Foundations of the Language of Argumentation

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Date: September 13, 2016 Venue: Univ. of Potsdam, Griebnitzsee Campus Website: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/comma2016/index.php?page=ws2.php Contact: comma2016-ws@uni-potsdam.de This is a workshop in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Computational Argument.  Participants can register either for the conference+workshops, or only for a workshop. Workshop organizers: Patrick Saint-Dizier (CNRS/IRIT, Univ. of Toulouse) and Manfred Stede (Univ. of Potsdam) Submission modalities: We

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Part-time job ad: Intonation and/or Information Structure Annotators for Bulgarian and English

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An EPSRC-funded project, investigating face-to-face dialogue from a cross-linguistic perspective, is looking for annotators for information structure and/or intonation for English and Bulgarian. The annotation will be performed in Praat. The data to be annotated consists of 1 hour recording of dialogue between 2 people (per language). Preferred skills: – Native level proficiency of Bulgarian

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Diachronic Change in New Englishes: Prospects and Challenges

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Diachronic Change in New Englishes: Prospects and Challenges Full-day workshop at ISLE 4 in Poznań, Poland, 18-21 September 2016 Convenors: Robert Fuchs (University of Münster), Thorsten Brato (University of Regensburg) and Ariane M. Borlongan (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Outline The last two decades have seen a dramatic upsurge in corpus-based research on New Englishes,

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Spatial Humanities 2016, Lancaster University, 15-16/09

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Spatial Humanities 2016 Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK 15-16th Sept 2016   This major European conference is concerned with the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and other spatial technologies in humanities research.  The main aim of the conference is to explore and demonstrate the contributions to knowledge that these technologies enable within and beyond the

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Aνοιχτός Ορίζοντας: Σλάνγκ! Εν πελλαμός

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ΣΛΑΝΓΚ! Εν πελλαμός! (συνώνυμο: εν πόμπα!) Έχουν γίνει ήδη τα αποκαλυπτήρια του! Το cySlang (http://www.cyslang.com/) είναι ένα πολυμεσικό διαδικτυακό λεξικό της κυπριακής αργκό, μίας από τις λιγότερο μελετημένες όψεις όχι μόνο της κυπριακής διαλέκτου, αλλά και ολόκληρης της ελληνικής γλώσσας. Όπως αναφέρουν και οι δημιουργοί του «η κυπριακή αργκό, που είναι στην πραγματικότητα μία εξαιρετικά

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