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Dr Alistair Baron

Senior Lecturer

  1. 2019
  2. Published

    Fool's Gold: Understanding the Linguistic Features of Deception and Humour Through April Fools’ Hoaxes

    Dearden, E. & Baron, A., 22/07/2019.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Abstractpeer-review

  3. Published

    Fool’s Errand: Looking at April Fools Hoaxes as Disinformation through the Lens of Deception and Humour

    Dearden, E. & Baron, A., 7/04/2019. 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  4. 2018
  5. Published

    Lancaster at SemEval-2018 Task 3: Investigating Ironic Features in English Tweets

    Dearden, E. & Baron, A., 6/06/2018, Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2018). Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 587-593 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  6. 2017
  7. Published

    A time-sensitive historical thesaurus-based semantic tagger for deep semantic annotation

    Piao, S. S., Dallachy, F., Baron, A., Demmen, J. E., Wattam, S., Durkin, P., McCracken, J., Rayson, P. E. & Alexander, M., 11/2017, In: Computer Speech and Language. 46, p. 113-135 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Panning for gold: automatically analysing online social engineering attack surfaces

    Edwards, M., Larson, R., Green, B., Rashid, A. & Baron, A., 08/2017, In: Computers and Security. 69, p. 18-34 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Towards Interactive Multidimensional Visualisations for Corpus Linguistics

    Rayson, P. E., Mariani, J. A., Anderson-Cooper, B., Baron, A., Gullick, D. S., Moore, A. & Wattam, S., 2017, In: Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics. 31, 1, p. 27-49 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. 2016
  11. Published

    The simulated security assessment ecosystem: Does penetration testing need standardisation?

    Knowles, W., Baron, A. & McGarr, T., 09/2016, In: Computers and Security. 62, p. 296-316 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  12. 2015
  13. Published

    Metaphor, popular science and semantic tagging: distant reading with the Historical Thesaurus of English

    Alexander, M., Dallachy, F., Piao, S., Baron, A. & Rayson, P., 1/12/2015, In: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 30, Suppl. 1, p. i16-i27 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  14. Published

    Semantic tagging and early modern collocates

    Alexander, M., Baron, A., Dallachy, F., Piao, S., Rayson, P. & Wattam, S., 22/07/2015, p. 8-10. 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Abstractpeer-review

  15. Published

    Large-scale time-sensitive semantic analysis of historical corpora

    Rayson, P., Baron, A., Piao, S. & Wattam, S., 27/05/2015.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Abstractpeer-review

  16. Published

    Analysis and recommendations for standardisation in penetration testing and vulnerability assessment: penetration testing market survey

    Knowles, W., Baron, A. & McGarr, T., 26/05/2015, London: BSI. 20 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsCommissioned report

  17. Published

    Automatically analysing large texts in a GIS environment: the Registrar General’s reports and cholera in the nineteenth century

    Murrieta-Flores, P., Baron, A., Gregory, I. N., Hardie, A. & Rayson, P. E., 04/2015, In: Transactions in GIS. 19, 2, p. 296-320 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Guidelines for normalising early modern English corpora: decisions and justifications

    Archer, D., Kytö, M., Baron, A. & Rayson, P. E., 1/03/2015, In: ICAME Journal. 39, 1, p. 5-24 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Published

    Sonar phishing: pinpointing highly vulnerable victims for social engineering attacks

    Larson, R., Edwards, M., Baron, A. & Rashid, A., 2015, 36th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Posters. IEEE

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  20. 2014
  21. Published

    Normalising the corpus of English dialogues (1560-1760) using VARD2: decisions and justifications

    Archer, D., Kytö, M., Baron, A. & Rayson, P., 4/05/2014, p. 23. 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  22. Published

    "i didn't spel that wrong did i. Oops": Analysis and normalisation of SMS spelling variation

    Tagg, C., Baron, A. & Rayson, P., 2014, SMS communication: a linguistic approach. Cougnon, L-A. & Fairon, C. (eds.). John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 217-237 21 p. (Benjamins Current Topics; vol. 61).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  23. Published

    Crossing boundaries: using GIS in literary studies, history and beyond

    Gregory, I. N., Baron, A., Cooper, D., Hardie, A., Murrieta-Flores, P. & Rayson, P. E., 2014, Keys for architectural history research in the digital era. Hueber, J. & Mendes da Silva, A. (eds.). Institut national d'histoire de l'art, (Actes de colloques).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  24. Published

    Developing the Historical Thesaurus Semantic Tagger

    Piao, S., Dallachy, F., Baron, A., Rayson, P. & Alexander, M., 2014.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Abstractpeer-review

  25. Published

    Digital approaches to understanding the geographies in literary and historical texts

    Gregory, I., Donaldson, C., Murrieta-Flores, P., Rupp, C. J., Baron, A., Hardie, A. & Rayson, P., 2014, Digital Humanities 2014 Conference Abstracts.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  26. Published

    Metaphor, popular science, and semantic tagging: distant reading with the historical thesaurus of English

