Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
perezparedes The 1st International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Informal Text (NLPIT 2015) In conjunction with The International Conference on Web Engineering(ICWE 2015) June 23, 2015, Rotterdam, The Netherlands http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~badiehm/nlpit2015/ Overview The rapid growth of Internet usage in the last two decades adds new challenges to understand the informal user generated content (UGC) on the … Read more
Ruth Breeze Ideology in corporate language: discourse analysis using Wmatrix3 2013 Annual Reports from leading companies (16) in financial services, mining, food and pharmaceutical Parts: first part, non technical, discursive, visually interesting Reference corpus: 1st BNC Sampler Business & BNC Informative texts but then only BNC Business Use of semantic categories Three case studies: size … Read more
Bergenholtz, Henning (University of Aarhus, Denmark): A corpus analysis is a superfluous ceremony and a complete waste of your time and the government’s money. This presentation is an interesting review of attitudes towards corpus-based analyses of language.
AELINCO 2015 Conference, U. Valladolid, Spain Andre Hardie Keynote What follows is my own notes and understanding of Hardie’s keynote. How big is big data? N= ALL? Non manual curation of the database Must be mined or statistically summarised (manual not posssible) Pattern finding: trend modelling, data mining & machine learning Language big data: Google n-gram … Read more
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Two of my favourite paintings by Edward Burne -Jones. The Hours The wheel of fortune