We have three new UCREL ( @ucrelnlp.bsky.social ) Corpus Research Seminar (CRS) videos out today; these were recorded some time ago, but our editor (me!) and approvals to release took a little while :)
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Hello, World!
Thanks, the annotation part of the API allows 200K words. For larger texts, we'd have to allow persistent storage and support logins which we haven't done for the free version. All of the tools are open source so you can run them locally to process more text.
A new league table of UK universities is out and we’re ranked 14th in the UK and top in north-west England! Find out more about our performance in The Guardian University Guide 2026
📰: www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancaster-stays-in-...
Lots of interest yesterday in our FreeTxt poster at #RANLP2025 You can use the system directly at freetxt.app and the full paper is at github.com/UCREL/FreeTx... with links to the open source code and demo video on YouTube
Sentimental project poster
FreeTxt project poster
Sneaky peak at our two demo paper posters for #RANLP2025 next week ... @dawnknightcl.bsky.social @igezeani.bsky.social @elhaj.bsky.social @johnvidler.co.uk
Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...
Hello Blueksy! We are the Davy Notebooks Project, a digital humanities project based at @lancasteruni.bsky.social, working on digitising the notebooks of Sir Humphry Davy. Check out the project through our Linktree!
Check it out - the corpus MOOC is back (15th September) on a new platform (edX) exploring new topics, including AI. One thing has not changed - it is still free to access 😁 Find out more here: www.edx.org/learn/social...
Missed out on #CL2025? Four of our wonderful plenary talks are now available to watch on demand!
YouTube links on conference website and in replies:
www.cl2025.co.uk/home
At #RaAM17 @raammetaphor.bsky.social, I was pleased to present, on behalf of our team, one study from the
4D Picture project, on “Metaphors, identities, and gender in online interactions about cancer”.
It was my first in-person RaAM, and I loved every bit of it.
🥳 🎉 ❤️ The ACL 2025 Proceedings are live on the ACL Anthology 🥰 !
We’re thrilled to pre-celebrate the incredible research 📚 ✨ that will be presented starting Monday next week in Vienna 🇦🇹 !
Go and start exploring 🚀
#NLProc #ACL2025NLP #ACLAnthology
Interesting lecture of the day: Alan Turing Lecture 2025 by Sandi Toksvig youtu.be/AGGu8x7MzFg
Preparations for the 2026 Corpora and Discourse International Conference at Lancaster University are under way! We will be sharing information on dates for your calendars, plenary speakers, and the upcoming call for papers very soon. Follow here for updates, and please share widely! #CADS2026
It was great to meet new faces and familiar faces on Tuesday while presenting our poster:
"DR-LIB: CLARIN knowledge centre for digital resources for the languages in Ireland and Britain" at #CL2025!
Presenting 2 papers Wednesday.
cc: @gaois.bsky.social ✌️
Paul Rayson and Ramesh Krishnamurthy
Paul Rayson and Laurence Anthony
Antoinette Renouf and Paul Rayson
Paul Rayson, Mike Scott and Yukio Tono
Home now after a brilliant @cl2025.co.uk conference and reflecting on meeting up with old friends and lots of interesting research talks. Many many thanks to @robbielove.org and all the organisers! #CL2025
My slides from #cl2025 The Creation and Validation of ConPlex (the Construction Complexity Calculator)
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Less than a week to go until #CL2025!
The conference programme and book of abstracts are now available: www.cl2025.co.uk/programme
Only two weeks to go!
We're working away to finalise the conference programme, featuring:
• 200+ paper presentations
• 50+ poster presentations
• 7 thematic panels
• 5 plenary talks
• 5 pre-conference workshops (29th June)
See you all soon! #CL2025
www.cl2025.co.uk/home
So, Mrs Turtle and I have been hanging out in Camley Street Nature Reserve, 3 minutes from the Eurostar check-in, but a world away. Because that is sort of our challenge on #ContinentHop24 - to get a world away. Or at least, to get to another continent in 24 hours solely by surface public transport.
PALA is thrilled to finally be on Blue Sky!! Feel free to follow and/or suggest followees! 🥳🎉
Lancaster University has been chosen by the National Police Chiefs' Council and @ukri.org as one of nine Policing Academic Centres of Excellence in the UK!
The three-year award will go to a multidisciplinary team at Lancaster University, including @hshawberry.bsky.social and @drmcdaniel.bsky.social
We've officially opened one of the largest educational computer and cyber security facilities in the country! 🎉
The facilities will help train the next generation of computer science and cyber security students.
A blue sky over Alexandra Square on campus.
Hello Bluesky 👋 We're excited to be here!
We'll be sharing lots of our news and research activities, and look forward to making plenty of new connections 🤝
Really proud that today @wellcometrust.bsky.social partnered with the UK government on a new £600M Health Data Research Service that will provide better and faster access to NHS data for researchers with gold standard security and privacy measures. www.gov.uk/government/n...
📢 Conference registration now open! 📢
Registration for #CL2025 is now open, with early bird rates valid until 9th May.
Registration info: www.cl2025.co.uk/registration
Workshops info: www.cl2025.co.uk/programme/wo...
We're very excited to welcome you to Birmingham in just over 3 months!
