Registration for the Corpus Linguistics 2017 conference in Birmingham, 25th to 28th July, is now open. Earlybird registration is available until 30th April and late registration will be available until 30th of June. To register for the conference, visit the conference website at http://tinyurl.com/kgp3ta8 and click on the words ‘online shop’ in the first paragraph.
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The Survey of English Usage at University College London (UCL) will be running a three-day Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics from 5-7 July 2017. This Summer School is an introductory course in corpus linguistics for students of linguistics and the English language which is designed to be accessible and inspiring! You will be taught
“Mining, Processing, and Reasoning over Textual Arguments” Description: Large amounts of text are added to the Web daily from social media, web-based commerce, scientific papers, eGovernment consultations, etc. Such texts are used to make decisions in the sense that people read the texts, carry out some informal analysis, and then (in the best case) make
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 4th Workshop on Argument Mining, in conjunction with EMNLP 2017 Copenhagen, Denmark; September 8, 2017 – https://argmining2017.wordpress.com/ *Submission Deadline: Friday, June 2, 2017* WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The goal of the workshop is to provide a follow-on forum to the last three years’ Argumentation Mining workshops at ACL, the first research forum devoted to