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2 PhD positions in text mining and decision support at NTNU by editorial staff — last modified 2010-02-18 11:42

2 PhD Research Fellowships in Healthcare Information Analysis and Decision Support The positions are offered by the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI), affiliated with the...

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Ph.D. position in Computational Linguistics in Stockholm by editorial staff — last modified 2009-10-02 14:10

The Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University announces one Ph.D. position in Computational Linguistics and three Ph.D. positions in General Linguistics/Phonetics. For details, please see: http://www.su.se/english/about/vacancies/phd-studies

The deadline for applications is Thursday, October 29.

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Centre for Science Engineering and Technology looking for LT specialists by editorial staff — last modified 2008-09-08 13:41

The major research strands within the CNGL are Integrated Language Technologies (ILT), Digital Content Management (DCM), Localisation Technologies and Processes (LOC) and Systems Framework...

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Whitesmoke awarded for its language checker by editorial staff — last modified 2008-04-15 08:40

WhiteSmoke has been awarded a top five-star rating in the definitive guide to the best sites on the Internet - the Good Web Guide.The company develops US and British English editions of its grammar...

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BYU Corpus of American English by editorial staff — last modified 2008-02-22 11:01

"BYU Corpus of American English" (1990-2007) has 360 million word and is freely available online (http://www.americancorpus.org). New texts will be added at least two times each year from this point...

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Acapela launches braille text and more voices by editorial staff — last modified 2007-12-17 11:12

Already available in 20 languages and 45 different voices, Infovox Desktop adds 4 new voices to its portfolio: Peter (UK English), Rosa (North American Spanish), Louise (French Canadian) and Alice...

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BNCweb Version 4 released by editorial staff — last modified 2007-12-17 10:45

BNCweb is a web-based client program for searching and retrieving lexical, grammatical and textual data from the British National Corpus (BNC). It relies on the Corpus Query Processor (CQP) of...

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Scandinavian and English translations at GramTrans by editorial staff — last modified 2007-12-03 14:47

GramTrans is a cooperation between two small specialized language technology companies, GrammarSoft ApS, based in Denmark, and Kaldera Språkteknologi AS, based in Norway. GramTrans offers high...

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New Swedish parser by editorial staff — last modified 2007-11-12 10:38

We are happy to announce the release of MaltParser 1.0.0. MaltParser is a language-independent system for data-driven dependency parsing, which can be used to induce a parsing model from treebank...

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Portal de tecnologies multilingües by editorial staff — last modified 2007-10-22 16:34

The Portal de tecnologies multilingües offers you information on products and services of linguistic engineering that are useful for the automatic management of multilingual communications. Areas covered are e.g. multingual search engineering, automatic text summarization, dialogue systems, and machine translation.

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Lingtech launches fast machine translation by editorial staff — last modified 2007-09-24 13:41

Lingtech has replaced its translation system with a new statistical machine translation system (SMT) developed in collaboration with PhD. student Jakob Elming and associate professor Dan Hardt at...

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Machine translation into sign language by editorial staff — last modified 2007-09-18 10:28

IBM in Great Britain has developed a machine translation prototype for translations between spoken English and British sign language (BSL). The system is called SiSi (Say It Sign It), and it has...

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Easier to write sms with a pen by editorial staff — last modified 2007-08-20 14:56

Per Ola Kristensson, Linköping University, has written a doctoral thesis, Discrete and Continuous Shape Writing for Text Entry and Control, in which new techniques with pen and touch-screen on mobile phones can make text writing a lot faster. The solution spells “shape writing”, where motion patterns in the writing are recognized.

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Prize for Best PhD Thesis 2006 to GSLT student by editorial staff — last modified 2007-05-22 10:17

Magnus Sahlgren has been awarded the prize for the best PhD thesis 2006 by the Faculty of Humanities at Stockholm University. Magnus defended his PhD thesis on "The Word-Space Model" in the spring 2006. The prize comes with 20,000 SEK.

Blark: questionnaire on language resources by editorial staff — last modified 2007-05-11 13:48

Do you wish it would be easier to find Swedish language resources to use in applications or for educational purposes? You can contribute to this by answering a questionnaire. Research and development...

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Readspeaker recognized by Tim O’Reilly by editorial staff — last modified 2007-05-09 15:30

Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media and inventor of ”Web 2.0”, writes about the speech synthesis service Readspeaker at O'Reilly radar. O’Reilly Media owns some of the world's most...

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Tyda.se gives translations between English and Swedish by editorial staff — last modified 2007-04-25 10:06

Tyda.se is a freely available word list for translations between Swedish and English. It translates both words and abbreviations, corrects misspellings, shows examples of word use and gives the correct pronounciation. Users ca add new words, abbreviations and terms.

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Lionbridge Translation Management Platform is the Fastest Growing Language Technology Solution in 2006 by editorial staff — last modified 2007-03-26 14:54

Logoport, the linguistic engine behind Freeway, now supports more than 10,000 users worldwide just one year after its public release. Contributors in the Logoport community include client teams, project managers, translators, and engineers via secure web connections. Read more.

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IBM looks for LT students by editorial staff — last modified 2007-01-12 11:06

The IBM Development Center Boeblingen/Germany is looking for students supporting us in the field of text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition and dialog application design. The applicant...

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The ACL has created a new wiki specifically for Computational Linguistics by editorial staff — last modified 2006-12-14 14:23

The wiki is running under the auspices of The Association for Computational Linguistics. The purpose of this wiki is to facilitate the sharing of information on all aspects of Computational Linguistics: it contains not only articles about corpus linguistics, speech recognition and so on, but also information about conferences, mailing lists and other useful information.

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