GUESS WHAT?? The sixth episode of Slowburn Shakespeare finally, finally happened. Find it now wherever you get your podcasts.
What is Slowburn Shakespeare? Settle in, it's quite a ride...
15.04.2025 10:48 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Language, Speech, and AI: A Forensics Summer School, Monday 28 July, 12:00pm - Lancaster University
Join us 28-30 Jul for a hands-on three-day journey into forensic linguistics, speech science, and the (mis)use of AI, particularly in fraud. No prior expertise required. The £30 fee includes sessions,...
🎟️ Tickets: £30 each (includes sessions, materials, refreshments, and a packed lunch). Note: spaces are limited, and demand for our summer schools is always high
👉 Read more and book your tickets here: www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/...
Let's better prepare us all for the future of fraud.
24.03.2025 10:24 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Whether you're an industry professional, a teacher looking to inspire English language students, or simply fascinated by language and crime, this could be the summer school for you.
✅ Gentle pace for absolute beginners
✅ Interactive, hands-on
✅ Taught by world-leading experts
24.03.2025 10:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We'll talk about how easy it is to clone someone's voice, our telltale linguistic habits, and how good ordinary people are at distinguishing human language from AI. On the last day, you'll have the chance to turn detective with your own high-profile fraud case to crack.
24.03.2025 10:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
With that in mind, the world-leading FACTOR team is running a 3-day summer school to take you through the cutting-edge worlds of forensic linguistics, forensic speech science, and the ever-growing challenges that we now all face - the (mis) use of AI.
24.03.2025 10:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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...
24.03.2025 10:24 — 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Brutalist, graphic-novel-style illustration, muted, earthy color palette, deep ochre, slate blue, charcoal. A chaotic social media debate on fragmented speech bubbles, some censored, others highlighted in red. A mechanical moderator, cold and rigid, clashes with a human moderator, expressive and conflicted, both struggling to define 'offensive'. background hints at political discourse, silhouettes of clashing ideologies
🗣️ It's the last FACTOR talk of the academic year! Join us for Dr. Tharindu Ranasinghe's discussion of the challenges of offensive language detection in political discourse, including how human and machine moderators often disagree on what's considered offensive.
20.02.2025 17:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams
Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams
In this talk, Barrister and Forensic Speech Scientist Dr Christin Kirchhübel (Soundscape) will explore the latest conversations and cases shaping this fast-evolving field.
📅 1500-1600 Thu 06th Feb
📍 Welcome Centre LT1 (A34) or
🔗 Online via Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/73a8be...
23.01.2025 18:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Upcoming @_FACTOR_LU talk
🚨 What’s the (copy)right way? 🚨
Join us for a talk exploring the legal challenges around large speech & language models
💡 Key questions:
1️⃣ Does developing these models risk copyright infringement?
2️⃣ What’s the copyright status of their outputs?
23.01.2025 18:32 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
An abstract, surreal digital artwork of dark, eerie cyberspace. A web of glowing screens and ghostly figures emerges from shadowy code, evoking horror forums like 'creepypasta' and 'r/nosleep.' The environment feels disorienting and spectral, blending the digital and the uncanny, with faint echoes of familiar landmarks or everyday objects rendered unsettling and unrecognizable, as the scene blends muted color with neon accents, creating a haunting, dreamlike atmosphere.
This talk explores how "creepypasta" and sites like r/nosleep reimagine reality with eerie, dreamlike qualities. Join us to discuss myths, simulacra, and the cybersecurity risks of online horror spaces.
04.01.2025 13:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We're thrilled to announce our next talk: Sophie James (LUMS, SPS) and Prof. James Cronin (LUMS) will present: "Digital Dreamscapes & The Spectralisation Of Reality" Exploring digitally networked horror as a new frontier in dark tourism.
04.01.2025 13:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Most social media event detection tools rely heavily on statistics, often overlooking the meaning behind words. Dr. Hansi Hettiarachchi’s talk explores the semantic gaps in current methods and how new strategies can uncover critical insights from social media data streams.
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27.11.2024 12:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🚨 Exciting news from FACTOR! 🚨 Dr. Hansi Hettiarachchi (Lancaster University) will explore how temporal word dynamics can inform event detection from social media streams. From crisis management to market analysis, learn how this approach tackles vast, unstructured data.
Why is this important? ->
27.11.2024 12:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Falling behind the PACE: Lie-Detectors, Policing and Lack of Foreseeability - An FOI based Study
Polygraphs & policing in England & Wales. Article based on FOI analysis accepted/forthcoming in Legal Studies journal. We argue for independent review of police polygraph use & 'police law for tech' covering all policing contexts. Comments welcome researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/en/publicati...
21.11.2024 15:45 — 👍 10 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
Today's @factor-lu.bsky.social talk is by Greta Esposito, a FACTOR PhD student in LAEL. Greta explores the critical role of interpretation and translation in law enforcement and how sub-optimal language services can impact the criminal justice system. #ForensicLinguistics
21.11.2024 09:45 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1
