The Alphabetizer is a computer tool for putting terms in alphabetical order. Use it to sort any list online, using your computer or mobile device. This web tool — and educational resource — provides sorting functions including the ability to: put items in alphabetical order, remove HTML, capitalize and lowercase words and phrases, ignore case, order names, sort by last name, add numbers, letters and roman numerals to lists, and more.
Source: http://alphabetizer.flap.tv
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Through the BAAL mail list
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The International Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017 will take place from Monday 24 to Friday 28 July at the University of Birmingham.
Opening plenary
Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham
Keynote speakers
Susan Conrad (Portland State University, US)
Andrew Hardie (Lancaster University, UK)
Christian Mair (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Dan McIntyre (University of Huddersfield, UK)
Mike Scott (Aston University, UK)
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Through the corpora list
We are happy to announce the release a new version of BabelNet, a project recently featured in a TIME magazine article. BabelNet (http://babelnet.org) is the largest multilingual encyclopedic dictionary and semantic network created by means of the seamless integration of the largest multilingual Web encyclopedia – i.e., Wikipedia – with the most popular computational lexicon of English – i.e., WordNet, and other lexical resources such as Wiktionary, OmegaWiki, Wikidata, Open Multilingual WordNet, Wikiquote, VerbNet, Microsoft Terminology, GeoNames, WoNeF, ImageNet, ItalWordNet, Open Dutch WordNet and FrameNet. The integration is performed via a high-performance linking algorithm and by filling in lexical gaps with the aid of Machine Translation. The result is an encyclopedic dictionary that provides Babel synsets, i.e., concepts and named entities lexicalized in many languages and connected with large amounts of semantic relations.
Version 3.7 comes with the following new features:
More statistics are available at: http://babelnet.org/stats
BabelNet was part of the MultiJEDI project originally funded by the European Research Council and headed by Prof. Roberto Navigli at the Linguistic Computing Laboratory of the Sapienza University of Rome. BabelNet is now a self-sustained project. It is, and always will be, free for research purposes, including download. Babelscape, a Sapienza startup company, is BabelNet’s commercial support arm, thanks to which the project will be continued and improved over time.
Contact:
The BabelNet group
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Roberto Navigli
Dipartimento di Informatica
Sapienza University of Rome
Viale Regina Elena 295b (building G, second floor)
00161 Roma Italy
Phone: +39 0649255161 – Fax: +39 06 49918301
Home Page: http://wwwusers.di.uniroma1.it/~navigli
Education and Migration: Languages Foregrounded taking place at Durham University, UK from 21 to 23 October 2016. Please share the call and consider offering an abstract – details are provided in the attachment (including a publication opportunity) and brief highlights are included below.
21-23 (Friday – Sunday) October, 2016,
School of Education, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
International conference website
http://researching-multilingually-at-borders.com/
The conference brings together international keynote speakers and researchers who are researching and working on the borders of languages, languages pedagogy, and policy in contexts where people, and their migratory languages, are under pain and pressure.
Keynotes
Alison Phipps, University of Glasgow, UK
Hilary Footitt, University of Reading, UK
Martha Bigelow, University of Minnesota, USA
Conference themes
Inspired by the above panels, the conference invites papers and panels on research, pedagogies (multilingual, multimodal, multisensory, intercultural), policy development, and teacher practice concerning the opportunities and possibilities for multiple languages. Papers and panels may also address the following (and related) themes:
Panels and speakers
The conference will also include five plenary panels. The following invited researchers/practitioners will each lead a panel (supported by two other experts), on the themes below. The panel will be 90 minutes (roughly 60 mins presentation and supported by 30 minutes of discussion).
1. Angela Creese (University of Birmingham) – Communities and education; translanguaging in communities; community schools
2. Mike Solly (British Council) – Languages for resilience: Languages education in the context of the Syrian crisis
3. Frances Giampapa (University of Bristol) – Children’s multilingual identities, language brokering, opportunities for multiple literacies; issues concerning ESOL/languages and mainstreaming
4. George Androulakis (University of Thessaly, Vólos)- Migration and schools: Policies for primary and secondary education in Europe.
We invite papers and panels that address these themes. Please submit a title, abstract of 300-350 words. Panels (or 3 or 4 participants) should include a title, brief introduction (50 words), title and abstract for each speaker (150-200 words each). Please include a brief bio of about 100 words for each speaker (include name and institution(s)).
Abstracts of papers and panels should be emailed to languages.2016@durham.ac.uk by 15th July 2016. Please include the name and email of the corresponding author. Abstracts will be reviewed by an advisory committee and participants will be notified of acceptance by 30th July 2016.
