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Modern Languages, Basque Studies and Humanities

Questionnaire #2: Emotion Recognition

28 de marzo, 2009 |

The new trends in human-computer interfaces, which have evolved from conventional mouse and keyboard to automatic speech recognition systems and special interfaces designed for disabled people, do not take complete advantage of these valuable communicative abilities, resulting often in a less than natural interaction.
Facial expressions are privileged relative to other nonverbal “channels” of communication, such […]

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Human Language Technology

28 de marzo, 2009 |

Zenbait ikerle famatu hitz egin dute  Giza Lenguaiaren Teknologiei buruz. Nik Hans Uszkoreit-en arabera eta Finlandiako Language Technology Documentation Centre-ren arabera zer den azalduko dut.
Hans Uszkoreit-en arabera Giza Lenguaiaren Teknologiak barnean hartzen ditu kalkulatzeko metodoak, ordenagailuko programak eta aparatu elektronikoak zeinek espezializatuta dauden testuak analizatzeko, produzitzeko eta aldatzeko. Sistema hauek Giza Hizkuntzaren kapazitatearen oinarrituta […]

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Martin Kay

26 de marzo, 2009 |

Martin Kay is a computer scientist known especially for his work in computational linguistics. Born and raised in Great Britain, he received his M.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1961. In 1958 he started to work at the Cambridge Language Research Unit, one of the earliest centers for research in what is now known as […]

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Hans Uszkoreit

26 de marzo, 2009 |

Hans Uszkoreit is Professor of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University. At the same time he serves as Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) where he heads the DFKI Language Technology Lab. By cooptation he is also Professor of the Computer Science Department.
Uszkoreit studied Linguistics and Computer Science at the […]

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Questionnaire #1: Research Centres.

25 de marzo, 2009 |

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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Research centres for Human Language Technologies in Europe (Q. Number 1)

25 de marzo, 2009 |

There are three main research centres for Human Language Technologies in Europe. One of them is located in Dublin, Ireland. It conducts research into the processing of human language by computers, such as speech recognition and synthesis, machine translation, human-computer interfaces, information retieval and extraction, the teaching and learning of languages using computers and software localisation […]

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RESEARCH TOPICS ON HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY (Q2)

25 de marzo, 2009 |

INFORMATION EXTRACTION
– Named Entity Recognition (NER)
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
– Clustering
LANGUAGE ANALYSIS
– Parsing
LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING
– Pragmatics
KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND DISCOVERY
– Semantic web
SPOKEN LANGUAGE INPUT
– Speech recognition
MULTIMODALITY
– Modality integration: Facial movement, Representations of Space and Time, and Speech.
MULTILINGUALITY
– Machine Translation
– Machine-Aided Human Translation
 
REFERENCES
-Named Entity Recognition. (2009, March 25). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 11:10, March 25, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Named_entity_recognition&oldid=279521544
-Colaboradores de […]

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Giza Lengoaiaren Teknologiak (Q.1)

25 de marzo, 2009 |

Giza Lengoaiaren Teknologiei buruz aditu askok hitz egin dute, horien artean Hans Uszkoreit, Yorick Wilks, Silviu Cucerzan etab. eta bakoitzak bere ikerketak landu ditu gai honen inguruan, hauek dira eman diren definizio eta azalpenetako batzuk:
Hans Uszkoreit-ek adibidez, Giza Lengoaiaren Teknologiak testuak eta mintzairak aztertzeko, ekoizteko eta aldatzeko espezializaturik dauden kalkulatzeko metodoak, ordenagailu programak, tresna elektronikoak hartzen […]

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Questionnaire #2: The intelligent Library Assistant

25 de marzo, 2009 |

In modern society, robots are been designed to play an increasing role in the lives of ordinary people. Among the emerging areas in robotics is the field of service robots. One example of it is an intelligent library assistant robot.
Universities and some public libraries use a kind of intelligent Library Assistant to search for the […]

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Hans Uszkoreit (Questionnaire 1)

25 de marzo, 2009 |

Hans Uszkoreit es profesor de lingüística computacional en el departamento de lingüiística computacional y fonética de la universidad de Saarland, en Saarbrücken.
Director científico en el Centro Alemán de investigación de Inteligencia Artificial (DFKI) y cabeza del Laboratorio de lenguaje tecnológico dell DFKI
Uszkoreit estudió lingüísticas y ciencias de los ordenadores en la universidad técnica de Berlin. […]

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Semantic web (Q2)

25 de marzo, 2009 |

From the aforementioned topics, the semantic web deserves,  from my point of view, a further explanation and this article deals with it.
The semantic web is an extension derived from the World Wide Web, that allows the web to understand as well as to meet the needs of people and machines to use the web content. […]

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Martyn Kay (Q. Number 1)

25 de marzo, 2009 |

Martyn Kay, who is a scientist specialiced in computers, is mainly known for his work in computational linguistics. He was born and grown in Great Britain and, in 1961 he was given his M.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge, However, in 1958 he started to work at the Cambridge Language Research Unit, which was one of the earliest centers for […]

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