Month: March 2016

ΙΝΣ: Νέα έκδοση από το Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών

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Από το Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών κυκλοφόρησε το νέο βιβλίο του Υπουργού Δικαιοσύνης, Διαφάνειας και Ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων Ν. Παρασκευόπουλου, Καθηγητή της Νομικής Σχολής του Α.Π.Θ. και μέλους του Δ.Σ. του Ινστιτούτου, Οι μέλισσες και οι λύκοι Μελέτες ιστορίας του ελληνικού δικαίου Οι άνθρωποι είναι άραγε κοινωνικά όντα, σαν τις μέλισσες (όπως υποστηρίζει ο Αριστοτέλης), ή συμπεριφέρονται ο ένας προς τον άλλο όπως οι λύκοι (όπως δέχεται ο Χομπς); Προηγείται λογικά η κοινωνία, η οργανωμένη κοινότητα, και έπονται οι νόμοι που διαφυλάσσουν την ειρήνη, ή προϋποτίθεται ο νόμος, το κοινωνικό συμβόλαιο, αφού…

INTERNSHIP: Siemens Healthcare, in Princeton NJ

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Our team at Medical Imaging Technologies, Siemens Healthcare, in Princeton NJ, has a summer intern position, working in a project investigating the representation of semantic information in the brain and how it is used in language. Our goal is to build a computational model of the process of sentence comprehension in a text passage, using text corpora and other linguistic resources, and validate it using behavioral and brain imaging data. The main role of the intern will be to help in developing and implementing methods to extract information from text…

JOB: Postdoctoral Researcher in NLP and text mining at the IBM Research Lab in Zurich

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Job Description We are seeking to fill a postdoctoral research position available immediately at IBM Research – Zurich in the area of NLP and text mining. The main focus of the postdoctoral researcher will be to provide solutions to the challenges of interpretation, analysis, information extraction and search (both semantic and keyword-based) over large amounts of unstructured text documents, as well as connecting structured and unstructured data. Therefore, knowledge of state-of-the-art NLP and text mining methods, as well as the ability, intelligence and creativity to modify them and advance beyond them…

JOB: Professor of Corpus Linguistics, University Paris Ouest Nanterre

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The University of Paris Ouest Nanterre (Linguistics Department) invites applications for a Professor of Linguistics position. The profile is “Corpus linguistics: variation and practice.” The professor will base his/her teaching and research on corpora, considering the linguistic system in its relation to use, which means being able to observe, but also to reflect upon the status of language variation. Variation can be seenfrom various perspectives: sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, genre analysis, or diachronic typology; this list is not exhaustive. Priority will be given to candidates demonstrating an ability for reflective practice…

Foundations of the Language of Argumentation

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Date: September 13, 2016 Venue: Univ. of Potsdam, Griebnitzsee Campus Website: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/comma2016/index.php?page=ws2.php Contact: comma2016-ws@uni-potsdam.de This is a workshop in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Computational Argument.  Participants can register either for the conference+workshops, or only for a workshop. Workshop organizers: Patrick Saint-Dizier (CNRS/IRIT, Univ. of Toulouse) and Manfred Stede (Univ. of Potsdam) Submission modalities: We invite papers which present completed research, including new approaches, experimental results, resources and/or techniques. The maximum length of the papers is 6 pages plus references. All submissions must be in PDF format. They should be…