Littera Deusto

Modern Languages, Basque Studies and Humanities

Blogs.

enero 28th, 2010 · Comments Off on Blogs.

A blog is a regularly updated Web site that collects chronological texts or articles from one or more authors, the most recent one appearing first, where the author always retains the freedom of creating everything he wants. This blog or weblog English word comes from the words ‘web’ and ‘log’, meaning the last one diary. Normally, […]

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CiteUlike and Google Books.

enero 28th, 2010 · Comments Off on CiteUlike and Google Books.

Let’s talk about two of the most useful and interesting services which we can find in the Web. I am referring to CiteUlike and as well Google Books. CiteUlike: it is a famous free online service that we can use in order to organize or arrange many academic publications. It was created and put on the web in […]

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Markup language.

enero 28th, 2010 · Comments Off on Markup language.

Processing, definition and presentation of texts are the main goals and the reason why  the markup language was designed. A markup language is a form of codifying a document that, together with the text, incorporates labels or marks that contain more information about the structure of the text or his presentation. The more widespread of them is the HTML, foundation of […]

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Digital libraries

octubre 25th, 2009 · Comments Off on Digital libraries

A digital or virtual library is a library in which a significant proportion of the information resources are available in the digital format, accessible through the computers, and whose  essential exponent is the Internet. This type of library allows the user to find the documents when he/she needs them, and for doing this, it responds […]

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Main differences between the ebook and the paper book.

octubre 8th, 2009 · Comments Off on Main differences between the ebook and the paper book.

Writing a text which faces the electronic book and the paper book doesn´t mean to put one of them above the other one. Doing this we only want to see the main differences between them. We must say that the electronic book is not going to abolish the paper book, at least,  by now. Remember that the […]

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The author and authorship in the digital world.

septiembre 27th, 2009 · Comments Off on The author and authorship in the digital world.

Since the advent of the printing press untill today, the author´s concept has moved to set the idea of what we now understand as such. The process of setting the text, considering the need for a literate society, recognizing the sovereignty of the author, encouraging the creation of a canon of literary works and the […]

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Natural language processing (3rd questionnaire).

junio 21st, 2009 · Comments Off on Natural language processing (3rd questionnaire).

The Natural Language Processing (NLP or PLN),  is a sub Artificial Intelligence and engineering branch of the computational linguistics. The PLN is responsible for the formulation and research of effective mechanisms computationally for communication between people or between individuals and machines by means of natural languages. It has much to do with the field of computational linguistics. […]

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Question answering systems (3rd questionnaire).

junio 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on Question answering systems (3rd questionnaire).

The main purpose of question answering is to answer automatically to those questions which are  made in a natural language. The search for answers, called in English Question Answering (QA) is a type of information retrieval. Given a certain amount of documents (such as World Wide Web), the system should be able to recover answers […]

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Computational Semantics (2nd questionnaire).

junio 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on Computational Semantics (2nd questionnaire).

The computational semantics is a very well done study about the automating of the process of reasoning and constructing withnatural language expressions and also with meaning representations. It is also extremely important in computational linguistics and natural language processing. It has some topics of interest and some of them are: construction of meaning representations, semantic […]

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The Semantic Web (2nd questionnaire).

mayo 18th, 2009 · Comments Off on The Semantic Web (2nd questionnaire).

When we talk about the Semantic Web, we  are referring to an extension of the World Wide Web. Here, the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, and it makes possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content. Tim Berners-Lee, the […]

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Project´s list (2nd questionnaire).

mayo 11th, 2009 · Comments Off on Project´s list (2nd questionnaire).

Here we have the list of projects I have chosen for this article:
1. Computational semantics. (Language technology world).
2. Language checking. (Language technology world).
3. Knowledge Discovery. (Language technology world).
4. Semantic web. (DFKI).
5. Music Information Retrieval. (DFKI).
6. Collaborating Using Diagrams. (Language Technology Group).
7. Crossmarc. (Language Technology Group).
8. Shallow Semantic Parsing. (SNLP).
9. Detecting contradictions in Text. (SNLP).
10. Document indexing for German and English. (DFKILT).
References:

 Language Technology Lab (Gerrmany). Retrieved […]

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Yorick Wilks (1st Questionnaire).

mayo 4th, 2009 · Comments Off on Yorick Wilks (1st Questionnaire).

Yorick Wilks works as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. There he directs the Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing. He received his MA and PhD (1968) from Pembroke College, Cambridge. He has also taught or researched at Stanford, Edinburgh, Geneva, Essex and New Mexico State Universities. His interests are artificial intelligence and […]

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