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Dr. John Vidler @johnvidler.co.uk · 09/12/2025

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 :)

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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...

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The value of public R&D

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ACM SIGIR @acmsigir.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Hello, World!

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Paul Rayson @perayson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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.

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Lancaster University @lancasteruni.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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 📰: www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancaster-…

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Paul Rayson @perayson.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

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

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Dan Jurafsky @jurafsky.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

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...

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Davy Notebooks Project @davynotebooks.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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!

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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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...

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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...

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Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025 @cl2025.co.uk · 11/08/2025

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

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Yufeng Liu (Kiki)劉雨鳳 @kikiliu.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

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.

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ACL 2027 @aclmeeting.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

🥳 🎉 ❤️ 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

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Paul Rayson @perayson.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

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

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Alan Turing Lecture 2025 by Sandi Toksvig

YouTube video by King's College, Cambridge

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Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

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

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Mícheál Johnny | MJM @momeachair.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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 ✌️

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Paul Rayson @perayson.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

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

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Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025 @cl2025.co.uk · 24/06/2025

Less than a week to go until #CL2025! The conference programme and book of abstracts are now available: www.cl2025.co.uk/programme

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Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025 @cl2025.co.uk · 16/06/2025

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

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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...

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

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.

A crocheted turtle on a fence post amid greenery.

Two canal locks amid apartments, with a Eurostar crossing the bridge behind.

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PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

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

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Lancaster University @lancasteruni.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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 🤝

A blue sky over Alexandra Square on campus.

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Steven Hoffman @shoffmania.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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...

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Prime Minister turbocharges medical research

Better and faster access to NHS data for researchers with gold standard security and privacy measures.

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Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025 @cl2025.co.uk · 28/03/2025

📢 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!

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CL2025 - Registration

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Paul Rayson @perayson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Correct, not yet. This is not supported yet in PyMUSAS so I could only set it up first for the English pipeline.

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Paul Rayson @perayson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Exciting news: there'll be a wmatrix & PyMUSAS workshop at @cl2025.co.uk in Birmingham on 29th June run by me, @johnvidler.co.uk and Daisy Lal including discussions about open source software and #corpuslinguistics #CL2025

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Paul Rayson @perayson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

There's an explanation of the key differences (including much larger corpora & multilingual analysis in #wmatrix version 7) here: ucrel-wmatrix7.lancaster.ac.uk If you are a #wmatrix V5 user, then you should save your data and reload it into the new version. V5 is expected to be retired next month.

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Paul Rayson @perayson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

After a soft launch in the last couple of weeks, #wmatrix version 7 is now completely freely available worldwide for academic users plus UK government and NHS email addresses. This is the largest revision of the software since it was created 25 years ago: ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/

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Wmatrix corpus analysis and comparison tool

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FACTOR @factor-lu.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Language, Speech, and AI: FACTOR Summer School 2025 📅 28-30 July 2025 📍 Lancaster University, UK 💼 Theme: Fraud & the (Mis)use of AI Countless frauds and scams are being perpetrated all around us right now, and AI has made it easier than ever. And we'd like to fight back...

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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Our Diversity in Data Science working group now has an active webpage with resources www.lancaster.ac.uk/dsi/about-us... Please do suggest additional resources we could link to if you know of ones that directly address EDI in data science, so we can build it further, thanks! @dsilu.bsky.social

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DSI Diversity - Lancaster University

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A wonderful event coming up on 11th March with @dhansen.bsky.social of @ulbruxelles.bsky.social, who will join us to talk about translation technology and creative translation. Hosted by @delphinegrass.bsky.social. Find out more and sign up: www.lancaster.ac.uk/global-affai...

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Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) @adho-org.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

We are very excited to officially announce that the University of Galway will host the DH2027 conference in Ireland from June 28 to July 3, 2027. More information will be coming soon. Congratulations to the Galway team! We look forward to joining you in 2027! #DH2027 #digitalhumanities #Galway

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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Questionable practices in machine learning arxiv.org/pdf/2407.12220 #machinelearning #artificialintelligence #datascience

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 07/02/2025

Hello, Bluesky! ☀️ We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late. Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.

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GeoHumanities Interest Group (ADHO) @geohumsig.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Want more maps, GIS and all things spatial humanities on your feed? Here's a starter pack for you! go.bsky.app/U5baPjQ

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Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025 @cl2025.co.uk · 27/01/2025

CL2025 submissions are in and you've been busy! Over the next month, our amazing programme committee will be reviewing a total of 466 submissions, including: 🧑‍🏫 365 papers 🖼️ 85 posters 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 7 panels ⚙️ 9 pre-conference workshops

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ACL 2027 @aclmeeting.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

2025.aclweb.org 👉 Updates for Second Call for Papers. 📣 Also Industry Track and System Demonstrations #ACL2025NLP #NLProc

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The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Vienna, AustriaJuly 27–August 1st, 2025

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CASS @corpussocialsci.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We’re the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University. Follow along for updates, insights, and a closer look at the power of language. #LanguageMatters #CorpusLinguistics

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Paul Rayson @perayson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I've just finished presenting with Daisy Lal our software demo paper on "LENS: Learning Entities from Narratives of Skin Cancer" #COLING2025 part of the 4D Picture (4dpicture.eu) project aclanthology.org/2025.coling-... Code & demo are available online, links are in the paper

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LENS: Learning Entities from Narratives of Skin Cancer

Daisy Monika Lal, Paul Rayson, Christopher Peter, Ignatius Ezeani, Mo El-Haj, Yafei Zhu, Yufeng Liu. Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstration...

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Paul Rayson @perayson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I'm starting this morning at the low-resource languages 1 session #COLING2025 An interesting observation from @iamdddaryna.bsky.social in her paper aclanthology.org/2025.coling-... that Opus-MT better preserves the toxic lexicon compared to others where this is fine-tuned out

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Cross-lingual Text Classification Transfer: The Case of Ukrainian

Daryna Dementieva, Valeriia Khylenko, Georg Groh. Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 2025.

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Paul Rayson @perayson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

An interesting paper from this morning's sessions at #COLING2025: "Why Does ChatGPT “Delve” So Much? Exploring the Sources of Lexical Overrepresentation in Large Language Models" aclanthology.org/2025.coling-...

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Why Does ChatGPT “Delve” So Much? Exploring the Sources of Lexical Overrepresentation in Large Language Models

Tom S Juzek, Zina B. Ward. Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 2025.

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Paul Rayson @perayson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I finished yesterday afternoon in the @loreslm.bsky.social workshop: low resource languages are a super hot topic in the LoResLM workshop and widely across the #COLING2025 conference

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