Simple plan

Simple plan is one of the best bands of the music world at the moment. They have 3 albums on sale: “No pads, no helemts… just balls”,” Still not getting any” and, their last one, “Simple plan”. In this 3 albums they have several number ones such as “I’d do anything”, “perfect”, “addicted”, “welcome to my life”, “When I’m gone”…

The band is composed by Pierre Bouvier (lead vocals), David Desrosiers (backing vocals and bass), Sebastien Lefebvre (guitar and backing vocals), Chuck Comeau (drums) and, last but not least, Jeff Stinco (lead guitar). They come from Canada, but they actually live in LA.

It’s considered todays one of the busiest band in the world. They have played everywhere, Tokyo, Mexico, Australia, USA, Canda, England, Spain…

This last year, they were the lead band to the U18 “festival” or concerts. It was a great tour because they allowed U18 people go into the concerts, something that was impossible before in this kind of music. The played in 3 places in Spain. One was Barcelona, other was Valencia, and the other one was Bilbao. Well, not exactly Bilbao, but Barakaldo, in the Rock Star. They also went to Madrid, but in July, not april. They played with NoWayOut (from Barcelona) and with Falling Kids (from Madrid) in the first time, and in Madrid they played with the awesome Panic! At the disco, and some other groups (Pignoise, Motel, Despistaos, NoWayOut)

They are coming again to Bilbao. They are playing along with Zebrahead which it’s music is similar to Simple plan. The concert is the 16/11 in “el pabellon de La Casilla” at it starts at 19:00. I recomend you all to go. Their life is great. You won’t regret it.

Tickets are on sale in BBK, Fnac and tick-tack tickets and it’s price is 28€.

E-book and E-reader

“An e-book (short for electronic book, also written eBook or ebook) is an e-text that forms the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book, sometimes protected with a digital rights management system. E-books are usually read on personal computers or smart phones, or on dedicated hardware devices known as e-Readers or e-book devices. Many mobile phones can also be used to read e-books.

ebook

An e-book reader, also called an e-book device or e-reader, is a device used to display e-books. It may be a device specifically designed for that purpose, or one intended for other purposes as well. The main advantages of these devices are portability, readability of their screens in bright sunlight, and long battery life. Any Personal Data Assistant (PDA) capable of displaying text on a screen is also capable of being an e-book reader, but without the advantages of an electronic ink display.”

• List of e-book readers (2009, September 29). Taken from Wikipedia:The free encyclopedia. Retrieved 5 october 2009 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ereader
• E-book (2009, October 4) Tajen from Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia. Retrieved 5 October 2009 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebook
• E-book. Retrieved 5 October 2009. Taken from http://trupedasmuiezinha.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/ebook-1.jpg

Tim Berners-Lee

“Sir Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee is a British engineer and computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web, making the first proposal for it in March 1989. On 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student staff at CERN, he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet. However, the general ideas for the Internet were outlined, also the technological aspect, earlier than Berner-Lee’s technological proposal. In 2007, he was ranked Joint First, alongside Albert Hofmann, in The Telegraph’s list of 100 greatest living geniuses. Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web’s continued development. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and is a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He is a director of The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. In April 2009, he was elected as a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, based in Washington, D.C.
He has several awards:
• Honorary from the Open University as Doctor of the University.
• Computer History Museum’s Fellow Award, for his seminal contributions to the development of the World Wide Web.
• He was named as the first recipient of Finland’s Millennium Technology Prize, for inventing the World Wide Web. The cash prize, worth one million euros (about £892,000, or US$1.3 million, as of May 2009), was awarded on 15 June, in Helsinki, Finland, by the President of the Republic of Finland, Tarja Halonen.
• He was awarded the rank of Knight Commander (the second-highest rank in the Order of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II, as part of the 2004 New Year’s Honours, and was invested on 16 July 2004.”
This is a link where you can see him talking:

References:

• Tim Berners-Lee(2009, october 2). Taken from Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia, retrieved 2009, october 3 from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
• Tim Berners-Lee (2009, september 21). Taken from Tim Berners-Lee, retrieved 2009, october 3 from: http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
• Tim Berners-Lee (2008, march 4) Taken from Cuando Tim Berners Lee presentaba el WorldWideWeb retrieved 2009, October 3 from: http://www.maestrosdelweb.com/editorial/cuando-tim-berners-lee-presentaba-el-worldwideweb/

Jonas Brothers

Los Jonas Brothers se acaban de enfrascar en una gira mundial que les llevara a diversos paises, entre los que tambien está España. Tocaran los dias 10 y 11 de noviembre en Bilbao y Madrid respectivamente.

