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Big Screens, Bigger Data: Reflections on a Lecture Trip to China
November 2025 marked another exciting visit to China, showcasing the work of CASS, including a brand new version of #LancsBox X with a Chinese UI, which will be released in 2026. If there were one metaphor to capture the essence of the trip, it would  be this: the screens keep getting bigger. Compared to previous…
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CASS goes to Weihai!
Between the 28th July and the 2nd August, Carmen Dayrell and I represented CASS at the 3rd Sino-UK Summer School of Corpus Linguistics. The summer school was organised by Beijing Foreign Studies University and was hosted at the Weihai campus of the University of Shandong, China. A research symposium followed the summer school on…
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