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Modern Languages, Basque Studies and Humanities

Martin Kay

16 de marzo, 2009 |

Martin Kay es un científico conocido especialmente por su trabajo en Lingüística Computacional. Nacio en Gran Bretaña y en 1958 empezó a trabajar en  Cambridge Language Research Unit, uno de los primeros centros en investigar alrededor de la Lingüística Computacional. En 1961 se translado a California donde investigo acerca de la lingüística y de TA (Traducción Automática). […]

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HLT: Research topics

16 de marzo, 2009 |

Here is a list with some of the main research topics in the HLT field. Sorted in alphabetical order: Automatic Summarization Grammar Induction Information Retrieval Knowledge Discovery Machine Translation Natural Language Generation Ontologies Semantic Web Shallow Semantic Parsing Speech Recognition Web Mining References: International, European and National projects concerned with Language Technology (2009). In Language […]

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Manos a la obra

16 de marzo, 2009 |

En este segundo semestre nos encontramos con la ultima de las asignaturas que corresponde a las nuevas tecnologías que imparte el profesor Joseba Abaitua y que de alguna manera engloba todo lo que hemos visto anteriormente. Estamos hablando nada menos que de la asignatura de Materiales linguísticos informatizados, más bien conocida por Language Resources.
En esta […]

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Gizakien hizkuntzen teknologien ikerkuntza zentroak Europan

16 de marzo, 2009 |

 Jarraian, “Human Language Technologie”-en inguruan ikertzen ari diren Europako ikerkuntza zentro garrantzitsuenei buruz arituko naiz. Horretarako internetetik ateratako informazioaz baliatu naiz.
INAOE
Lehenik eta behin “INAOE” ikerkuntzan zentroarekin hasiko naiz, Lengoaiek Teknologien Laborategi bat da.Kudeaketa  proiektuak egiten ditu, eta horien xedea giza hizkuntzaren erabileraren inguruko erabakiak aztertzea da. Proiektuen helburua erderako testuetatik lortuako informazioa lortu, bilatu eta aztertzea da. […]

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Hans Uszkoreit

16 de marzo, 2009 |

Hans Uszkoreit is Professor of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University. Uszkoreit studied Linguistics and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin. His current research interests are computer models of natural language understanding and production, advanced applications of language and knowledge technologies such as semantic information systems etc.
Hans Uszkoreit has given an explanation about […]

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WHAT HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY IS AND SOME RESEACH CENTRES (Q1)

16 de marzo, 2009 |

         Language Technology is often called Human Language Technology (HLT) or Natural Language Processing (NLP) and consists of computational linguistics (or CL) and speech technology as its core, but includes also many application oriented aspects of them. Language technology is closely connected to Computer Science and general linguistics.
        According to the Meraka Institute (an African […]

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Human Language Technologies (researchers) (Q1)

16 de marzo, 2009 |

As in every research, there are some researcher whose names are really well known among the research centres. Here we have two of them: Martin Kay, a British researcher specially known for working in Computational linguistics. The first step he made … Continue reading

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MARTIN KAY ETA YORICK WILKS (Q.1)

15 de marzo, 2009 |

Aurreko artikuluan zenbait adituk giza lengoaiaren teknologiei buruz duten ikuspegiaz aritu nintzen, eta oraingoan  alor horretan jardun duten beste bi gizon aurkeztuko dizkizuet:
Alde batetik, Martin Kay dugu. Hizkuntzalaritza konputazionalean egindako lanagatik ezaguna da zientzialari hau (Wikipediaren arabera, hizkuntzalaritza konputazionala giza lengoaia ikertzeko informatika erabiltzen duen arloa da; horretarako, ikuspegi konputazional batetik abiatzen da lengoaia naturala modelatzeko ahalegina eginez. Hizkuntzalaritza konputazionalak itzulpengintza […]

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Questionnaire #1: Researchers. Martin Kay.

15 de marzo, 2009 |

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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Questionnaire 2: Machine Translation (MT)

15 de marzo, 2009 |

Now, we have a clear idea of what Natural Language Processing (NLP) is; besides, we have already mentioned the most common tasks that have to do with NLP. In this post, what I would like to do is to start explaining briefly some of those topics for you to have a better understanding of them. […]

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Human Language Technologies; Hans Uszkoreit.

15 de marzo, 2009 |

What are the Human Language Technologies? According to Hans Uszkoreit, Professor of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University, Saarbrücken:
Language technologies are information technologies that are specialized for dealing with the most complex information medium in our world: human language. Therefore these technologies are also often subsumed under the term Human Language Technology.
Also, he adds that it […]

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Questionnaire #1: Researchers. Hans Uszkoreit.

15 de marzo, 2009 |

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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