In this post, you can find the links to the free online course on Natural Language that Professor Dan Jurafsky & Chris Manning offered on Coursera in 2012. It was a very successful and well-designed course. It is an ideal…
Category: references
Under the References genre, we collect suggestions and pointers to the literature.
Book Review: Building and Using Comparable Corpora (Springer, 2013)
I would like to recommend “Building and Using Comparable Corpora” (edited by S. Sharoff, R. Rapp, P. Zweigenbaum and P. Fung) to those who are working with or are interested in multilingual and monolingual comparable corpora. The volume is an…
Spreading the Word about (Web)Genre Research
What is genre? Why is it useful to master genre conventions? Can we classify document genres automatically? Around the world, lots of researches and scholars belonging to a wide range of disciplines are trying to provide answers to these and…
Summary: Looking for Corpora…
Dear All, In this post I collect all the suggestions I got for the following request: “Looking for Corpora in….” http://www.forum.santini.se/2014/03/looking-for-corpora-to-explore-cross-linguality/ Big thanks to (hope I have not forgotten anybody): Johannes Heinecke, Dominika Rogozinska, Mohamed-Zakaria KURDI, Bartosz Ziólko, Olga Whelan,…
Distributional Semantics applied to Flickr® Tags
Upcoming Publications MARIANNA BOLOGNESI, International Center for Intercultural Exchange marianna.bolognesi@gmail.com Distributional Semantics meets Embodied Cognition: Flickr® as a database of semantic features Selected Papers from the 4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference (in press) Distributional models such as Latent Semantic Analysis…
Reading Suggestion: Adjectives and adverbs as indicators of affective language for automatic genre detection (2008)
Rittman, Robert and Nina Wacholder. (2008). Adjectives and adverbs as indicators of affective language for automatic genre detection. Proceedings of AISB 2008 Convention, Symposium on Affective Language. Aberdeen, Scotland, April 1-2, 2008. Abstract. We report the results of a systematic…
Beyond Topic: Genre and Search
One of the central problems of information retrieval (IR) is the difficulty of matching a document to a query in the absence of any contextual information about the searchers and the document creators. Genre is a context carrier and genre…
Genre, Social Action and Social Intelligence
An important dimension that has not been investigated so far is the relatedness among genre, social action and social intelligence. The interpretation of genre in terms of social action was put forward more than 25 years ago by Carolyn Miller…
University of Borås: lecture and seminar slides
Click on the highlighted words to download the slides of the lecture and seminar held at University of Borås on 11 April 2011.
Seminar’s Slides — Stockholm University
The powerpoint presentation of today’s seminar at Stockholm University (24 Feb 2011) can be downloaded from here