Paul Rayson

We have three new UCREL ( @ucrelnlp.bsky.social ) Corpus Research Seminar (CRS) videos out today; these were recorded some time ago, but our editor (me!) and approvals to release took a little while :)

The value of public R&D

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...

Hello, World!

Thanks, the annotation part of the API allows 200K words. For larger texts, we'd have to allow persistent storage and support logins which we haven't done for the free version. All of the tools are open source so you can run them locally to process more text.

A new league table of UK universities is out and we’re ranked 14th in the UK and top in north-west England! Find out more about our performance in The Guardian University Guide 2026

📰: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancaster-stays-in-the-top-15-universities-in-the-uk-in-guardian-league-table

Lots of interest yesterday in our FreeTxt poster at #RANLP2025 You can use the system directly at freetxt.app and the full paper is at github.com/UCREL/FreeTx... with links to the open source code and demo video on YouTube

Skyline of Varna, Bulgaria

Good morning, Varna! #RANLP2025

Sentimental project poster

FreeTxt project poster

Sneaky peak at our two demo paper posters for #RANLP2025 next week ... @dawnknightcl.bsky.social @igezeani.bsky.social @elhaj.bsky.social @johnvidler.co.uk

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Hello Blueksy! We are the Davy Notebooks Project, a digital humanities project based at @lancasteruni.bsky.social, working on digitising the notebooks of Sir Humphry Davy. Check out the project through our Linktree!

lancasteruniversity: Corpus linguistics and new technologies: data, language and society | edX In an era of AI and big data, understanding language through data is essential. This hands-on course from Lancaster University—a global leader in corpus linguistics—teaches you to build, query, and an...

Check it out - the corpus MOOC is back (15th September) on a new platform (edX) exploring new topics, including AI. One thing has not changed - it is still free to access 😁 Find out more here: www.edx.org/learn/social...

Missed out on #CL2025? Four of our wonderful plenary talks are now available to watch on demand!

YouTube links on conference website and in replies:

www.cl2025.co.uk/home

At #RaAM17 @raammetaphor.bsky.social, I was pleased to present, on behalf of our team, one study from the
4D Picture project, on “Metaphors, identities, and gender in online interactions about cancer”.
It was my first in-person RaAM, and I loved every bit of it.

🥳 🎉 ❤️ The ACL 2025 Proceedings are live on the ACL Anthology 🥰 !
We’re thrilled to pre-celebrate the incredible research 📚 ✨ that will be presented starting Monday next week in Vienna 🇦🇹 !
Go and start exploring 🚀
#NLProc #ACL2025NLP #ACLAnthology

Alan Turing Lecture 2025 by Sandi Toksvig YouTube video by King's College, Cambridge

Interesting lecture of the day: Alan Turing Lecture 2025 by Sandi Toksvig youtu.be/AGGu8x7MzFg

Preparations for the 2026 Corpora and Discourse International Conference at Lancaster University are under way! We will be sharing information on dates for your calendars, plenary speakers, and the upcoming call for papers very soon. Follow here for updates, and please share widely! #CADS2026

It was great to meet new faces and familiar faces on Tuesday while presenting our poster:
"DR-LIB: CLARIN knowledge centre for digital resources for the languages in Ireland and Britain" at #CL2025!

Presenting 2 papers Wednesday.
cc: @gaois.bsky.social ✌️

Paul Rayson and Ramesh Krishnamurthy

Paul Rayson and Laurence Anthony

Antoinette Renouf and Paul Rayson

Paul Rayson, Mike Scott and Yukio Tono

Home now after a brilliant @cl2025.co.uk conference and reflecting on meeting up with old friends and lots of interesting research talks. Many many thanks to @robbielove.org and all the organisers! #CL2025

(PDF) The Creation and Validation of ConPlex (the Construction Complexity Calculator) PDF | In recent years there has been a growing interest in the use of complexity measures, which represent theoretical perspectives of language... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Re...

My slides from #cl2025 The Creation and Validation of ConPlex (the Construction Complexity Calculator)

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Birmingham New Street Station

University of Birmingham campus

Good morning, Birmingham! #CL2025

Less than a week to go until #CL2025!

The conference programme and book of abstracts are now available: www.cl2025.co.uk/programme

CL2025 Welcome to the thirteenth international Corpus Linguistics conference (CL2025), co-organised by Aston University, Birmingham City University and the University of Birmingham. CL2025 will take place fr...

Only two weeks to go!

We're working away to finalise the conference programme, featuring:
• 200+ paper presentations
• 50+ poster presentations
• 7 thematic panels
• 5 plenary talks
• 5 pre-conference workshops (29th June)

See you all soon! #CL2025

www.cl2025.co.uk/home

Health text mining conference 2025 slide

Good morning, Glasgow! #HEALTAC2025

So, Mrs Turtle and I have been hanging out in Camley Street Nature Reserve, 3 minutes from the Eurostar check-in, but a world away. Because that is sort of our challenge on #ContinentHop24 - to get a world away. Or at least, to get to another continent in 24 hours solely by surface public transport.

PALA is thrilled to finally be on Blue Sky!! Feel free to follow and/or suggest followees! 🥳🎉

Lancaster to become Policing Academic Centre of Excellence - Lancaster University The National Police Chiefs’ Council ​(NPCC) in partnership with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has chosen Lancaster University as one of nine Policing Academic Centres of Excellence (P-ACEs) sharin...

Lancaster University has been chosen by the National Police Chiefs' Council and @ukri.org as one of nine Policing Academic Centres of Excellence in the UK!

The three-year award will go to a multidisciplinary team at Lancaster University, including @hshawberry.bsky.social and @drmcdaniel.bsky.social

Lancaster University unveils cutting-edge computing and cyber security facilities - Lancaster University Lancaster University has officially opened one of the largest educational facilities in the country to help train the next generation of computer science and cyber security students.

We've officially opened one of the largest educational computer and cyber security facilities in the country! 🎉

The facilities will help train the next generation of computer science and cyber security students.

A blue sky over Alexandra Square on campus.

Hello Bluesky 👋 We're excited to be here!

We'll be sharing lots of our news and research activities, and look forward to making plenty of new connections 🤝

Prime Minister turbocharges medical research Better and faster access to NHS data for researchers with gold standard security and privacy measures.

Really proud that today @wellcometrust.bsky.social partnered with the UK government on a new £600M Health Data Research Service that will provide better and faster access to NHS data for researchers with gold standard security and privacy measures. www.gov.uk/government/n...

📢 Conference registration now open! 📢

Registration for #CL2025 is now open, with early bird rates valid until 9th May.

Registration info: www.cl2025.co.uk/registration

Workshops info: www.cl2025.co.uk/programme/wo...

We're very excited to welcome you to Birmingham in just over 3 months!