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Pirates in Europe... and in Cornellà - Posted to Virtual European Parliament by MsonsonaAfter last European Elections on June the 7th, one of the parties that have contributed the most to an increase of the participation in its own country has been the Pirate Party in Sweden. For that reason, and even more after a high decrease in participation in Catalonia, we have invited Pirate Party's number 2 for the European Elections, Amelia Andersdotter, to a panel debate on July the 7th at Citilab (Cornellà) focused in eParticipation, Youth and the Pirate Party itself. We hope to come to some ideas on why eParticipation is the future for the success of the political process. Everyone is invited! .. (Read More)
Laws of language outside human language. The case of the law of brevity. - Posted to Biolingüística quantitativa by RferrericanchoHello world! This is our first post. One of the ideas that we would like to explore in this blog is that understanding the laws of language is also understanding how nature works in general. Therefore, it is crucial to look for laws of human language outside human language as a potential for common or similar principles of organization. For this reason, we will start our experience with the the recent finding that the surface behavior of dolphins conforms to Zipf's law of brevity, namely the tendency of more frequent words to be shorter. The behavioral patterns that dolphins performed on the sufarce of water can be decomposed into elementary.. (Read More)
Glottotheory: a new journal. - Posted to Biolingüística quantitativa by RferrericanchoGlottotheory is an international journal providing a forum for papers and discussions concerning methodological and theoretical problems of language and text, and empirical characterisation of language and text in qualitative or quantitative form: observations and descriptions of all aspects of language and text phenomena including the areas of psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, pragmatics, etc. on all levels of linguistic analysis, applications of methods, models or findings from quantitative linguistics concerning problems of natural language processing, language teaching, documentation and information retrieval, methodological problems of linguistic measurement, model construction, sampling and test theory, epistemological issues such as explanation of language and text phenomena, contributions to theory construction, systems theory, philosophy of science. Further info .. (Read More)
Call for papers on the complexity of human language and cognition - Posted to Biolingüística quantitativa by RferrericanchoThe open access journal Entropy is editing an special issue on the complexity of human language and cognition. This special issue is devoted to shed light on the complexity of human language and cognition from a transdisciplinary perspective. The stress of this issue is on insights from theoretical disciplines such as network theory or information theory. Further information. .. (Read More)
International Quantitative Linguistics Conference (Qualico 2009) - Posted to Biolingüística quantitativa by RferrericanchoThe next International Quantitative Linguistics Conference (Qualico), which will take place in Graz (Austria), September 17-20, 2009. The Call for Papers is open (until April 30, 2009), as well as Pre-Registration (same date), with significant reduction of conference fees. The Abstract Submission Deadline is April 30, 2009. Please be sure not to miss these dates. You will find all relevant information on the IQLA website. .. (Read More)
Vespre al Museu: La intel·ligència misteriosa dels dofins - Posted to Biolingüística quantitativa by RferrericanchoDimarts 2 de juny, 19:00 (CosmoCaixa Barcelona). Brenda McCowan, Universitat de Califòrnia, Davis, USA. A través de mites i llegendes, els dofins ens han fascinat des que els nostres avantpassats van començar a navegar en alta mar. Malgrat 65 milions d'anys d'evolució per separat, els éssers humans i els dofins han dut a terme maneres notablement similars d'afrontar els seus entorns respectius. Aquesta conferència presentarà proves de la rica vida social i la complexa cognició dels dofins mulars. De la imitació i la innovació a l'autoconsciència, aquests fascinants mamífers són entre els més sofisticats cognitivament de totes les espècies no humanes. La conferència inclourà temes com la història de l'evolució dels cetacis, els estudis sobre la cognició i la.. (Read More)
Bush or Obama? - Posted to Virtual European Parliament by MsonsonaYesterday, in the Charlemagne Building in Brussels, the European eParticipation Day '09 was held. [caption id="attachment_9" align="aligncenter" width="448" caption="Entering the meeting."][/caption] As Virtual European Project, we had a little stand there among all eParticipation-related projects being funded by the European Comission. [caption id="attachment_11" align="aligncenter" width="448" caption="Our project stand in the meeting, featuring Nele and Artur."][/caption] At the meeting, several people contacted us from different backgrounds (other projects, academia, research, politicians...) and what was interesting was to discover (we have discovered also this by ourselves) that a common factor is the difficulties to reach young citizens around Europe, and more importantly, to engage them to.. (Read More)
