Month: June 2015

Research Associate position University of Cambridge PheneBank project

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From the corpora list ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: We are inviting applications for a 33 month Research Associate position in the University of Cambridge, working with Nigel Collier (PI) on the PheneBank project. The deadline for applications is the 2nd August 2015 with the successful candidate expected to start at the end of September/early October 2015. The project … Read more

#CFP Learner Autonomy and Web 2.0 @CALICOnsortium

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Provisional Book Title: Learner Autonomy and Web 2.0 Call for Abstracts The 2017 CALICO Monograph, published by Equinox, aims to explore how the notion of learner autonomy is being reshaped within Web 2.0 environments. In early definitions, dating from the 1980s,learner autonomy was largely conceived of in terms of individuals working in ‘self-access’ mode, selecting the learning … Read more

#cfp @fetlt2015 Future and Emerging Trends in Language Technologies

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Through the AESLA mail list ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Workshop on Future and Emerging Trends in Language Technologies Universidad de Sevilla, 19-20 November 2015 http://www.glc.us.es/fetlt2015/   The Workshop ‘Future and Emerging Trends in Language Technology‘ has been conceived as a meeting point where experts and professionals in the fields of language technologies and other converging areas will discuss the … Read more

New Directions in Corpus-based Translation Studies

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Through the Corpora List ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: The “Language Science Press” has just published the following open access book in their series “Translation and Multilingual NLP”: “NEW DIRECTIONS IN CORPUS-BASED TRANSLATION STUDIES” by Claudio Fantinuoli & Federico Zanettin (eds.) Please download your free copy from http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/76 ABSTRACT Corpus-based translation studies has become a major paradigm and research methodology … Read more

Let’s talk, Hawking says

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  Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking. Stephen Hawking