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List of 10 topics mentioned in major sites on HLT (Q2)

marzo 18th, 2009 · Comments Off on List of 10 topics mentioned in major sites on HLT (Q2)

These are the ten research topics mentioned in major sites on Human Language Technology that have called my attention:

Emotion recognition (Language Technology World).

Machine translation (Language Technology World).

Terminology (Language Technology World).

Spell checking (Language Technology World).

E-learning (DFKI).
Semantic web (DFKI).
Music information retrieval (DFKI).
Machine learning for name entity recognition (LTG).
Lexicografía y terminología computacional (SEPLN).
Modelos lingüísticos, matemáticos y psicolingüísticos del […]

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Researchers (human language technology) (Q1)

marzo 9th, 2009 · Comments Off on Researchers (human language technology) (Q1)

Related with the other articles published, this post deals with information about different researchers, whose work has been remarkable in the field of human language technology.
With regard to Martin Kay, who was born and raised in Great Britain, I’d like to mention that he is specially remarkable for his work in computational linguistics. Being nowadays […]

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Human language technology (research centres) (Q1)

marzo 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on Human language technology (research centres) (Q1)

As I have already mentioned in the previous article, there are some research centres in Europe which are dedicated to the topic exposed. Clear examples are “The National Centre for Language Technology”, the “Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz”, or the “Edinburgh Language Technology Group”, which I now explain with more detail.
With regard to the first […]

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Human Language Technology (Q1)

marzo 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on Human Language Technology (Q1)

With regard to definitions of Human Language Technology, Hans Uszkoreit, in a research carried out with some companions, describes it as “a technology that covers a broad range of activities with the eventual goal of enabling people to communicate with machines using natural communication skills”. Besides, he also points out that “research and development activities include […]

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RSS

enero 9th, 2009 · Comments Off on RSS

RSS is a format, normally used to publish in a standardized way, work which is frequently updated like blog entries or news headlines.
As time has passed by, this aforementioned format has suffered different changes. In fact, whereas it was originally developed as “RDF Site Summary” by Netscape for use in the My Netscape Portal3, has now become […]

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HTML & XML (group article)

enero 1st, 2009 · Comments Off on HTML & XML (group article)

First and foremost, we would like to explain the terms involved. Being both markup languages, on  the  one  hand,  HTML  stands  for  “Hyper  Text Markup  Language”,  and  on  the  other,  XML stands for “Extensible Markup Language”.
 
Focusing on  the differences, XML points at  the  structure of  the  information, saving  time and simplifying  the  software,  not  requiring,  […]

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“google”

diciembre 15th, 2008 · Comments Off on “google”

Google Inc. is an American public corporation co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Being both students at Stanford University, Google became a private company in the year 1998. The company, which was set up with $100,000 reported in the year 2006 more than $10,400 billions earning its revenue from advertising, thanks to internet search, […]

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Hypermedia & Communication (group article)

diciembre 6th, 2008 · Comments Off on Hypermedia & Communication (group article)

First of all, let’s define the concepts involved. On the one hand, the term hypermedia is used as an extension of the term hypertext, in which graphics, audio, video, plain text and hyperlinks are involved, being the World Wide Web the clearest example. On the other hand orality involves the capacity of speaking of each […]

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Hypermedia & communication

diciembre 2nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Hypermedia & communication

The term “hypermedia” is used as an extension of the term “hypertext”, in which graphics, audio, video, plain text and hyperlinks are involved, being exemplified by the “World Wide Web”.
The “hypermedia” has seriously affected the human communication in several ways, having to face two different problems. On the one hand, the appearance of new forms […]

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From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0

noviembre 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off on From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0

Even if the idea of the Web 2.0 dated back to the 1960s, when JCR Licklider wanted to use networked computing to connect people in order to boost their knowledge and ability to learn, it was not until some years ago that the concept was caught up with. It was during a brainstorming session in […]

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Kevin Kelly

noviembre 8th, 2008 · Comments Off on Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly is an American writer, photographer and conservationist, whose writings have appeared in several  well-known newspapers such as “The New York Times”, “The Economist” or “GQ”,  even if he dropped out of university after studying just for one year. He is also the founder of the ”Wired” magazine among others. Moreover, the film “Matrix”, which took the […]

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