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Articles

201

• • Optimization models of natural communication
    Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.
    Journal of quantitative linguistics. Vol. 25, num. 3, p. 207-237, 2018
  • Spurious ambiguity and focalization
    Morrill, G.; Valentín, O.
    Computational linguistics. Vol. 44, num. 2, p. 285-327, 2018.
  • Weighted contrastive divergence.
    Enrique Romero, Ferran Mazzanti, Jordi Delgado and David Buchaca.
    Neural Networks, 2018.
  • Neighborhood-Based Stopping Criterion for Contrastive Divergence.
    Enrique Romero, Ferran Mazzanti, Jordi Delgado.
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, vol. 29, num 7, 2695-2704, 2018.

• Global optimality in k-means clustering
  Tîrnauca, C.; Gómez, D.; Balcazar, J. L.; Montaña, J.
  Information sciences. Vol. 439-440, p. 79-94, 2018.
• Characterizing approximate-matching dependencies in formal concept analysis with pattern structures  
  Baixeries, J.; Codocedo, V.; Kaytoue, M.; Napoli, A.
  Discrete applied mathematics, 2018.

  
• Are crossing dependencies really scarce?
  Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.; Gómez-Rodríguez, C.; Esteban, J. L.
  Physica A: statistical mechanics and its applications. Vol. 493, p. 311-329, 2018.
• A dependency look at the reality of constituency  
  Chen, X.; Gómez-Rodríguez, C.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.
  Glottometrics. Vol. 40, p. 104-106. 2018.

  

2017

• • • Adarules: Learning rules for real-time road-traffic prediction  
      Mena-Yedra, R.; Gavaldà, R.; Casas, J.
      Transportation Research Procedia. Vol. 27, p. 11-18. 2017.

      
    • Scarcity of crossing dependencies: A direct outcome of a specific constraint?  
      Gómez-Rodríguez, C.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.
      Physical review E. Vol. 96, num. 6, p. 062304-1-062304-12. 2017.

      
    • Characterization of the CPAP-treated patient population in Catalonia  
      Turino, C.; Bertrán, S.; Gavaldà, R.; Teixidó, I.; Woehrle, H.; Rué, M.; Solsona, F.; Escarrabill, J.; Colls, C.; García, A.; Batlle, J. de; Sánchez, M.; Barbé, F.
      PloS One. Vol. 12, p. 1-12. 2017.

      
    • A commentary on “The now-or-never bottleneck: a fundamental constraint on language”, by Christiansen and Chater (2016)  
      Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.
      Glottometrics. Vol. 38, p. 107-111. 2017.

      
    • Towards a theory of word order: comment on “Dependency distance: a new perspective on syntactic patterns in natural language” by Haitao Liu et al.  
      Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.
      Physics of Life Reviews. Vol. 21, p. 218-220. 2017.

      
    • A correction on Shiloach’s algorithm for minimum linear arrangement of trees  
      Esteban, J. L.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.
      SIAM Journal on Computing. Vol. 46, num. 3, p. 1146-1151. 2017.

      
    • The entropy of words-learnability and expressivity across more than 1000 languages  
      Bentz, C.; Alikaniotis, D.; Cysouw, M.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.
      Entropy: international and interdisciplinary journal of entropy and information studies. Vol. 19, num. 6, p. 1-32. 2017.

      
    • Thoughts about disordered thinking: measuring and quantifying the laws of order and disorder  
      Elvevaag, B.; Foltz, P. W.; Rosenstein, M.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.; Deyne, S. De; Mizraji, E.; Cohen, A.
      Schizophrenia bulletin. Vol. 43, num. 3, p. 509-513. 2017.

      
    • Disclosure day on relativity: a science activity beyond the classroom  
      Aragoneses, A.; Salan, N.; Hernandez Fernandez, A.
      World journal on educational technology. Vol. 9, num. 2, p. 59-66. 2017.

      
    • Grammar logicised: relativisation  
      Morrill, G.
      Linguistics and philosophy. Vol. 40, num. 2, p. 119-163. 2017.

