The Spoken British National Corpus 2014 (Spoken BNC2014) is now available!

A message from Tony McEnery: Dear all On behalf of Lancaster University and Cambridge University Press, it gives us great pleasure to announce the public release of the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 (Spoken BNC2014). The Spoken BNC2014 contains 11.5 million words of transcribed informal British English conversation, recorded by (mainly English) speakers between the

SemEval 2018 - Hypernym Discovery

SemEval-2018 Task 9: Hypernym Discovery

Training data released: https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/17119#participate  Evaluation deadline: 29 Jan 2018, 23:59 GMT The organizers of the SemEval-2018 – Task 9 are pleased to announce the shared task on Hypernym Discovery. Hypernymy, i.e. the capability for generalization, lies at the core of human cognition. It is not surprising, therefore, that identifying hypernymic relations (i.e., is-a relations) has been pursued

Watch keynotes online Live – Electronic lexicography in the 21st century

Electronic lexicography in the 21st century: lexicography from scratch. Watch keynotes online. Interact with the presenters. Free. No registration required. Details of live streaming on https://elex.link/elex2017/live-streaming/ Follow us for latest updates: Twitter https://twitter.com/elex_conference Facebook https://www.facebook.com/elexconference/ Tuesday, 19 September 09:30 – 10:30 FRIEDA STEURS The Dutch Language Institute: The Central Hub for Dutch Language Resources   Wednesday, 20 September

AI School | Using Artificial Intelligence to boost business results, 4-6/10, SC!FY & ΕΚΕΦΕ Δημόκριτος

Η Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη (Artificial Intelligence – ΑΙ) αλλάζει καθημερινά τον τρόπο που εργαζόμαστε, που αναζητούμε πληροφορίες, που προσφέρουμε υπηρεσίες, που κάνουμε τις αγορές μας…Έρευνα της Gartner παρουσιάζει το “Artificial Intelligence Everywhere” ως μία από τις 3 “κυρίαρχες μεγα-τάσεις” στην τεχνολογία. Όροι όπως Chatbots, Machine / Deep Learning ακούγονται όλο και πιο συχνά. Τι όμως είναι hype και τι μπορεί να φέρει πρακτικά

Knowledge Organization – what’s the story? – London 11-12 September 2017

If you haven’t already booked, there are only 11 days to go before the start of our biennial conference, at Canada Water Library and Cultural Space in central London; and there’s a great programme  with interesting sessions like “Transforming Open Data to Linked Open Data using Ontologies in Big Data Environments of the Brazilian Govenment”,  “Using Knowledge Organization to