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Keynote Speakers Dr Andrea Nini, University of Manchester Professor Michaela Mahlberg, University of Birmingham CALL FOR PAPERS: Following the success of the corpus linguistics symposium in May 2022, this one-day event brings together researchers who are interested in any aspects of ‘style’ and ‘authorship’ using corpus linguistic and corpus-based methods. Colleagues from across the university...
You are warmly invited to the upcoming LIDA and Language@Leeds event, aiming to bring together researchers across the University to foster interdisciplinary conversations and identify areas of potential collaboration. Language@Leeds is a University-wide interdisciplinary network for language research. Our work tackles key societal questions through the rigorous study of language, using diverse methods and approaches, e.g.,...
Speaker: Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden Abstract: Universal Dependencies (UD) is a project developing cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages, with the goal of facilitating multilingual parser development, cross-lingual learning, and parsing research from a language typology perspective. Since UD was launched almost ten years ago, it has grown...
Speakers: Wei Zhou, Janet Watson, Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds) Title: Preserving Linguistic Heritage: ChatGPT cannot resist the temptation of speaking 'proper' language Abstract: Modern language technologies, such as GPT, have demonstrated their usefulness in a number of areas, yet they exhibit biases and limitations. This study explores one of the biases concerning the focus...
‘New approaches to (digital) social networks’ Prof Mikko Laitinen (University of Eastern Finland) To view the recording, please click here. Social networks play a considerable role in language variation and change, and social network theory has offered a powerful tool in modeling how linguistic innovations spread into communities (Milroy 1987). However, existing work on...
‘The problem with problems: new methods for analysing problem-solving talk in the Clinton Email Corpus’ Dr Rachele de Felice (Open University) In this talk, I present a corpus-based approach to detecting problem-solving talk in workplace emails. In particular, I will address the following two questions: 1) Can we automatically identify discussion of ‘problems’ in a...
‘Using CL to investigate nostalgia in migration discourses’ Dr Charlotte Taylor (University of Sussex) The recording of this talk is available through this link.
‘Statistical Physics and the Spatial Evolution of Language’ Dr James Burridge, University of Portsmouth In statistical physics we build mathematical models of physical systems which contain very large numbers of interacting components. Because language change is the result of interactions between many similar agents, we can describe it using models in the same style. In...
Language Matters Professor Tony McEnery, Distinguished Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University The presentation will be followed by a round-table with local experts from different disciplines, including Mustapha Sheikh (Islamic studies), Mel Evans (English), John Gallagher (History) and Yen Dang (Education). If you cannot attend in person, please register via eventbrite to...