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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…
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NewsHack 2016 Retrospective
The BBC’s multilingual NewsHACK event was run on the 15th and 16th of March as an opportunity for teams of language technology researchers to work with multilingual data from the BBC’s connected studio. The theme was ‘multilingual journalism: tools for future news’, and teams were encouraged to bring some existing language technologies to apply to…
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Upcoming CASS Psycholinguistics Seminar
CASS is excited to announce an upcoming half-day research seminar on the theme of “Corpus Data and Psycholinguistics”. The event will take place on Thursday 19th May 2016 at 1-5pm in Furness Lecture Theatre 3. The aim of the event is to bring together researchers with an interest in combining methods from corpus linguistics and…
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A tribute to John Urry
It is difficult to find words to express how shocked and deeply saddened I was with John’s early passing. I have worked with John for the past two years on a research project on climate change that he led with so much enthusiasm and interest. One of his ‘obsessions’, he would say. Being a linguist by…
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.