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
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
On Wednesday 30 October, The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches (CASS) organised a small get-together in its new location, Bailrigg House, to celebrate the research
As reported in the media, in recent months we have been delighted to support staff and students at the University of Mosul in Iraq who
This is the second time I have been a part of CASS, which means that this is the second time I’ve written one of these introductory
Last week, the Faculty of Education, The University of Cambridge hosted 13th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference. This wonderful event brought together researchers and practitioners
On Saturday 12 May 2018, CASS hosted a small training event at Lancaster University for a group of participants, who came from different universities in
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
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
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
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
Historically, in British English at least, if you didn’t know someone’s preferred gender it was considered grammatically correct to use he to refer to them,
