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[Job] Language technology programmers – StrainTek

29JulyLeximania.grNewsjob, language technology, NLP, programming, straintek

Η StrainTek είναι μία νεοφυής τεχνολογική εταιρεία με έμφαση στη Γλωσσική Τεχνολογία. Πρόσφατα, σε συνεργασία με τη Liquid Media SA (http://www.liquid.gr/), εξασφάλισε χρηματοδότηση από το Digital News Initiative της Google (https://www.digitalnewsinitiative.com/) για την ανάπτυξη λογισμικού αυτόματου ελέγχου και διαχείρισης σχολίων και περιεχομένου χρηστών σε ιστοτόπους. Στα πλαίσια αυτής της χρηματοδότησης προκηρύσσονται οι ακόλουθες θέσεις εργασίας.

[CfP] The digital Human” Humanities and social sciences in the digital age

26JulyLeximania.grEvents, News, ResearchCfP, digital humanities, strathclyde

Keynote speaker: Prof Robin Mansell, Professor of New Media and the Internet, Deputy Director and Provost of the London School of Economics Technology and Innovation Centre University of Strathclyde – 12 September 2016 The social sciences and the Humanities have long had an interdependent relationship with scientific study. Meaningful scientific inquiry relies upon pre-established humanistic knowledge, while the best

Why Does Using a Period in a Text Message Make You Sound Insincere or Angry?

26JulyLeximania.grLanguage, Newsanger, mark, punctuation

BY LAUREN COLLISTER July 19, 2016 When it comes to texting, the period, full stop, point – whatever you call it – has been getting a lot of attention. People have begun noticing slight changes to the way our smallest punctuation mark is deployed, from declarations that it’s going out of style to claims that

We Uncovered the Hidden Patterns in Clinton and Trump’s Most Common Phrases

25JulyLeximania.grCorpora, Linguistics, Newsclinton, corpora, discourse analysis, trump

Linguists dissected over 100,000 words from their speeches. By Cara Giaimo And Sarah Laskow JULY 21, 2016 The Republican National Convention is entering its final night, but people can’t stop talking about the words in Melania Trump’s Monday evening speech—because she borrowed a significant amount of them from a 2008 speech by Michelle Obama. After

8th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS 2016), 4-7 December 2016, Abu Dhabi, UAE

25JulyLeximania.grConferences, Events, Newsconference, NLP, uae, wifs

EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE **************************************************************************** 8th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS 2016) 4-7 December 2016, Abu Dhabi, UAE http://www.wifs2016.org/ **************************************************************************** The IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) is the primary annual event organized by the IEEE Information Forensics and Security (IFS) Technical Committee. Its major objective is to bring together researchers from