June 2022 archive

Jun 24

EL本棚紹介(53) Mammoth Science, by David Macaulay

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Jun 24

EL本棚紹介(52) Coraline, by Neil Gaiman

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Jun 24

EL本棚紹介(51) Vocabulary Cartoons, by New Monic Books

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Jun 24

EL本棚紹介(50) Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare, by Darren Shan

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Jun 03

EL本棚紹介(49) Time for Kids: The Amazing Fact and Puzzle Book, by Jeff O’Hare

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Jun 03

EL本棚紹介(48)　Disney Trivia from the Vault, by Dave Smith

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Jun 01

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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