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After revising what the web is according to kevin kelly, we need to know what he thinks that´s going to happen during the next 5000 days of the Web´s existance. In his own words; “And that’s what we’re gonna do in the next 5000 days. We’re gonna give this machine a body. And the second […]

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Desde los albores de nuestra existecia, nosotros, la raza humana, hemos tendido siempre al progreso, con todas sus ventajas y desventajas. Al salir de las cavernas para fundar pequeños pueblos y comunidades, el hombre, que al fin y al cabo, es un ser social, se encaminó hacia aquello que incluso hoy deseamos, un mayor bienestar […]

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Kevin Kelly exposes, in the 200 “EG Conference”,under the title of “Predicting the next 5000 days of the web”, how he thinks the World Wide Web will evolve during the next then years. In order to affront such a difficult task, that only a visionaire could fulfill, he starts by looking back at the moment […]

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Described as a “Thinker, environmentalist and philosopher extraordinaire … A one-man force of nature” in the website fashiontribes, Kevin Kelly (1952) was born in Pennsylvania. He has published several books, such as “Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Sistems and the Economic World”, “Bycicle Haiku”, “Bad Dreams”, “Cool Tools” among many others, like “The […]

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MACHINE TRANSLATION:
The European Association for Machine Translation, an organization that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology, offers us the following definition:
 ”What is Machine Translation? Machine translation (MT) is the application of computers to the task of translating texts from […]

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En este post trataré de realizar una comparación entre las traducciones de un mismo texto producidas por dos traductores on-line gratuitos: and http://ets.freetranslation.com/ and  http://www.online-translator.com. El texto original es en castellano y ha sido traducido al Inglés. Mi objetivo es señalar las diferencias existentes entre las traducciones realizadas por ambos traductores, no corregir posibles errores ni elegir la traducción mas […]

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I will start providing some translation examples by using different MT systems, in this case applied to non-related languages such as English, Spanish, Japanese, German, Chinese and Arabic. I will use different MT systems, that will be specified on both my reference page and in the list of sources that can be seen at the […]

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The principal goal of FEMTI is to relate the different methods that are used to evaluate Machine Translation systems to the purpose and context of those systems. Therefore, we can find the MT Evaluation Glossary in the FEMTI website, that constitutes a series of guidelines that are the outcome of an international effort on evaluation of Machine Translation and […]

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As requested in Questionnaire 2 (Human Language Technology Course), I have selected several research topics that are being currently developed and investigated in the Human Language Technologies centres and laboratories listed in the previous article. The Pattern Recognitionand Human Language Technology (PRHLT) research group, for example, is currently working on Machine Translation, wich is described in Wikipedia as a sub-field of […]

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The development, and therefore, the improvement that Human Language Technologies continualy undergoes since its origins requires a non-ceasing research and investigation activity in order to keep up with the needs and demands of the user of these technolgies. Language technology centres and laboratories invest in research in order to offer better services. Here are some of […]

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Human Language Technologies is the study of the most complex way of communacition that exists in our planet: the human language, related to the sciences of computational linguistics (or CL) and speech technology including also many applications oriented aspects of them. Language technology is closely connected to computer science and general linguistics. Human Language has been the object of […]

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In order to approach the concept of Human Language Technology, I would firstly like to introduce the figure of Hans Uszkoreit, a German professor who studied Linguistics and Computer Science Technologies at the Technical University of Berlin and at the University of Texas in Austin where he received his Ph.D in linguistics in 1984. Today he […]

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