Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
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Orden del día 13 de marzo de 2015 a las 9:00 horas en primera convocatoria y media hora más tarde en segunda, en la Sala de Juntas del edificio Convalecencia, que se desarrollará conforme al siguiente 1. Aprobación, si procede, del acta de la sesión anterior, celebrada el día 6 de febrero de 2015. 2. Informe del Sr. … Read more
Lexicoder is a Java-based, multi-platform software for automated content analysis of text. Lexicoder was developed by Lori Young and Stuart Soroka, and programmed by Mark Daku (initially at McGill University, and now at Penn, Michigan, and McGill respectively). The current version of the software (2.0) is freely available – for academic use only. Additions and … Read more
Getting Lost in a Great Novel by Canada-based photographer, aka boywonder, #artpeople www.artpeople.net
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.