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ELRA language corpora available in the LRC for research
The LRC has availed itself of a free research distribution of 55GB collection of language corpora from http://www.elra.info/, the European Language Resources Association. This “big data” should be of interest for the translation program, as well as the language learning programs, since it enables corpus linguistic approaches to language learning and automated learning material production based on natural language processing.
Here is an overview of the materials included:
A list of files included can be found here:
Keyboard shortcuts in frequently used productivity and administrative applications on MS-Windows
For productivity purposes, when not having to work with a touch interface, I much prefer keyboard shortcuts to mouse operations for repetitive tasks. And I increasingly prefer accessing my spreadsheets on SkyDrive – added benefit: where suitable, like here, “sharing is caring”. There are many lists like this – this one is mine:
Online Tool to compress/decompress GUIDs
Could not immediately find one when I searched: Enjoy. My formula will not trim leading and trailing spaces from your input. You may have to enter the blue result field, move the cursor to the end of the formula and hit enter for the result cell to update. Download the sheet to use in Excel.


