Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
Call for papers (abstract deadline 15th May) The first international research days (IRDs) on Social Media and CMC Corpora for the eHumanities will be held in Rennes, France on 23-24th October 2015 and will focus on communication and interactions stemming from networks such as the Internet or telecommunications, as well as mono and multimodal, synchronous … Read more
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Toda la información sobre el Consejo de Gobierno Reunión del Consejo de Gobierno, en sesión ordinaria, 30 de abril de 2015 a las 9:00 horas en primera convocatoria y media hora más tarde en segunda, en la Sala de Juntas del edificio Convalecencia, que se desarrollará conforme al siguiente ORDEN DEL DÍA 1. Aprobación, si … Read more
According to Prof. McEnery, people in conversations avoid using words such as “austerity”, only once in a 5 million corpus. Listen to the interview below. Surprising? Don’t think so. “Expected” words do not crop up when data is examined. We have found that the UK legislation 2007-2011 on immigration does not include the lemma “immigrant” … Read more
Presentation by Advaith Siddharthan, University of Aberdeen Publications Aim: to reduce linguistic complexity: lexis, syntax, text length, information order, cohesive texts are easier to follow, numerical simplification, improve quality (texts with errors are difficult to read), spelling and grammar checks, how engaging a text is (personal narratives), humour. Monolingual translation: one language into the same … Read more
Presentation by Phillippe Blache, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université Part of the Measuring ling. complexity: A multidisciplinary perspective workshop at UCL, Belgium, 24 April 2015 Complexity means different things to different people System vs Structural complexity (Dahl, 2004) Existing models: incomplete dependency hypothesis, dependency locality theory, early intermediate constituents principle, activation. However, they … Read more