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EU funds MOLTO – Will it work for Greek?

I was reading Cordis and I saw that the EU is funding the “Multilingual on-line translation” tool (a.k.a. MOLTO). It is an ambitious tool but I am afraid that, at least for Greek, we won’t see much of a development. “Why” you would ask?

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EMT Network – The Sequel

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After a rather busy ten days I am trying to catch up on my reading. As Murphy’s Law goes I stumbled on another little article that talked about the EMT Network (I wrote in one of my earlier postings about this network and the fact that no Greek university had been included).

Why was there a language controversy in Greece?

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Lecture – In Peter Mackridge’s new book “Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766-1976” (Oxford University Press, 2009), he explores the ideological, social, and linguistic causes and effects of the Greek language question in its many and passionate manifestations over two turbulent centuries. He shows the crucial way in which Greek linguistic identities have interacted in the creation of the modern nation since the War of Independence 1821. On Monday, September 14th, he will give a lecture entitled “Why was there a language contoversy in Greeece?” raising some of the issues addressed in this work. The lecture will be co-hosted by the British School at Athens and the Oxford Alumni Society of Greece.

Trados στα 363 Ευρώ τελική τιμή!

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Τελικά η γενικότερη κρίση έχει και τα καλά της: Το Trados έχει πλέον προσφορές ιδιαίτερα δελεαστικές. Η ORCO, ο επίσημος μεταπωλήτης της Trados στην Ελλάδα, προσφέρει την πλήρη έκδοση SDL Trados Studio 2009 FL Plus στην τιμή των 295 ευρώ, πλέον ΦΠΑ (δηλ τελική τιμή στα 363 Ευρώ), μια έκπτωση της τάξης του 40%. Ενώ όσοι έχουν φοιτητική ιδιότητα ή τους καλύπτει

Un poste de professeur profil “LINGUISTIQUE ET INFORMATIQUE” (n° 0597) sera ouvert à l’université de Strasbourg pour la rentrée 2011. Profil enseignement Le professeur recruté prendra en charge des enseignements de linguistique mettant en jeu l’informat

19AugustLeximania.grNews

Un poste de professeur profil “LINGUISTIQUE ET INFORMATIQUE” (n° 0597) sera ouvert à l’université de Strasbourg pour la rentrée 2011. Profil enseignement Le professeur recruté prendra en charge des enseignements de linguistique mettant en jeu l’informatique, notamment la linguistique de corpus et, pour renforcer le cursus de Sciences du langage, pourrait également assurer (selon les