An international Workshop on Mediterranean Security and Culture 3-7/07/2019, Corfu, Greece

GeoLab / Ionian University and BUCSIS / University of Buckingham will be organising the first Summer School in Mediterranean security, from July 3 rd to 7 th 2019. Three days (July 4, 5 and 6) of lectures and discussions with a multinational team of experts will provide a unique opportunity to become familiar with the most crucial security developments across the Mediterranean basin, including terrorism and radicalization, hybrid warfare, the emergence of China in the region, the re-emergence of Russia and the on-going challenge of irregular migration flows. For the full…

[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 a particular emphasis on the need for communicating about location across different contexts and for diverse purposes, and the particular challenges these differences cause for automatic generation, extraction and interpretation of natural language descriptions of…

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 cyberbullying, hate speech, and scapegoating. In online contexts, aggressive behavior may be more frequent than in face-to-face interaction, which can poison the social climates within online communities. The last few years have seen a surge…

Η ΠΕΕΜΠΙΠ στην 13η ΔΕΘΒ: Ανοιχτό εργαστήρι συλλογικής λογοτεχνικής μετάφρασης ισπανικά-ελληνικά

Η ΠΕΕΜΠΙΠ στο Στέκι της Μετάφρασης, 13η Διεθνής Έκθεση Βιβλίου Θεσσαλονίκης – 12-15 Μαΐου 2016  «Haciendo las cosas mal» ΑΝΟΙΧΤΟ ΕΡΓΑΣΤΗΡΙ συλλογικής λογοτεχνικής μετάφρασης ισπανικά – ελληνικά ΠΡΟΣΚΛΗΣΗ ΣΥΜΜΕΤΟΧΗΣ Την Κυριακή 15 Μαΐου και ώρα 17:00 – 19:00, στην Αίθουσα Νικόλας Γερμανός (Περίπτερο 8, Helexpo) και στο πλαίσιο του Φεστιβάλ μετάφρασης της 13ης Διεθνούς Έκθεσης Βιβλίου Θεσσαλονίκης, η Πανελλήνια Ένωση Επαγγελματιών Μεταφραστών Πτυχιούχων Ιονίου Πανεπιστημίου (ΠΕΕΜΠΙΠ) διοργανώνει εργαστήρι συλλογικής μετάφρασης από τα ισπανικά στα ελληνικά. Το κείμενο που επιλέξαμε ως «πρώτη ύλη» για το εργαστήρι –με την άδεια του συγγραφέα– είναι ένα απόσπασμα από το μυθιστόρημα με…

Diachronic Change in New Englishes: Prospects and Challenges

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Diachronic Change in New Englishes: Prospects and Challenges Full-day workshop at ISLE 4 in Poznań, Poland, 18-21 September 2016 Convenors: Robert Fuchs (University of Münster), Thorsten Brato (University of Regensburg) and Ariane M. Borlongan (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Outline The last two decades have seen a dramatic upsurge in corpus-based research on New Englishes, largely thanks to the International Corpus of English project (ICE, Greenbaum 1991). The two primary aims of this research program were, arguably, to (1) uncover patterns of unity and diversity among these varieties, i.e. how…