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Controlling the scale and pace of immigration: changes in UK press coverage about migration
The issue of immigration prominently featured in debates leading up to the June 2016 EU Referendum vote. It was argued that too many people were entering the UK, largely from other EU member states. Politicians and media also talked about ‘taking back control’—notably in the contexts of deciding who can enter Britain and enforcing borders.…
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New CASS PhD student!
CASS is delighted to welcome new PhD student Andressa Gomide to the centre, where she will be working on data visualization in corpus linguistics. Continue reading to find out more about Andressa! I am in the first year of a my PhD in Linguistics, which is focused on data visualizations for corpus tools. Being a…
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CASS goes to the Wellcome Trust!
Earlier this month I represented CASS in a workshop, hosted by the Wellcome Trust, which was designed to explore the language surrounding patient data. The remit of this workshop was to report back to the Trust on what might be the best ways to communicate to patients about their data, their rights respecting their data,…
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Corpus Linguistics, and why you might want to use it, despite what (you think) you know about it
As part of the Spatial Humanities project at Lancaster University, and in collaboration with the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences, the central aim of my PhD research project is to investigate the potential of corpus linguistics to allow for the exploration of spatial patterns in large amounts of digitised historical texts. Since I…
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Further Trinity Lancaster Corpus research: Examiner strategies
This month saw a further development in the corpus analyses: the examiners. Let me introduce myself, my name is Cathy Taylor and I’m responsible for examiner training at Trinity and was very pleased to be asked to do some corpus research into the strategies the examiners use when communicating with the test takers. In the…
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Textual analysis training for European doctoral researchers in accounting
Professor Steve Young (Lancaster University Management School and PI of the CASS ESRC funded project Understanding Corporate Communications) was recently invited to the 6th Doctoral Summer Program in Accounting Research (SPAR) to deliver sessions specializing in textual analysis of financial reporting. The invitation reflects the increasing interest in narrative reporting among accounting researchers. The summer…
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Dealing with Optical Character Recognition errors in Victorian newspapers
CASS PhD student, Amelia Joulain-Jay, has been researching to what extent OCR errors are a problem when researching historical texts, and whether these errors can be corrected. Amelia’s work has recently been featured in a very interesting blog post on the British Library’s website – you can read the full post here.
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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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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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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…
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.