Sarcasm SIGN: Sarcasm interpretation corpus

We are happy to announce the release of the Sarcasm SIGN corpus: a parallel corpus of sarcastic tweets and their non-sarcastic interpretations, as created by human experts (3000 tweets annotated by their authors with the hashtag #sarcasm, 5 human translations per tweet). The corpus was created as part of the paper: Sarcasm SIGN: Interpreting Sarcasm with

Fifth Grammatical Framework Summer School 2017

Riga, Latvia, 14-25 August 2017 http://school.grammaticalframework.org/2017/ Grammatical Framework (GF) is a grammar formalism and a programming language for the development of multilingual computational grammars. It is based on the idea of a shared abstract syntax and mappings between the abstract syntax and concrete languages. GF grammars are bi-directional; however, they are particularly well suited for

[Article – Greek] Τα γλωσσικά μιάσματα της χούντας

ΕΝΤΥΠΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ Χατζημωυσιάδης Παναγιώτης Δημοσίευση: 21 Απριλίου 2017 19:00 Η απλή καθαρεύουσα της χούντας είναι ένα γλωσσικό υβρίδιο. Βλοσυρή, αγέλαστη, άκαμπτη, μισαλλόδοξη, διατακτική και σε κάθε περίπτωση μουμιοποιημένη. Μια κατασκευασμένη, ανύπαρκτη γλώσσα, που ελλείψει σταθερού σημείου αναφοράς νιώθει την ανάγκη να επικαλείται τη νομοθεσία ως γλωσσικό παράδειγμά της Ποιο ρόλο έπαιξε η δικτατορία στην εξέλιξη

Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics, 5-7/07, London, UK

The Survey of English Usage at University College London (UCL) will be running a three-day Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics from 5-7 July 2017. This Summer School is an introductory course in corpus linguistics for students of linguistics and the English language which is designed to be accessible and inspiring! You will be taught

PhD scholarship in Argument Mining available at Université Côte d’Azur (UCA), France

“Mining, Processing, and Reasoning over Textual Arguments” Description: Large amounts of text are added to the Web daily from social media, web-based commerce, scientific papers, eGovernment consultations, etc. Such texts are used to make decisions in the sense that people read the texts, carry out some informal analysis, and then (in the best case) make