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Is Academic Writing Becoming More Colloquial?
Have you noticed that academic writing in books and journals seems less formal than it used to? Preliminary data from the Written BNC2014 shows that you may be right! Some early data from the academic journals and academic books sections of the new corpus has been analysed to find out whether academic writing has become…
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CASS go to ICAME38!
Researchers from CASS recently attended the ICAME38 conference at Charles University in Prague. Luckily, we arrived in Prague a day early which gave us plenty of time to explore the city. The weather was sunny, so we walked to Wenceslas Square, and then took the lift to the top of the Old Town Hall Tower…
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Registration now open for Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics and other Digital Methods!
Registration now open for Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics and other Digital Methods! We are pleased to announce that we will be running our hugely popular summer schools again in 2017! We will be running six free training events that cover the techniques of corpus linguistics, computational analysis of language and geographical information systems. The schools…
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Dealing with Optical Character Recognition errors in Victorian newspapers
CASS PhD student, Amelia Joulain-Jay, has been researching to what extent OCR errors are a problem when researching historical texts, and whether these errors can be corrected. Amelia’s work has recently been featured in a very interesting blog post on the British Library’s website – you can read the full post here.
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Tracking terrorists who leave a technological trail.
Dr Sheryl Prentice’s work on using technology to aid in the detection of terrorists has been gaining a lot of attention in the media this week! Sheryl’s discussion of the different ways in which technology can be used to tackle the issue of terrorism and how effective these methods are was originally published in The…
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Introducing Yufang Qian to CASS
CASS is delighted to welcome visiting researcher Yufang Qian to the centre, where she will be working on a project exploring the representation of Chinese medicine in British historical news texts over the last 200 years. Continue reading to find out more about Yufang and the research which she will be undertaking! In 2009, Yufang Qian…
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News: Professor John Urry
CASS is extremely sorry to hear of the death of Professor John Urry. We have lost a very distinguished and enthusiastic member of our team, and he will be greatly missed by all at the centre. You can read more about John’s life and work here.
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CASS PhD Student Awarded Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship!
CASS is delighted that the Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship for research to be undertaken in 2016 has been awarded to Amelia Joulain-Jay, a PhD student at CASS, for her work on using Geographical Information Systems and Corpus Linguistics methods to investigate how places were represented in nineteenth-century British newspapers. The Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship is…
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Congratulations to CASS ‘s Professor Ram-Prasad
Congratulations to CASS ‘s Professor Ram-Prasad who has been announced as the winner of the ‘Best Book in Hindu-Christian Studies (2011-2015)’ book ‘Divine Self, Human Self: The Philosophy of Being in Two Gita Commentaries’ (Bloomsbury, 2013).  The Society for Hindu-Christian Studies will hold a panel discussion of Professor Ram-Prasad’s book at the November 2016 annual meeting in San Antonio.
CASS Briefings
CASS: Briefings is a series of short, quick reads on the work being done at the ESRC/CASS research centre at Lancaster University, UK.