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Modern Languages, Basque Studies and Humanities

Human Language Technologies (Questionnaire 1)

marzo 21st, 2009 · Comments Off on Human Language Technologies (Questionnaire 1)

The Human Language Technologies (HLT), also known as Language Technologies or Natural Language Processing (NLP), are closely connected to computer science and linguistics.  HLT enables people to interact with machines with more ease.  We find an example of how HLT can help people:  “This can benefit a wide range of people – from illiterate farmers […]

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RSS

febrero 8th, 2009 · Comments Off on RSS

Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication is what RSS means. This is a “format for syndicating news and the content of news”. If you look for some information with the RSS format, it is likely that the information you get is more or less what you wanted, and you get it quickly and updated […]

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The Hypertext

febrero 8th, 2009 · Comments Off on The Hypertext

When we talk about Hypertext, we are referring to a text that leads you to another text usually through hyperlinks. This term was created by Ted Nelson, and he defined it as “a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on […]

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Hypermedia

febrero 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on Hypermedia

The hypermedia is an extension of the hypertext. The latter is a text which has links to other texts, whereas the first one contains links to multimedia objects such as sound, video or even hyperlinks. As Joaquín Márquez Correa says in one article that “the hypermedia forces the relation between the man and the computer; […]

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Different webs, different benefits

febrero 5th, 2009 · Comments Off on Different webs, different benefits

The era of the Internet and the Web started with the Web 1.0, where you could only get the information that others left, for you couldn’t leave comments, answers… but people started writing as well, so that web format had to change.
The “dot com” collapsed, and for O’ Reilly VP and Dale Dougherty (web pioneer) […]

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Kevin Kelly talks about the next 5000 days of the Web

febrero 5th, 2009 · Comments Off on Kevin Kelly talks about the next 5000 days of the Web

Kevin Kelly, Editor-At-Large for “Wired” magazine, makes a brief introduction in his speech about the Web by saying that ten years ago we wouldn’t even imagine that we would be able to do all the things we do nowadays on the internet. And he wonders what will happen in ten years time with this big […]

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