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2 PhD positions in text mining and decision support at NTNU

[2010-02-18] 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... [editorial staff]

Ph.D. position in Computational Linguistics in Stockholm

[2009-10-02] 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:... [editorial staff]

Centre for Science Engineering and Technology looking for LT specialists

[2008-09-08] The major research strands within the CNGL are Integrated Language Technologies (ILT), Digital Content Management (DCM), Localisation Technologies and Processes (LOC) and Systems Framework... [editorial staff]

Whitesmoke awarded for its language checker

[2008-04-15] 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... [editorial staff]

BYU Corpus of American English

[2008-02-22] "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... [editorial staff]

Acapela launches braille text and more voices

[2007-12-17] 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... [editorial staff]

BNCweb Version 4 released

[2007-12-17] 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... [editorial staff]

Scandinavian and English translations at GramTrans

[2007-12-03] 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... [editorial staff]

New Swedish parser

[2007-11-12] 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... [editorial staff]

Portal de tecnologies multilingües

[2007-10-22] 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... [editorial staff]

Lingtech launches fast machine translation

[2007-09-24] 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... [editorial staff]

Machine translation into sign language

[2007-09-18] 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... [editorial staff]

Easier to write sms with a pen

[2007-08-20] 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... [editorial staff]

Prize for Best PhD Thesis 2006 to GSLT student

[2007-05-22] 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... [editorial staff]

Blark: questionnaire on language resources

[2007-05-11] 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... [editorial staff]