Wikinovela

La wikinovela es una obra colectiva con un formato Wiki, donde cualquiera puede poner su pequeña aportación. Se trata de una novela multilingüe (castellano, euskera e inglés) y se formó con un proyecto de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Deusto. Su apertura llegó el 24 de abril del 2006 y [...]

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Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee was born the 8th of June of 1955 (aged 54) in the United Kingdom and became famous for inventing the World Wide Web.
He graduated in The Queen’s College, in Oxford and he started working in CERN (the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland) as a software consultant, but this was only a [...]

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La enciclopedia francesa

Cuando hablamos de la enciclopedia francesa nos referimos a la que fue la primera enciclopedia francesa, escrita entre los años 1751 y 1772 por Jean d’Alembert (matemático y filósofo francés) y Denid Diderot (escritor y filósofo francés). Tuvo mucha importancia en el siglo XVIII, convirtiéndose así, gracias al esfuerzo que se hizo para completarlo, en [...]

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Questionnaire #4: Wikipedia articles.

Wikipedia is one of the most important -not to say the most- enciclopedies on the Internet, as it contains thousands and thousands of articles. Not all the articles, though, are as good as they should be.
I have been asked to compare and contrast four different articles that can be found in Wikipedia. These are them:

Artificial [...]

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Questionnaire #3: Machine translation.

Machine translation (MT) is the use of a computer software to translate a text from one language to another, and it is considered a field inside the Computational Linguistics. It’s a very used software now that the Internet is so multilingual.
As most of you will already know, we can find many translators on the Internet, [...]

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Questionnaire #3: Question-Answering systems.

Question Answering system is, as I said in the previous article, a method based on natural language, whose aim is to locate a piece of information within a large document.
As I’m not going to talk again about the same topic, I think is a good idea to give examples of Question-Answering systems, as I didn’t do it [...]

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Questionnaire #2: Research Topics. Interactive Question Answering.

Question Answering system is a method based on natural language, whose aim is to locate a piece of information within a large document. We could describe it as a method to rescue answers to specific questions made by a user (“Who was The Lord Of The Rings written by?” “Which is the capital of Russia?”).
This [...]

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Questionnaire #2: Research Topics. Automatic Summarization.

Automatic Summarization is a technique which has a huge importance nowadays, but what is it exactly?
It is a process where you can summarize any type of text by just using a computer program. Your own computer extracts the content from the text, and presents the most important points of it, so you don’t have to [...]

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Questionnaire #2: List of research topics.

Here it is the list of topics I’ve chosen to complete the second questionnaire:

Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotions
Multilingual Tourist Information on the World Wide Web
Translation of Spontaneous Speech
EuroMatrixPlus
Automatic Summarization
Interactive Question Answering
Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST)

 

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Questionnaire #1: Research Centres.

We can find many research centres for Human Language Technologies all over Europe. Here we have some information about some of the most important ones:
 
- German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence.
Originally named Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, this research centre is one of the largest research centres that does research about Artificial Ingelligence.
It was founded [...]

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