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CASS goes to the Wellcome Trust!
Earlier this month I represented CASS in a workshop, hosted by the Wellcome Trust, which was designed to explore the language surrounding patient data. The remit of this workshop was to report back to the Trust on what might be the best ways to communicate to patients about their data, their rights respecting their data,…
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Corpus Linguistics, and why you might want to use it, despite what (you think) you know about it
As part of the Spatial Humanities project at Lancaster University, and in collaboration with the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences, the central aim of my PhD research project is to investigate the potential of corpus linguistics to allow for the exploration of spatial patterns in large amounts of digitised historical texts. Since I…
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Further Trinity Lancaster Corpus research: Examiner strategies
This month saw a further development in the corpus analyses: the examiners. Let me introduce myself, my name is Cathy Taylor and I’m responsible for examiner training at Trinity and was very pleased to be asked to do some corpus research into the strategies the examiners use when communicating with the test takers. In the…
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Birmingham ERP Boot Camp
Last week I attended a 5-day ERP Boot Camp at the University of Birmingham, and this was an incredible opportunity for me to learn from ERP experts and get specific advice for running my next ERP experiments. The workshop was led by two of the most renowned ERP researchers in the world, namely Professor Steven…
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Participants needed for psycholinguistic experiment!
My PhD research combines methods from corpus linguistics and psychology in order to find out more about how language is processed in the brain. The method that I use from psychology is known as electroencephalography (EEG), and this involves placing electrodes across a participant’s scalp in order to detect some of the electrical activity of…
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CASS goes to Weihai!
Between the 28th July and the 2nd August, Carmen Dayrell and I represented CASS at the 3rd Sino-UK Summer School of Corpus Linguistics. The summer school was organised by Beijing Foreign Studies University and was hosted at the Weihai campus of the University of Shandong, China. A research symposium followed the summer school on…
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Textual analysis training for European doctoral researchers in accounting
Professor Steve Young (Lancaster University Management School and PI of the CASS ESRC funded project Understanding Corporate Communications) was recently invited to the 6th Doctoral Summer Program in Accounting Research (SPAR) to deliver sessions specializing in textual analysis of financial reporting. The invitation reflects the increasing interest in narrative reporting among accounting researchers. The summer…
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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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40th Anniversary of the Language and Computation Group
Recently I was given the chance to attend the 40th anniversary of the Language and Computation (LAC) group at The University of Essex. As an Essex alumni I was invited to present my work with CASS on Financial Narrative Processing (FNP) part of the ESRC funded project . Slides are available online here. The event…
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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…
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.