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The traditional newspaper has to share protagonism with the online ones. As this lasts are becoming increasingly popular thanks to their accessibility and the fact that they are almost free. When they first appeared they supposed a challenge for digital editors to turn traditional newspapers in online newspapers. An online newspaper, also known as a web newspaper, […]

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Every Internet user is aware of the existence of the blogs. Their use has been growing since the beginning of the new millennium. People seem to use it for many different purposes such as personal blogs, political or even academic.  This blog actually is academic. At the beginning the blogs were written manually and the […]

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A markup language is a system for annotating a text in a way which is syntactically distinguishable from that text.  There are many different types of mark-up languages. There are three general categories: Presentational markup is that used by traditional word-processing systems, binary codes embedded in document text that produced the WYSIWYG effect. Such markup is usually designed to […]

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Both, the British Library and the Darlington Digital Library have available some of their books online. In this post I am going to write a brief review explaining their structure and design, the contect (genre and format)  and who are the people in charge of them. The British Library is sitted at 96 Euston Rd, […]

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Everybody can see the differences between the ebook and the traditonal book. Nevertheless there is more than meets the eye and in this short post I am going to introduce the differences beetween them. Text can be searched automatically and be linked to other books using cross-referenced hyperlinks. E-books allow non-permanent annotation and highligting Font and its […]

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Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), is a British engineer and computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web. He inherited his parents’ interest in computer technology. In 1976 he set about building his own computer. He used tools that could be found in the house. Tim took up […]

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La burguesía se formo en el siglo XVII y alcanzó su mayor esplendor en el XVIII. Sus mayores características eras su gran poder adquisitivo (igual o superior al de la nobleza) y su interés por la ciencia. Con la aparición de la burguesía se da la aparición también del tiempo de ocio para aquellos que […]

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Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT, is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another. At its basic level, MT performs simple substitution of words in one natural language for words in another. Using corpus techniques, more […]

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Related with the topic below this post is going to be related with one of the most developed systems: the question answering.  As in the post below I developed abut how does they work, in this I am just going to give few examples of them. Powerset: Powerset’s goal is to change the way people […]

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The system takes a natural-language query as input and produces a list of  answers ranked in order of confidence. According to Language Techonology World where a project in Answer Extraction is developed by  Rolf Schwitter, Michael Hess, Rachel Fournier, Diego Mollá-Aliod, Gerold Schneider, ExtrAns is one of the most developed programs in Answer Extraction. ExtrAns […]

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 Connected with the post below, the RSS is extended from XML language, so in this post I am going to  write a brief description about the RSS.
First of all, RSS is an abbreviation for Rich Site Summary, Really Simple Syndication, RDF Site Summary, or a variation on any of these names. It is an XML document […]

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E-Book or Electronic Book is the digital equivalent for the printed book. E-books are a fairly recent phenomenon. These small, portable, electronic devices are not just books; they could be magazines, books o even newspapers. Some of the advantages are: Text can be searched automatically and cross-referenced using hyperlinks, making the e-book format ideal for works […]

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