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Dr Paul Rayson

Senior Lecturer

Paul Rayson

InfoLab21

Lancaster University

Bailrigg

Lancaster LA1 4WA

United Kingdom

Tel: +44 1524 510357

Location: C53

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

Research overview

My research interests are based on applications of corpus-based natural language processing to address significant challenges in a number of different areas: child protection in online social networks, better understanding of the language of extremism and counter extremism, text mining for conceptual history studies, the quality of the corporate financial information environment and the use of metaphorical language in end-of-life care. My methodological contributions are in the areas of key semantic domains, the analysis of spelling variation in historical texts and online language and in corpus analysis software.

PhD supervision

Contextual disambiguation for automatic semantic annotation
Spelling variation in historical or online varieties

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

Profile

I am director of the UCREL research centre and a senior lecturer in the School of Computing and Communications in the Infolab21 building at Lancaster University in Lancaster, UK. I am a member of the CREME (Corpus Research in Early Modern English) interdisciplinary research group. I'm also a member of the Investigative Expertise Unit (IEU) based in the Psychology Department and the multidisciplinary centre Security Lancaster. I am the Director of International Teaching Partnerships in the Faculty of Science and Technology.

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