Nowadays, the world of computers and edition is changing a lot. It is difficult to follow their rhythm and we sometimes feel confused. That is why we are going to introduce a bit into this world explaining some markup languages and their characteristics. For instance, these languages are used by users to communicate with computers. For […]
Markup languages
junio 26th, 2010 · Comments Off on Markup languages
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Machine Translation.(Questionnaire 2 and questionnaire 3)
junio 20th, 2009 · Comments Off on Machine Translation.(Questionnaire 2 and questionnaire 3)
There are other research topics apart from Speaker Recognition and Computational Semantics. One that I think is really interesting is Machine Translation. This term has its origin in the 17th century when René Descartes (French philosopher, mathematician…) proposed a universal language. He wanted that the same ideas in different languages had the same symbol. In […]
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Computational Semantics and Speaker Recognition. (Q2)
junio 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on Computational Semantics and Speaker Recognition. (Q2)
Nowadays, computer scientists are concerned about many topics. However, there are some issues which are more discussed. Computational Semantics has a great importance and there have been done lots of projects in this field. But what does Computational Semantics mean? Well, first of all, it has to be said that to understand it you have to know […]
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List of research topics mentioned in major sites on Human Language Technologies. (Questionnaire 2)
junio 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on List of research topics mentioned in major sites on Human Language Technologies. (Questionnaire 2)
After having surfed among a wide range of sites on Human Language Technologies, these are the research topics that I have selectionated: 1. Language Checking. 2. Computational Semantics. 3. Machine Translation. 4. Computer Aided Language Learning. 5. Semántica, pragmática y discurso. 6. Resolución de la ambigüedad léxica. 7. Multimodality. 8. Natural Language Parsing. 9. Speech Retrieval. […]
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Hans Uszkoreit (Q1)
junio 10th, 2009 · Comments Off on Hans Uszkoreit (Q1)
Hans Uszkoreit was born in Rostock (Germany) in 1950. He studied Linguistics and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin. While he was studying there, he worked as an editor and writer for the magazine Zitty. It has to be said that this magazine was co-founded by him. Then, he was given a Fulbright […]
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Yorick Wilks (Q1)
mayo 20th, 2009 · Comments Off on Yorick Wilks (Q1)
If you are involved in the world of computer science, you should know about Yorick Wilks. He is a computer scientist who was born in the United Kingdom in the year 1939. He is married and has four children. Firstly, he went to the Torquay Boys’ Grammar School, which is a prestigious single sex school situated in Devon. […]
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Research Centres for Human Language Technologies.(Q1)
abril 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Research Centres for Human Language Technologies.(Q1)
There are lots of research centres for Human Language Technologies all over the world. For instance, I am going to explain the meaning of Human Language Technology. It is also called Language Technology or Natural Language Processing. Mainly, it is a field of computer science and its aim is the interaction between machines and people. […]
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Web 2.0
febrero 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on Web 2.0
Basically, the Web 2.0 is a new style of using the Internet. Before now, the Internet was like a big library that had a lot of information. However, nowadays it is seen as a new means of communication. It is a place where people can share information. Moreover, the web is based in communities of users where […]
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Hypertext
febrero 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on Hypertext
Mainly, when we talk about hypertext we talk about a text that lead us to another text which is linked to the first one. We are transported from one page to another by hyperlinks. Not only do these links show us another text but they can also show us a video, song, web page…related with the subject. […]
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RSS
febrero 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off on RSS
The Internet is developing in a very fast way. There are appearing new instruments that help us to use it more easily and faster. One of these instruments is RSS. This instrument is a format based in XML and allows you to get up-to-date information without having to go to all the blogs you normally go. It has to be said that […]
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Who is Kevin Kelly?
enero 17th, 2009 · Comments Off on Who is Kevin Kelly?
When it refers about cultural change, Kevin Kelly is your man. He was born in Pennsylvania in the year 1952 and has worked as a writer, photographer and conservationist. Nowadays, he lives in California, has married and has three children. Despite only going one year to university and then gave it up, his articles have appeared […]
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Answer to the third debate.
enero 15th, 2009 · Comments Off on Answer to the third debate.
A markup language is an artificial language that uses a set of annotations to text that give information about the structure of the text or how it must be displayed. There are more than one markup language but, probably, the most popular ones are the HTML and the XML because of […]
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