[Workshop] Speaking of Location 2019: Communicating about Space

A workshop to be held as part of the Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), 10th September 2019, Regensburg, Germany Call for Papers Research into the description of location using human (natural) language as been approached from linguistics, geospatial, and computer science perspectives. This interdisciplinary combined workshop and tutorial will explore current developments in the area with

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Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code (https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/)is a global programme which offers student developers stipends to writecode for various open source software projects.  Students work for 3months on a project with mentoring from open source developers, andreceive a stipend which is paid in 3 stages – if they successfullycomplete the project, the full stipend is between US$3000

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HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Brand new year, a new door opening for making changes, for exploring new paths, for finally deciding to take that first step towards your wants and needs. You are the essential part in this journey, remember that. Nothing gets done unless you decide to do it. So, here’s toasting to all of YOU !

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3rd Workshop on Abusive Language Online (ALW3)

ACL 2019 (Florence, Italy), August 01 or 02, 2019 Submission deadline: April 25, 2019 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/alw3 Submission link: https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2018/ALW2/ Overview Interaction amongst users on social networking platforms can enable constructive and insightful conversations and civic participation; however, on many sites that encourage user interaction, verbal abuse has become commonplace, leading to negative outcomes such as

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Training programme for new translators of Greek literature

Education and professional training programme for new translators of Greek literature The programme is a new initiative operating under the auspices of the Academy of Athens. It is funded by the Kostas and Eleni Ourani Foundation and the Petros Haris Foundation and offers scholarships each year to selected foreign students to enable them to live

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9e édition de l’université d’été de la traduction financière (UETF) – 9th Summer School for Financial Translators, Brussels, July 4-6 2018

Chers collègues, J’ai le plaisir de vous annoncer que les inscriptions à la 9e édition de l’université d’été de la traduction financière (UETF) sont désormais ouvertes. Organisée tous les 2 ans par la Société française des traducteurs (SFT), cette formation se tiendra du 4 au 6 juillet 2018 dans l’auditorium de BNP Paribas Fortis –

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2nd CFP – Laughter Workshop, Sorbonne University, Paris, 27-28 September, 2018

2nd CFP: Laughter Workshop, Sorbonne University, Paris, 27-28 September, 2018 http://pages.isir.upmc.fr/~pelachaud/site/LaughterWorkshop18.html Non-verbal vocalisations in human-human and human-machine interactions play important roles in displaying social and affective behaviors and in controlling the flow of interaction. Laughter, sighs, filled pauses, and short utterances such as feedback responses are among some of the non-verbal vocalisations that have been studied

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Participants sought: “Exploring cognitive effort in translation and post-editing of MT output: Insights from the English-Greek language pair”

Είσαι επαγγελματίας μεταφραστής/τρια με 5ετή τουλάχιστον εμπειρία, γλώσσα εργασίας τα Αγγλικά και μητρική γλώσσα τα Ελληνικά; Μπορείς να δηλώσεις εθελοντική συμμετοχή στην έρευνα της κας Βιβελμίνης Σωσώνη (Vilelmini Sosoni), Λέκτορα στο Τμήμας μας, και της κας Μαρίας Στασιμιώτη (Stasimioti Maria), υποψήφιας διδάκτορα. Πρόσκληση για συμμετοχή σε έρευνα “Μελετώντας τη γνωσιακή προσπάθεια στη μετάφραση και τη

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[Trainship] European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) – 1 traineeship in Entity and Sentential-level Sentiment Analysis in the News

The Text and Data Mining Unit of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) is looking to fill one traineeship position in the field of: Entity and Sentential-level Sentiment Analysis in the News If you are interested, please follow the instructions provided at http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=TR&site=IPR (Code: 2018-IPR-I-000-9856 – ISPRA). Deadline: 26/04/2017 Job description:                  http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showprj.php?type=T&id=5200 Traineeship rules:    

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Σεμινάρια Μεθοδολογίας Υποψηφίων Διδακτόρων (Athens PhD Seminars), 6-15 Φεβρουαρίου 2018

