Littera Deusto

Modern Languages, Basque Studies and Humanities

Computational semantics

31 de marzo, 2009 |

Computational semantics is the study of how to automate the process of constructing and reasoning with meaning representations of natural language expressions. It consequently plays an important role in natural language processing and computational linguistics. Matthew Stone. Towards a Computational Account of Knowledge, Action and Inference in Instructions. To appear in Journal of Language and […]

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Quite obsessed with it.

30 de marzo, 2009 |

“I was just wondering about how people feel things, I switched on the telly and there he was, telling the universal truth.
I am obsessed with the film, with those silky lips, so kissable. Well, I am not obsessed with the film then, I am obsessed with the protagonist, ha, not such a surprise.
Sometimes […]

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MARTIN KAY ETA YORICK WILKS

30 de marzo, 2009 |

Giza lengoaiaren teknologietan adituak diren bi gizonei buruz arituko naiz:
Lehenik eta behin, Martin Kay dugu. Ezaguna da hizkuntzalaritza konputazionalean egindako lanarengatik. Jatorriz Britainia Handikoa, bertan jaio eta hezi zelako. Honako tokietan egin du lan: Hizkuntzalaritza konputazionalean aitzindaria de Cambridge Language Research Unit-en, Kaliforniako Rand Corporation-en. Gerora, Stanfrod, Saarland eta Kaliforniako Unibertsitateetan aritu zen. Bere ekarpenak […]

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Topics list

30 de marzo, 2009 |

Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure
Dialoging NPCs in natural game environments
Question Answering Learning technologies in a multilingual and Multimodal Environment
Computational Semantics
Natural logic and interface
Semantic taxonomy introduction
ShallowSemantic parsing
Knowledge Representation from Text
Lexikoaren behatokia

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Natural logic and interface

30 de marzo, 2009 |

The natural logic is a groups of terms and rules that come with natural language.  They allow us to reason and argue on it. Examples of logic terms are: “and”, “or”, “not”, “true”, “false”, “if”, “therefore”, “every”, “some”, “necessary”… We presuppose Natural Logic in much the same way as we presuppose Natural Language: as something […]

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Human Language Technologies (HLT)(Questionnaire 1)

30 de marzo, 2009 |

Los HLTs hacen hacen para los humanos que su comunicación con las máquinas sea más fácil. Ésto puede beneficiar a un gran número de personas de todo tipo, desde los granjeros más iliterados ubicados en las aldeas más remotas y que quieren obtener información relevante acerca decualquier avance médico mediante su teléfonop móvil, hasta aquellos […]

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Jabberwacky

30 de marzo, 2009 |

Jabberwacky is a chatterbot created by managing director of Icogno Ltd Rollo Carpenter. It’s unique before other artificial intelligences in that it grows by itself, constantly learning from the conversations it holds with different users. Instead of following fixed rules, the system stores all of the conversations and uses contextual patterns to find the most […]

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Questionnaire #2: Answer Extraction

30 de marzo, 2009 |

The system takes a natural-language query as input and produces a list of  answers ranked in order of confidence. According to Language Techonology World where a project in Answer Extraction is developed by  Rolf Schwitter, Michael Hess, Rachel Fournier, Diego Mollá-Aliod, Gerold Schneider, ExtrAns is one of the most developed programs in Answer Extraction. ExtrAns […]

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Yorick Wilks

29 de marzo, 2009 |

Yorick Wilks is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield, where he directs the Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing. He has worked mainly with the Preference Semantics which is a set of formal procedures for representing the meaning structure of natural language.
He is also a member of the American and European […]

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Important researchers on HLT (Questionnaire 1)

29 de marzo, 2009 |

There are some important researchers on the field of Human Language Technologies (HLT). One of those researchers is Martin Kay. As he says, his main interests are translation (by people and machines), and computational linguistic algorithms, specially in the fields of morphology and syntax. He is well known for his work in computational linguistics; what’s […]

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Sois de lo mejorcito

28 de marzo, 2009 |

Siempre me ha costado abrirme a la gente, de pequeña siempre era a la que elegían la última para el partido de fútbol y a la que congían manía por quedarme leyendo después de comer en el comedor.
Cómo cambian las cosas cuando crecemos, es alucinante.
Cuando te respetan y te aprecian, la cosa cambia. Maite […]

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Information Extraction (Questionnaire 2)

28 de marzo, 2009 |

 As Jim Cowie and Yorick Wilks say, this name (Information Extraction) is given to a process that discriminatively structures and also combines data found in only one, or more texts. The ending outcome of the process of extraction changes; nevertheless, it can be transformed in order to populate some database type. Information analyst who have […]

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