Posted in - HLT, ● Littera, tagged articles, Wikipedia on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in - HLT, ● Littera, tagged Language, Machine, Machine Translation, Natural, Processing, Translation on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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, [...]
Posted in - HLT, ● Littera, tagged Answer, AnswerBus, Answers.com, Asimov, Powerset, Question, Question Answering on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in - HLT, ● Littera, tagged Answering, Interactive, Language, Natural, Processing, Question, Question Answering on May 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in - HLT, ● Littera, tagged Abstraction, Automatic Summarization, Extraction, Natural Language Processing, Summary on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in - HLT, ● Littera, tagged Centres, Human, Language, Natural, Processing, Research, Technologies on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in - HLT, ● Littera, tagged Computational, Human, Kay, Language, Linguistics, Martin, Technologies on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Martin Kay is a computer scientist and he’s professor of Computational Linguistics at Stanford University and also Honorary professor at Saarland University.
He was born in Great Britain and he studied at Trinity College, in Cambridge. While he was studying, he also started working in one of the first Computational Linguistics’ research centres, called Cambridge Language [...]
Posted in - HLT, ● Littera, tagged Computational, Hans, Human, Language, Linguistics, Technologies, Uzkoreit on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hans Uszkoreit is a German Computational Linguistic’s professor, who is giving classes in Saarland University right now.
He was born at the 23th of January 1950 (aged 59) in Rostock, Germany, and he studied both Linguistics and Computational Science at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Texas. While he was studying, he also worked in a [...]
Posted in - HLT, ● Littera, tagged Definitions, Human, Language, Natural, Processing, Technologies on March 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Taking a look at different sites on the Internet, we can see that there are several definitions for Human Language Technologies or Natural Language Processing.
Here there are some of these definitions:
- From The Free Dictionary:
Computer analysis and generation of natural language text. The goal is to enable natural languages, such as English, French, or Japanese, [...]
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