Written by Alexander Raginsky 
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Written by Alexander Raginsky We are happy to announce Translation Memory (TM) Cleaner , a software for identifying the translation units in translation memories or parallel corpora that contains segments that are not translations of each other. TM Cleaner has the following features : 1. It is written in python and java. 2. It is hosted at github :
Written by Alexander Raginsky The press releases and general hype around machine translation issued by IT giants like Google, Skype/Microsoft and IBM has increased the expectations of machine translation (MT) in recent years. Such PR work has led even the BBC to question whether human translators are facing the end of the line. This is only opposed by a
Written by Alexander Raginsky Ever since Apple’s Siri heralded the age of intelligent assistants (IAs) four years ago — followed by Microsoft, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook — pundits have complained that intelligent assistant technology isn’t living up to its promise. The truth is that innovation in this domain, as in all technological domains, follows a predictable cycle and goes
Written by Alexander Raginsky Lancaster University is pleased to offer six free training events that cover the techniques of corpus linguistics, computational analysis of language and geographical information systems. The following six Summer Schools will run in July 2016: o Corpus linguistics for Language studies o Corpus linguistics for Social Science o Corpus linguistics for the Humanities o Statistics
Written by Alexander Raginsky The Survey of English Usage at University College London (UCL) will be running the fourth three-day Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics on 6-8 July 2016. The Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics is an introduction to Corpus Linguistics for students of language and linguistics and teachers of English. Participants should have a basic knowledge
Written by Alexander Raginsky The Survey of English Usage at University College London (UCL) will be running the fourth three-day Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics on 6-8 July 2016. The Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics is an introduction to Corpus Linguistics for students of language and linguistics and teachers of English. Participants should have a basic knowledge
Written by Alexander Raginsky Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers 39th ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2016)
Written by Alexander Raginsky The 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval 20-23 March 2016 Padua, Italy Student Travel Grant Deadline: 19 February 2016 http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/ http://twitter.com/ecir2016 ########################################################## The ECIR 2016 conference is pleased to announce the availability of 15 student travel grants made available by ELIAS (http://elias-network.eu/). Grant Scope ————— The ECIR 2016 student travel grant program provides up to
Written by Alexander Raginsky Games are a great testing ground for developing smarter, more flexible algorithms that have the ability to tackle problems in ways similar to humans. Creating programs that are able to play games better than the best humans has a long history – the first classic game mastered by a computer was noughts and crosses (also