      
    • Emergence of linguistic laws in human voice  
      González, I.; Luque, B.; Lacasa, L.; Jordi Luque; Hernandez Fernandez, A.
      Scientific reports. Vol. 7, num. 43862, p. 1-10. 2017.

      
    • Identifiability and transportability in dynamic causal networks  
      Blondel, G.; Arias, M.; Gavaldà, R.
      International journal of data science and analytics. Vol. 3, num. 2, p. 131-147. 2017.

      
    • Random crossings in dependency trees  
      Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.
      Glottometrics. Vol. 37, p. 1-12. 2017.

      
    • Methods of class field theory to separate logics over finite residue classes and circuit complexity  
      Arratia, A.; Ortiz, C.
      Journal of Logic and Computation. Vol. 27, num. 7, p. 1987-2009. 2017.

      
    • A reply to Kubota and Levine on gapping  
       Valentin Fernandez, J.; Morrill, G.
      Natural language and linguistic theory. Vol. 270, num. 1, p. 1-257. 2017.

      
    • Does like seek like? The formation of working groups in a programming project  
      Sanou, E.; Hernandez Fernandez, A.; Arias, M.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.
      Journal of technology and science education. Vol. 7, num. 2, p. 231-240. 2017.

      
    • The optimality of attaching unlinked labels to unlinked meanings  
      Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.
      Glottometrics. Vol. 36, p. 1-16. 2017.

      
    • Learning definite Horn formulas from closure queries  
      Arias, M.; Balcazar, J. L.; Tîrnauca, C.
      Theoretical computer science. Vol. 658, Part B, p. 346-356. 2017.

      
    • The placement of the head that maximizes predictability: An information theoretic approach  
      Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.
      Glottometrics. Vol. 39, p. 38-71. 2017.

      
    • A formal context for acyclic join dependencies  
       Baixeries, J.
      Lecture notes in computer science. p. 563-572. 2017.

      

2016

• • • Put three and three together: Triangle-driven community detection  
      Prat, A.; Dominguez, D.; Brunat, Josep M.; Larriba, J.
      ACM transactions on knowledge discovery from data. Vol. 10, num. 3, p. 22:1-22:42. 2016.

      
    • School research in Catalonia : between tradition and innovation
      Nadal, I.; Hernandez Fernandez, A.; Luque, F.; Salan, N.
      Journal of the World Federation of Associations of Teacher Education. Vol. 1, num. 3b, p. 48-72. 2016.
    • A construction of continuous-time ARMA models by iterations of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes  
      Arratia, A.; Cabaña, A.; Cabaña, E. M.
      SORT: Statistics and Operations Research Transactions. Vol. 40, num. 2, p. 267-302. 2016.

      
    • Rehabilitation profiles of older adult stroke survivors admitted to intermediate care units: A multi-centre study  
      Pérez, L.; Inzitari, M.; Quinn, T.; Montaner, J.; Gavaldà, R.; Duarte, E.; Coll, L.; Cerdá, M.; Santaeugenia, S.; Closa, C.; Gallofre, M.
      PloS One. Vol. 11, num. 11, p. 1-13. 2016.

      
    • Crossings as a side effect of dependency lengths  
      Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.; Gómez-Rodríguez, C.
      Complexity. Vol. 21, num. S2, p. 320-328. 2016.

      
    • Compression and the origins of Zipf’s law for word frequencies  
      Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.
      Complexity. Vol. 21, num. S2, p. 409-411. 2016.

      
    • The meaning-frequency law in Zipfian optimization models of communication  
      Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.
      Glottometrics. Vol. 35, p. 28-37. 2016.

      
    • On graph combinatorics to improve eigenvector-based measures of centrality in directed networks
      Arratia, A.; Marijuan, C.
      Linear Algebra and its Applications. Vol. 504, p. 325-353. 2016.
    • The scaling of the minimum sum of edge lengths in uniformly random trees  
      Esteban, J. L.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.; Gómez-Rodríguez, C.
      Journal of statistical mechanics: Theory and experiment. Vol. 2016, num. 6, p. 063401- . 2016.

