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Started a new research to study the universality of metonymy, featured at CogSci 2022.

We are delighted to announce that ICNLSP 2022, the 5th edition of the International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, hosted by DataScientia (University of Trento) for the third time, will be held online, on 16-17 December 2022. We look forward to welcoming you to ICNLSP 2022 that will be an opportunity to get acquainted with the latest

We are happy to announce that our paper Language Diversity: Visible to Humans, Exploitable by Machines was accepted to the Demo Track of the ACL 2022 conference. See you in Dublin!

We are proud to announce the LiveLanguage data catalogue where we are gradually making the contents of the entire database available for download. You can access the catalogue from the menu bar but also from individual lexicon pages. In terms of UKC database improvements, we have extracted and imported over 500k words from Wiktionary, increasing our language

A lot has changed since the previous update. We updated the lexical data, improving quality and extending the coverage of lexical gaps at the same time. New projects have been added to the projects page. The look and feel of the site has been improved. Last but not least, check out the cool new visualisation tools on lexical

The fourth edition of the International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing ICNLSP 2021, will be organized by the university of Trento. ICNLSP aims to attract contributions related to natural language and speech processing in basic theories and applications as well. Regular and posters sessions will be organized, in addition to keynotes presented by senior international researchers.The

I found the lexical distance map fascinating but the closer I studied it the more things bothered me. Thus trawling through the net I found Tishchenko Cyrillic versions. So I sat down this weekend and translated, adjusted, combined and updated to create my own version here: Read more

English and a handful of other languages dominate the internet, but this is leaving indigenous cultures without a voice online. Now they are fighting to get their own languages on the web. Imagine your favourite social media platform does not let you post in English. Now think of a keyboard that won’t allow you to