I started blogging almost ten years ago, in 1999, in a blog I called Mértola. At that time I din’t even know that that was a blog. The term “blog” had not been coined yet.
I used to blog (mertoleaba) for fun, or maybe as a therapy. Now I’m going to blog at work, for professional […]
Blogging at work
16 de abril, 2008 | planet
Human Language Technologies
16 de abril, 2008 | saratxaga
Human Language Technologies is the study of the most complex way of communacition that exists in our planet: the human language, related to the sciences of computational linguistics (or CL) and speech technology including also many applications oriented aspects of them. Language technology is closely connected to computer science and general linguistics. Human Language has been the object of […]
HANS USZKOREIT
1 de abril, 2008 | saratxaga
In order to approach the concept of Human Language Technology, I would firstly like to introduce the figure of Hans Uszkoreit, a German professor who studied Linguistics and Computer Science Technologies at the Technical University of Berlin and at the University of Texas in Austin where he received his Ph.D in linguistics in 1984. Today he […]
Current projects on Human Language Technologies
29 de marzo, 2008 | maradoyle
At DFKI-LT: CoSy: cognitive sistems for cognitive assistants. HUMAINE: Human-Machine interaction network in emotions. HyLaP: Hybrid Language Processing Technologies for a personal associative information access and management application. LIRICS: linguistic infraestructure for introperable resources and sistems. At NCLT: Machine Translation: translating DVD subtitles using example-based machine translation. At LTG: EASIE: Combining Shallow Semantics and Domain […]
Human Language Technology centres in Europe
29 de marzo, 2008 | maradoyle
In Euope we can find the Irish NCTE (The National Centre for Technology in Education). This centre was established under the Department of Eduction and Science in 1998.As the Governement’s agency on the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in eduction it plays a central role in helping to maximise the benefits for learners […]
HANS USZKOREIT
3 de marzo, 2008 | maradoyle
Position and vitae: Hans Uszkoreit is a Professor of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University. At the same time he serves as the 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 […]
HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY, DEFINITIONS
3 de marzo, 2008 | maradoyle
Definition 1: “Is the branch of information science that deals with natural language information”. From: http://www.thefreedictionary.com. Definition 2: “Human Language Technologies (HLT) is a relatively new term that embraces a wide range of areas of research and development in the sphere of what used to be called Language Technologies or Language Engineering. The aim of this module is to familiarise the student […]
Maradoyle’s Weblog 2008-01-17 19:44:26
17 de enero, 2008 | maradoyle
When I first dreamt of college I knew I wanted to study literature, I had no doubt. There was of course the fact that, a degree in literature leaves you with just the two options, and as they say “those who can´t do, teach”. That´s it, or rather you are extremely talented and lucky as to live from your […]
THE E-BOOK
14 de enero, 2008 | maradoyle
An e-book is, quoting wikipedia, ” the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book.” The main advantage of this format is it´s hypertextuability. Thanks to this, the text has key words, linked to other texts, and these have other key words connecting them to other texts, and this can go on indefinitely.
Also, the amount of space an […]
ORALITY AND LITERACY, WALTER ONG
14 de enero, 2008 | maradoyle
Walter J. Ong, the author of the book Orality and literacy: The technologizing of the word, tried to review the transition from oral culture to writing culture, this is, from oral transmition of knowledge to the era of printing and books. Quoting Wlter Ong, “A deeper understanding of primary orality enables us better to undertsand […]
THE E-BOOK AND ENVIROMENTAL CARE.
14 de enero, 2008 | maradoyle
The abuse of natural resources for our everyday use is a common matter for everyone, especially for organisations like Greenpeace and similar. There are many things that we can do and have been taught to us like separating our rubbish, recycling, saving water etc. These measures are a step, though tiny, towards restoring the natural balance. It […]
THE NEW LANGUAGE
19 de octubre, 2007 | maradoyle
Electronic machines have stormed into our lives without us noticing, and the young generation is now attatched to mobile phones, laptops, blackberrys…etc.
This led to a new “language”. It´s probably the result of lack of time and the wish to save money. The main rule of this “new language” is the total absence of rules. People […]