Archive for March 2009
Jabberwacky
Posted by: Ayanta on: March 30, 2009
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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 appropriate [...]
WEEABOO POST
Posted by: Ayanta on: March 28, 2009
DAMMIT JAPAN. THIS IS THE PERFECT JOB FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME. And it requires only a basic knowledge of Japanese so (maybe) I could have been applying for it RIGHT NOW ´д｀
Okay, since this is too silly of a post I’ll just…
There, now there’s some siscon content (I saw some photos of this last [...]
KUCHI DE!!
Posted by: Ayanta on: March 25, 2009
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Old mook, but HLJ was selling it so cheap… And most importantly I needed to see this:
Because I can’t resist against official depictions of Rolo’s ♥LOVE♥ for Lelouch 8D (SuzakuxArthur OTP)
The book’s all full of kanji so I CAN’T READ SHIT lol. But as always WWWJDIC (<3) helped me decipher some Rolo-related things.
Anyway, I had [...]
Speech recognition
Posted by: Ayanta on: March 22, 2009
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Speech recognition converts spoken sounds (captured by a microphone) to readable words. It should not be confused with speaker recognition, which consists in identifying the person speaking by analyzing their voice.
There are two types of speech recognition systems: discrete and continuous. The first requires that the separation between each word be marked clearly, whereas [...]
G00 24
Posted by: Ayanta on: March 22, 2009
Spoilers:
-Billy and Sumeragi, Louise and Saji, Soma and Andrei, Tieria and Ribbons… Everyone finally met with whom they wanted to
-Obviously, Regene did not die
-LOUISE DID NOT JUST… WHAT. WHAT DID THEY GO THROUGH SO MUCH PAIN FOR THEN. WTF?
-I’m not believing she’s dead yet. I’M NOT!
-I though Billy was going to kill Kujou
-Is it just [...]
NUNNALLY AND ROLO TOUCH EACH OTHER’S HAND. For the 2nd time.
Posted by: Ayanta on: March 18, 2009
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SEE HOW ROLO ALREADY GETS ALONG WITH HIS FUTURE BIRD FELLOWS. Also, if you look at the reflect on the background (SERIOUSLY 2CHERS), you can see that Lelouch is on the opposite side of Suzaku. SO WHO’S IT ON ROLO’S RIGHT. SHIRLEY AMIRITE?
Okay, you can see some long green hair xD…
Automatic summarization
Posted by: Ayanta on: March 18, 2009
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Automatic summarization is the process in which a computer creates an abridged version of any kind of text. As our generation faces an information overload, the ability to shorten documents in one instant has become of great interest.
There are basically two different techniques for producing the summary:
Extraction: Based on keywords and keyphrases. The machine estimates [...]
HLT: Research topics
Posted by: Ayanta on: March 16, 2009
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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 Technology World. Retrieved March 16, 2009.
Research topics (2009). In The Stanford NLP Group. Retrieved [...]
Definitions of Human Language Technology
Posted by: Ayanta on: March 14, 2009
Here are some authoritative definitions of Human Language Technology (also known as Natural Language Processing).
The first one, found at the DFKI webpage, was given by computational linguist Hans Uszkoreit:
Language technology — sometimes also referred to as human language technology — comprises computational methods, computer programs and electronic devices that are specialized for analyzing, producing or [...]
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Books (Littera)
- A companion to digital humanities November 23, 2009 John M. Unsworth
- The handbook of discourse analysis November 23, 2009 Heidi Ehernberger Hamilton
- Speech and language processing November 14, 2009 James H. Martin
- A Primer of Classical and English Philology November 16, 2009 Walter W Skeat
- Using SGML November 23, 2009 David S. Jackson
Articles (Littera)
- Descriptive translation studies and beyond(1995)G TouryG Toury
- A Methodology for Language DevelopmentAL lyn and Bacon, Inc., Newton, Mass (1986)DA Schmidt, D SemanticsD Semantics
- The roles of digital libraries in teaching and learningCommunications of the ACM, Vol. 38, No. 4. (April 1995), pp. 65-75.Libraries have long served crucial roles in learning. The first great library, in Alexandria 2,000 years ago, was really the first university. It consisted of a zoo and various cultural artifacts in addition to much of the ancient world's written knowledge and attracted scholars from aro […]Hermann Maurer
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- Madame Bovary November 25, 2009Eta, baldin eta hartaz ez pentsatu izana aitortzen bazuen, ahakarrak ugari izaten ziren, eta aldioro betiko hitzekin bukatzen ziren: — Maite nauzu? — Noski ba, maite zaitudala! erantzuten zuen gizonak. — Asko? — Bai horixe! — Besterik ez duzu maite izan, ez? — Birjin hartu nauzula uste al duzu ala? botatzen zuen besteak barrez. Emmak negar egiten zuen, eta k […]Olatz
- Markaketa lengoaia November 25, 2009Informatikan erabiltzen dugun hizkuntzari markaketa lengoia deritzogu. Horrela, testuen formatoa edo egitura marken bidez adierazten da. Programa informatikoak modu egokian agertzen dira esanahi jakin bat duten testu etiketak gehitzen dizkiotelako. Honako hauek dira markaketa lengoaiaren aurrekari batzuk: -Scribe: markaketa deskriptiboa bideratu zuen. Sortza […]Ainhoa Causo
- Wikinovela November 25, 2009La Wikinovela es un proyecto de creación colectiva, multilingüe y no lineal, basado en tecnología wiki y con licencia Creative Commons, ha sido desarrollado dentro de la facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Deusto entre el 24 de abril y el 24 de julio de 2006. La finalidad del proyecto Wikinovela, consiste en [...]Olatz
EP 19: Audio commentary
Posted by: Ayanta on: March 12, 2009
Finally got this (Share <3), though I can only understand a 10% of it and many of the things are probably wrong. Don’t trust my interpretations too much, and listen to it for yourselves…
*Download Link (finally lol, remind me never to try uploading stuff to MU while on Firefox again…)*
-Character designer Kimura Takahiro explains he [...]