Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
The 14th meeting of Corpus Linguistics in the South will be held on Saturday March 4, 2017 at Birkbeck, University of London. To register for this event, please send an email to Rachelle Vessey (r.vessey@bbk.ac.uk) and include the following details: Name Affiliation Email address Please also indicate if you would like to join in … Read more
From the TAALES website: Kyle, K. & Crossley, S. A. (2015). Automatically assessing lexical sophistication: Indices, tools, findings, and application. TESOL Quarterly 49(4), pp. 757-786. doi: 10.1002/tesq.194 TAALES is a tool that measures over 400 classic and new indices of lexical sophistication, and includes indices related to a wide range of sub-constructs. TAALES indices have … Read more
4th Learner Corpus Research Conference Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, 5‐7 October 2017 http://lcr2017.eurac.edu Abstracts should be submitted through EasyChair by Sunday 15 January 2017. Notification of the outcome of the review process will be sent by 31 March 2017. Call for Papers Following the successful conferences in Louvain‐la‐Neuve (Belgium) in 2011, Bergen (Norway) in 2013 and Nijmegen … Read more
The fifth biennial conference on electronic lexicography, eLex 2017, will take place in Holiday Inn Leiden, Netherlands, from 19-21 September 2017. The conference aims to investigate state-of-the-art technologies and methods for automating the creation of dictionaries. Over the past two decades, advances in NLP techniques have enabled the automatic extraction of different kinds of lexicographic information from corpora … Read more
:::::::::::::::: Through the corpora list :::::::::::::::: We are happy to announce the release a new version of BabelNet, a project recently featured in a TIME magazine article. BabelNet (http://babelnet.org) is the largest multilingual encyclopedic dictionary and semantic network created by means of the seamless integration of the largest multilingual Web encyclopedia – i.e., Wikipedia – with the most … Read more
KONVENS 2016 http://www.linguistics.rub.de/konvens16/ The Conference on Natural Language Processing (“Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache”, KONVENS) aims at offering a broad perspective on current research and developments within the interdisciplinary field of natural language processing. It allows researchers from all disciplines relevant to this field of research to present their work. The conference will take place … Read more