Language equality in the digital age

The study ‘Language equality in the digital age – Towards a Human Language Project’ was published by the STOA Committee of the European Parliament.

Cover story

Language Technology is on the cover of the first issue of “The Economist” in 2017, and the issue contains a long article on the theme.

Mons 17 i Bergen sikret

Forskningsrådets program FriHumSam har bevilget garantimidler til språkkonferansen MONS 17 (Møte om norsk språk 2017). Konferansen, som går annet hvert år og på omgang mellom universitetene i Norge, avholdes i Bergen i november. Her møtes forskere fra både nordisk og lingvistiske fag.

Are Brand Names different?

Talk by Klaas Römer: Are Brand Names different than other names and/or nouns?

Date: December 9Place: HF:301Time: 13:15

The gender of Christ and the subject of PRO

On August 26, 2016, there will be a double Friday seminar with two short presentations related to priming, one in Experimental Aesthetics, the other in Experimental Syntax. Room: HF: 301. Time: 14:00-16:00.

Presentation 1: Priming the gender of Christ by Per Folgerø & Christer Johansson (University of Bergen) We show that briefly presenting a word […]

Edits in Russian Wikipedia

Alexandr Kotlyarov (University of Bergen) will present his master’s thesis project:

Task-driven Web Mining for NLP: Constructing a Special-Purpose Corpus of Stylistic Edits in Russian from the Wikipedia Revision History.

Thursday June 23 at 14:15 in HF:435.

Google shares its parser

Google has announced that it is sharing Syntaxnet, a parsing framework, and hopes that it will be useful to developers and researchers. This release also includes Parsey McParseface, its parser for English.