This book presents a unique opportunity for constructing a consistent image of collaborative manual annotation for Natural Language Processing (NLP). NLP has witnessed two major evolutions in the past 25 years: firstly, the extraordinary success of machine learning, which is now, for better or for worse, overwhelmingly dominant in the field, and secondly, the multiplication of evaluation campaigns or shared tasks. Both involve manually annotated corpora, for the training and evaluation of the systems.

Fundamentals of Formulaic Language: An Introduction (2015)

Over the past few decades there has been a steadily increasing interest and research focus on the phenomenon of formulaic language in the fields of linguistics and applied linguistics. Slowly, a consistent definition has emerged, centring around the idea that formulaic sequences are multi-word units with specific meanings or functions, and some evidence points to their being processed mentally as wholes. Researchers from diverse backgrounds have identified the nature and roles of formulaic sequences in language acquisition and production, in the construction of text and discourse, in spoken and written language, and in language teaching...

Language Learning - An Introduction to Learning a New Language

You’re about to discover why learning a new languages is one of the best things you can do to benefit your life! By learning new languages you increase your self-confidence, increase your value to your employers or future employers, and make the world around more inviting! When you can speak the language of a place you've been wanting to visit you can maximize your experience there! Don't go as a simple tourist but as a true visitor to the country! Learning new languages can also benefit your cognitive health!

Designed for English language teachers and other educators, this study charts the emergence of a new view of language and the computer technology associated with it.

I Speak, Therefore I Am: Seventeen Thoughts About Language

In I Speak, Therefore I Am, the Italian linguist and neuroscientist Andrea C. Moro composes an album of his favorite quotations from the history of philosophy, beginning with the Book of Genesis and the power of naming and concluding with Noam Chomsky's metaphor that language is a snowflake. Moro's seventeen linguistic snapshots and his commentary on them constitute an album that displays the humanness of language: our need to name, to contain, and to translate the world in order to express and understand ourselves. This book is sure to delight anyone who enjoys the ineffable paradox that is human language.