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Akira Murakami

@mrkm-a.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Communication at the University of Birmingham, as well as Director of the Centre for Corpus Research. Website: www.akira-murakami.com Twitter (X): @mrkm_a

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Corpus Linguistics 2027 @cl2027.info · 19/08/2026
We are pleased to finally announce… 📢 Call for Papers: Corpus Linguistics 2027 Venice, Italy | 12th-16th July 2027 CfP details: www.cl2027.info/call-for-pap... Deadline: 8th January 2027 🔗 All links in bio 🔁 please share widely! #CL2027
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#CL2027 - Call for Papers
Adaptation and Adaptability in Corpus Linguistics
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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 11/08/2026
COS is announcing important changes to the Open Science Framework (OSF). OSF Projects—used for project collaboration, file mgmt, & storage—is being phased out as an active workspace over the next 6 months. This change does not affect persistence & accessibility of existing public projects. (🧵1/2)
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
#ccrss26 has come to an end. Thank you all for your participation.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I'm wrapping up #ccrss26 with my own session, "Topic models in R".
Slide titled "Chronological Change" showing 70 small line graphs of topic probabilities over publication years (1970–2020). Each panel represents a different topic, with black data points and a blue trend line showing how its prevalence changes over time.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The next session is "Corpus-based forensic authorship analysis" by Dana Roemling. #ccrss26
Zoom screenshot showing Dana Roemling presenting "Corpus-Based Forensic Authorship Analysis" at the Corpus Linguistics Summer School. The title slide is displayed alongside the speaker's video.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The first session this afternoon is "Corpus linguistics and law" by Dr Edward Clay. #ccrss26
Zoom screenshot of Dr Edward Clay delivering a session titled “Corpus Linguistics and Law”. The presentation slide fills most of the screen, with the presenter speaking in a video tile on the right.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The final day of #ccrss26 has just kicked off. The first session today is "Towards a corpus linguistics of signed languages" by Prof. Adam Schembri.
Zoom screenshot of Professor Adam Schembri presenting a slide titled "An emerging field of sign language corpus linguistics". The slide summarises the development of sign language corpora and features the cover of the book Signed Language Corpora. The speaker appears in a video window on the right.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The final session today is "Introduction to CQPweb" by Dr Florent Perek. #ccrss26
Zoom screenshot of Dr Florent Perek introducing CQPweb. The shared screen displays the CQPweb search interface for the British National Corpus (BNC), with the presenter visible in a video tile on the right.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The first afternoon session on Day 3 is "Studying language change in online data" by Dr Matt Gee and Dr Emma Franklin. #ccrss26
Zoom screenshot of the session "Studying language change in online data" by Matt Gee and Emma Franklin. The title slide features Birmingham City University's campus, with both presenters visible in video windows on the right.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The final session today is "Introduction to corpus triangulation" by Dr Sofia Malamatidou. #ccrss26
Screenshot of an online presentation titled "Corpus Triangulation". The title slide is displayed on the left, while Dr Sofia Malamatidou appears on video on the right, speaking during the session.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"Introduction to Sketch Engine" by Dr Paul Thompson is underway. #ccrss26
Screenshot of Dr Paul Thompson's online presentation. A slide demonstrates regular-expression search-and-replace examples for editing Great Expectations and recommends BBEdit (Mac) and Notepad++ for batch text editing. The presenter appears in a small video window on the right.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Up next, after another participant presentation session, is "Introduction to the tidyverse" by Prof. Bodo Winter. #ccrss26
Screenshot of Prof. Bodo Winter's online session. A slide explains the components of a tidyverse command in R using the example tib <- sample_n(tib, 50), with labels for the tibble, assignment operator, function, and arguments, while the speaker appears on webcam beside the slide.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The second day of #ccrss26 has just started. The first session is "Analysing Learner Language" by Dr Joyce Lim.
Screenshot of Dr Joyce Lim presenting online. The slide, titled “Interlanguage – not ‘broken’ English!”, explains the concept of learner interlanguage and includes a diagram showing the relationship between L1, interlanguage, and L2.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The Sinclair Lecture has just started! This year, it is delivered by Professor Andrew Kehoe (Birmingham City University) and is titled "Tracking language use across time: 25 years of innovation". #ccrss26
Professor Andrew Kehoe stands at a lectern at the front of a lecture theatre as the opening slide of the 2026 Sinclair Lecture is projected on a large screen above him. The slide reads "Tracking language use across time: 25 years of innovation" and identifies him as Professor of Corpus Linguistics at Birmingham City University. The audience is out of frame.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
After a participant presentation session, the final session of the day is "Introduction to R" by Prof. Bodo Winter. #ccrss26
Screenshot of the Zoom session "Introduction to R" by Prof. Bodo Winter. The slide encourages a positive attitude to learning R, with the quote: "I have been writing R code for years, and every day I still write code that doesn't work!" by Hadley Wickham.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The first session after lunch is "Using corpus data in psycholinguistics" by Dr Michal Laznicka. #ccrss26
Screenshot of a Zoom session at the Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2026. The presentation slide is titled "Using corpus data in psycholinguistics" by Michal Lažnička (University of Birmingham / Charles University). The speaker is visible in a small video window on the right.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The session "Interpreting concordance lines" by Prof. Susan Hunston was delivered this morning at #ccrss26.
