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LIDA & L@L: Understanding complex inequalities through language research

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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., from experimental methods and natural language processing to ethnography and multimodal analysis. Language can be a vehicle of social inclusion or exclusion in many contexts; in this event...

Research Talk: "Ten Years of Universal Dependencies"

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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...

Research Talk. Preserving Linguistic Heritage: ChatGPT cannot resist the temptation of speaking 'proper' language

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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

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‘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

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‘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...

Statistical Physics and the Spatial Evolution of Language

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‘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...

Distinguished Speaker 2022: Professor Tony McEnery

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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...

Corpus linguistics: past, present and potential

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The Corpus Linguistics satellite of Language@Leeds, in collaboration with BAAL Corpus Linguistics Special Interest Group, invites you to a free day of talks celebrating, exploring and interrogating the Past, Present and Potential of corpus linguistics from interdisciplinary perspectives.  Keynote speakers: Isobelle Clarke (Lancaster University) and David Wright (Nottingham Trent University).