Elen Le Foll published an interesting study on how (applied) linguists understand Open Science. I was involved in a collaborative and transparent peer review process for the article, with a reviewer report available here: works.hcommons.org/records/tfj1...
Post Doc at Uni Tübingen! 100% position for 3 (+3) years; they're looking for somebody to analyze large-scale longitudinal datasets in education research.
Expertise in machine learning is an advantage, commitment to research transparency desirable 😌 proficiency in German beneficial but not required
After years in preprint, our paper is finally out! We introduce LambdaG, a simple new authorship verification method that matches complex neural approaches. This supports the theory of grammar as a behavioural biometric (like a signature or gait). www.nature.com/articles/s41... #nlp #llm #forensic
New paper out in Second Language Research! I propose a new model of implicit and explicit knowledge in SLA. The accepted version is open access — thread below.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This looks really good!
#linguistics
I will be giving a class 'Towards a corpus linguistics of sign languages' - everyone is welcome.
Screenshot of the University of Birmingham webpage for the Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2026. It shows the event title, a banner image of students working at computers, dates (6–9 July 2026), online format, contact details, and a “Register for this event” button.
We will be organising the annual Corpus Linguistics Summer School from 6 to 9 July this year. The event will return in an entirely online format. Please see our website for details:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/corpu...
#ccrss26
Thank you, Duygu!
Title page and abstract of an open-access journal article on L2 learners’ use of English dative constructions, outlining a corpus-based study of proficiency effects on double-object vs prepositional-object choices.
Bar charts and scatterplots showing verb-specific distributions of double-object and prepositional-object constructions, and how these patterns vary across CEFR proficiency levels.
Six line graphs showing how learner proficiency interacts with linguistic predictors (e.g. length, animacy, pronominality, verb bias) to influence the probability of choosing the double-object construction.
Our new open-access paper is now published in BLC! Using a learner corpus, we examined whether factors influencing L2 learners’ choice between double-object (Sam gave Mary a book) and prepositional-object constructions (Sam gave a book to Mary) vary across proficiency levels.
doi.org/10.1017/S136...
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
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