      
    • The infochemical core  
      Hernandez Fernandez, A.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.
      Journal of quantitative linguistics. Vol. 23, num. 2, p. 133-153. 2016.

      
    • GeoSRS: a hybrid social recommender system for geolocated data  
      Capdevila, J.; Arias, M.; Arratia, A.
      Information Systems. Vol. 57, p. 111-128. 2016.

      
    • Gelada vocal sequences follow Menzerath’s linguistic law  
      Gustison, M.; Semple, S.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.; Bergman, T.
      Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Vol. 113, num. 19, p. E2750-E2758. 2016.

      
    • Liberating language research from dogmas of the 20th century  
      Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.; Gómez-Rodríguez, C.
      Glottometrics. Vol. 33, p. 33-34. 2016.

      
    • Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: a tutorial review and prospectus  
      Kershenbaum, A.; Blumstein, D.; Roch, M.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.
      Biological reviews. Vol. 91, num. 1, p. 13-52. 2016.

      
    • “El cerebro espiritual”. Rubia, F.J. Barcelona, Fragmenta 2015.
      Hernandez Fernandez, A.
      Aula de secundaria. num. 16, p. 48-49. 2016
    • Extending UML and OCL for the conceptual modeling of graph patterns
      Raquel Pau, Oskar Van Rest, Josep-Lluis Larriba-Pey and Arnau Prat-Pérez Technical Report 2016

2015

• • • A multi-scale smoothing kernel for measuring time-series similarity  
      Troncoso, A.; Arias, M.; Riquelme, J.C
      Neurocomputing. Vol. 167, p. 8-17. 2015.

      
    • Zipf’s law for word frequencies: Word forms versus lemmas in long texts  
      Corral, A.; Boleda, G.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.
      PloS One. Vol. 10, num. 7, p. 1-23. 2015.

      
    • “Cómo sentimos”. G.Frazzetto. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2014 Hernandez Fernandez, A.
      Aula de secundaria. num. 14, p. 46. 2015.
    • Reply to the commentary “Be careful when assuming the obvious”, by P. Alday
      Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.
      Language dynamics and change. Vol. 5, num. 1, p. 147-155.2015.
    • The placement of the head that minimizes online memory: a complex systems approach
      Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.
      Language dynamics and change. Vol. 5, num. 1, p. 114-137. 2015.
    • An efficient closed frequent itemset miner for the MOA stream mining system  
      Quadrana, M.; Bifet, A.C.; Gavaldà, R.
      AI communications: the european journal of artificial intelligence. Vol. 28, num. 1, p. 143-158. 2015.

      
    • Structural ambiguity in Montague Grammar and categorial grammar
      Morrill, G.
      The linguistic review. Vol. 32, num. 1, p. 87-113. 2015.
    • Understanding Graph Structure of Wikipedia for Query Expansion
      Joan Guisado-Gámez and Arnau Prat-Pérez GRADES 2015

2014

• • • On recovering a mixed Poisson distribution from its left-truncated version
      Perez-Casany, M.; Ginebra, J.; Valero, J.
      Statistics and probability letters. Vol. 92, p. 89-94. 2014.
    • Automatic multi-partite graph generation from arbitrary data
      Álvarez, S.; Baeza, R.; Brisaboa, N.; Larriba, J.; Pedreira, O.
      Journal of Systems and Software. Vol. 94, p. 72-86. 2014.
    • Graph anonymization via metric embeddings: Using classical anonymization for graphs
      Padrol, A.; Muntés, V.
      Intelligent data analysis. Vol. 18, num. 3, p. 365-388. 2014.
    • The Linked Data Benchmark Council: A graph and RDF industry benchmarking effort
      Angles, R.; Boncz, P.; Larriba, J.; Fundulaki, I.; Neumann, T.; Erling, O.; Neubauer, P.; Martinez-Bazan, N.; Kotsev, V.; Toma, I.
      SIGMOD record. Vol. 43, num. 1, p. 27-31. 2014.
    • On left-truncating and mixing poisson distributions  
      Valero, J.; Perez-Casany, M.; Ginebra, J.
      Communications in statistics. Theory and methods. p. 1-25. 2014.

