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Written by Helen Caple In large-scale corpus-based discourse analysis, newspaper corpora are typically constructed from databases like Factiva or Nexis using ‘seed terms’ related to the topic of in…

written by Rodrigo Arellano One research practice that has puzzled me over the years is the combination of software packages and the complementary analyses they afford to develop a better understan…

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Written by Marco Duranti Introduction: The symbolic force of human rights The last half century has witnessed the ascendancy of human rights as a language of legal, moral, and political claim-makin…

Written by Monika Bednarek and Gavin Brookes Note: This post was simultaneously published by the Sydney Corpus Lab and by the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster Univer…

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written by Monika Bednarek The Sydney Corpus Lab recently published a post containing a synthesis of how large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools have been …

Written by Kelvin Lee The advent of large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT has led to AI being used in many facets of everyday life as wel…

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Dutch scientist Leonie Cornips has become fascinated with how cows communicate. But can this really be called 'language'?

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Written by Tara Coltman-Patel, Carly Bray, Paul Baker and Monika Bednarek Note: This post was simultaneously published by the Sydney Corpus Lab and by the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Sci…

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...

The sharing of news through social media platforms is now a significant part of mainstream online media use and is an increasingly important consideration in journalism practice and production. This p...

written by Monika Bednarek 2024 was yet another busy year for the Sydney Corpus Lab, as we continued working on various projects, including our collaboration on the Language Data Commons of Austral…

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