#cfp @fetlt2015 Future and Emerging Trends in Language Technologies

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

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

  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

Free ngram databases from COW14 web corpora

From the corpora list :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: We are pleased to announce the release of the first very large ngram databases derived from the giga-token COW14 web corpora. They are completely free (CC-BY) and can be downloaded without registration. We have applied no frequency thresholds whatsoever. In addition to the counted ngram lists, we offer raw versions such that everybody can create … Read more