Littera Deusto

I have always known how to make bread pudding. I learned it from my mother when I was a child. She was a house maid like I am and she was as hard-working and honest as any other. When my father died at the hands of some merciless Spaniard in the terrible Eighty Years War, […]

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A piece of art is not only a mere painting in which certain imagery is represented. It is also a way of representing reality, capturing the painter’s personality in every brushstroke and even, reflecting the mentality and concerns of a particular period. Therefore, as a means of understanding both, the artist and the painting and […]

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Since we live in a fast paced society and technology is developing more and more each day. Dictionaries are also changing in this way,people want to get information fast and therefore they use online dictionaries. Online dictionaries are the replacement of book dictionaries. You type the word you are serching for and you instantly find […]

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After using both system I must say that although it seems a little bit more complex at first, I prefer the Corpus of Contemporary American English rather than the British National Corpus. Aesthetically: It seems that the American National Corpus has a long way to go before it becomes something like the BNC. The latter, […]

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I am going to explain how does a corpus search engine work. For the example I am going to use the Contemporary American English Corpus. 1.- We get to the corpus’ webpage . 2.- After that, you register or log in otherwise the webpage won’t let you search anything. 3.- We make a search of […]

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‘SARA (SGML Aware Retrieval Application) was developed specifically for access to the BNC in a Microsoft Windows environment. It is freely available to all BNC licensees and also for registered users of the BNC Subscription service hosted by the British Library. A copy of SARA is delivered with every copy of the BNC World corpus. […]

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I am going to give a brief introduction on these different kinds of corpora. It is not going to be technical because if we would want technical examples we would go to the page itself. It is going to be a description from my own experience, who do these systems work and what can we […]

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In linguistics, a corpus is a large and structured set of texts (now usually electronically stored and processed). They are used to do statistical analysis and hypothesis testing, checking occurrences or validating linguistic rules on a specific universe. They have also multiple examples of each word in different contexts and each example is categorized by […]

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Hoy hemos visto en clase La Clasificación Decimal Universal o CDU. Y como creo que el blog debe ser una herramienta informativa y divulgativa, para publicar mis temas de interés y compartirlos con los escasos visitantes de este blog. Creo que es nuestro deber saber lo que es esta clasificación ya que nos encontramos con […]

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Documentar es reunir documentos e información sobre un tema determinado y tratar estos documentos para su difusión inmediata. Los documentos deben tener tres características principales. Deben ser: Fiables: Tanto su autor como sus fuentes deben poder identificarse. Originales: Deben ser fruto de un estudio o investigación. y su utilización debe ser de fácil acceso para […]

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