Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
From the Corpora List ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Corpus Linguistics 2015: In honour of the life and work of Geoffrey Leech REGISTRATION is now open The eighth international Corpus Linguistics conference (CL2015) will be held at Lancaster University from Tuesday 21st July 2015 to Friday 24th July 2015. The main conference will be preceded by a … Read more
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
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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