The 2012 MWC also includes a programme of conferences about the most important novelties. These conferences are a great opportunity to hear the sector’s most renowned professionals and learn about the initiatives under way with a view to the immediate future.

Firms and professionals also establish contacts at this event, and there we will be! We will have the opportunity to learn first-hand about the innovations developed in the mobile telephony field in the last year and we will also be able to present Dixio, our smart dictionary.

Last year, the Mobile World Congress attracted around 50,000 mobile telephony professionals from more than 180 countries.

Both of these applications use a linguistic engine to make it easier to understand what is being read and facilitate communication between people. Their functions include Dixio’s ability to eliminate ambiguity from a meaning, depending on the context, or that of detecting whether that word is part of a phrase, a compound element or another multiword concept to give the exact meaning required by the student. An example of the capability of the linguistic engine is the separable phrasal verbs in English: the verb “to wash away” in a sentence such as “Floods in Bangladesh have washed hundreds of homes away” could be understood as “to wash” in reference to ‘clean with water’, but our APP detects the preposition in the particular context and offers the right meaning, i.e., ‘eliminate’.

As already discussed, Semantix will be presenting its most successful educational applications, Dixio and Xtyle, at the TEDXRamblas event. The first of these, Dixio, is a multidictionary that is able to give the meaning or most suitable translation of a word within its context by just clicking on that word, whereas Xtyle comprises the natural evolution of a spell checker which, by means of improvements in spelling, grammar and style guides, can help students improve their writing.

We look forward to seeing you at the next edition of TEDxRamblas. Follow us via streaming.

TEDxRamblas
“Semantic technology applied to Education”
Thursday, January 20
17.00h Conference by Carlos Martín
MUSEU MARÍTIM DE BARCELONA Av. Drassanes s/n
ORGANIZED BY: the TEDxRamblas spiral team