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9th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, 3-6 July, Grenoble

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9esJournées Internationales de Linguistique de Corpus (JLC2017) **** English version below 3-6 juillet 2017, Grenoble Appel à communications https://jlc2017.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/ Lancées en 2001 par Geoffrey Williams à l’université de Lorient – Bretagne Sud, les Journées Internationales de Linguistique de Corpus (JLC) réunissent régulièrement la communauté interdisciplinaire dont l’objet de recherche porte sur les corpus linguistiques. Après

2017 Sentiment Analysis Symposium, 27-28/06/17, New York, USA

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The 2017 Sentiment Analysis Symposium (http://2017.sentimentsymposium.com) takes place June 27-28 in New York, an industry focused conference that tackles the business value of sentiment, opinion, and emotion and the underlying NLP, social, AI, and analytical technologies. Presentation proposals are welcome for the: – Plenary Program – Research and Technology Workshop – NLP and Sentiment in

Arrival – To geek out or not?

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Alright people, by now you must have seen the movie “Arrival” (not to be confused with the other movie “The Arrival” where Charlie Sheen is chasing after some aliens that look like a satyr but not quite). There are several articles out there talking about the role of the linguists in the movie, or of

Troy Reimink: ‘Arrival’ a time capsule

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BY TROY REIMINK, Nov 25, 2016 Good movies are rarely about what they appear to be about. Most comedies are, right below the surface, quite sad. Most horror movies are political statements. Speculative or dystopian science fiction is always about the present. Post-apocalyptic stories are about pre-apocalyptic society. Zombie movies are about the living. Films about

Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Arrival’: When Aliens and Linguists

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Uri Klein Nov 26, 2016 2:51 AM Offering a different take on the aliens-invade-Earth  theme in sci-fi movies, this film considers the power  of language to transform reality and suggests that  we reconsider our conception of time. Twelve spacecraft land randomly in 12 different countries, including Russia, China, Pakistan and the United States. These are not