    Alexander, M., Anderson, J., Baron, A., Dallachy, F., Kay, C., Piao, S. & Rayson, P., 2014, Digital Humanities 2014 Conference Abstracts.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  27. 2013
  28. 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/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  29. Published

    Customising geoparsing and georeferencing for historical texts

    Rupp, C. J., Rayson, P., Baron, A., Donaldson, C., Gregory, I., Hardie, A. & Murrieta-Flores, P., 2013, Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data. IEEE, p. 59-62 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  30. Published

    Geographical text analysis: GIS approaches to analysing large volumes of texts

    Gregory, I., Baron, A., Murrieta-Flores, P., Hardie, A., Rayson, P. & Rupp, C. J., 2013, Proceedings of GISRUK 2013.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  31. Published

    Geographical Text Analysis Mapping and spatially analysing corpora

    Gregory, I., Baron, A., Murrieta-Flores, P., Hardie, A. & Rayson, P., 2013, Corpus Linguistics 2013 Abstracts. Hardie, A. & Love, R. (eds.). UCREL, p. 105-108 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  32. Published

    Integrating corpus linguistics and spatial technologies for the analysis of literature

    Murrieta-Flores, P., Gregory, I., Cooper, D., Donaldson, C., Baron, A., Hardie, A. & Rayson, P., 2013, Corpus Linguistics 2013 Abstracts. Hardie, A. & Love, R. (eds.). UCREL, p. 222-225 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  33. 2012
  34. Published

    Prerequisites to a corpus-based analysis of EEBO-TCP

    Baron, A. & Hardie, A., 09/2012.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Abstractpeer-review

  35. Published

    Which 'Lancaster' do you mean? Disambiguation challenges in extracting place names for Spatial Humanities

    Rayson, P., Baron, A. & Hardie, A., 09/2012.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Abstractpeer-review

  36. 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 - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)

  37. 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/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  38. 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/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  39. 2011
  40. Published

    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 - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  41. Published

    Automatic error tagging of spelling mistakes in learner corpora

    Rayson, P. & Baron, A., 2011, A Taste for Corpora: In honour of Sylviane Granger. Meunier, F., De Cock, S., Gilquin, G. & Paquot, M. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, Vol. 45. p. 109-126 28 p. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics; vol. 45).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  42. Published

    Dealing with spelling variation in Early Modern English texts

    Baron, A., 2011, Lancaster University. 219 p.

    Research output: ThesisDoctoral Thesis

  43. Published

    Innovators of Early Modern English spelling change: Using DICER to investigate spelling variation trends

    Baron, A., Rayson, P. & Archer, D., 2011.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Abstractpeer-review

  44. Published

    Quantifying Early Modern English spelling variation: change over time and genre

    Baron, A., Rayson, P. & Archer, D., 2011.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Abstractpeer-review

  45. 2010
  46. Published

    "I didn't spel that wrong did i. Oops": Analysis and standardisation of SMS spelling variation

    Tagg, C., Baron, A. & Rayson, P., 27/05/2010. 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paper

  47. Published

    Improving the precision of corpus methods: The standardized version of Early Modern English Medical Texts

    Lehto, A., Baron, A., Ratia, M. & Rayson, P., 2010, Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies. Taavitsainen, I. & Pahta, P. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p. 279-289 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  48. 2009
  49. Published

    Automatic Standardization of Spelling for Historical Text Mining

    Baron, A., Rayson, P. & Archer, D., 06/2009.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Posterpeer-review

  50. Published

    The extent of spelling variation in Early Modern English

    Baron, A., Rayson, P. & Archer, D., 05/2009.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paper

  51. Published

    Automatic standardisation of texts containing spelling variation: How much training data do you need?

    Baron, A. & Rayson, P., 2009, Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Conference: CL2009. Mahlberg, M., González-Díaz, V. & Smith, C. (eds.). Lancaster: Lancaster University, 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  52. 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/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  53. 2008
  54. Published

    VARD2: a tool for dealing with spelling variation in historical corpora

    Baron, A. & Rayson, P., 05/2008. 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paper

  55. Published

    Travelling through time with corpus annotation software

    Rayson, P., Archer, D., Baron, A. & Smith, N., 2008, Corpus linguistics, computer tools, and applications - state of the art. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B. (ed.). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, Vol. 17. p. 29-46 18 p. (Studies In Language).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  56. 2007
  57. Published

    Conceptual Glossary and Index to the Vulgate Translation of the Gospel according to Mark.

    Wilson, A., Baron, A. & Worth, C., 2007, Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann. 824 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  58. Published

    Tagging historical corpora - the problem of spelling variation

    Rayson, P., Archer, D., Baron, A. & Smith, N., 2007.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  59. Published

    Tagging the Bard: Evaluating the Accuracy of a Modern POS Tagger on Early Modern English Corpora

    Rayson, P., Archer, D., Baron, A., Culpeper, J. & Smith, N., 2007, Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Conference: CL2007. Davies, M., Rayson, P., Hunston, S. & Danielsson, P. (eds.). UCREL, 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

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