April 2016 - Prof Pérez-Paredes

Using textutil on the mac terminal

26/04/2016 by perezparedes

The following was originally found on https://developer.apple.com https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/textutil.1.html NAME textutil — text utility SYNOPSIS textutil [command_option] [other_options] file … DESCRIPTION textutil can be used to manipulate text files of various formats, using the mechanisms provided by the Cocoa text system. The first argument indicates the operation to perform, one of: -help Show the usage information … Read more

Convert various text file formats in the OS X Terminal with textutil

26/04/2016 by perezparedes

Original post here. Copyright MacIssues. There are a number of ways you can convert a text document to another format, by simply opening it in a text editor like TextEdit and then choosing Save As from the File menu to export it. With TextEdit, you can choose Word, Rich Text, Plain Text, and OpenDocument Text, … Read more

CFP Multimodality in electronic feedback on writing

26/04/2016 by perezparedes

Call for papers for a special issue in Writing & Pedagogy (Equinox), (Winter 2017, 9:2) titled “Multimodality in electronic feedback on writing”. It can be found under the following link: https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/WAP/announcement/view/130

Wordcloud of the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee: EU membership and UK science

20/04/2016 by perezparedes

HOUSE OF LORDS Science and Technology Select Committee 2nd Report of Session 2015–16 EU membership and UK science Access the report Create your own word cloud

#CFP Dialogue and Discourse journal

15/04/2016 by perezparedes

From the Corpora-list Submissions are invited on all topics in the formal, computational, or psycholinguistic study of dialogue and discourse. Submissions received by May 1st will be considered for this issue, which is scheduled to appear in November 2016. Submissions received after this date will be considered for the next regular issue. Dialogue and Discourse … Read more