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Andrea Nini

@andreanini.com.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester

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Pat Strycharczuk will be presenting our paper at #Interspeech2025 on Wednesday afternoon (A02-O6), where we applied forensic speaker comparison methods to ultrasound tongue imaging data to think about the individuality of articulatory strategy

πŸ“„ www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...

17.08.2025 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures Iconicity ratings studies have established that there are many English words which native speakers judge as β€œiconic,” that is, as sounding like what they mean. Here, we explore whether these iconic E...

Super excited to share our new multimodal corpus analysis, "Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures" πŸ₯³

Project led by our PhD student Ell Wilding and in collab w/ @jeannettel.bsky.social & @mperlman.bsky.social:

doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

15.08.2025 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Some days my working day is: fix OneDrive sync issues. It has one job and it fails completely at that. All other cloud systems can sync things perfectly. Unbelievable.

06.08.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Exploring public-oriented research communication | John Benjamins Abstract Garnering public engagement with academic research in a timely and accessible manner has become a central concern in contemporary academia. This centrality has given rise to a growing interes...

πŸ“’πŸ“ƒ New open access πŸ”“ paper with @perez-paredes.bsky.social in @registerstudies.bsky.social: Exploring public-oriented research communication - A register perspective. You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1075/rs.2... & some details in the 🧡 below⬇️ @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @um.es

01.08.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ”Š Dropping this Friday, the Series 1 finale of Writing Wrongs, the AIFL podcast! πŸ”Š

@timgrant123.bsky.social and @drniccimacleod.bsky.social will be answering some of the questions that have come in from listeners over the course of the past 7 episodes πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡

29.07.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
Assessing the suitability of forensic authorship analysis methodologies for speechΒ data On Monday Dr James Tompkinson (University of York) and I presented our talk on "Assessing the suitability of forensic authorship analysis methodologies for speech data" at the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA) 2025 conference at Leiden University (The Hague), where we show some preliminary results about applying some authorship analysis techniques to transcribed speech. You can find the slides of the talk here:

On Monday, Dr James Tompkinson (University of York) and I presented this paper at the IAFPA 2025 conference, where we showed preliminary results of applying authorship analysis techniques to transcribed speech. You can find the slides at the link below.

22.07.2025 09:18 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Examining an author’s individualΒ grammar On Monday I delivered a talk at the Comparative Literature Goes Digital Workshop at the Digital Humanities 2025 conference. As part of this talk I have also prepared a tutorial to use our new authorship verification method, LambdaG, to produce text heatmaps to study the idiosyncratic language of an author. This Github repository contains the abstract, a link to the tutorial and the slide of my talk:

Abstract and slides for my #DH2025 talk "Examining an author’s individual grammar" can now be found on my website below. This also includes a tutorial to use LambdaG to study authors' idiosyncratic grammar patterns.

16.07.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That's often the case anyway! πŸ˜„

09.07.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Have you tried using ChatGPT or similar? I tend to use LLMs only for things like this where the output is verifiable. If the problem has been encountered before many times it's quite reliable.

09.07.2025 10:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Appearance on the Writing WrongsΒ podcast A few months ago, I had the pleasure of being a guest on the β€˜Writings Wrongs’ podcast. The episode covered the events of the Aiya Napa rape case and the evidence I presented at the trial. Like all other episodes, the hosts do an amazing job explaining everything in detail but in a really accessible way. I highly recommend this episode, as well as the whole podcast! You can find it here:

I recently had the pleasure of being a guest on the β€˜Writings Wrongs’ podcast, where we discussed the Aiya Napa rape case and my trial evidence. I highly recommend this episode and the whole podcast: https://www.aston.ac.uk/research/forensic-linguistics/writing-wrongs

08.07.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Detection and Analysis of Depression-Related Language in an Online Community: Machine Learning, Topic Modeling, and Corpus-Linguistic Approaches Depression is one of the most common mental disorders worldwide and may affect an individual’s ability to perform essential life activities. Still, β€œless than 25β€―% of individuals with depression recei...

Excited to have a new open-access article out on online depression discourse in the journal Corpus-based Studies across Humanities, together with my brilliant doctoral student Youngmeen Kim! Check it out at www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...!

07.07.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A corpus analysis of idiolectalΒ n-grams The slides and abstract of our talk "A corpus analysis of idiolectal n-grams" at #CL2025 are now available here:

The slides and abstract of our talk "A corpus analysis of idiolectal n-grams" at #CL2025 are now available here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15806985

04.07.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Corpus Linguistics 2025 Presentation slides and reproduction materials for CL 2025 presentation β€œFinding structure in multivariate data” Hosted on the Open Science Framework

In case you missed the QR code during my talk on Geometric Multivariate Analysis @cl2025.co.uk: You can find slides, code, and data at osf.io/9p25y

03.07.2025 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Sinclair Lecture by @jwgrieve.bsky.social, mentioned by @lanthony.bsky.social in his plenary speech yesterday, will be held next Monday at 5pm at the University of Birmingham and will also be live-streamed. For details and registration, visit: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac... #CL2025

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Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies

It seems that the Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics series is free to download for the duration of #CL2025 again β€” including my own. I’m never one to pass up a freebie, so do take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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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...

