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Crowd Sourcing Challenge: Our Oceans Challenge

Posted on May 31st, 2014 by Marco Otte

Our Oceans Challenge is a global acceleration platform for new ocean ventures launching on June 3rd. With a coalition of corporate- and knowledge partners we want to make ocean opportunities happen by connecting people with brilliant ideas for clean and … Continue reading →

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“From Text to Political Positions” published

Posted on May 22nd, 2014 by Marco Otte

The book “From Text to Political Positions – Text analysis across disciplines” edited by Bertie Kaal, Isa Maks and Annemarie van Elfrinkhof, was recently published. From Text to Political Positionsaddresses cross-disciplinary innovation in political text analysis for party positioning. Drawing … Continue reading →

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Speech technology for African languages

Posted on May 6th, 2014 by Marco Otte

Speech technology for African languages: opportunities, challenges and recent progress Guest researcher talk: Prof. Dr. Etienne Barnard (North-West University, South Africa) Fri 09 May 2014, 14.30-15.30h, Intertain Lab Network Institute (WN-S111) Prof. Etienne Barnard is a partner in a research … Continue reading →

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For over ten years, the Network Institute has been studying the digital society, in an interdisciplinary approach. The institute brings together a unique combination of scientists from informatics, social sciences and humanities.
Network Institute: The hub for interdisciplinary research on the digital society