• Facilitating the manual snnotation of sounds when using large taxonomies

  Favory, Xavier; Fonseca, Eduardo; Font, Frederic; Serra, Xavier (FRUCT, 2018)

  Properly annotated multimedia content is crucial for supporting advances in many Information Retrieval applications. It enables, for instance, the development of automatic tools for the annotation of large and diverse ...
• General-purpose tagging of Freesound audio with audioSet labels: task description, dataset, and baseline

  Fonseca, Eduardo; Plakal, Manoj; Font, Frederic; Ellis, Daniel P. W.; Favory, Xavier; Pons, Jordi; Serra, Xavier (Tampere University of Technology, 2018)

  This paper describes Task 2 of the DCASE 2018 Challenge, titled “General-purpose audio tagging of Freesound content with AudioSet labels”. This task was hosted on the Kaggle platform as “Freesound General-Purpose Audio ...
• Human Early Life Exposome (HELIX) study: a European population-based exposome cohort

  Maitre, Léa; de Bont, Jeroen; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Robinson, Oliver; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Borràs, Eva; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; de Castro, Montserrat; Donaire González, David; Estivill, Xavier, 1955-; Fossati, Serena; González, Juan R.; Hernández-Ferrer, Carles; Júlvez Calvo, Jordi; Manzano Salgado, Cyntia Beatriz, 1987-; Sabido Aguade, Eduard; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Tamayo-Uria, Ibon; Urquiza, José M.; van Gent, Diana; Vives Usano, Marta, 1990-; Warembourg, Charline; Nieuwenhuijsen, M.; Vrijheid, Martine (BMJ Publishing Group, 2018)

  PURPOSE: Essential to exposome research is the collection of data on many environmental exposures from different domains in the same subjects. The aim of the Human Early Life Exposome (HELIX) study was to measure and ...
• Handling sign language data: the impact of modality

  Quer, Josep, 1965-; Steinbach, Markus (Frontiers, 2019)

  Natural languages come in two different modalities. The impact of modality on the grammatical structure and linguistic theory has been discussed at great length in the last 20 years. By contrast, the impact of modality on ...
• Automatic assessment of violin performance using dynamic time warping classification

  Giraldo, Sergio; Ortega, Ariadna; Perez, Alfonso; Ramírez, Rafael; Waddell, George; Williamon, Aaron (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)

  The automatic assessment of music performance has become an area of special interest due to the increasing amount of technology-enhanced music learning systems. However, in most of these systems the assessment of the musical ...
• Expansion of the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) knowledge base and resources

  Köhler, Sebastian; Beltran, Sergi; Lochmüller, Hanns (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)-a standardized vocabulary of phenotypic abnormalities associated with 7000+ diseases-is used by thousands of researchers, clinicians, informaticians and electronic health record systems ...
• RNAct: Protein-RNA interaction predictions for model organisms with supporting experimental data

  Lang, Benjamin; Armaos, Alexandros; Tartaglia, Gian Gaetano (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  Protein-RNA interactions are implicated in a number of physiological roles as well as diseases, with molecular mechanisms ranging from defects in RNA splicing, localization and translation to the formation of aggregates. ...
• Annotation of regular polysemy and underspecification

  Martínez Alonso, Héctor; Sandford Pedersen, Bolette; Bel Rafecas, Núria (ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), 2013)

  We present the result of an annotation task on regular polysemy for a series of semantic classes or dot types in English, Danish and Spanish. This article describes the annotation process, the results in terms of inter-encoder ...
• Impact of homologous recombination on the evolution of prokaryotic core genomes

  González-Torres, Pedro; Rodríguez-Mateos, Francisco; Antón, Josefa; Gabaldón Estevan, Juan Antonio, 1973- (American Society for Microbiology, 2019)

  Homologous recombination (HR) enables the exchange of genetic material between and within species. Recent studies suggest that this process plays a major role in the microevolution of microbial genomes, contributing to ...
• A Simple fusion of deep and shallow learning for acoustic scene classification

  Fonseca, Eduardo; Gong, Rong; Serra, Xavier (Cyprus University of Technology, 2018)

  In the past, Acoustic Scene Classification systems havebeen based on hand crafting audio features that are input toa classifier. Nowadays, the common trend is to adopt datadriven techniques, e.g., deep learning, where audio ...
• Allele balance bias identifies systematic genotyping errors and false disease associations

  Muyas, Francesc; Bosio, Mattia; Puig, Anna; Susak, Hana; Domènech Salgado, Laura, 1989-; Escaramís, Geòrgia; Zapata Ortiz, Luis, 1985-; Demidov, German; Estivill, Xavier, 1955-; Rabionet, Raquel; Ossowski, Stephan (Wiley, 2019)

