Month: May 2016

CfP: Language under scrutiny: technology and corpora

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VocUM 2016 – Language under scrutiny: technology and corpora Call for Papers We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the 3­rd edition of VocUM, which will take place at the Carrefour des arts et des sciences of the Université de Montréal (Québec, Canada) on November 17th and 18th, 2016. VocUM is an annual international conference organized by students of the Université de Montréal, all from different fields of study relating to language. It is the only interdisciplinary conference dedicated to language in Montreal. We welcome submissions…

Let’s celebrate how language works as well as what it expresses…

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Let’s celebrate how language works as well as what it expresses  Linguistic elements as fantastic creatures by children’s laureate Chris Riddell. ‘There is nothing intrinsically deadening of a child’s growing linguistic competence in knowing what a phoneme is,’ writes Mike Newby. Illustration: Chris Riddell Chris Riddell’s drawings of linguistic elements – graphemes, phonemes, cohesive devices etc – as bizarre and fantastic creatures (Children’s laureate rises to a beastly challenge, 14 May) are witty for sure, but let’s not jeer too loudly. There is nothing intrinsically silly about knowing how parts…

[JOB] Data Scientist, Conversant, Chicago, IL, USA

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Data Scientist – Full time (Chicago, IL, United States) OVERVIEW  As a Data Scientist in our Decision Sciences R&D organization, you will be responsible for researching and building machine learning and natural language processing applications to extend Conversant’s personalization platform.  Conversant’s business is based on analyzing anonymized data at internet scale and evaluating more than 1 trillion advertising opportunities per month in real-time.  You will work on real-world problems as part of our highly collaborative R&D team, and your solutions will directly and rapidly impact our business.  This includes researching…

[JOB] Linguist / Computational Linguist position at Chenope (preferably Edinburgh)

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Chenope is a fairly early stage, 100% bootstrapped core technology start-up with locations in the San Francisco Bay Area, Edinburgh (Scotland) and Singapore. We already have meaningful revenue, and a partnership with a multi-billion dollar global company. Our CEO has previously been successful bootstrapping a software startup to a sustained 8-figure annual run rate, based on superior technology and sales execution. We do not intend to raise venture capital, which is a gigantic advantage given the current situation in the valley with the so-called unicorn meltdown. This also means that…

Ημερίδα «Οι μεταφραστές και ο λόγος τους» (Παρασκευή 27 Μαΐου 2016, Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών)

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Ημερίδα «Οι μεταφραστές και ο λόγος τους» (Παρασκευή 27 Μαΐου 2016, Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών) Ο Τομέας Μετάφρασης-Μεταφρασεολογίας του Τμήματος Γαλλικής Γλώσσας καιΦιλολογίας του Εθνικού και Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών διοργανώνει Ημερίδα με θέμα «Οι μεταφραστές και ο λόγος τους», η οποία θα πραγματοποιηθεί την Παρασκευή 27 Μαΐου 2016 (ώρα 9:00-20:00) στο Αμφιθέατρο “Ιωάννης Δρακόπουλος” του κεντρικού κτηρίου του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών (Πανεπιστημίου 30). Ομιλητές: Βασίλης Κάλφας, Γιώργος Βάρσος, Μίλτος Φραγκόπουλος, Γιώργος Κεντρωτής, Αλεξάνδρα Ιωαννίδου, Νίκος Πρατσίνης, Έλενα Νούσια, Αλέξανδρος Ίσαρης, Άννα Παπασταύρου, Δημήτρης Καλοκύρης, Χάρης Βλαβιανός, Σεσίλ Ιγγλέση Μαργέλλου. Θα ακολουθήσει στρογγυλό τραπέζι…