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Differences between e-books and printed books
Posted by: Ayanta on: October 8, 2009
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The development of computers has undoubtedly made an impact on many aspects of our life. In the field of literature, the option to display text on screens has raised an important debate: should we publish books on paper or in an electronic format?
E-books offer a variety of advantages and disadvantages in contrast to printed books:
Advantages:
A [...]
International Children’s Digital Library
Posted by: Ayanta on: October 5, 2009
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The International Children’s Digital Library is an online source of digitized books for children. It was launched in November, 2002, and so far it has achieved a collection of 4347 books in 54 languages. The responsibles behind it aspire to archive more than 10000 books in at least 100 different languages as a goal.
The library [...]
Copyleft
Posted by: Ayanta on: September 26, 2009
With the appearance of the Internet, authors’ rights over their own works are undergoing a crisis. Since almost any content that is uploaded to the web can be easily downloaded to any computer, the number of people that violate the law by reproducing protected works or distributing them without permission has increased.
Authorities believe that it [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What is a Web directory?
Posted by: Ayanta on: March 9, 2009
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A Web directory is a store of internet sites, organized by subject. These websites are collected by humans and not by a machine, because it is necessary to verify each site’s contents so as to classify them correctly.
They should not be mistaken for search engines, which look through the whole net when performing a search. [...]
Machine translation: its usability and inconveniences
Posted by: Ayanta on: March 5, 2009
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It is said that we belong to the Information Age, a time characterized by the digital revolution and the improvements thus achieved in communicating with others.
In a society where we mean to make knowledge available to everyone, quick and effective translation is speedily becoming a necessity. For this, developers of machine translators investigate the possibilities [...]
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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
Littera
- Ediciones críticas December 24, 2009La edición crítica es aquella que compara las ediciones anteriores, corrige errores, hace comentarios, críticas y todo lo pertinente con respecto a la obra a tratar. Una edición crítica es, como se sabe, un cruzamiento reiterado, tenaz y puntual del ancho campo cubierto por un escritor considerable. […] Una edición crítica es el hombre y su [...] […]maria lanz
- Tipos de edición December 24, 2009Tipos de edición Los tipos de edición se diferencian gracias a los siguientes aspectos: ● La metodología que se sigue para obtener el texto final ● Las soluciones adoptadas en el tratamiento de los aspectos formales 1.1 Ediciones según el tratamiento de aspectos formales: Se debe tener en cuenta el tratamiento de los aspectos formales del texto, [ […]maria lanz
- Edición Digital December 24, 2009Estamos viviendo una época de transición en a que pasamos de la letra impresa a la digital, aunque todavía queda tiempo para que esta última se asiente, el cambio ya está aquí, mientras los dos tipos de letra coexisten. La edición digital se está abriendo cada vez más camino en el mundo de la tecnología y [...]maria lanz