  In recent years, next-generation sequencing (NGS) has become a cornerstone of clinical genetics and diagnostics. Many clinical applications require high precision, especially if rare events such as somatic mutations in ...
• Rapid reversible changes in compartments and local chromatin organization revealed by hyperosmotic shock

  Amat, Ramon; Böttcher, René; Le Dily, François; Vidal Ocabo, Enrique; Quilez Oliete, Javier; Cuartero, Yasmina; Beato, Miguel; Nadal Clanchet, Eulàlia de; Posas Garriga, Francesc (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHL Press), 2019)

  Nuclear architecture is decisive for the assembly of transcriptional responses. However, how chromosome organization is dynamically modulated to permit rapid and transient transcriptional changes in response to environmental ...
• Early prediction of Alzheimer's disease with non-local patch-based longitudinal descriptors

  Sanromà, Gerard; Andrea, Víctor; Benkarim, Oualid M.; Manjón, José V.; Coupé, Pierrick; Camara, Oscar; Piella Fenoy, Gemma; González Ballester, Miguel Ángel, 1973- (Springer, 2017)

  Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by a progressive decline in the cognitive functions accompanied by an atrophic process which can already be observed in the early stages using magnetic resonance images (MRI). ...
• Cortical folding alterations in fetuses with isolated non-severe ventriculomegaly

  Benkarim, Oualid M.; Hahner, Nadine; Piella Fenoy, Gemma; Gratacós Solsona, Eduard; González Ballester, Miguel Ángel, 1973-; Eixarch, Elisenda; Sanromà, Gerard (Elsevier, 2018)

  Neuroimaging of brain diseases plays a crucial role in understanding brain abnormalities and early diagnosis. Of great importance is the study of brain abnormalities in utero and the assessment of deviations in case of ...
• Class-based word sense induction for dot-type nominals

  Romeo, Lauren; Martínez Alonso, Héctor; Bel Rafecas, Núria (ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), 2013)

  This paper describes an effort to capture the sense alternation of dot-type nominals using Word Sense Induction (WSI). We propose dot-type nominals generate more semantically consistent groupings when clustered into more ...
• Genomes shed light on the secret life of Candida glabrata: not so asexual, not so commensal

  Gabaldón Estevan, Juan Antonio, 1973-; Fairhead, Cécile (Springer, 2019)

  Candida glabrata is an opportunistic yeast pathogen, whose incidence has increased over the last decades. Despite its genus name, this species is actually more closely related to the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae ...
• The Genomic Footprints of the Fall and Recovery of the Crested Ibis

  Feng, Shaohong; Fang, Qi; Barnett, Ross; Li, Cai; Han, Sojung; Kuhlwilm, Martin; Zhou, Long; Pan, Hailin; Deng, Yuan; Chen, Guangji; Gamauf, Anita; Woog, Friederike; Prys-Jones, Robert; Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975-; Gilbert, M Thomas; Zhang, Guojie (Elsevier, 2019)

  Human-induced environmental change and habitat fragmentation pose major threats to biodiversity and require active conservation efforts to mitigate their consequences. Genetic rescue through translocation and the introduction ...
• Genome Comparisons of Candida glabrata Serial Clinical Isolates Reveal Patterns of Genetic Variation in Infecting Clonal Populations

  Carreté Muñoz, Laia, 1990-; Ksiezopolska, Ewa; Gómez-Molero, Emilia; Angoulvant, Adela; Bader, Olivier; Fairhead, Cécile; Gabaldón Estevan, Juan Antonio, 1973- (Frontiers, 2019)

  Candida glabrata is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that currently ranks as the second most common cause of candidiasis. Although the mechanisms underlying virulence and drug resistance in C. glabrata are now starting to ...
• Single cell functional genomics reveals the importance of mitochondria in cell-to-cell phenotypic variation

  Dhar, Riddhiman; Missarova, Alsu, 1990-; Lehner, Ben, 1978-; Carey, Lucas (eLife, 2019)

  Mutations frequently have outcomes that differ across individuals, even when these individuals are genetically identical and share a common environment. Moreover, individual microbial and mammalian cells can vary substantially ...
• Using language resources in humanities research

  Villegas, Marta; Bel Rafecas, Núria; Gonzalo, Carlos; Moreno, Amparo; Simelio, Nuria (ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), 2012)

  In this paper we present two real cases, in the fields of discourse analysis of newspapers and communication research which demonstrate the impact of Language Resources (LR) and NLP in the humanities. We describe our ...

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