Big Data and Language
- Date
- Thursday 27 September 2018
- Worsley Dental Lecture Theatre (6.142), Level 6 Worsley Building, Clarendon Way, University of Leeds
The Leeds Institute for Data Analytics is pleased to present the next seminar in the series showcasing data analytics.
Agenda
15.30-16.00- Big Data and Language – Dr Serge Sharoff, Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies
16.00-17.00- Big data applications for understanding climate solutions – Professor Jan Minx, Professor for Climate Change and Public Policy at the Priestley International Centre for Climate
17:00-18:00: Networking reception with drinks and nibbles hosted in the LIDA staff room
To book please email Hayley Irving <H.Irving@leeds.ac.uk> with your name, occupation and faculty/organisation.
Abstracts - Big Data and Language
Modern linguistic research greatly benefits from Big Data, since we now have unprecedented access to texts produced in different contexts by people of different backgrounds in different languages. The talk will discuss curation of automatically acquired linguistic resources via text annotation for related languages.