Screenshot of a Zoom session titled "Interpreting Concordance Lines" by Susan Hunston (University of Birmingham). The presentation slide with the session title is shared on screen, while a small video tile on the right shows Prof. Hunston speaking.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The very first session of #ccrss26 is "Introduction to corpus linguistics" by Dr Paul Thompson.
PowerPoint slide comparing the top ten collocates of "toxic" in the British National Corpus (1994) and the Oxford Corpus (2018). The comparison highlights a shift from predominantly chemical and environmental collocates to the inclusion of expressions such as toxic masculinity, toxic relationship, and toxic culture. The slide is shown in PowerPoint editing mode with a presenter video in the top-right corner.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The Corpus Linguistics Summer School has just begun! #ccrss26
Screenshot of the title page of a slide stating "Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2026  6–9 July, 2026", with a photo of the clock tower (Old Joe) on campus and the University of Birmingham logo.
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EuroSLA @eurosla.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The third EuroSLA plenary talk being delivered by Emma Marsden (University of Oxford).
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EuroSLA @eurosla.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Anna Pietruszewska (U of Lodz) is the winner of this year’s EuroSLA Junior Researcher LAB award for the most promising PhD project. Congratulations! 🎉
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EuroSLA @eurosla.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The second EuroSLA 35 plenary: Vincent DeLuca
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EuroSLA @eurosla.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
EuroSLA 35 officially kicks off with a plenary by Melissa Baese-Berk.
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EuroSLA @eurosla.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A first at a EuroSLA: musical interlude, Luis Ribeiro & Caje Garcia
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EuroSLA @eurosla.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
EuroSLA 35 pre-conference event is underway. This year’s Language Learning Roundtable focuses on research impact pathways.
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EuroSLA @eurosla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
👏🎉 Huge congratulations to Nick Ellis on receiving the EuroSLA Distinguished Scholar Award! A pioneer of usage-based approaches to language learning, Nick’s bridge-building across traditions has shaped the field and inspired generations of scholars over four decades. www.eurosla.org/eurosla-dist...
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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Joining #CogSci2026 from Japan? 🇯🇵🤝🇧🇷 The CogSci Meetup 2026 in Hamamatsu is a two-day hybrid event connecting researchers in Japan with the main conference in Rio de Janeiro. 📍Hamamatsu, Japan 🗓️ July 23–24, 2026 Learn more and register at sites.google.com/view/cogsci-...
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CogSci Meetup Hamamatsu
Update information April 10, 2026 : Website launched and call for submissions begins.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Thank you! I’m really looking forward to speaking at APCLC 2026 in Toyama this September. The abstract submission is still open for those interested in corpus linguistics and related areas. #APCLC2026
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Registration for #ccrss26 closes this weekend. If you missed any of our session spotlights, you can explore the full thread below. More information and registration details: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/corpu...
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
We conclude our #ccrss26 session spotlight series with Prof. Susan Hunston. In “Interpreting concordance lines”, participants will explore how close analysis of corpus evidence can reveal subtle patterns of meaning and language use.
Portrait of Professor Susan Hunston smiling in front of bookshelves.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
At #ccrss26, Dr Jason Grafmiller will introduce text analysis with Python and spaCy, covering tasks such as lemmatisation, POS tagging, and syntactic parsing. The session is aimed at beginners and will include hands-on work with corpus data in Python.
Headshot of Dr Jason Grafmiller wearing a blue checked shirt against a light background.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Dana Roemling will show how corpus-based forensic authorship analysis works in practice. Using a corpus of 21M geolocated social media posts, the session explores how corpus methods, geostatistics, and mapping can improve regional authorship profiling in forensic linguistics.
Portrait of Dana Roemling working on a laptop in a dimly lit indoor setting.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Join Prof. Bodo Winter at #ccrss26 for a hands-on introduction to #rstats and the tidyverse! The sessions will cover the basics of data processing and management, and no prior programming experience is needed.
Headshot of Prof. Bodo Winter outdoors with a city skyline in the background.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
As in previous years, BSL interpretation will be provided for the lecture.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
We are pleased to announce this year’s Sinclair Lecture by Professor Andrew Kehoe, titled “Tracking language use across time: 25 years of innovation”, on 6 July. The lecture is open to the public and will be livestreamed. Details and registration below: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/track...
Screenshot of the University of Birmingham event page for the 2026 Annual Sinclair Lecture, titled “Tracking language use across time: 25 years of innovation”, by Professor Andrew Kehoe of Birmingham City University. The page includes the lecture title, event details, registration button, speaker biography, and a portrait photograph of Professor Kehoe.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
At #ccrss26, Dr Paul Thompson will introduce Sketch Engine in a session tailored to both beginners and experienced users. He will showcase its tools, demonstrate how to upload data, and explore both its potential applications and its limitations.
