From Data to Knowledge – Digital literacy at the service of corpora

  By Paulo Martins. University of Mihno, Braga, 11/11/2021 Learning a programming language Coding literacy Learning a programming language is easier than learning a natural language (?), explore new scientific strategies, automate daily tasks, boost problem solving skills. NLP and data science Data: raw, unstructured vs information: structured, organized…useful. Some tools Webcrawlers: fetching comments is … Read more

SyntagNet

This information from corpora-bounces@uib.no SyntagNet, a resource with 88,000 lexical-semantic combinations, is now out! We are proud to announce that SyntagNet 1.0 (http://syntagnet.org) is now available for download at http://syntagnet.org/download. Developed at the Sapienza NLP group (http://nlp.uniroma1.it), the multilingual Natural Language Processing group at the Sapienza University of Rome, SyntagNet is a manually-curated large-scale lexical-semantic … Read more

The Conference on #NLP KONVES new deadline

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

Evaluating complexity in syntax

Presentation by Phillippe Blache, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université Part of the Measuring ling. complexity: A multidisciplinary perspective workshop at UCL, Belgium, 24 April 2015 Complexity means different things to different people System vs Structural complexity (Dahl, 2004) Existing models: incomplete dependency hypothesis, dependency locality theory, early intermediate constituents principle, activation. However, they … Read more