How productive is Machine Translation? (Friday seminar)

Carla Parra Escartín (Hermes, Spain): Machine Translation Evaluation and Productivity Thresholds for Machine Translation Post-Editing Tasks

Time and place: April 22, 2016 at 14:15 in HF:435

Abstract: Machine Translation has become a reality in the translation industry. Over the past few years, translators have experienced the introduction of Machine Translation Post-Editing tasks in their workflows, […]

Linguistic anomaly and regularity

Lecture by Dr. Carl Vogel, Trinity College Dublin

Monday, Jan. 11, 2016 at 13:15, HF:400

Abstract:

Linguistic systems are interesting to study in part because of their regularity: people often find beauty in regularity. However, linguistic anomaly is also worthy of attention. Firstly, as diversions from the norm, anomalies are inherently curiosities. Secondly, some anomalies […]

Teenage girls and language change

New research suggests that teenage girls are an influential group that drives language change. If that is true, sociolinguists may need to pay more attention to language processes in this group.

Is Norwegian weird?

Idibon has an article that attempts to identify linguistic outliers based on their characteristics as documented in the World Atlas of Language Structures. According to this article, Norwegian is not really a middle-of-the-road language.

Radikale vs moderate ord

Anja Zawadska Persvold presenterer sin masteroppgave i datalingvistikk og språkteknologi:

Subnormvariasjon i bokmål: en analysator

19. juni 2015 kl. 14:00 i HF:301

En master med stil

Victoria Troland presenterer sin masteroppgave:

Hvem er forfatteren? – Stilometriske undersøkelser av norske prosatekster

12. juni 2015 kl. 11:00 i HF:301

The newswriter objectivity utopia

The POLAME projects presents a lecture on Wed. May 27, 2015 at 14:15 in HF:400

The Newswriter Objectivity Utopia: Exploring Features for Sentiment Analysis on News Articles

by Diego A. Burgos, Department of Romance Languages, Wake Forest University, USA

Is it an editorial I am reading? – Wait! It’s the newspaper’s business section! Have you […]