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perayson.bsky.social
Prof of #NLP in School of Computing and Communications @LancasterUni, word boffin, ex-CLARIN Ambassador, Director of @ucrelnlp.bsky.social #NLProc #CorpusLinguistics #DigitalHumanities, Doctor Who & stuff. Ravenclaw. https://www.linkedin.com/in/perayson/
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PALA is thrilled to finally be on Blue Sky!! Feel free to follow and/or suggest followees! πŸ₯³πŸŽ‰

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! πŸŽ‰ The facilities will help train the next generation of computer science and cyber security students.

Hello Bluesky πŸ‘‹ 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 Β£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...

πŸ“’ Conference registration now open! πŸ“’ 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!

After a soft launch in the last couple of weeks, #wmatrix version 7 is now completely freely available worldwide for academic users plus UK government and NHS email addresses. This is the largest revision of the software since it was created 25 years ago: ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/

Language, Speech, and AI: FACTOR Summer School 2025 πŸ“… 28-30 July 2025 πŸ“ Lancaster University, UK πŸ’Ό 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...

A wonderful event coming up on 11th March with @dhansen.bsky.social of @ulbruxelles.bsky.social, who will join us to talk about translation technology and creative translation. Hosted by @delphinegrass.bsky.social. Find out more and sign up: www.lancaster.ac.uk/global-affai...

We are very excited to officially announce that the University of Galway will host the DH2027 conference in Ireland from June 28 to July 3, 2027. More information will be coming soon. Congratulations to the Galway team! We look forward to joining you in 2027! #DH2027 #digitalhumanities #Galway

Questionable practices in machine learning arxiv.org/pdf/2407.12220 #machinelearning #artificialintelligence #datascience

Hello, Bluesky! β˜€οΈ We fund frontier research in Europeβ€”bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late. Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.

Want more maps, GIS and all things spatial humanities on your feed? Here's a starter pack for you! go.bsky.app/U5baPjQ

CL2025 submissions are in and you've been busy! Over the next month, our amazing programme committee will be reviewing a total of 466 submissions, including: πŸ§‘β€πŸ« 365 papers πŸ–ΌοΈ 85 posters πŸ§‘β€πŸ§‘β€πŸ§’β€πŸ§’ 7 panels βš™οΈ 9 pre-conference workshops

2025.aclweb.org πŸ‘‰ Updates for Second Call for Papers. πŸ“£ Also Industry Track and System Demonstrations #ACL2025NLP #NLProc

We’re the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University. Follow along for updates, insights, and a closer look at the power of language. #LanguageMatters #CorpusLinguistics

IJCL is now on Bluesky! Follow us to stay updated: benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...

We are delighted to announce that the applications for the free Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics 2025 are now open! Join us this summer at @lancasteruni.bsky.social to learn more about corpora and their applications. 16-20 June 2025 More information: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...

We are ready for the kickoff. #NLProc #LoResLM #coling2025 Hansi Hettiarachchi | @tharindudr.bsky.social @perayson.bsky.social | Ruslan Mitkov | Mohamed Medhat Gaber | Damith Premasiri | Fiona Anting Tan | Lasitha Uyangodage

We are looking forward to welcoming you at in @coling2025 Abu Dhabi. #NLProc #LoResLM #coling2025 Hansi Hettiarachchi @tharindudr.bsky.social @perayson.bsky.social | Ruslan Mitkov | Mohamed Medhat Gaber | Damith Premasiri | Fiona Anting Tan | Lasitha Uyangodage

Good morning, Abu Dhabi #COLING2025

Happy New Year everyone! Jim and I just put up our January 2025 release of Speech and Language Processing! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Reminder that we are looking for papers using LLMs for humanities research, for a special issue of the Computational Humanities Research Journal. Deadline January 31st! #NLP #DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics

Very happy to be part of the CLARIN ParlaMint team which updated the parliamentary corpus recently, and our new paper is out now: doi.org/10.1007/s105... including the description of the #PyMUSAS semantic tagging of the whole corpus by @johnvidler.co.uk

Another chance for me to talk about attitudes towards the Welsh accent www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

πŸ“’ Call for Papers: Corpus Linguistics 2025 πŸ“’ #CL2025 β€’ Birmingham, UK β€’ Monday 30th June - Thursday 3rd July 2025 Submissions are open for paper presentations, poster presentations, thematic panels, and pre-conference workshops: www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap... Submission deadline: 17th January

Call for papers - Corpus Linguistics 2025! Closing date for proposals 17th January 2025. More information here: www.cl2025.co.uk

We are pleased to announce the newly formed NERC-funded Doctoral Landscape Award in Exascale Computing for Earth, Environmental, and Sustainability Solutions (ExaGEO DLA). For our full statement, please see our LinkedIn post here: shorturl.at/J4QFk

Be great to link up with any Lancaster University people on this site @bsky.app

Just found out about the "National Databank" - whereby folks with limited or no access to the internet can apply for free mobile sim cards: www.goodthingsfoundation.org/our-services...

Hello #wmatrix version 7, I've just got access to a new server to install the next release of the software (ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/). More news coming soon!

Save the date: We are excited to announce that the next Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics will be held 16-20 June 2025 at Lancaster University. Check our website for more info about programme & applications: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer... @lancslinguistics.bsky.social