Akira Murakami

Results of the replication are in!

Chocolate is more desirable than poop:

Cohen's d_rm = 6.20, 95%CI [5.63, 6.78]

N = 486, two single item 1-7 Likert scales of desirability.

w/
@jamiecummins.bsky.social

That's a wrap on #ccrss25! Thanks to everyone who took part.

This year's Sinclair Lecture is now available to watch on YouTube. #ccrss25 #SinclairLecture
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXAk...

A photo of @matteofuoli.bsky.social teaching a session at the summer school

A photo of @matteofuoli.bsky.social teaching a session at the summer school

The very final session of #ccrss25 is led by @matteofuoli.bsky.social‬ and is titled 'Corpus Annotation and Analysis with the UAM Corpus Tool'.

A photo of Dr Yaling Hsiao teaching a session at the summer school

A photo of Dr Yaling Hsiao teaching a session at the summer school

The final session today, titled 'What children hear, read, and write: A corpus approach to language and literacy', is led by Dr Yaling Hsiao. #ccrss25

Title slide for the 'Topic Models in R' session

The next session, titled 'Topic Models in R,' is led by @mrkm-a.bsky.social‬. #ccrss25

A photo of Dr Jason Grafmiller teaching a session at the summer school

A photo of Dr Jason Grafmiller teaching a session at the summer school

The next session, titled 'Analyzing Text with Python and spaCy,' is led by Dr Jason Grafmiller. #ccrss25

A photo of Dr Joyce Lim teaching a session at the summer school

A photo of Dr Joyce Lim teaching a session at the summer school

The first session today, titled 'Analysing Learner Language', is led by external speaker Dr Joyce Lim from Aston University. #ccrss25

The programme of Corpus Linguistics Summer School, with Day 4 highlighted

Day 4 of Corpus Linguistics Summer School is here! #ccrss25

A photo of @meganbushnell.bsky.social teaching a session at the summer school

A photo of @meganbushnell.bsky.social teaching a session at the summer school

Following a participant presentation session, the next session is led by external speaker @meganbushnell.bsky.social‬ from the University of Oxford and CLARIN UK, titled 'Applying FAIR Data Principles in Corpus Linguistics'. #ccrss25

A photo of Dr Sofia Malamatidou teaching a session at the summer school

A photo of Dr Sofia Malamatidou teaching a session at the summer school

The second session today, led by Dr Sofia Malamatidou, is titled 'Corpus Triangulation: Its Application to the Analysis of Tourism Discourse'. #ccrss25

A photo of Dr Nick Groom teaching a session at the summer school

A photo of Dr Nick Groom teaching a session at the summer school

Today's first session, titled 'Phraseology: A Critical Reassessment', is led by Dr Nick Groom. #ccrss25

The programme of the summer school, with Day 3 highlighted

It's Day 3 of the Corpus Linguistics Summer School! #ccrss25

The final session today is my session titled 'Introduction to R'. #ccrss25

A photo of Dr Michael Oakes teaching a session at the summer school

A photo of Dr Michael Oakes teaching a session at the summer school

Following participant presentations, the ongoing session, titled 'Readability and Environmental Texts', is led by Dr Michael Oakes. #ccrss25

A photo of Dr Katharine Weetman teaching a session at the summer school

A photo of Dr Katharine Weetman teaching a session at the summer school

Up next, Dr Katharine Weetman leads a session on 'Analysing Healthcare Data Using Corpus Linguistics: Ethical Considerations'. #ccrss25

A photo of Jack teaching a session at the summer school

A photo of Jack teaching a session at the summer school

The first session today is by @jwgrieve.bsky.social, titled 'The Language of Fake News: Latent Patterns of Linguistic Variation'. #ccrss25

The programme of the summer school, with the second day highlighted in yellow

The second day of our Corpus Linguistics Summer School is starting in an hour! #ccrss25

EuroSLA 35 to be held in Lisbon in June 2026 - Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa The Research Center for Linguistics (CLUNL) at NOVA University Lisbon is proud to announce that the 35th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA 35) will take place in L...

EuroSLA 35 will be in Lisbon, 24-27 June 2026

clunl.fcsh.unl.pt/en/eurosla-2...

A photo of Professor Jack Grieve giving the Sinclair Lecture

A photo of Professor Jack Grieve giving the Sinclair Lecture

A photo of Professor Jack Grieve giving the Sinclair Lecture

The Sinclair Lecture has just started! This year, it is delivered by @jwgrieve.bsky.social and is titled 'Corpus linguistics is all you need: Large language models and the legacy of John Sinclair'. #SinclairLecture #ccrss25

A photo of Paul teaching a session at the summer school

A photo of Paul teaching a session at the summer school

The final session today, 'Introduction to Sketch Engine', is taught by Dr Paul Thompson. #ccrss25

Signed Language Corpora Jordan Fenlon and Julie A. Hochgesang present a revolutionary contribution to the field of signed language linguistics with Signed Language Corpora, the first volume to provide a comprehensive overvie...

Fenlon, J., & Hochgesang, J. A. (2022). Signed language corpora. Gallaudet University Press.
gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/S/Sign... #ccrss25

A photo of Adam teaching a session at the summer school

A photo of Adam teaching a session at the summer school

The second session today is taught by @adamcschembri.bsky.social‬ and is titled 'Towards a Corpus Linguistics of Sign Languages'. #ccrss25

The very first session of #ccrss25 is led by Dr Paul Thompson and is titled 'Introduction to Corpus Linguistics'.

Poster of the summer school

The programme of the summer school

A photo of the venue of the summer school

Our annual Corpus Linguistics Summer School is starting in an hour and a half! After being held online since 2021, it’s back in person for the first time since 2019! #ccrss25

A screenshot of the webpage linked in the post, showing the paper's title, abstract, and a few additional details.

Our new PLOS ONE paper, led by a PhD student co-supervised by @jwgrieve.bsky.social and me, is out! We fine-tuned LLMs per author to create Authorial Language Models, attributing texts via perplexity. The method matches or beats SOTA and offers word-level insights.
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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

EuroSLA 35 - The 35th annual conference of the European Second Language Association The 35th annual conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA 35) will take place from June 24–27, 2026, in Lis...

EuroSLA 35 (#EuroSLA35)
- Location: Lisbon, Portugal
- Dates: 24–27 June 2026
- Deadline for abstract submission: 5 December 2025
- Keynote speakers: Melissa Baese-Berk, Bram Bulté, Vincent DeLuca, and Emma Marsden
- Website: eurosla35.fcsh.unl.pt

Yes, the recording will be made available to everyone after the lecture.

Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics Cambridge Core - Research Methods in Linguistics - Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics

What happens when you use AI to tag 8546 images in a 1.5m word corpus of UK news about Islam? How accurate is the tagger? What's the relationship between images and words? My new Cambridge Element with @hannaschmueck.bsky.social and Yufang Qian is now free to access www.cambridge.org/core/element...