Final CfP: Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities

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Final Call for Papers: Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities 27-28 September 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia http://nl.ijs.si/janes/cmc-corpora2016/cfp ***Extended deadline: 15 June 2016*** Held in conjunction with 10th Language Technologies and Digital Humanities Conference 29 September – 1 October 2016 Ljubljana, Slovenia http://www.sdjt.si/jtdh-2016/en/ INTRODUCTION ============= The 4th conference CMC and Social Media Corpora for the

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Google feeds its AI machines steamy romance novels to improve natural language processing

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Google feeds its AI machines steamy romance novels to improve natural language processing Over the past couple of years, Google has been implementing a number of AI, or machine-learning technologies, in to its products. Whether it’s intuitive search within the Photos app, better automatic thumbnail creation in YouTube, ‘Smart Reply’ in Inbox, or just straight-out beating an

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Fifth Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, San Diego, USA

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The Fifth Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature invites you to San Diego, California. There will be an exciting program on June 16, two vastly promising invited talks and seven regular presentation which cut a nicely wide swath through our diverse area of interest. Do visit the workshop Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2016/ You will find the

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Twelve incredibly British phrases the rest of the world doesn’t understand

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Twelve incredibly British phrases the rest of the world doesn’t understand Posted 16 days ago by Narjas Zatat in offbeat Americans have always had a bizarre fixation with the Queen (a remnant of the empire George Washington couldn’t scrub away?) and her birthday seems to be no different. The Queen is turning 90 this week, and it

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12th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2016)

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Second CALL FOR PAPERS The 12th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2016) http://multiword.sourceforge.net/mwe2016 Workshop at ACL 2016 (Berlin, Germany), August 11, 2016 Endorsed by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics (SIGLEX; http://www.siglex.org/); and SIGLEX’s Multiword Expressions Section (SIGLEX-MWE; http://multiword.sourceforge.net/PHITE.php?sitesig=MWE) Submission deadline: Long & short papers – May 15,

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