[Article] WHO IS THE GENIUS BEHIND MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S SOCIAL MEDIA? – IN CONVERSATION WITH A DICTIONARY

In case you hadn’t noticed, Merriam-Webster’s Twitter game is strong—topical, funny, smart, and informative while also being relentlessly irreverent. Not what you’d necessarily expect from the social media account of a dictionary. (This is putting aside the fact that we now generally expect things like dictionaries to have social media accounts, of course.) But if you

Δημόσια κρίση του σχεδίου Ελληνικού Προτύπου ΕΛΟΤ 996-17 : «Τεχνολογία Πληροφοριών – Λεξιλόγιο – Μέρος 17: Βάσεις δεδομένων»

Δημόσια κρίση του σχεδίου Ελληνικού Προτύπου ΕΛΟΤ 996-17 : «Τεχνολογία Πληροφοριών – Λεξιλόγιο – Μέρος 17: Βάσεις δεδομένων»   Ο ΕΣΥΠ/ΕΛΟΤ ανακοινώνει την υποβολή σε δημόσια κρίση του σχεδίου Ελληνικού Προτύπου ΕΛΟΤ 996-17, «Τεχνολογία Πληροφοριών – Λεξιλόγιο – Μέρος 17: Βάσεις δεδομένων». Το Πρότυπο ΕΛΟΤ 996-17 αποτελεί την ελληνική έκδοση του Διεθνούς Προτύπου ISO/ΙΕC 2382–17:1999, Information Technology –

Open Government Comes to CIA: Agency Posts Millions of Declassified Docs

By: Iulia Gheorghiu Beth Daley Impact Fellow, POGO The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has published a searchable archive of over 13 million pages of declassified materials online. The long-awaited access to the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST database) was granted as a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the media outlet MuckRock

[Resource] Corpus ‘Australia 2015/2016’

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