González-Caro, Cristina (Date of defense: 2011-09-27)
As the Web continues to increase both in size and complexity, Web search is a ubiquitous service that allows users to find all kind of information, resources, and activities. However, as the Web evolves ...
Batikas, Michail (Date of defense: 2011-07-04)
Les motivacions entorn al programari lliure han estat sempre un tema de gran interès, sent la pregunta més obvia, "perquè les persones treballen de forma gratuïta?". Les motivacions dels desenvolupadors ...
Soler Company, Juan (Date of defense: 2017-07-06)
Author profiling and identification are two areas of data-driven computational linguistics that have gained a lot of relevance due to their potential applications in, e.g., forensic linguistic studies, ...
Ramírez Cifuentes, Diana (Date of defense: 2022-07-14)
The link between mental disorders and social media usage has led researchers to work on the development of automated methods to detect mental health issues in social platforms. This thesis proposes a ...
Buehlmann, Andrés (Date of defense: 2010-07-20)
Les oscil·lacions d'activitat neuronal són un fenomen omnipresent a l'escorça cerebral. La funció d'aquestes oscil·lacions, però, no està clara. ¿Són només un epifenomen de les elevades taxes de descàrrega ...
Tsalouchidou, Ioanna (Date of defense: 2018-10-11)
The objective of this thesis is to provide a temporal analysis of the structural and interaction dynamics of large evolving graphs. In this thesis we propose new definitions of important graph metrics ...
Lorini, Valerio (Date of defense: 2022-07-07)
The interactions among people on social media are a form of distributed intelligence, as they allow people to make sense of a developing event collectively. Social media users can contribute to creating ...
Mille, Simon (Date of defense: 2014-07-25)
The present Ph.D. thesis addresses the problem of deep data-driven Natural Language Generation (NLG), and in particular the role of proper corpus annotation schemata for stochastic sentence realization. ...
Accuosto, Pablo (Date of defense: 2021-11-26)
Argument mining consists in the automatic identification of argumentative structures in natural language, a task that has been recognized as particularly challenging in the scientific domain. In this ...
Chandna, Pritish (Date of defense: 2021-09-23)
This thesis dissertation focuses on singing voice extraction from polyphonic musical signals. In particular, we focus on two cases; contemporary popular music, which typically has a processed singing ...