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CiteULike is a free, web-based bookmarking tool for the classification of online research papers, which opened in November 2004. Like other reference management software such as Connotea or 2collab, it is an example of a Web 2.0 site, combining features like RSS feeds and the possibility to import scholarly articles through their BibTeX entries. References […]

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The development of computers has undoubtedly made an impact on many aspects of our life. In the field of literature, the option to display text on screens has raised an important debate: should we publish books on paper or in an electronic format? E-books offer a variety of advantages and disadvantages in contrast to printed […]

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The International Children’s Digital Library is an online source of digitized books for children. It was launched in November, 2002, and so far it has achieved a collection of 4347 books in 54 languages. The responsibles behind it aspire to archive more than 10000 books in at least 100 different languages as a goal. The […]

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With the appearance of the Internet, authors’ rights over their own works are undergoing a crisis. Since almost any content that is uploaded to the web can be easily downloaded to any computer, the number of people that violate the law by reproducing protected works or distributing them without permission has increased. Authorities believe that […]

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Jabberwacky is a chatterbot created by managing director of Icogno Ltd Rollo Carpenter. It’s unique before other artificial intelligences in that it grows by itself, constantly learning from the conversations it holds with different users. Instead of following fixed rules, the system stores all of the conversations and uses contextual patterns to find the most […]

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Speech recognition converts spoken sounds (captured by a microphone) to readable words. It should not be confused with speaker recognition, which consists in identifying the person speaking by analyzing their voice. There are two types of speech recognition systems: discrete and continuous. The first requires that the separation between each word be marked clearly, whereas […]

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Automatic summarization is the process in which a computer creates an abridged version of any kind of text. As our generation faces an information overload, the ability to shorten documents in one instant has become of great interest. There are basically two different techniques for producing the summary: Extraction: Based on keywords and keyphrases. The […]

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Here is a list with some of the main research topics in the HLT field. Sorted in alphabetical order: Automatic Summarization Grammar Induction Information Retrieval Knowledge Discovery Machine Translation Natural Language Generation Ontologies Semantic Web Shallow Semantic Parsing Speech Recognition Web Mining References: International, European and National projects concerned with Language Technology (2009). In Language […]

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Here are some authoritative definitions of Human Language Technology (also known as Natural Language Processing). The first one, found at the DFKI webpage, was given by computational linguist Hans Uszkoreit: Language technology — sometimes also referred to as human language technology — comprises computational methods, computer programs and electronic devices that are specialized for analyzing, […]

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