VEP PowerWeek on Blogging - Posted to Virtual European Parliament by MsonsonaLast November, the VEP project performed a series of activities within the 1st PowerWeek on Blogging. The blogging topic was chosen in order to make the event attractive to young citizens and students, and also to connect the blogging topic with individual rights issues, a more political approach. This PowerWeek, held between the 12th and the 20th of November, was organized in a 4-phases process: The warm-up. The users, students from Flanders, Sweden and Catalonia registered in the PowerWeek portal and were presented with the VEP project, the PowerWeek event, the topics to be discussed and the tools to be used. Discussion jamming 1. The students were involved in several discussions into different topics around blogging within the DiscussionJam system (being developed.. (Read More)
Simple is better: Xpertum new design - Posted to Laboranova by Agustí Sancho MartínezAfter a long design and development period, Xpertum team have the pleasure to present the first pre-alpha realese of the new Xpertum. One of the most important changes is the new user interface. Xpertum take responsability of improving the selection process to ensamble teams and obtain a general view of human resources inside organizations. Xpertum is a web-based tool born to improve the laboral life-style, so that, the UI mustn't have to be an obstacle. Then, how should it be? Must be fast, all the information that you need and when you need Must provide semantic visual elements Must provide an open interaction by loading external data Must be simple to deploy Must be complete Following these principles, we.. (Read More)
Hola, món! - Posted to blogs.lsi.upc.edu by BlogAIAWelcome to Blogs.lsi.upc.edu. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! .. (Read More)
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Video game technique to visualizations - Posted to Laboranova by Agustí Sancho MartínezIn the last stage of first Xpertum version,we observed that a lot of our visualization graph algorithms consider the nodes like a point, without thickness, without shape and in our circle representation, without radius. The visualizations were taken, despite its mathematical precision, might not be visually understandable, so we decided to apply video game techniques to solve the problem. With this goal we developed a collision algorithm that subtly modifies the positions nodes without change the general visualization shape. This algorithm's implemented in visualization layer to ensure that the domain's not affected and the different devices can choose how to process the common information that the domain of Xpertum provides. (Read More)
¡Bienvenida Tecnología! - Posted to Comunicación Informatizada by Irene lapuente¿Qué es la tecnología? La palabra tecnología proviene del griego y está formada por tekne que quiere decir arte, técnica o oficio y logo, conjunto de saberes. Se define como el conjunto de habilidades que permiten construir objetos y máquinas para adaptar el medio y satisfacer nuestras necesidades. ¿Pero estamos seguros de qué la tecnología no va aún más allá de una simple construcción? La tecnología se presentó en mi camino con nombre y apellidos hace relativamente poco. No negaré que como muchos de mi generación he crecido viendo la televisión, he calentado agua en un microondas y hace muchos años que tengo teléfono móvil. Pero cuando digo que se me presentó con apellidos, me refiero a que empecé a dar.. (Read More)
Xpertum: New Distributed Architecture - Posted to Laboranova by Agustí Sancho MartínezApart from Xmas and New Year's Eve, the Xpertum team has something more to celebrate: the new distributed architecture of Xpertum! Initially, the Xpertum project, that provides a visual representation of relationships between competence areas and people, consisted solely in a flash-based application. Thanks to this technology, we had a framework to develop our system and brought the user experience to a web browser. But flash has inconveniences. Xpertum has become more complex and requires more versatility and to reduce the processing charge in the client side, obtaining thus more performance and a better user experience. Under this philosophy, the team has created a distributed architecture, obtaining three independent layers: visualization, domain and data. With this architecture,.. (Read More)
Description of Xpertum Project - Posted to Laboranova by Agustí Sancho MartínezAesthetic visualizations that display relationships between competences and individuals. Visual analysis of the connections between competences and individuals. Clustering of competences and individuals. A visual way to find people to assemble a workteam. Xpertum is an interactive web-based tool for visualizing social networks, in terms of competences and people, which uses basically force-directed layouts and clustering algorithms. A 2-level competence hierarchy has been defined to allow Xpertum to provide these types of visualizations. The users can visualize relationships between two entities: competences and individuals through different views in order to analyze important aspects in the current social network. XPERTUM is intended to provide a simple way to visualize social networks in.. (Read More)