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VocUM 2016 – Language under scrutiny: technology and corpora Call for Papers We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the 3rd edition of VocUM, which will take place at the Carrefour des arts et des sciences of the Université de Montréal (Québec, Canada) on November 17th and 18th, 2016. VocUM is
Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group’s annual event focused on practitioner issues in the arena of search and information retrieval. We invite proposals which focus on any area of the practical application of search technologies to real world problems, for the tutorial day due to take place the day before Search Solutions
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Token: A Journal of English Linguistics (ISSN 2299-5900, e-ISSN 2392-2087) Editors John G. Newman, University of Texas Rio Grande, Valley Marina Dossena, University of Bergamo, Sylwester Łodej, Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce. Token: A Journal of English Linguistics is an open-access journal which focuses on English linguistics in a broad sense: it accepts both diachronic and synchronic