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Professor Paul Rayson

Professor of Natural Language Processing

  1. Published

    How to generalise the task of annotation

    Fligelstone, S., Pacey, M. & Rayson, P., 01/1997, Corpus Annotation: Linguistic Information from Computer Text Corpora. Garside, R., Leech, G. & McEnery, A. (eds.). London: Longman, p. 122-136 15 p.

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

  2. Published

    IgboBERT Models: Building and Training Transformer Models for the Igbo Language

    Chukwuneke, CI., Rayson, P., Ezeani, I. & El-Haj, M., 20/06/2022, LREC 2022 Conference Proceedings. Calzolari, N. (ed.). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 5114–5122 9 p.

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

  3. Published

    Igbo-English Machine Translation: An Evaluation Benchmark

    Ezeani, I., Rayson, P., Onyenwe, I. E., Chinedu, U. & Hepple, M., 1/04/2020. 4 p.

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

  4. Published

    Igbo-English Machine Translation: An Evaluation Benchmark

    Ezeani, I., Rayson, P., Onyenwe, I., Uchechukwu, C. & Hepple, M., 1/04/2020, In: arXiv. 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  5. Forthcoming

    IgboNER 2.0: Expanding Named Entity Recognition Datasets via Projection

    Chukwuneke, CI., Rayson, P., Ezeani, I., El-Haj, M., Asogwa, D., Okpalla, C. & Mbonu, C., 3/03/2023, (Accepted/In press).

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

  6. Published

    Improving Peer Online Forums (iPOF): protocol for a realist evaluation of peer online mental health forums to inform practice and policy

    Lobban, F., Coole, M., Donaldson, E., Glossop, Z., