Today, Joseba Abaitua told me he hasn’t seen many articles written by me on Planet Littera. The reason is that I wrote them on my weblog and put some on them under the category: Littera, and some others under: Language Resources. Now, I have edited my weblog and put everything inside Littera. This is why many of [...]
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Edition
Posted in Language Resources on January 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Cambridge International Corpus
Posted in Language Resources on January 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When I wrote the article about “Variation in English Words and Phrases”, the one on corpora, I knew what corpora were but, thanks to the examples that Cambridge International Corpus offers, I could test it and now I know how they really work. These examples work like this:
You are given a question like:
Is the word ‘right’ [...]
How does SYSTRAN work?
Posted in Language Resources on January 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
SYSTRAN is one of the oldest machine translation companies. SYSTRAN has done an extensive work for the Defense Department of the United States and the European Commission.
It is the widest machine translation server and provides Altavista and Google’s online translation services with its technology. SYSTRAN has 50,000 basic words and 250,000 scientific words, and the [...]
Computational linguistics
Posted in Language Resources on December 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and logical modeling of natural language from a computational perspective. This modeling is not limited to any particular field of linguistics. Computational linguistics was formerly usually done by computer scientists who had specialized in the application of computers to the processing of a natural language. [...]
Translating Pens
Posted in Language Resources on December 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I have found information about pens that allow students learn a second language. These are called translating pens and they work this way: you scan a single word or full line of printed text and the pen translates or defines single words. You can also see and hear the scanned word(s) read aloud. Moreover, they are multilingual [...]
Windows Speech “Recognition”
Posted in Language Resources on December 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This is a funny video that shows the problems speech recognition presents. This took place in August 2006.
Ontologies and NLP
Posted in Language Resources on December 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Ontologies are formal, explicit specifications of how to represent the objects, concepts, and other entities in a particular system, as well as the relationships between them.
Natural-language processing (NLP) is an area of artificial intelligence research that attempts to reproduce the human interpretation of language. NLP methodologies and techniques assume that the patterns in grammar and [...]
Merriam-Webster online dictionaries
Posted in Language Resources on December 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Merriam-Webster is America’s foremost publisher of language-related reference works. The company publishes a diverse array of print and electronic products, including Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition—America’s best-selling desk dictionary—and Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. These online dictionaries also give us the spoken pronountiation of each word.
I have found the dictionary -I have used both [...]
New technology catches Hitler off guard
Posted in Language Resources on November 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
New computer software that can read lips at almost any angle has helped make sense of one of the Second World War’s lingering mysteries —Hitler’s home movies.
The technology that has allowed the dialogue to be reconstructed is called ALR — automated lip reading — and has been developed by Frank Hubner, a speech recognition expert. [...]
False Friends Dictionary
Posted in Language Resources on November 21, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I have found a very interesting online and free dictionary of English false friends translated into Spanish. This dictionary is a creation of Encarnación Postigo Pinazo, a teacher, to help Spanish students of English when translating or writing in English.
This is how it works: you click on a letter and all the English words that [...]
