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With regard to CiteULike, it is a free online service, which has as a purpose to organize academic publications. Nowadays, it is run by Oversity; however, it has not always been like that since it was created in the year 2004. This system is commonly known as the first Web-based social bookmarking tool created for meeting […]

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Despite being both websites, whose main purpose is to allow the easy edition and creation for the user, there are some differences between them, as I will now explain: As regards the wikis, these allow the editing and creating process through a browser, by using either a text editor known as WYSIWYG or  a simplified […]

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TeX is a typesetting system, designed and written by Donal Knuth, which once connected with the METAFONT language had two goals; on the one hand, to allow anybody to produce high-quality books and, on the other, to create a system that gae the exact same results on all computers, nowadays and in the future.  Scribe […]

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A markup language is a system by which a text is, in some way, made syntactically distinguishable from that text. This is exemplified by editors’ instructions written with a blue pencil on authors’ manuscripts or typesetting instructions. Despite being the “HTML”  (one of the document formats on the World Wide Web) the most known, there […]

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La Enciclopedia Francesa, que fue ideada por Diderot, se empezó a publicar en 1751, constituyendo un auténtico acontecimiento cultural. El objetivo era el de formular en ella una síntesis del saber moderno, crear un “corpus” de la sabiduría erudita puesta al servicio de la sociedad, al mismo tiempo que se planteaban nuevas ideas flotantes en […]

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Due to the development of the new technologies, not just ebooks have been created, but also digital libraries -where, as the name mentions, collections are stored in digital formats, being accessible by computers-. To this extent, I would like to draw your attention to some of the most relevant libraries; “The Google Book Search” and […]

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Commonly known as “ebooks” -term that stands for electronic books-, these new devices are catching on many people according to recent surveys, which show that in the last years, there has been a marked increase in the number of units sold. Nevertheless, many people still remain reluctant to these devices since, despite sharing the same […]

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Along the centuries, the role of the author has developed and changed dramatically. Whereas before the invention of the printing, the relevance of the author was minimum -since, among other things, the stories were transmitted orally and therefore there was not a single creator-, the importance of this started to become more important, reaching nowadays’ levels. However, with the creation […]

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Question answering (QA) is a task which has as the main purpose to answer automatically to questions done in a natural language. In order to do this, a pre-structured database may be used, or in contrast, a collection of natural language documents such as the World Wide Web. The questions asked, which may go from why questions […]

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Natural language processing, which has much to do with the field of computational linguistics, is usually considered to be a sub-field of artificial intelligence. NLP, as it is usually called, deals with the interactions between computers and human natural languages. In order to achive this, natural language generation systems are involved, which convert into readable human language, the information […]

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From the aforementioned topics, the semantic web deserves,  from my point of view, a further explanation and this article deals with it.
The semantic web is an extension derived from the World Wide Web, that allows the web to understand as well as to meet the needs of people and machines to use the web content. […]

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From the different topics that are being developed in major sites on Human Language technology, machine translation and spell checking have called my attention and will, therefore, be described in detail in this article.
With regard to the first one, the idea of creating it dates back to to the 17th century when René Descartes proposed a […]

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