U of Nottingham

Summer School – Corpus Linguistics – University of Nottingham

Events

U of Nottingham

 

Summer School in Corpus Linguistics: Tools and Applications

Tuesday 7th – Thursday 9th July 2015

University of Nottingham, UK

 

This event will cover the latest developments in corpus tools and corpus applications through an intensive programme of interactive sessions to be run by leading figures in the field. It will provide participants with in-depth knowledge of cutting-edge methods and techniques for undertaking advanced research. This event is open to undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students who want to improve their skills to apply corpus methods and use corpus tools in their own research. The programme aims at providing detailed introductions to the latest developments in software and techniques in the field, with practical hands-on sessions on how to employ these in your own research. Given the specialised nature of the programme, a basic understanding of corpus linguistics is recommended.

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Greek Aussie community bid to ensure language survival

News

(Transcript from World News Radio)

According to the 2011 census, around 18 per cent of Australians speak a language other than English in the home.

As Kristina Kukolja reports, one community wants to ensure theirs survives across generations.

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In the Melbourne suburb of Oakleigh newly-elected Labor MP Steve Dimopoulos is preparing a speech – one he plans to deliver to the Victorian parliament … in Greek.

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Sweden adds gender-neutral pronoun to dictionary

Lexicography, News, Onomasiology

Sweden adds gender-neutral pronoun to dictionary

Pronoun ‘hen’ can be used without revealing gender – either because it is unknown, because the person is transgender, or the information is superfluous

The pronoun ‘hen’ caught on in 2000, when the country’s small transgender community latched on to it, and its use has taken off in the past few years. The official dictionary of the Swedish language will introduce a gender-neutral pronoun in April, editors at the Swedish Academy have announced.

“Hen” will be added to “han” (he) and “hon” (she) as one of 13,000 new words in the latest edition of the Swedish Academy’s SAOL.

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The 7th Language and Technology Conference, Poland

Conferences, Events

The 7th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2015), November 27-29, 2015, Poznań, Poland

CALL FOR PAPERS
The 7th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2015), a meeting organized by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation, will take place on November 27-29, 2015.

Yes, we started 20 years ago! Our tradition goes back to the Language and Technology Awareness Days, a meeting organized in 1995 with the assistance of the European Commission (DG XIII). Among the key speakers were Antonio Zampolli (Italy), Dafydd Gibbon (Germany), Dan Tufiş (Romania), Orest Kossak (Ukraina). Now we refer to this event as the first LTC. Ten years  later, we decided to meet again, and since then the conference is being organized every two years as the “Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a
Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics”.

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1ο Διεθνές Συνέδριο για την Ετυμολογία της Ελληνικής Γλώσσας

Conferences, Events

Το Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών (Ίδρυμα Μ. Τριανταφυλλίδη) του Α.Π.Θ. διοργανώνει το «1ο Διεθνές Συνέδριο για την Ετυμολογία της Ελληνικής Γλώσσας (Αρχαίας, Μεσαιωνικής και Νέας)» στις 5 και 6 Νοεμβρίου 2015.

Στόχος του συνεδρίου είναι να εξετάσει ζητήματα που αναφέρονται στην ετυμολογία της ελληνικής γλώσσας όλων των περιόδων της και των μορφών της, διαλεκτικών και μη. Στις θεματικές περιοχές του συνεδρίου περιλαμβάνονται μεταξύ άλλων…

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