Noticias

Implementation of the Chile Node of the UNESCO TECLIN Chair - 10/01/2015

The director of the UNESCO Chair in Linguistic Technologies, TECLIN, Jesús Cardeñosa, will be in Chile from 9 to 24 October with the aim of implementing the Chile Node of TECLIN, which will be located at the Catholic University of Temuco.

An automatic system that generates questions from educational texts has been awarded by Google - 09/29/2015

RevUp, a system that generates automatic questions from educational texts, has been awarded with one of the prizes of the Google Science Fair 2015.

People clarify confusions in the same way in all languages - 09/24/2015

A group of scientists of the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics of Nijmegen (Netherlands) has discovered that the mechanisms that people use to clarify confusions in conversations are the same all around the world.

The UNESCO Atlas of languages in danger helps to make people aware of the situation of this languages and to continue the tendencies - 09/21/2015

The aim of the UNESCO Atlas of languages in danger of disappearing is to make the people in charge of the development of policies, the speaker communities, and the public in general aware of the problem of the languages in danger of disappearing and the need of protecting the linguistic diversity of the world.

The University Pompeu Fabra deals with bilingualism of African-Americans - 09/17/2015

80 experts in bilingualism and multilingualism from all over the world have met these days in the Summer School of the University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). Among the main issues are the bilingualism of young African-Americans.