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...

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...

🗣️ 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.

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?

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.

🚨 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? ->

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...

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