By Rowan Hooper Science fiction thrillers usually send in gun-toting heroes like Will Smith or Tom Cruise to kick invading alien butt. Arrival is completely, wonderfully different: it sends in a linguist, played by Amy Adams. “Language,” one character says, “is the first weapon drawn in a conflict.” The big question to ask the aliens:
Research Associate – Semantic Interpretation of Personal Health messages (Fixed Term) Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, the University of Cambridge Full details: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/11935/ Applications are invited for a post-doctoral Research Associate position in the University of Cambridge, working with Dr Nigel Collier on the Semantic Interpretation of Personal Health messages (SIPHS) project. The project
We are happy to announce that a new set of 15 Written Corpora is now available in our catalogue. Arabic-English, Arabic-French, Chinese-English and Chinese-French Written Parallel Corpora: This set of 15 written corpora was produced by ELDA within PEA TRAD, a project supported by the French Ministry of Defence (DGA). Available resources are listed below
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
We are glad to announce the preliminary programme of the Second International Workshop on Future and Emerging Trends in Language Technology, Machine Learning and Big Data. Save the date: Seville (Spain) 30th November, 1st-2nd December 2016 Early registration deadline: 30th October Website: http://www.glc.us.es/fetlt2016 Twitter: @FETLT2016 ============================================================================================ Workshop programme available at: http://www.glc.us.es/fetlt2016/scheduling/programme.html The strategic objectives of this 2016 edition