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FAH-DENG: “Best English Studies Essay Competition”
To all students enrolled in English Department courses: Have you written an essay of which you are especially proud? Perhaps an essay written on a topic that particularly interested you and that you worked very hard to develop? The UM Department of English would like to acknowledge that achievement by recognising the Best English Studies essays this coming Prize Day. The Best English Studies Essay prizes recognise excellence in the work you are doing every day in linguistics and literary studies. Creative writing should not be submitted. The essay you submit should be an academic essay you have written in response to a regular assignment in one of the English Department’s courses in these areas this academic year. […]
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FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ‘Unlocking the Power of “Big” Interpreting Data: Insights from CEPIC and CETILC’
FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ‘Unlocking the Power of “Big” Interpreting Data: Insights from CEPIC and CETILC’
Abstract: With the rapid advancement of technology and increased accessibility for interpreting data, the field of corpus-based interpreting studies (CIS) has seen great leaps and bounds in multiple aspects from the stage of data collection, processing, to analysis and visualisation, as well as data sharing. These advancements have significantly expanded and improved our knowledge of this complex human activity crucial to modern communication. What then, will be the main challenges and prospects for this field to move forward? Why should we start to “mine” interpreting data? How can we do it? What are the potential obstacles and pitfalls that we should prevent from happening? In this talk, the speaker will share her experience of developing a couple of (open-access) mega-size […]