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…
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Book Review: The Personal Weblog (Peter Lang, 2016)
Published here: LINGUIST List 28.2320, Wed May 24 2017 https://linguistlist.org/issues/28/28-2320.html AUTHOR(S): Schildhauer, Peter; TITLE: The Personal Weblog SUBTITLE: A Linguistic History SERIES: Hallesche Sprach- und Textforschung. Language and Text Studies. Recherches linguistiques et textuelles – Band 14 YEAR: 2016 PUBLISHER:…
Book Review: Fundamentals of Predictive Text Mining 2nd Ed. (2015)
Book Review: Weiss S. M., Indurkhya N. and Zhang T. (2015). Fundamentals of Predictive Text Mining. Springer-Verlag, London. Second Edition Informer website Winter 2016 Issue, Book Review The volume “Fundamentals of Predictive Text Mining”, 2nd ed. has nine chapters, a…
Book Review: Sequences in Language and Text (2015)
Book review by Marina Santini in publication on the LinguistList — http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-1505.html — Book announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/26/26-2205.html EDITOR: George K. Mikros EDITOR: Ján Macutek TITLE: Sequences in Language and Text SERIES TITLE: Quantitative Linguistics [QL] 69 PUBLISHER: De Gruyter Mouton…
Thesis Review: Resolving Power of Search Keys
Heppin, Karin Friberg (2010). Resolving Power of Search Keys in MedEval a Swedish Medical Text Collection with User Groups: Doctors and Patients. PhD thesis, Gothenburg University, Sweden Thesis: http://www2.gslt.hum.gu.se/dissertations/friberg.pdf Errata: http://www2.gslt.hum.gu.se/dissertations/friberg.pdf Opponent Stefan Schulz; Defence Presentation: http://user.meduni-graz.at/stefan.schulz/presentations/2010_Gothenburg_Defence.pptx The thesis “Resolving…
Thesis Review: Cross-Language Ontology Learning
Hjelm, Hans (2009) Cross-language Ontology Learning. Incorporating and Exploiting Cross-language Data in the Ontology Learning Process. Academic dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computational Linguistics at Stockholm University, 2009. Permalink: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8414 Review by Marina Santini The…
Thesis Review: Emotion in Information Retrieval
Moshfeghi, Yashar (2012) Role of emotion in information retrieval PhD thesis Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the title of Doctor of Philosophy School of Computing Science, College of Science and Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK. Thesis Download (A…
Thesis Review: Opinion mining and lexical affect sensing
Alexander Osherenko, Opinion mining and lexical affect sensing. Computer-aided analysis of opinions and emotions in texts. PhD thesis published by SVH, 2010 (p. 255) Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Opinion-mining-lexical-affect-sensing/dp/383812488X;Free download: http://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1469 Reviewed by Marina Santini The PhD thesis “Opinion mining and lexical affect…
Meetup Report: Big Data & Predictive Modeling – What’s happening in Sthlm?
On Thursday, September 6, 2012 the first meetup on BIG DATA & PREDICTIVE MODELING- WHAT’S HAPPENING IN STHLM? was held at the Klarna Headquarters in Stockholm. The event was very successful and (according to the organizer) unexpectedly crowded (about 90…
Review: Creating Corpora With Active Learning
PhD thesis reviewed by Marina Santini Fredrik Olsson, Bootstrapping Named Entity Annotation by Means of Active Machine Learning: A Method for Creating Corpora. Doctoral thesis, University of Gothenburg, 2008 Download thesis from this page: http://soda.swedish-ict.se/3518/ The PhD thesis “Bootstrapping Named…