Only two weeks to go!

We're working away to finalise the conference programme, featuring:
β€’ 200+ paper presentations
β€’ 50+ poster presentations
β€’ 7 thematic panels
β€’ 5 plenary talks
β€’ 5 pre-conference workshops (29th June)

See you all soon! #CL2025

www.cl2025.co.uk/home

16.06.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Writing Wrongs

✴️ Episode 6 of 🎧 Writing Wrongs 🎧 podcast out now! ✴️

πŸ‘‰πŸŽ™οΈThe Disputed Confessions of Darnell RusanπŸŽ™οΈπŸ‘ˆ

A man confesses to murder - eleven times. But was it his story or the detective’s? @drniccimacleod.bsky.social and @timgrant123.bsky.social chat with Dr Marlon Hurt

aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs

09.06.2025 07:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bayesian Regressions for the Advancement of Linguistics A workshop designed especially for PGRs and ECRs, but welcoming participants of all levels from linguistics and adjacent disciplines

Join us on 7th July for a hybrid workshop on Bayesian regression models for linguistics (and adjacent disciplines), led by @scoretta.bsky.social ✨
A small number of travel bursaries is available to support PGRs and ECRs. Please share!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bayesian-r...

27.05.2025 07:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Job Vacancy at Aston University: Research Assistant The Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics is the leading hub for forensic linguistics worldwide. Set up as the Centre for Forensic Linguistics in 2008 by Malcolm Coulthard, it was expanded into a r...

πŸ“’ Come work with us πŸ“’
We're recruiting a new Research Assistant to work alongside @drniccimacleod.bsky.social on her project Talking Rape: Operation Soteria and the Police Interview, funded by a Leverhulme Fellowship πŸ‘‡
jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

12.05.2025 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Forensic Conversations in Criminal Justice Settings – DARG

'Forensic Conversations' hybrid symposium is BACK!
πŸ“† 17 Sep 2025

An informal day of networking, discussions & presentations with researchers using EMCA methods to explore conversations in policing and criminal justice contexts.

Reg & call for abstracts now open: darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/forens...

28.04.2025 08:10 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

⚑ Open calls for 2 PhD students and 1 postdoc in computational social science / environmental / sustainable transitions studies

It's an ERC Consolidator project led by Laur Kanger in the University of Tartu; please share, it's a great place!

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/search?keys=...

25.04.2025 13:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@jimmykimmel.com

19.04.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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LINGUIST List 36.1234 Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

We are looking for a computational linguist with focus on AI Trust and Security broadly defined. We are interested in people specialising in the study of LLMs and Forensic Linguistics applications would also be very welcome
linguistlist.org/issues/36/12...

17.04.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The official press release and conference video for the upcoming 17th Biennial Conference of IAFLL in Cape Town has been published on our website:

iafll.org/2025/04/01/1...

01.04.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics (3181) at Northumbria University Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics (3181) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

2-year fixed term post in #linguistics at Northumbria - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH232/l...

15.03.2025 07:45 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Conceptual mapping in psychiatric evidence at Aston University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Conceptual mapping in psychiatric evidence at Aston University, listed on FindAPhD.com

We're recruiting! New fully funded PhD studentship in Forensic Linguistics, starting October 2025: 'Conceptual mapping in psychiatric evidence'.

Would you like to work on a research project with @felicitydeamer.bsky.social and @timgrant123.bsky.social? Apply now πŸ‘‡

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

13.03.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Next Monday I’ll be giving a talk on my latest research on the linguistics of trust and manipulation as part of Hong Kong Poly’s English and Communication seminar series.

The talk will be on Zoom and open to all. If you’re interested, you can sign up via the link below!

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And we're off!

Today with Nicci MacLeod at Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics we've released the first three episodes of our brand new podcast Writing Wrongs

πŸŽ™οΈFollow Writing Wrongs here πŸ‘‰ podfollow.com/1797795962

#forensiclinguistics
#linguistics
#truecrime
#podcasts
#academicsky

07.03.2025 06:12 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

We now have actual models that capture (many) real natural languages -- let's not assume we still need good old fashioned rules for syntax or semantics @weissweiler.bsky.social @kmahowald.bsky.social

28.02.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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✨New paper✨

Linguistic evaluations of LLMs often implicitly assume that language is generated by symbolic rules.
In a new position paper, @adelegoldberg.bsky.social, @kmahowald.bsky.social and I argue that languages are not Lego sets, and evaluations should reflect this!

arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13195

20.02.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

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