LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS RESEARCH SEMINAR “Mock politeness: Perceptions vs practice”, Edge Hill University, UK

LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS RESEARCH SEMINAR Thursday 27 October 2016, 12 noon, M35, Main Building, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk Dr Charlotte Taylor (University of Sussex) In this talk I will discuss mock politeness (the kinds of behaviours that might get labelled as being ‘sarcastic’, ‘bitchy’, ‘passive aggressive’, ‘patronising’ etc.) and use the methods of corpus pragmatics to

InfoCom World 2016, Πρόγραμμα Workshops – Αίθουσα “Έδεσσα”

  Στο πλαίσιο του Συνεδρίου InfoCom World 2016, θα διεξαχθεί μια σειρά θεματικών Workshops που καλύπτουν εξειδικευμένα πτυχές του Marketing, του Προγραμματισμού, της Πληροφορικής, και άλλων κλάδων, προσφέροντας μία χρηστική εμπειρία στους συμμετέχοντες. Για την παρακολούθηση των workshops, παρέχεται ειδική βεβαίωση η οποία αποστέλλεται ηλεκτρονικά. 2 Νοεμβρίου 2016 @ Divani Caravel Hotel Πρόγραμμα Workshops – Αίθουσα “Έδεσσα” ΕΔ-1

ELRA resources – 15 new corpora (written) & 7 updated corpora

We are happy to announce that a new set of 15 Written Corpora is now available in our catalogue. Arabic-English, Arabic-French, Chinese-English and Chinese-French Written Parallel Corpora: This set of 15 written corpora was produced by ELDA within PEA TRAD, a project supported by the French Ministry of Defence (DGA). Available resources are listed below

Historic Achievement: Microsoft researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition

Microsoft has made a major breakthrough in speech recognition, creating a technology that recognizes the words in a conversation as well as a person does. In a paper published Monday, a team of researchers and engineers in Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research reported a speech recognition system that makes the same or fewer errors than