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Modern Languages, Basque Studies and Humanities

National Centre for Language Technology

mayo 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off on National Centre for Language Technology

Their research is about the computers processing the human language. They are working on translators, interfaces, speech recognition, information extraction. They are also interested in language teaching with computers.
Their main research groups are:

Machine Translation
The Gram Lab
Computer Aided Language Learning
LORG
Sentiment Analysis

Source:
National Centre for Language Technology. (2009). National Centre for Language Technology’s website. Retrieved May 2, […]

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Questionnaire 2 List.

abril 12th, 2009 · Comments Off on Questionnaire 2 List.

Unsupervised Induction of Linguistic Structure
Automatic Summariation
Information Extraction
Speech Recognition
Text Categorization
Machine Translation
Computational Semantics
Discriminative Models
Information Retrieval
Computational Lexicography
Sense Disambiguation

From these research topics I’m choosing information extraction, speech recognition and computational semantics.

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Yorick Wilks

marzo 29th, 2009 · Comments Off on Yorick Wilks

Yorick Wilks is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield, where he directs the Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing. He has worked mainly with the Preference Semantics which is a set of formal procedures for representing the meaning structure of natural language.
He is also a member of the American and European […]

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Human Language Technologies; Hans Uszkoreit.

marzo 15th, 2009 · Comments Off on Human Language Technologies; Hans Uszkoreit.

What are the Human Language Technologies? According to Hans Uszkoreit, Professor of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University, Saarbrücken:
Language technologies are information technologies that are specialized for dealing with the most complex information medium in our world: human language. Therefore these technologies are also often subsumed under the term Human Language Technology.
Also, he adds that it […]

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RSS

febrero 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on RSS

RSS is a sort of  Web feed, a data format used to provide content regularly updated. It is widely used by news sites, blogs and other online publishers. An RSS document’s filename extension can be .rss or .xml, and can contain text, full or sumarized,  as well as  metadata (data about other data).
There are […]

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debate 3

diciembre 19th, 2008 · Comments Off on debate 3

The markup language is a way to codify a text using, apart of it, another tag or mark that have aditional information about the text’s estructure or its presentation. The most commonly used one is HTML (HyperText Markup Language), but there’s also another one, less known, but also important: XML (Extensible Markup Language).
HTML describes the […]

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Second Debate: Orality and Literacy in Hypermedia

diciembre 8th, 2008 · Comments Off on Second Debate: Orality and Literacy in Hypermedia

The orality is the comunicative expresion of which there are two types:

The primary orality is the one that referes to those cultures that can just comunicate using oral expresions without writing expresions.
The secondary orality is expressed by those cultures that use writing expressions. This is becoming the base of the memory.

The hypertext makes reference to […]

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project

diciembre 5th, 2008 · Comments Off on project

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Ong says in his book that the characteristics of thought and expression are:

Expression is additive rather than subordinative.
It is aggregative rather than analytic.
It tends to be redundant or “copious.”
There is a tendency for it to be conservative.
Out of necessity, thought is conceptualized and then expressed with relatively close reference to the human lifeworld.
Expression is […]

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links

diciembre 5th, 2008 · Comments Off on links

Review of Walter J. Ong’s Orality and Literacy
http://www.engl.niu.edu/wac/ong_rvw.html 
Orality, Literacy, Digitality
http://www.tarleton.edu/~lilly/discuss2.htm
 
MAS
http://es.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&rp=ong+orality&meta=vl%3D&fr=yfp-t-501&p=ong+%2Borality+literacy&fr2=sp-qrw-orig-top&norw=1
http://scholar.google.es/scholar?q=ong+literacy&hl=es&lr=&start=20&sa=N
      

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Kevin Kelly

noviembre 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Kevin Kelly

Restructuring:
1st stage: Linking computers. You connect one computer to another and share packets of information.  2nd stage: Linking pages. The idea is to open you pages to let anybody link it. 3rd stage: Linking the data. We link one idea to another idea, each of which is supported by every item, making it not just […]

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Hypertext

noviembre 16th, 2008 · Comments Off on Hypertext

Hypertext is a text on a computer that leads us to other text. Hypertext is quite an inovation, which helps to end up some of the limitations of written text. Hypertext doesn’t remain static; it uses hyperlinks to organize information in a more dynamic way. Hypertext has many tasks, like making a bubble appear when […]

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