Ten of the best collective nouns

From a murder of crows to a misbelief of painters, Chloe Rhodes investigates the intriguing origins of her favourite collective nouns Source: www.theguardian.com See on Scoop.it – Applied linguistics and knowledge engineering

La Universidad tóxica

Fotografía de Patricio Alcaraz1 (Flickr) Recomiendo la lectura de este artículo sobe el trabajo del profesor universitario publicado El Conficencial. Contiene, eso sí, algunas opiniones y generalizaciones que no comparto en absoluto por simplistas, quizá por influencia del populismo imperante en el discurso en los medios,

Release of SciSumm14 an annotated corpus for scientific summarization.

From the Corpora list:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: SciSumm14 is an open repository with a corpus of ACL Computational Linguistics research papers and their annotations, contributed to the public by the Web IR / NLP Group at the National University of Singapore (WING-NUS).  This corpus is offered as a part of the SciSumm Shared Task in TAC 2014. The SciSumm Shared Task … Read more

#CFP Words, Words, Words – Corpora and Lexis 36th ICAME conference

The University of Trier has the honour of organizing the 36th Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English in Trier, Germany Conference dates: 27–31 May 2015 The theme chosen for the conference is: Words, Words, Words – Corpora and Lexis ******************************************************************* Please support our conference grant proposal by signing up … Read more