Influence of English is fading, says EU chief Juncker

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Conference “A hundred years since the language-education reform of 1917”, 12-13/5/2017, Thessaloniki, Greece

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Speaking of Location: Future Directions in Geospatial Natural Language Research,4/9/2017, L’Aquila, Italy

A workshop to be held as part of the Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), 4th September 2017, L’Aquila, Italy Call for Papers Research into the description of location using human (natural) language has been approached from linguistics, geospatial, and computer science perspectives.  This multidisciplinary workshop will explore current developments in the area with a

SUMMER SCHOOL ON BIOMEDICAL TEXT PROCESSING, 10–17/09/2017, Constanța, Romania

=================== EUROLAN-2017 ==================== ===== SUMMER SCHOOL ON BIOMEDICAL TEXT PROCESSING ==== The 13th in the series of EUROLAN Schools 10 – 17 September 2017, Constanța, Romania http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2017/ Overview ======== Biomedical Text Mining (BioNLP) applies natural language processing (NLP) techniques to identify and extract information from scientific publications in biology, medicine, and chemistry, in order to