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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…
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Corpus Data and Psycholinguistics Seminar
On the afternoon of Thursday 19th May 2016, CASS held its first ever psycholinguistics seminar which brought together researchers from both linguistics and psychology. The theme of the seminar was “Corpus Data and Psycholinguistics”, with a particular focus on experimental psycholinguistics. The afternoon consisted of four 40-minute presentations which covered a range of different experimental…
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TLC and innovation in language testing
One of the objectives of Trinity College London investing in the Trinity Lancaster Spoken Corpus has been to share findings with the language assessment community. The corpus allows us to develop an innovative approach to validating test constructs and offers a window into the exam room so we can see how test takers utilise their…
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CASS Changing Climates project presented at the University of Turin
It was a great honour and pleasure to present CASS Changing Climates project to an engaging audience at the University of Turin last month, on 27th April 2016. This was the 8th symposium on ‘Energy and Power: Social ontology perspectives and energy transitions’ as part of a UNESCO Chair programme in Sustainable Development and Territory…
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Chinese Applied Corpus Linguistics Symposium
On Friday 29th April 2016, Lancaster University hosted a symposium which brought together researchers and practitioners interested in Chinese linguistics and the corpus method. The symposium was supported by the British Academy (International Mobility and Partnership Scheme IPM 2013) and was hosted by the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS). The symposium…
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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…
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.