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Modern Languages, Basque Studies and Humanities

La enciclopedia francesa

octubre 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off on La enciclopedia francesa

Cuando hablamos de la enciclopedia francesa nos referimos a la que fue la primera enciclopedia francesa, escrita entre los años 1751 y 1772 por Jean d’Alembert (matemático y filósofo francés) y Denid Diderot (escritor y filósofo francés). Tuvo mucha importancia en el siglo XVIII, convirtiéndose así, gracias al esfuerzo que se hizo para completarlo, en […]

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WTF?!?

agosto 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on WTF?!?

I was just surfing the Internet when I saw something that shocked me. I knew Hilary Duff was going to join the cast of Gossip girl for the 3rd season. It’s not my favourite television series and Hilary Duff is not my favourite actress/singer, but I just couldn’t believe what I saw.
Hilary Duff was supposed […]

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Michael Jackson y El test de la muerte

junio 28th, 2009 · Comments Off on Michael Jackson y El test de la muerte

Este artículo lo escribo en castellano porque se trata de una crítica a una web (o mejor dicho, a los anuncios de dicha web) española. Aunque estoy pensándome seriamente el escribir el artículo también en inglés.
Hace un rato estaba yo tranquilamente navegando por YouTube, cuando he visto que a la derecha de la pantalla ha […]

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R.I.P. Michael Jackson

junio 26th, 2009 · Comments Off on R.I.P. Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson was born in Indiana the 29th of August 1958, and he’s been one of the most important artists in the world. He started his career in a band called The Jackson Five, composed by him and his brothers, and he became the new king of the pop music in 1982 when his album Thriller […]

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Muse – The Resistance Tour

junio 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off on Muse – The Resistance Tour

Muse has already announced the dates for their new The Resistance Tour!
The band which was formed in England in 1994, composed by Matthew Bellamy (vocals, guitar, piano & keyboards, primary lyricist), Christopher Wostenholme (bass guitar, backing vocals, keyboards) and Dominic Howard (drums and percussion, backing vocals) recently announced their tour dates all around the world. This […]

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Questionnaire #4: Wikipedia articles.

junio 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on Questionnaire #4: Wikipedia articles.

Wikipedia is one of the most important -not to say the most- enciclopedies on the Internet, as it contains thousands and thousands of articles. Not all the articles, though, are as good as they should be.
I have been asked to compare and contrast four different articles that can be found in Wikipedia. These are them:

Artificial […]

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Questionnaire #3: Machine translation.

mayo 30th, 2009 · Comments Off on Questionnaire #3: Machine translation.

Machine translation (MT) is the use of a computer software to translate a text from one language to another, and it is considered a field inside the Computational Linguistics. It’s a very used software now that the Internet is so multilingual.
As most of you will already know, we can find many translators on the Internet, […]

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Questionnaire #3: Question-Answering systems.

mayo 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off on Questionnaire #3: Question-Answering systems.

Question Answering system is, as I said in the previous article, a method based on natural language, whose aim is to locate a piece of information within a large document.
As I’m not going to talk again about the same topic, I think is a good idea to give examples of Question-Answering systems, as I didn’t do it […]

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Questionnaire #2: Research Topics. Interactive Question Answering.

mayo 9th, 2009 · Comments Off on Questionnaire #2: Research Topics. Interactive Question Answering.

Question Answering system is a method based on natural language, whose aim is to locate a piece of information within a large document. We could describe it as a method to rescue answers to specific questions made by a user (“Who was The Lord Of The Rings written by?” “Which is the capital of Russia?”).
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Questionnaire #2: Research Topics. Automatic Summarization.

abril 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off on Questionnaire #2: Research Topics. Automatic Summarization.

Automatic Summarization is a technique which has a huge importance nowadays, but what is it exactly?
It is a process where you can summarize any type of text by just using a computer program. Your own computer extracts the content from the text, and presents the most important points of it, so you don’t have to […]

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Questionnaire #2: List of research topics.

abril 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Questionnaire #2: List of research topics.

Here it is the list of topics I’ve chosen to complete the second questionnaire:

Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotions
Multilingual Tourist Information on the World Wide Web
Translation of Spontaneous Speech
EuroMatrixPlus
Automatic Summarization
Interactive Question Answering
Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST)

 

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Workshops. In the Human Language Technology Conference webpage. Retrieved 20:00, April 14, 2009, from: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/meetings/hlt-naacl07/workshops.shtml
ACL 2008 Publications Order Form. […]

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Questionnaire #1: Research Centres.

marzo 25th, 2009 · Comments Off on Questionnaire #1: Research Centres.

We can find many research centres for Human Language Technologies all over Europe. Here we have some information about some of the most important ones:
 
– German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence.
Originally named Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, this research centre is one of the largest research centres that does research about Artificial Ingelligence.
It was founded […]

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