Αγαπητοί συνάδελφοι και φίλοι, Με μεγάλη χαρά θα ήθελα να σας ενημερώσω ότι τα Σεμινάρια Μεθοδολογίας Υποψηφίων Διδακτόρων (Athens PhD Seminars) πραγματοποιούνται για τρίτη χρονιά από το Εργαστήριο Ευρωπαϊκής Ενοποίησης και Πολιτικής του Τμήματος Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης (ΕΚΠΑ). Τα σεμινάρια αυτά αποτελούν μέρος του εκπαιδευτικού προγράμματος Jean Monnet Module 2015-2018 “Moving the EU

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Responsibility and Evidence in Trumpian Discourse

Trumped Up Words Adam Hodges November 3, 2017 It started as an innocuous press conference in the White House Rose Garden. The President and Senate Majority Leader would meet with reporters to emphasize, with typical Trumpian overstatement, that they were “closer than ever before.” Then Trump got that question about the death of four soldiers killed

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IATE widget demo setup // iate advanced search template // To specify a configuration, you have to assign it to the iateConfig variable BEFORE embedding the widget. // Please refer to the search widget guide for specific customisation options. // For a basic installation example, please refer to the default_template_basic.html file. const iateConfig = { verbose: false, number_of_results: 20, form_is_shown: true, query_is_automatically_launched: false, // the iate advanced search template form contains most of the available fields: // query, source language, target language, matching type, term type, primary status, and source and target term reliability // we do not specify available_values for source and target language fields and for the source and target reliability fields as we will use the default values form: { query: { name: "Query", visible: true, default: "", mandatory: true, type: "text", }, sourceLanguages: { name: "From", visible: true, default: "", mandatory: true, type: "singlechoice", }, targetLanguages: { name: "To", visible: true, default: [], mandatory: true, type: "multichoice", }, matching: { name: "Matching type", visible: true, default: 3, // as we want to exclude some values which would come in the default, here we specify the available values manually available_values: [ { code: 3, name: "Exact match" }, { code: 1, name: "All words" }, { code: 9, name: "Search by ID" }, ], mandatory: true, type: "singlechoice", }, termType: { name: "Term type", visible: true, // as we want to exclude some values which would come in the default, here we specify the available values manually available_values: [ { code: 4, name: "Term" }, { code: 0, name: "Abbreviation" }, { code: 1, name: "Formula" }, { code: 2, name: "Phrase" }, { code: 3, name: "Short Form" }, ], mandatory: true, type: "multichoice", }, primarity: { name: "Primary status", visible: true, // here we specify the available_values in order to have them sorted in a different way than what the default would offer available_values: [ { code: 1, name: "Primary" }, { code: 0, name: "Not primary" }, ], mandatory: false, // if a field is not mandatory and nothing is selected by the user, the field is ignored (searches in 'all') type: "multichoice", }, reliability_sl: { name: "Term reliability (source)", visible: true, mandatory: false, type: "multichoice", }, reliability_tl: { name: "Term reliability (target)", visible: true, mandatory: false, type: "multichoice", }, }, hitlist: { compact: true, show_term_ref: true, term_ref_label: "Term reference", show_definition: true, definition_label: "Definition", show_definition_ref: true, definition_ref_label: "Definition reference", show_ll_note: true, ll_note_label: "Language note", show_ll_note_ref: true, ll_note_ref_label: "Language note reference", show_tl_note: true, tl_note_label: "Term note", show_tl_note_ref: true, tl_note_ref_label: "Term note reference", show_context: true, context_label: "Context", show_context_ref: true, context_ref_label: "Context reference", show_domains: true, domains_label: "Domains", show_reliability: true, reliability_label: "Reliability", show_lifecycle: true, lifecycle_label: "Lifecycle", show_origin: true, origin_label: "Origin", show_language_usage: false, language_usage_label: "Language usage", show_language_usage_ref: false, language_usage_ref_label: "Language usage reference", show_regional_usage: false, regional_usage_label: "Regional usage", show_regional_usage_ref: false, regional_usage_ref_label: "Regional usage reference", }, };