      
    • Using genetic algorithms for attribute grouping in multivariate microaggregation  
      Balasch, J.; Muntés, V.; Nin, J.
      Intelligent data analysis. Vol. 18, num. 5, p. 819-836. 2014.

      
    • When is Menzerath-Altmann law mathematically trivial? A new approach  
      Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.; Hernandez Fernandez, A.; Baixeries, J.; Debowski, L.; Macutek, J.
      Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology. Vol. 13, num. 6, p. 633-644. 2014

      

    • A stronger null hypothesis for crossing dependencies
      Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.
      Europhysics letters. Vol. 108, num. 5, p. 58003-1-58003-6. 2014.
    • Beyond description: Comment on “Approaching human language with complex networks” by Cong and Liu
      Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.
      Physics of Life Reviews. Vol. 11, num. 4, p. 621-623. 2014.

    • The risks of mixing dependency lengths from sequences of different length  
      Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.; Liu, H.
      Glottotheory. Vol. 5, num. 2, p. 143-155. 2014.

      

    • A methodology for the evaluation of high response time on E-commerce users and sales
      Poggi, N.; Carrera, D.; Gavaldà, R.; Ayguade, E.; Torres, J.
      Information Systems Frontiers. Vol. 16, num. 5, p. 867-885. 2014.
    • Characterizing functional dependencies in formal concept analysis with pattern structures
      Baixeries, J.; Kaytoue, M.; Napoli, A.
      Annals of mathematics and artificial intelligence. Vol. 72, num. 1-2, p. 129-149. 2014.

    • El origen de la física moderna : el papel de Fermi  
      Hernandez Fernandez, A.
      Encuentros multidisciplinares
      Vol. XVI, num. 47, p. 12-20. 2014.

      
    • Adaptively learning probabilistic deterministic automata from data streams
      de Balle, B.; Castro, J.; Gavaldà, R.
      Machine learning. Vol. 96, num. 1-2, p. 99-127. 2014.
    • Displacement logic for anaphora  
      Morrill, G.; Valentin Fernandez, J.
      Journal of computer and system sciences. Vol. 80, num. 2, p. 390-409. 2014.

      
    • Semantically inactive multiplicatives and words as types  
      Morrill, G.; Valentin Fernandez, J.
      Lecture notes in computer science. Vol. 8535, p. 149-162. 2014.

      

    • A categorial type logic  
      Morrill, G.
      Lecture notes in computer science. Vol. 8222, p. 331-352. 2014.

      
    • Automatic multi-partite graph generation from arbitrary data

Sandra Álvarez-Garcia et al., Journal of Systems and Software 94: 72-86 (2014)

• • • The linked data benchmark council: a graph and RDF industry benchmarking effort

Renzo Angles et al., SIGMOD Record 43(1), 27-31 (2014)

• • • How community-like is the structure of synthetically generated graphs?

Arnau Prat-Pérez and David Dominguez-Sal. GRADES 2014
Slides here.

• • • Open and Automatic Coding Conventions with Walkmod

Raquel Pau (33rd Degree Conf)

• • • Massive Query Expansion by Exploiting Graph Knowledge Bases for Image Retrieval.

Joan Guisado-Gámez, David Dominguez-Sal and Josep L. Larriba-Pey. To be published at ACM ICMR 2014

• • • High Quality, Scalable and Parallel Community Detection for Large Real Graphs.

Arnau Prat-Pérez, David Dominguez-Sal, Josep-Lluis Larriba-Pey: WWW (2014)
Check out the code here.
Slides here.

Presentations at Conferences

For a full list of presentations at conferences by LARCA+DAMA = MACDA members follow the links below.

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