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Taking stock of 2020 and looking ahead to 2021
CASS Director Elena Semino reflects on CASS activities in 2020 and looks ahead at our plans for 2021.
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Introductory Blog – Hanna Schmueck
I am very honoured to have received the Geoffrey Leech Outstanding MA Student Award for my MA in Language and Linguistics. This award traditionally goes to the MA student with the highest overall average. I started my postgraduate journey in September 2019 after finishing my undergraduate degree at the University of Bamberg (Germany) in 2018
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New CASS project: Feedback on NHS Cancer services
 In recent months, CASS members Paul Baker and Gavin Brookes have embarked on a project working with the National Health Service (NHS), using corpus linguistics methods to investigate patient concerns in a large corpus (approx. 14 million words) of patient feedback on NHS cancer care. Below we discuss what the project will entail. If this
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POS Tagging for Georgian is now available in #LancsBox
POS Tagging for Georgian is now available in #LancsBox We are delighted to announce that part-of-speech tagging for Georgian is now available in #LancsBox. This is the very first Georgian POS tagger made available for wide range of users and uses. It enables users to perform various linguistic analysis on their own texts or corpora
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Representations of Obesity in the News: Project update and book announcement!
Gavin Brookes and Paul Baker We are delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of a book based on research carried out as part of the CASS project, ‘Representations of Obesity in the News’. The book, titled Obesity in the News: Language and Representation in the Press, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.
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ICR Outstanding Corpus Thesis Award for Lancaster PhD graduate
I am honoured to have received the Institute for Corpus Research Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award. The purpose of this annual award is to recognise and reward theses in the field of Corpus Linguistics. I conducted my PhD research in the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University, which is part of Department
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Questioning Vaccination Discourse (Quo VaDis): A Corpus-based Study
A new three-year project based in CASS will use corpus linguistic methods to study how vaccinations (including future vaccines for Covid-19) are talked about in the UK press, UK parliamentary discourse and social media. Through collaborations with governmental and public health partners, the findings will be used to help address vaccine hesitancy, which is one
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English language assessment and training for medical professionals
Proficiency in English is crucial for effective and appropriate medical communication and U.K. regulating bodies for nurse and doctor practitioners use standardised tests (such as IELTS, OET, TOEFL) to assess English proficiency of non-UK/EU applicants. The aim of this project is to investigate a corpus of authentic clinical interactions to identify patterns of interaction and
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CASS joins International Consortium for Communication in Health Care
We are delighted to announce that we are joining the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care. The Consortium is led by the Australian National University, and also includes University College London, Nanyang Technological University, the University of Hong Kong and Queensland University of Technology. The aim of the Consortium is to conduct research that increases
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Covid-19 and the International Baccalaureate
A month passed, but yet our pain hasn’t diminished and justice unserved (#ibscandal, Aug 6) Three months ago, when I wrote my introductory post for the CASS blog, I had a clear research plan for my SSHRC (Canada’s Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council) postdoctoral fellowship, which involved examining IB discourses in a large corpus
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.