Month: July 2016

[Job] Language technology programmers – StrainTek

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Η StrainTek είναι μία νεοφυής τεχνολογική εταιρεία με έμφαση στη Γλωσσική Τεχνολογία. Πρόσφατα, σε συνεργασία με τη Liquid Media SA (http://www.liquid.gr/), εξασφάλισε χρηματοδότηση από το Digital News Initiative της Google (https://www.digitalnewsinitiative.com/) για την ανάπτυξη λογισμικού αυτόματου ελέγχου και διαχείρισης σχολίων και περιεχομένου χρηστών σε ιστοτόπους. Στα πλαίσια αυτής της χρηματοδότησης προκηρύσσονται οι ακόλουθες θέσεις εργασίας. 1. Senior Programmer με αρμοδιότητα την προϊοντοποίηση ερευνητικού λογισμικού: Στόχοι: – Ανάπτυξη προϊόντων από ερευνητικά πρωτότυπα. – Ανάπτυξη διαδικτυακών υπηρεσιών. – Επίβλεψη και καθοδήγηση προγραμματιστών. Απαραίτητα προσόντα: – Python – Μηχανική Μάθηση – Back-end web…

[CfP] The digital Human” Humanities and social sciences in the digital age

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Keynote speaker: Prof Robin Mansell, Professor of New Media and the Internet, Deputy Director and Provost of the London School of Economics Technology and Innovation Centre University of Strathclyde – 12 September 2016  The social sciences and the Humanities have long had an interdependent relationship with scientific study. Meaningful scientific inquiry relies upon pre-established humanistic knowledge, while the best humanities research is guided by scientific principles. In recent years technological advancement and innovation have sparked a resurgence in interdisciplinary research, largely corresponding with the rise of the digital age. This conference – hosted by…

Why Does Using a Period in a Text Message Make You Sound Insincere or Angry?

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BY LAUREN COLLISTER July 19, 2016 When it comes to texting, the period, full stop, point – whatever you call it – has been getting a lot of attention. People have begun noticing slight changes to the way our smallest punctuation mark is deployed, from declarations that it’s going out of style to claims that it’s becoming angry. What they’re actually noticing is written language becoming more flexible, with texting possessing its own set of stylistic norms (sometimes informally called “textspeak” or “textese”). The period is merely one example of…

We Uncovered the Hidden Patterns in Clinton and Trump’s Most Common Phrases

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Linguists dissected over 100,000 words from their speeches. By Cara Giaimo And Sarah Laskow JULY 21, 2016 The Republican National Convention is entering its final night, but people can’t stop talking about the words in Melania Trump’s Monday evening speech—because she borrowed a significant amount of them from a 2008 speech by Michelle Obama. After journalist Jarret Hill noticed the lifted material and the story spread, the Trump campaign claimed that Melania Trump had simply been using “common words,” and “phrases [Americans] have heard before.” There has been plenty of…

8th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS 2016), 4-7 December 2016, Abu Dhabi, UAE

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EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE **************************************************************************** 8th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS 2016) 4-7 December 2016, Abu Dhabi, UAE http://www.wifs2016.org/ **************************************************************************** The IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) is the primary annual event organized by the IEEE Information Forensics and Security (IFS) Technical Committee. Its major objective is to bring together researchers from relevant disciplines to exchange new ideas and the latest results and to discuss emerging challenges in different areas of information security. The 8th edition of WIFS will be held in Abu Dhabi, UAE, from December 4, to…