including scenarios in which the top squark and neutralino masses are nearly degenerate. The search utilizes novel algorithms based on deep neural networks that identify hadronically decaying top quarks and W bosons, which are expected in many of the targeted signal models. No statistically significant excess of events is observed relative to the expectation from the standard model, and limits on the top squark production cross section are obtained in the context of simplified supersymmetric models for various production and decay modes. Exclusion limits as high as 1310 GeVare established at the 95% confidence level on the mass of the top squark for direct top squark production models, and as high as 2260 GeV on the mass of the gluino for gluino-mediated top squark production models. These results represent a significant improvement over the results of previous searches for supersymmetry by CMS in the same final state.Peer reviewe