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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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News: Professor John Urry
CASS is extremely sorry to hear of the death of Professor John Urry. We have lost a very distinguished and enthusiastic member of our team, and he will be greatly missed by all at the centre. You can read more about John’s life and work here.
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CASS PhD Student Awarded Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship!
CASS is delighted that the Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship for research to be undertaken in 2016 has been awarded to Amelia Joulain-Jay, a PhD student at CASS, for her work on using Geographical Information Systems and Corpus Linguistics methods to investigate how places were represented in nineteenth-century British newspapers. The Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship is…
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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…
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Congratulations to CASS ‘s Professor Ram-Prasad
Congratulations to CASS ‘s Professor Ram-Prasad who has been announced as the winner of the ‘Best Book in Hindu-Christian Studies (2011-2015)’ book ‘Divine Self, Human Self: The Philosophy of Being in Two Gita Commentaries’ (Bloomsbury, 2013). The Society for Hindu-Christian Studies will hold a panel discussion of Professor Ram-Prasad’s book at the November 2016 annual meeting in San Antonio.
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.