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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…
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The Spoken BNC2014 early access projects: Part 4
In January, we announced the recipients of the Spoken BNC2014 Early Access Data Grants. Over the next several months, they will use exclusive access to the first five million words of Spoken BNC2014 data to carry out a total of thirteen research projects. In this series of blogs, we are excited to share more information…
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From Corpus to Classroom 2
There is great delight that the Trinity Lancaster Corpus is providing so much interesting data that can be used to enhance communicative competences in the classroom. From Corpus to Classroom 1 described some of these findings. But how exactly do we go about ‘translating’ this for classroom use so that it can be used by…
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The Spoken BNC2014 early access projects: Part 3
In January, we announced the recipients of the Spoken BNC2014 Early Access Data Grants. Over the next several months, they will use exclusive access to the first five million words of Spoken BNC2014 data to carry out a total of thirteen research projects. In this series of blogs, we are excited to share more information…
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.