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Modern Languages, Basque Studies and Humanities

The Jonas Brothers

9 de marzo, 2009 |

The Jonas Brothers are an American pop-rock band. The band gained their popularity from the Disney Channel children’s television network. Hailing from Wyckoff, New Jersey, the band consists of three brothers: Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, and Nick Jonas. In the summer of 2008, they starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock. They have […]

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“Tecnologías del lenguage humano” por Hans Uszkoreit

9 de marzo, 2009 |

                La tecnología del lenguaje (Language technology), también conocida como Tecnologías del lenguaje humano (Human Language Techonology)  está compuesta de  métodos y programas de ordenador y utensilios electrónicos que están especializados en analizar, producir o modificar tanto textos como discursos. Estos sistemas deben estar obligatoriamente basados en algún tipo de conocimiento del lenguaje humano. Esto es, la tecnología lingüística define el brazo de […]

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Researchers (human language technology) (Q1)

9 de marzo, 2009 |

Related with the other articles published, this post deals with information about different researchers, whose work has been remarkable in the field of human language technology.
With regard to Martin Kay, who was born and raised in Great Britain, I’d like to mention that he is specially remarkable for his work in computational linguistics. Being nowadays […]

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Human Linguistics Technologies

9 de marzo, 2009 |

The goal of the Human Language Technology Research Institute is to incorporate activities in a broad spectrum of disciplines such as natural language processing, speech recognition and synthesis, knowledge acquired from texts and information extraction.
These activities enable computers to interact with humans using natural language capabilities, and to serve as useful assistants to humans by […]

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human language technology

9 de marzo, 2009 |

The term linguistic resources refers to (usually large) sets of language data and descriptions in machine readable form, to be used in building, improving, or evaluating natural language (NL) and speech algorithms or systems. Examples of linguistic resources are written and spoken corpora, lexical databases, grammars, and terminologies, although the term may be extended to […]

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YORICK WILKS & MARTIN KAY (Questionnaire 1)

8 de marzo, 2009 |

 In this article I’m going to talk about some relevant researchers in the area of Human Language Technologies: Yorick Wilks and Martin Kay. Even so, we should have in mind that apart from those two, there are also other significant researches. For example: Hans Uszkoreit, Fabian M. Suchanek and Silviu Cucerzan.
YORICK WILKS
Yorick Wilks works as […]

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Questionnaire #1: Definitions of Human Language Technologies

8 de marzo, 2009 |

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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(Q.1) HLT and Research Centres for Human Language Technology in Europa

8 de marzo, 2009 |

As wikipedia says Human Language Technology (hlt) or Natural Language Processing (nlp) consists of computational linguistics, which is a field that deals with statistical of natural language from a computational perspective, and also consists of speech technology. HLT is connected with computer sciences and linguistics.
RESEARCH CENTRES FOR HLT IN EUROPE
If we want to know more […]

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GIZA LENGOAIAREN TEKNOLOGIAK (Q.1)

8 de marzo, 2009 |

Artikulu honen bitartez lehenengo galdeketan proposatutakoari erantzuna ematen ahaleginduko naiz: zer dira giza lengoaiaren teknologiak? Iturri desberdinetara jo eta hainbat adituren idatziekin topo egin ondoren, honako hau da aurkitu dudana: 
Bartzelonako Unibertsitateko Joaquim Llisterriren arabera, lengoaiaren teknologiak edo teknologia linguistikoak izenekin ere ezagutuak, giza lengoaiaren teknologiak aplikazio informatikoetan integratuta aurkitzen ditugun guztiak dira. Hauek posible egiten dute testu […]

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Questionnaire 1: Research centres for Human Language Technologies (II)

8 de marzo, 2009 |

We continue showing you examples of research centres for Human Language Technologies (HLT); today we travel to the Netherlands in order to discover The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam (Universiteit van Amsterdam).
The ILLC , with researchers from the Faculty of Sciences and the Faculty of Humanities, started off […]

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RESEARCH CENTERS FOR HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES IN EUROPE (Questionnaire 1)

7 de marzo, 2009 |

Talking about European research centers for human language technologies, I’m going to mention the most relevant ones, which are the following: The Edinburgh Language Technology Group, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and the National Centre for Language Technology in Ireland.
THE EDINBURGH LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY GROUP
This research and development group has been working since 1990s […]

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Questionnaire 1: Research centres for Human Language Technologies (I)

7 de marzo, 2009 |

If you have been following my blog lately, you will already know what Human Language Technologies (HLT) are, as well as some of the most relevant figures that are currently investigating this field. In this post what I would like to do is to start showing you some examples of the best research centres that […]

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