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Martin Kay is a computer scientist and he’s professor of Computational Linguistics at Stanford University and also Honorary professor at Saarland University.
He was born in Great Britain and he studied at Trinity College, in Cambridge. While he was studying, he also started working in one of the first Computational Linguistics’ research centres, called Cambridge Language […]

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Hans Uszkoreit is a German Computational Linguistic’s professor, who is giving classes in Saarland University right now.
He was born at the 23th of January 1950 (aged 59) in Rostock, Germany, and he studied both Linguistics and Computational Science at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Texas. While he was studying, he also worked in a […]

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Taking a look at different sites on the Internet, we can see that there are several definitions for Human Language Technologies or Natural Language Processing.
 
Here there are some of these definitions:
 
 
– From The Free Dictionary:
 

Computer analysis and generation of natural language text. The goal is to enable natural languages, such as English, French, or Japanese, […]

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Nokturn is a Spanish band from Alicante, and it was created in the summer of 2007.
It started with two members: Rubben and Char Lee, and after some castings to find a guitarist and a bassist, Henny and Jhose joined the band. After this, they decided to be called Nokturn.
These are the final band members:

Rubben: Vocals […]

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Communication is a very important part of our lives. It keeps us in contact with the happenings in the whole world, but which types of communications can we find nowadays?
We could say that there are three ways of communicating: Orality, writing and hypermedia.
Orality is a verbal expression, and Walter J. Ong (American Jesuit priest, professor […]

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RSS are the initials for many different names such as “Really Simple Syndication” or “Rich Site Summary”. It is a web content that feeds the web by, for example, alerting users about new content on their websites or in other websites where they are subscribed.
 
This technology is usually used in sites that are usually updated, […]

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HTML are the initials for HyperText Markup Language and it is the language that is used in the Web pages. It has nothing to do with what we see on our screens as it’s just different codes that make the structure of the site and make us possible to put a image in it. The […]

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Web 2.0 is the representation of the evolution of traditional applications to web applications focused to the final user.
It was formed by Tim O’Reilly in 2004, and it refers to a second generation in the history of the Web, based in communities of users and in a special range of services, such as social networks, […]

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Twilight is the first novel of the Twilight series, and it’s a vampire, fantasy, romance book. It was written by Stephenie Meyer and published in 2005 with great success.
As I said before, Twilight is the first book of 4: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking dawn. The writer is also writing another one, called Midnight sun, […]

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YouTube is a video sharing website, famous in the whole world. In this web, people can watch other people’s videos, upload theirs, make their own channel… music bands also use it to promote their music.
It was created 3 years ago, in 2005, by three PayPal employees called Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. They […]

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Nowadays is almost impossible to imagine a society without computers and Internet. But, how do the webs we surf in really work?
We all know that in the beginning of an URL (Uniform Resource Locator) we always put www, but not everybody knows what those initials mean World Wide Web (we usually call it Webs to […]

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McFly is a British pop band composed by four components: Danny Jones (Guitar, vocals), Tom Fletcher (Guitar, vocals), Dougie Poynter (Bass, back vocals) and Harry Judd (Drums).
They began with their music career 4 years ago, when their released their first single 5 colours in her hair, from their album Room on the third floor. Immediatly […]

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