Las entradas han salido hoy a la venta para los dos conciertos. Se pueden comprar entradas de sentado o de pie, cada una de un precio distinto. Las de en pei cuestan 46€ y las de sentado varian desde los 34€ hasta los 65€.

Los conciertos empiezan a las 19:30 con los artistas invitados (Demi Lovato y Taylor Swift) y los Jonas Brothers empezaran a tocar una hora despues.

Accuradio

Este post va para todas aquellas personas a las que les gusta la musica y quieren saber que es lo que se oye en USA ahora y hace tiempo. Es una estación de radio virtual que tiene todo tipo de musica: desde jazz y country a pop y rock. Cada estilo de musica tiene sus propios subgeneros y cada subgenero, a su vez, tiene su “radio”.

El link para la pagina principas es www.accuradio.com

Este es una de las paginas más usadas por la gente: http://www.accuradio.com/hitkast/

En esta pagina podemos escuchar de todo un poco: Cristina Aguilera, Shakira, Miley Cyrus, FOB, Justin Timberlake, Panic! At the disco…

Shallow Semantic parsing

Shallow parsing (also chunking, “light parsing”) is an analysis of a sentence which identifies the constituents (noun groups, verbs, verb groups, etc.), but does not specify their internal structure, nor their role in the main sentence.

It is a technique widely used in natural language processing. It is similar to the concept of lexical analysis for computer languages.

There are several parsing methods:

1. Voting model
2. Maximum entrophy
3. Language model
4. Support vector machines  

    

    

    

• Shallow Semantic Parsing (2009, February In Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:21, March 2009 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shallow_parsing
• Statistical Shallow Semantic Parsing despite Little Training Data. Retrieved 16:22, March 31 from http://people.ict.usc.edu/~leuski/publications/papers/IWPT05-Bhagat.pdf

Computational semantics

Computational semantics is the study of how to automate the process of constructing and reasoning with meaning representations of natural language expressions. It consequently plays an important role in natural language processing and computational linguistics.

Matthew Stone. Towards a Computational Account of Knowledge, Action and Inference in Instructions. To appear in Journal of Language and Computation, 2000.
I consider abstract instructions, which provide indirect descriptions of actions in cases where the speaker has key information that a hearer can use to identify the right action to perform, but the speaker alone cannot identify that action. The communicative effects of such instructions, that the hearer should know what to do, are in effect implicatures.

Computational semantics shares with formal semantics research in linguistics and philosophy an absolute commitment to formalizing the meanings of sentences and discourses exactly. The difference among these fields reflects their overall enterprises. Linguistic semantics, for example, is looking for an account of human knowledge of meaning that accounts for crosslinguistic variation and human language learnability. Philosophical semantics aims to situate knowledge of meaning within a general understanding of the intentionality of human mental states.

• Computational semantics (2009, March 09) In Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia. Retrieved 15:50, March 31 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_semantics
• Computational Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Language (2002, August 1) In Matthew Stone’s Computational Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Language. Retrieved 16:04, March 31 from http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~mdstone/compsem.html
• About computational semantics…. (2005, June 17) In Patrick Blackburmn About computational semantics…. Retrieved 16:00, March 31 from http://www.loria.fr/~blackbur/aboutComSem.html

Natural logic and interface

The natural logic is a groups of terms and rules that come with natural language.  They allow us to reason and argue on it. Examples of logic terms are: “and”, “or”, “not”, “true”, “false”, “if”, “therefore”, “every”, “some”, “necessary”…

We presuppose Natural Logic in much the same way as we presuppose Natural Language: as something we have to start with and precisify later, and that may well come to be revised or extended quite seriously, but also as something that at least seems to be in part given in more or less the same way to any able speaker of a Natural Language: In it there are a considerable number of terms and – usually implicit – rules which enable every speaker of the language to argue and reason, that every speaker knows and has extensive experience with.

