CHERISH-DE first call for applications posted

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Corpws Cenedlaethol Cymraeg Cyfoes (National Corpus of Contemporary Welsh): A community driven approach to linguistic corpus construction / Agwedd a yrrir gan y gymuned i adeiladu corpws ieithyddol

Poets and coders Eran Hadas and Eyal Gruss recently built an interface which demonstrates how the Word2Vec system associates words in vector space, on the basis of Google’s gigantic English-language corpus.

I’ll try to keep this updated. Some recent work I’ve discovered which has to do generally with text variation visualisation (as in VVV): Douglas Duhaime trains the machine

NISE = National movements & Intermediary Structures in Europe Meeting Programme TUESDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2015, SINGLETON ABBEY, SINGLETON CAMPUS 15h00 Welcome NISE – Louis Vos & Nel de Mûelenaere

CODAH lunchtime talks – Surf Room, 12 midday May 5 – Professor Phil Reed (Psychology, Swansea U) The Impacts of Digital Dependency Concerns about the level of digital dependency

Congratulations to Professor Matt Jones and colleagues, who are leading a new multi-disciplinary centre at Swansea University: CHERISH-DE (= Digital Economy). Details here. [Update 2016: here.] Funded by

Jan Rybicki (Jagiellonian University) presented work on “stylometry evolution” in a sample of 1000 English novels, and others in 9 more languages, to CLARIN-NL last Friday: his slides are here.

David Beavan and Raquel Alegre  (UCL) March 24, 12:00, Surf Room (Fulton House) The Craftsperson and the Scholar: the Role of Software Engineers in Humanities Research David Beavan