Alright people, by now you must have seen the movie “Arrival” (not to be confused with the other movie “The Arrival” where Charlie Sheen is chasing after some aliens that look like a satyr but not quite). There are several articles out there talking about the role of the linguists in the movie, or of
Oxford Dictionaries has said it will review the example sentences it uses for the adjective “rabid” after being accused of sexism over its current example: “a rabid feminist”. The dictionary publisher, part of Oxford University Press, was taken to task by the Canadian anthropologist Michael Oman-Reagan, after he noticed that the word “rabid”, defined by
The corpus ‘Australia 2015/2016’ includes all articles from major Australian newspapers published from August 2015 to July 2016 that include the key term ‘Australia’ or ‘Australian(s)’ in the title. Altogether, the corpus contains over 7 million tokens in almost 13,000 articles from 18 newspapers. The corpus thus reflects one year of printed media coverage of
Fully funded PhD and MSc positions (scholarship / stipend) in NLP and Computational Linguistics are available at the Natural Language Processing Laboratory, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City. The amount of scholarship is sufficient for renting a decent accommodation and normal living in Mexico City. The scholarship is not a loan (no obligations upon graduation) and does not require
Το Εργαστήριο Φωνητικής και Υπολογιστικής Γλωσσολογίας του Τμήματος Φιλολογίας και το Εργαστήριο Υπολογιστικής Υφολογίας του Τμήματος Ιταλικής Γλώσσας και Φιλολογίας σάς προσκαλούν στη διάλεξη της Βάλιας Κορδώνη (Department of English Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin) με θέμα: «Multiword expressions: Annotation and acquisition of linguistic knowledge towards a multilingual analysis» Τετάρτη, 19 Οκτωβρίου 2016 12:00 – 14:00 μμ – Αίθουσα