Littera Deusto

Modern Languages, Basque Studies and Humanities

Blogs

enero 29th, 2010 · Comments Off on Blogs

According to Wikipedia, a blog, thecontraction of the term “web log”,  is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or […]

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CiteULike vs. Google Books

enero 29th, 2010 · Comments Off on CiteULike vs. Google Books

On the one hand, we could start talking about CiteULike, which is a free online service. Its main objective is to organize academic publications, now run by Oversity. It has been on the Web since October 2004 when its originator was attached to the University of Manchester, and was the first Web – based social bookmarking tool designed […]

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HTML and Markup Languages

enero 28th, 2010 · Comments Off on HTML and Markup Languages

Text annotating systems According to Wikipedia, an annotation is a syntexsix made of information in a book, document, online record, video, software code or other information. It is commonly used in different ways or cases such as in draft documents, where another reader has written notes about the quality of a document at a certain point, “in the margin”, […]

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Digital libraries

enero 28th, 2010 · Comments Off on Digital libraries

A digital (or virtual, both of them are possible) library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats (as opposed to print, microform, or other media). These collections are accessible by computers, so that we will always have the opportunity to access to them whenever or any time we have got a computer. The digital content may […]

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La Wikinovela

octubre 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on La Wikinovela

La Wikinovela es un proyecto de creación colectiva, un proyecto multilingüe y no lineal, que se basa en la tecnología wiki y que tiene licencia Creative Commons. A su vez ha sido desarrollado dentro de la facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Deusto entre abril y julio del año 2006. La principal característica de la wikinovela es que puede ser editada […]

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The figure of the author after the creation of the hypertext

septiembre 29th, 2009 · Comments Off on The figure of the author after the creation of the hypertext

As everybody knows, the author is the person who gives existance to anything and creates or originates something. This figure has changed and evolutioned all along the human history, beginning with the trobadors and poets in the Middle Age, going through the printing and arriving to nowadays and the hypertext. Appart from that, to be able […]

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Spell Checking (Q. Number 2)

junio 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on Spell Checking (Q. Number 2)

When we are talking about computing, a spell checker (or spell check) is an application program that flags words in a document which may not be spelled in a correct way. However,  when a word which is not within the dictionary is encountered most spell checkers provide an option to add that word to a list of known […]

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List of topics (Q. Number 2)

junio 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on List of topics (Q. Number 2)

These are the topics I have chosen: Spell Checking Emotion recognition Morphological Analysis Natural Language Generation Summarisation  Categorisation Multimedia Retrieval  Language Checking  Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotions Multilingual Content for Flexible Format Internet Premium Services Disclosure of video material on the basis of sub-titles Test Suites for Natural Language Processing   Projects. In Language Technology […]

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Research centres for Human Language Technologies in Europe (Q. Number 1)

marzo 25th, 2009 · Comments Off on Research centres for Human Language Technologies in Europe (Q. Number 1)

There are three main research centres for Human Language Technologies in Europe. One of them is located in Dublin, Ireland. It conducts research into the processing of human language by computers, such as speech recognition and synthesis, machine translation, human-computer interfaces, information retieval and extraction, the teaching and learning of languages using computers and software localisation […]

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Martyn Kay (Q. Number 1)

marzo 25th, 2009 · Comments Off on Martyn Kay (Q. Number 1)

Martyn Kay, who is a scientist specialiced in computers, is mainly known for his work in computational linguistics. He was born and grown in Great Britain and, in 1961 he was given his M.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge, However, in 1958 he started to work at the Cambridge Language Research Unit, which was one of the earliest centers for […]

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Human Language Technologies (Q. Number 1)

marzo 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off on Human Language Technologies (Q. Number 1)

The world has been completely changed by computers, digitalization, and networks. It is very hard to teach computers to handle human speech and language –both spoken and written– in the different ways that people can be able to use it properly: to speak naturally, understand what has been said and meant, summarize a document or a conversation… So, […]

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Web 1.0 & Web 2.0

febrero 4th, 2009 · Comments Off on Web 1.0 & Web 2.0

First of all let’s define these two concepts: On the one hand, according to Wikipedia, Web 1.0 is a retronym that refers to the state of the World Wide Web, and any website design style used before the advent of the Web 2.0 phenomenon. It is the general term which has been created to describe the Web before 2001, […]

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