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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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Littera Deusto
- ¿Qué es Twitter? November 10, 2009Hoy me he abierto una cuenta en Twitter y no me acaba de quedar muy clara su función. De todas formas, si tantos usuarios alaban su condición, no dejaré de intentar descubrir sus ventajas. Dejo el enlance: www.twitter.com/lucenitos En poco tiempo daré cuenta de mis descubrimientos, hasta entonces…twitead conmigo.Luz Ustara Diez
- De series va la cosa November 10, 2009Como espectadora (o consumidora habitual) que ayuda a elebar o a echar por tierra la cuota de pantalla en una ínfima parte, me pregunto varias cosas. Una de las cosas y teniendo siempre en cuenta que no tengo ni idea de las intríngulis de este mercado, es la naturalidad, verosimilitud. Y yendo un poco más [...]Maialen Garbizu
- Ebook November 9, 2009El Ebook o libro electrónico es un dispositivo creado para la lectura de libros digitalizados, conocidos con el mismo nombre. Muchas son la ventajas que presenta este metodo de lectura. En primer lugar los contenidos se compran por internet con lo que se hace mucho más facil acceder a los contenidos. Además al evitar tener [...]Aida Aguilar
- Markup Language November 8, 2009A markup language is a way of codifying a document which, along with the text, incorporates tags or marks which contain additional information about the structure of the text or its presentation. The most extended markup language is the HTML, World Wide Web’s base. But apart from that one, there are also others which are [...]Amaia Aristondo
- Lenguajes de marcado: RDF/RSS November 8, 2009RSS (most commonly translated as “Really Simple Syndication” but sometimes “Rich Site Summary”) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a “feed”, “web feed”,or […]maria lanz
- “TeX”, “Scribe” & “GML” November 8, 2009Tex, which stands for Text Executive Processor, is a programming language, whose invention dates back to 1979. Being created by Honeywell Information Systems, it was considered as a first generation scripting language. With regard to operators, Tex has three different types, such as arithmetic, boolean and string. As regards the former, Tex only supports bas […]Ricardo Merelas Cainzos
- Linking data in the Twittsphere November 8, 2009For a couple of weeks I’ve been twitting (and tweeting) more than usual, because I’m helping in both Transket’s and Natouring’s communication campaigns I’m trying to understand better when (and how) to use Facebook, FriendFeed, Delicious, Yammer or Twitter (I also blog and wiki, but these I know when and how). I’m introd […]Joseba Abaitua
- [síc] November 6, 2009“Juro que mi vida ya no volverá a verse condicionada por las acciones de nadie. A veces peco de demasiado buena. No me volverá a pasar. Estoy cansada de que la humanidad me defraude y ver cúan efímera es la gente. No cuentes sobre ti más de lo que quieras que se sepa, dcien. Y recordaré [...]Maialen Garbizu
- Tos. (aka Idadeolla) November 5, 2009Tos. 2:44 am. ¿Quién ha dicho sueño? ¡La noche es jóven! Ah… espera… que sí que tengo sueño… no entiendo. ¿Entonces qué hago despierta? Tos. Ah, vale, que estoy en mitad de un ataque de tos, ya casi lo había olvidado. *Ironía* (Ironía: Figura retórica que no todo el mundo es capaz de entender y que puede que [...]Yera Espinosa
- 04/11/1979 November 4, 2009El 04 de noviembre de 1979 es muy especial para mi. 1979 (MCMLXXIX) fue un año normal que comenzó en lunes en el calendario gregoriano: - El 1 de marzo, Adolfo Suárez (UCD), triunfa en las elecciones generales. - El 31 de marzo, Israel gana la XXIV Edición del Festival de Eurovisión con Hallellujah de Gali Atari & [...]Maialen Garbizu
