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eLex 2017: Lexicography from Scratch submission deadline 1 Feb 2017

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The fifth biennial conference on electronic lexicography, eLex 2017, will take place in Holiday Inn Leiden, Netherlands, from 19-21 September 2017. The conference aims to investigate state-of-the-art technologies and methods for automating the creation of dictionaries. Over the past two decades, advances in NLP techniques have enabled the automatic extraction of different kinds of lexicographic information from corpora … Read more

@TheAlphabetizer Order any list alphabetically

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The Alphabetizer is a computer tool for putting terms in alphabetical order. Use it to sort any list online, using your computer or mobile device. This web tool — and educational resource — provides sorting functions including the ability to: put items in alphabetical order, remove HTML, capitalize and lowercase words and phrases, ignore case, … Read more

Pre-announcing Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

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  ************************* Through the BAAL mail list ************************* The International Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017 will take place from Monday 24 to Friday 28 July at the University of Birmingham. Opening plenary Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham Keynote speakers Susan Conrad (Portland State University, US) Andrew Hardie (Lancaster University, UK) Christian Mair (University of Freiburg, Germany) … Read more

 Release of BABELNET 3.7

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  :::::::::::::::: Through the corpora list :::::::::::::::: We are happy to announce the release a new version of BabelNet, a project recently featured in a TIME magazine article. BabelNet (http://babelnet.org) is the largest multilingual encyclopedic dictionary and semantic network created by means of the seamless integration of the largest multilingual Web encyclopedia – i.e., Wikipedia – with the most … Read more

Education and Migration: Languages Foregrounded, Durham University

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  Education and Migration: Languages Foregrounded taking place at Durham University, UK from 21 to 23 October 2016. Please share the call and consider offering an abstract – details are provided in the attachment (including a publication opportunity) and brief highlights are included below. 21-23 (Friday – Sunday) October, 2016, School of Education, Durham University, … Read more