Interface generally refers to an abstraction that an entity provides of itself to the outside. This separates the methods of external communication from internal operation, and allows it to be internally modified without affecting the way outside entities interact with it, as well as provide multiple abstractions of itself. It may also provide a means of translation between entities which do not speak the same language, such as between a human and a computer. Because interfaces are a form of indirection, some additional overhead is incurred versus direct communication.

The interface between a human and a computer is called a user interface. Interfaces between hardware components are physical interfaces. This article deals with software interfaces, which exist between separate software components and provide a programmatic mechanism by which these components can communicate.

• Interface (2009, March 12) In Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:01, March 30 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_(computer_science)
• Interface (2009, March 12) In Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:01, March 30 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_(computer_science)

Topics list

1. Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure
2. Dialoging NPCs in natural game environments
3. Question Answering Learning technologies in a multilingual and Multimodal Environment
4. Computational Semantics
5. Natural logic and interface
6. Semantic taxonomy introduction
7. ShallowSemantic parsing
8. Knowledge Representation from Text
9. Lexikoaren behatokia

Matin Kay, Yorick Wilks

MARTIN KAY

Kay was responsible for introducing the notion of chart parsing in computational linguistics, and the notion of unification in linguistics generally. With Ron Kaplan, he pioneered finite-state morphology. He has been a longtime contributor to, and critic of, work on machine translation. Permanent chairman of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics, Kay was a Research Fellow at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center until 2002. Gothenburg University has made him an honorary Filosofi Doktor.

YORICK WILKS

He is a techer in the University of Sheffield. He has made courses and series of lectures delivered in functional programming languages, artificial intelligence, intelligent knowledge-based systems, research in computational linguistics, theoretical linguistics, machine translation, philosophy of language, foundations of artificial intelligence, and logic and language.New first year Undergraduate Artificial Intelligence Course from 2001. He has also published many books, such as : Machine Translation: its scope and limits, Readings in the Lexicon and Readings in Machine Translation. He has also won many prices: 2008 Zampolli Prize (ELDA, awarded at LREC-08 in Marrakech, Morocco), 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award (ACL, awarded at ACL-08 in Columbus, OH), 2006 Visiting Professor, University of Oxford (2006-)…

*Martin Kay (2004, October 21) In Stanford Department of Linguistics, Retrieved 11:41, March 18, 2009 from: http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/people/pages/kay.shtml

*Yorick Wilks (2007, 17 April)In University of Sheffield, Department of Computer Science, Retrieved 11:50, March 18, 2009 from: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick/cv.html

 

Twilight

Alice, Emmett, Bella, Edward, Rosalie, Jasper

Twilight is the first of the four book collection by Stephanie Meyer. The book is about a vampire (Edward) that fells in love with a human girl (Bella) and all the problems of a relation between two people so different. Edward family accept Bella, well, not everyone. One of his “sisters” (Rosalie) doesn’t want to accet her. During the film, Bella is about to be eaten but Edaward’s family save her.

It’s recently made into a film. The main stars, Robert Pattinson and Kirsten Stewart have a good relation and it’s shown in the filmn. They have great chemistry and it’s good for the characters they act.

The main cast is the following:

• Edward Cullen: Robert Pattinson
• Bella Swan: Kirsten Stewart
• Alice Cullen: Ashley Greene
• Jasper Hale: Jackson Rathbone
• Rosalie Hale: Nikki Reed
• Emmett Cullen: Kellan Lutz
• Carlisle Cullen: Peter Facinelli
• Esme Cullen: Elizabeth Reaser
• James: Cam Gigandet
• Victoria: Rachelle LeFevre
• Laurent: Edi Gathegi
• Jacob Black: Taylor Laurent