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Dr Paul Rayson

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Paul Rayson

School of Computing and Communications

InfoLab21

Lancaster University

Bailrigg

Lancaster LA1 4WA

United Kingdom

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Tel: +44 1524 5 10357

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Affiliations: UCREL - University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language

Research overview

Paul Rayson is the director of the Lancaster University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language (UCREL). He has undertaken recent projects in the areas of protecting children in online social networks (Isis), spatial humanities, studying language change in 20th century British English and extending a semantic annotation tool for research on metaphor. He has published over 80 papers in corpus-based natural language processing, is Production Editor on the Corpora Journal and co-editor of the Routledge series of frequency dictionaries. He co-organised the first four international Corpus Linguistics conferences (Lancaster, 2001-3 & Birmingham, 2005-7).

PhD supervision

Contextual disambiguation for semantic annotation
Spelling variation

Web Links

Personal website: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~paul/

My Role

Director of UCREL research centre

Member of the Investigative Expertise Unit (IEU) based in the Psychology Department

Current Teaching

SCC120 Fundamentals of Computer Science

CSC200 Second year group project

CSC254 Language and compilation

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Publications & Outputs

Forthcoming
Technological solutions to offending
Rashid, A., Greenwood, P., Walkerdine, J., Baron, A. & Rayson, P. 03/2012 Understanding and preventing online sexual exploitation of children. Quayle, E. & Ribisl, K. (eds.). London : Routledge
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Unpublished
Using verifiable author data: Gender and spelling differences in Twitter and SMS
Baron, A., Tagg, C., Rayson, P., Greenwood, P., Walkerdine, J. & Rashid, A. 06/2011 0 p.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference paper
Published
Analyzing the semantic content and persuasive composition of extremist media: a case study of texts produced during the Gaza conflict
Prentice, S., Taylor, P. J., Rayson, P., Hoskins, A. & O'Loughlin, B. 03/2011 In : Information Systems Frontiers Journal. 13, 1, p. 61-73. 13 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article

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Selected Projects

ASSIST: Automated Semantic Assistance for Translators
Project: Non-funded Project › Projects
Using a semantic annotation tool for research on metaphor in discourse
Project: Non-funded Project › Research

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