The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University is excited to offer the Advanced Methods in Corpus Linguistics research group in a hybrid format, welcoming both in-person and online participants. This group isn’t just for Lancaster University students and researchers – anyone interested in corpus linguistics is welcome to join.

How to join?

If you’re on campus, the best way to join is in person in County South C89. For those who can’t make it in person, just fill in the registration form and we’ll send you a Teams link.
Registration form

Contact: Prof. Vaclav Brezina (lead); Trina He (co-lead)

Topics and sessions in the Michaelmas term 2024/25:

• Wednesday, 16 October – 12:00pm–12:50pm (UK time): Statistics and Language Analysis (#LancsBox KWIC)
• Wednesday, 30 October – 12:00pm–12:50pm (UK time): Collocations (#LancsBox GraphColl)
• Wednesday, 13 November – 12:00pm–12:50pm (UK time): Group Comparison (Text tool)
• Wednesday, 27 November – 12:00pm–12:50pm (UK time): Wordlists and Keywords (Words)
• Wednesday, 11 December – 12:00pm–12:50pm (UK time): R Scripts and #LancsBox Wizard

The suggested readings for each session are taken from the reference book Statistics in Corpus Linguistics: A Practical Guide (Brezina, 2018).