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Through the corpora list ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: “Culture & Technology” – European Summer University in Digital Humanities (ESU DH C & T) 28th of July – 07th of August 2015, University of Leipzig http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ As the application phase closes soon (31st of May 2015) we would like to draw your attention (again) to the various types of … Read more

  With Prof. Bulut and Dr. Manssoor Abbassi. Developing corpus-based resources for language learning: looking back in “hope” from Pascual Pérez-Paredes

Call for papers (abstract deadline 15th May) The first international research days (IRDs) on Social Media and CMC Corpora for the eHumanities will be held in Rennes, France on 23-24th October 2015 and will focus on communication and interactions stemming from networks such as the Internet or telecommunications, as well as mono and multimodal, synchronous … Read more

Presentation by Advaith Siddharthan, University of Aberdeen Publications Aim: to reduce linguistic complexity: lexis, syntax, text length, information order, cohesive texts are easier to follow, numerical simplification, improve quality (texts with errors are difficult to read), spelling and grammar checks, how engaging a text is (personal narratives), humour. Monolingual translation: one language into the same … Read more

Presentation by Alex Housen Part of the Measuring ling. complexity: A multidisciplinary perspective workshop at UCL, Belgium, 24 April 2015 Complexity in SLA research Early days: 70s and 80s; simplification vs complexification 1990-2010s: rarely investigates for its own sake As indepedent variable: task complexity, complexity of the L2 target feature As dependent variable: descriptor of L2 … Read more