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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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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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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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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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CASS receives Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Further and Higher Education
At the end of February, a team of CASS researchers attended the Presentation of the Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Further and Higher Education, held at Buckingham Palace. The CASS team officially received the award from their Royal Highnesses, The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall on 25th February 2016. Back in November, it…
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Sino-UK Corpus Linguistics Summer School
At the end of July, Tony McEnery and I taught at the second Sino-UK corpus linguistics summer school, arranged between CASS and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. It was my first time visiting China and we arrived during an especially warm season with temperatures hitting 40 degrees Celsius (we were grateful for the air conditioning in…
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CASS presentation at Cambridge University Centre of Islamic Studies symposium on Anti-Muslim Hate Crime
The CASS ‘Hate Speech’ project team were invited on the 16th of June to present some of our findings at a Symposium on Anti-Muslim Hate Crime held at the University of Cambridge Centre of Islamic Studies. The Symposium was organised by Julian Hargreaves, a Lancaster University Law School PhD student and Research Associate at the…
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.