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Keywords

Natural Language Processing, Cyber Security, Digital Forensics, Machine Learning, Corpus Linguistics, Spelling variation, Noisy data, Historical and diachronic corpora

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Dr Alistair Baron

Faculty Fellow - Security Lancaster

School of Computing and Communications

InfoLab21

Lancaster University

Bailrigg

Lancaster LA1 4WA

United Kingdom

E-mail: Show email

Tel: +44 1524 510519

Location: B61

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

Research overview

My primary research areas are Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Cyber Security, with a particular focus on developing solutions to the problems associated with the vast amounts of textual data in online settings; for example, deception and multiple personae detection techniques to assist in countering the use of fake profiles for nefarious purposes. The noisy characteristics of online texts, e.g. the abundance of irregular language and its multi-lingual nature, pose significant barriers to many NLP methods. A primary aim of my research is to build robust NLP tools which are able to cope with, and take advantage of, these features.

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Selected Publications and Research Outputs

Published
Who am I? Analysing Digital Personas in Cybercrime Investigations
Rashid, A., Baron, A., Rayson, P., May-Chahal, C., Greenwood, P. & Walkerdine, J. 04/2013 In : Computer. 46, 4, p. 54-61, 8 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Published
Children Online: A survey of child language and CMC corpora
Baron, A., Rayson, P., Greenwood, P., Walkerdine, J. & Rashid, A. 2012 In : International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 17, 4, p. 443-481, 39 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Published
"i didn't spel that wrong did i. Oops": Analysis and normalisation of SMS spelling variation
Tagg, C., Baron, A. & Rayson, P. 2012 In : Lingvisticæ Investigationes. 35, 2, p. 367-388, 22 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Published
Word frequency and key word statistics in corpus linguistics
Baron, A., Rayson, P. & Archer, D. 2009 In : Anglistik. 20, 1, p. 41-67, 27 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Published
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: Willan, p. 228-243
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)