Headshot of Dr Paul Thompson in front of bookshelves, wearing a red jumper and collared shirt.
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EuroSLA @eurosla.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Best JESLA Paper Prize 2025 awarded to Brasolin & Bienati (2025), Phraseology meets information theory: Going beyond the bag-of-words approach in complexity measures. Congratulations! Part of the special collection Multiple views on phraseology in SLA. euroslajournal.org/articles/10....
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Phraseology meets information theory: Going beyond the bag-of-words approach in complexity measures | Journal of the European Second Language Association
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I’m excited to be teaching topic modelling again at #ccrss26! Registration for the Corpus Linguistics Summer School is still open for anyone interested. www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/corpu...
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Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2026 - University of Birmingham
Open to undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students, as well as researchers who want to improve their skills to apply corpus methods in their research.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
At #ccrss26, I will demonstrate how probabilistic topic models can be used to analyse corpus data. Using R, I’ll cover pre-processing, model building, topic interpretation, and how to carry out quantitative analyses informed by the resulting topics.
Portrait of me wearing glasses and a white shirt against a light background.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
At #ccrss26, Prof. Adam Schembri explores how sign language corpora are created, annotated, and analysed, and what they reveal about the structure and use of sign languages. The session also highlights the importance of multimodal corpora for spoken as well as sign languages.
Portrait of Prof. Adam Schembri smiling indoors
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
At #ccrss26, Dr Katharine Weetman will introduce key ethical issues in collecting and analysing healthcare data, followed by breakout groups where students can pitch project ideas and explore the topics in more depth.
Headshot of Dr Katharine Weetman smiling, wearing a dark blazer and patterned top.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Dr Edward Clay will discuss how corpus linguistics can be used to assist legal interpretation and demonstrate ways in which corpus methods can be applied to multilingual legal settings in order to gain insights into legal terminology and multilingual text production. #ccrss26
Portrait of Dr Edward Clay standing outdoors in a wooded area
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
At #ccrss26, Dr Michal Laznicka explores how corpora capture language experience and inform models of language processing. The session covers frequency effects and measures beyond raw frequency for modelling typical and non-typical human language processing.
Photo of Dr Michal Laznicka holding a tabby cat against a plain background.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
How can we combine corpus data or methods and why? At #ccrss26, Dr Sofia Malamatidou will introduce corpus triangulation techniques, explain their multiple advantages, and provide hands-on practice with a corpus of tourism texts.
Graphic titled “Corpus Triangulation” showing a triangular loop made of three coloured segments labelled “Corpus 1”, “Corpus 2”, and “Corpus 3”, representing the combination of multiple corpora.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Another session from external instructors Drs Matt Gee & Emma Franklin explores methods to study language change. They demonstrate WebCorp for tracking trends in news, discuss pitfalls in tracking lexical change on Twitter (TRAC:COVID), and consider language change in the AI era.
Line graph showing changing word frequencies over time (1900–2020), with two lines labelled “Matt” (blue) and “Emma” (red). Cut-out photos of Dr Matt Gee and Dr Emma Franklin are overlaid on the chart.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
At #ccrss26, Dr Florent Perek will give a demonstration of CQPweb, a web-based tool for corpus exploration and analysis. He will introduce CQPweb and show its main features, including how to retrieve linguistic patterns and facilitate the analysis of results.
Headshot of Dr Florent Perek
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
We’re starting our #ccrss26 spotlight series with external instructor Dr Joyce Lim, who will demonstrate various corpus methods typically used for analysing learner language. The session will also include hands-on practice with a small learner corpus.
Headshot of Dr Joyce Lim, who will teach a session on learner corpus methods
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Over the coming days, we’ll be spotlighting sessions from this year’s Corpus Linguistics Summer School (#ccrss26, 6–9 July). Stay tuned and don’t miss your chance to join us! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/corpu...
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Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2026 - University of Birmingham
Open to undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students, as well as researchers who want to improve their skills to apply corpus methods in their research.
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Dan Isbell @danielrisbell.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Elen Le Foll published an interesting study on how (applied) linguists understand Open Science. I was involved in a collaborative and transparent peer review process for the article, with a reviewer report available here: works.hcommons.org/records/tfj1...
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“Well, Parts of Linguistics Is Open…”: Insights into Linguists’ Diverse Understandings of Open Science
Broadly defined as the study of language, linguistics is a diverse field spanning many disciplines. Recent studies on the prevalence of Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) in linguistics (e.g. Isbe...
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 14/04/2026
Post Doc at Uni Tübingen! 100% position for 3 (+3) years; they're looking for somebody to analyze large-scale longitudinal datasets in education research. Expertise in machine learning is an advantage, commitment to research transparency desirable 😌 proficiency in German beneficial but not required
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow (100%, E 13 TV-L)
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