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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 📰: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancaster-stays-in-the-top-15-universities-in-the-uk-in-guardian-league-table

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

Good morning, Varna! #RANLP2025

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 ✌️

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/...

Good morning, Birmingham! #CL2025

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

Good morning, Glasgow! #HEALTAC2025

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.

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!

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 📅 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...

Our Diversity in Data Science working group now has an active webpage with resources www.lancaster.ac.uk/dsi/about-us... Please do suggest additional resources we could link to if you know of ones that directly address EDI in data science, so we can build it further, thanks! @dsilu.bsky.social

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! ☀️ We fund frontier research in Europe—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: 🧑‍🏫 365 papers 🖼️ 85 posters 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 7 panels ⚙️ 9 pre-conference workshops

2025.aclweb.org 👉 Updates for Second Call for Papers. 📣 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...

📢 Call for Papers: Corpus Linguistics 2025 📢 #CL2025 • Birmingham, UK • 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