The Fifth Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature invites you to San Diego, California. There will be an exciting program on June 16, two vastly promising invited talks and seven regular presentation which cut a nicely wide swath through our diverse area of interest. Do visit the workshop Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2016/ You will find the
First Call for Papers: CC-NLG (Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation) A workshop at INLG 2016, September 5th/6th, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK http://webprojects.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/mpurver/ccnlg/ This workshop aims to bring together researchers dealing with text generation from a computational creativity perspective, and researchers in natural language generation with an interest in creative aspects. These two communities have
Twelve incredibly British phrases the rest of the world doesn’t understand Posted 16 days ago by Narjas Zatat in offbeat Americans have always had a bizarre fixation with the Queen (a remnant of the empire George Washington couldn’t scrub away?) and her birthday seems to be no different. The Queen is turning 90 this week, and it
Second CALL FOR PAPERS The 12th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2016) http://multiword.sourceforge.net/mwe2016 Workshop at ACL 2016 (Berlin, Germany), August 11, 2016 Endorsed by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics (SIGLEX; http://www.siglex.org/); and SIGLEX’s Multiword Expressions Section (SIGLEX-MWE; http://multiword.sourceforge.net/PHITE.php?sitesig=MWE) Submission deadline: Long & short papers – May 15,
Forty-four. That’s how many times Madonna uses the word “bitch” on her latest album, Rebel Heart. She has reclaimed and owns it – proudly, powerfully and with panache. It is, perhaps, one of the most successful examples of reclaiming a word that exists in the dubious track record of this linguistically defiant activity. Madonna has