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New Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning 3: Language Learning with Parsed Corpora [Prof. Alastair Butler]

English Lounge is happy to announce the third English Lounge Forum: New Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning. Title: Learning English with a treebank/parsed corpusSpeaker: Alastair Butler (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) Date: June 17 Place: English Lounge and Teams A corpus is a large database made up of samples from a language.  A parsedcorpus is a corpus with linguistic analysis added to the data.  The kindsof analysis added can be quite varied, but analysis often takes theform of syntactic trees.A parsed corpus with syntactic trees is called a treebank.  Treebanks ofquality and size are extremely costly to create and entry restrictionsare normally imposed.  But when you can participate, there is a …

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EL本棚紹介(46) I’ll Mature When I’m Dead, by Dave Barry

[Welcome to the EL Book Introductions series. These posts are all short (

協力者募集(認知心理学実験)

If you are interested in participating in some research about exercise, memory, and learning phrasal verbs – click the below link to find out more about this research! Click here for the PDF announcement

English Lounge Opens October 1st!

We are open from 10/1! Seminars begin on 10/8 Check out our new schedule. Come and join us during the autumn season – join a seminar, practice your conversation in the conversation circle, find an interesting book, or just stop by and say “Hi”!