Timothy John Berners-Lee, considered the father of the Web as we know it nowadays, was born in England in the UK the 8th of June, 1955. He got his major on physics in 1976 at Oxford´s university. Since Timothy needed a way to tranfer his research files as a way to exchange information, he developed [...]
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
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Question Answering System(Q3)
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Question answering, or QA, it´s a way to recover information. Using a number of documents, the system should be able to recover answers to questions posed in natural language. QA is seen as a method that need a technology of the way to proceed of the natural language than other type of systems. QA is [...]
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Automatic summarization(Q2)
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Automatic summarization its a way to put a shortened version of a text vy a computer program. this shorened text needs to have the most important ideas of the original text. The increase of the popularyti of internet has binded to a creation of a correctly-developed summaries. Since the access to data has increased , [...]
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Information Retrieval(Q2)
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The information Retrieval,or IR, is the science of the search of information out of the documents, the search of the documents themselves, the search of metadata that describe documents, or the search of data base through the internet, intranet, texts, images, sound, or other characteristic´s data. IR is an interdisciplinary study. it covers so many [...]
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Machine Translation(Q2)
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Machine Translation, or MT, is the sub field of Computational Linguistic that investigates the use of the software to translate texts form one natural language to another. Using corpus techniques we can get more somplex translations, what helps with a proper manage of the differences of linguistic typology, phrase recognition, translation of idioms, and the [...]
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Topic list for quiestionnaire 2
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1. Machine Translation
2. Information Retrieval
3 Automatic Summariation
4. Information Extraction
5. Word-Sense Disambiguation
6. Annotation Science
7. Language Generation and Text Planning
8. Multimodal Representations and Processing
9. Discourse and Pragmatics
10.Phonology/Morphology, POS Tagging, Word Segmentation
Internet Sources:
-Association for Computational Linguistics 2009. (2008-2009). In ACL-IJCNLP 2009. Retrieved 17:54, May 3, 2009, from http://www.acl-ijcnlp-2009.org/index.html
-Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American [...]
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MARTIN KAY (Q1)
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Martin Kay was born in Great Britain. He is known for his job as a computational linguistic. He started working in the Language Research Unit in Cambridge in 1958. In 1961 he became the head of the research in linguistics and machine translation. In 1972 he became Chair of the Department of Computer Science [...]
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(Q 1.) Hans Uszkoreit
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Hans Uszkoreit teaches Computational Linguistics at the university of Saarland at Saarbrücken. He created the Department of Computational Linguistics in 1988. In 1989 he became the head of Language Technology Lab at DFKI. He was the co-creator of “The European Postgraduate Program Language Technology and Cognitive Systems”, and participated in the Ph.D. program at the [...]
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(Questionnaire 1)HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTERS IN EUROPE
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For this first questionnaire it´s important to explain the meaning of human language technology:
As the Meraka institute say:”Human Language Technology (HLT) makes it easier for people to interact with machines. This can benefit a wide range of people – from illiterate farmers in remote villages who want to obtain relevant medical information over a cellphone, [...]
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Kevin Kelly
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Kevin Kelly was born in 1952 and he founded Wired magazine. He has also write books like Cool Tools (2003), Bad Dreams (2003), or True Films (2006). Apart from this, Kevin Kelly is an expert in digital culture. He made a lecture talking about the next 5,000 days of the [...]
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XML
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XML or Extensible Markup Language, is an extensible tag languaje developed by World Wide Web Constrium or W3C.It is simplification and adaptation of SGML and allows to define the specific grammatical languaje. So we can guess that XML is not a particular languaje, but a way to define different languajes for different purposes. some [...]
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HTML
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HTML, or HyperText Markup Language is the main language used to create internet web pages. It´s used to describen the structure and content of the page in text way, and also to add images to those texts or web pages. HTML is written in tag way surrounded by other signs [...]
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