Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
perezparedes 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
TIA 2015: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS —————————————————– Terminology and Artificial Intelligence 2015 4 November – 6 November 2015 University of Granada, Spain http://lexicon.ugr.es/tia2015/Home.html Terminology and Artificial Intelligence (TIA) 2015 will highlight the close connection between multilingual terminology, ontologies, and the representation of specialized knowledge. Knowledge, as regarded in Terminology, is something more complex than … Read more
Dice score gives very good results of collocation candidates. The only problem is that the values of the Dice score are usually very small numbers. We have defined logDice to fix this problem. Values of the logDice have the following features: – Theoretical maximum is 14, in case when all occurrences of X co-occur with Y and all … Read more