Ramón y Cajal 2016-2020

Discourse and Natural Language Processing (Discourse and Natural Language Processing) (RYC-2014-16935)

Research project developed at Departamento de Filologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas from the Facultad de Filología in Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), in the framework of the  ACTUALing research group, with the collaboration of the IULATERM group .

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FUNDING

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This project has been carried out thanks to the additional funding associated to a Ramón y Cajal contract obtained in the 2014 call (Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Spain).

Budget: 40.000 euros.

AIMS AND METHODOLOGY

The project has two main objectives:

OBJECTIVE 1. Implement an administration panel to manage the content of the arText system, with the aim of being able to:

  • Add new specialized areas.
  • Incorporate new textual genres and their structures (sections, titles, contents, etc.).
  • Associate linguistic recommendations to each textual genre.

OBJECTIVE 2. Add in the arText system a new domain related to the writing of academic texts, which contains the textual genre “Final degree project (TFG)” to make available to university students of any field the option of write their TFG in Spanish with this free online tool. For its implementation, the materials from the following book on the TFG and the TFM have been used, currently recommended in many Spanish universities:

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da Cunha, Iria (2016). El trabajo de fin de grado y de máster: Redacción, defensa y publicación. Barcelona: Editorial UOC. ISBN 9788490643907

 

 

METHODOLOGY
STAGE 1 STAGE 2 STAGE 3 STAGE 4
Implementation of the administration panel for content management in arText.  Through the new administration panel, integration in arText of a tool for the writing of the TFG of any field. Evaluation of the tool for writing the TFG, through a written task with arText and an evaluation survey by  university students. Tool dissemination.
TEAM
COLLABORING ENTITIES

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SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

The methodology and results of this work are included in the following article:

da Cunha, Iria (2020). «Una herramienta TIC para la redacción del Trabajo de Fin de Grado (TFG)». ELUA: Estudios de Lingüística. Universidad de Alicante 34. 39-72.

To see the rest of the scientific production related to the arText system, click here.

 

NEWS

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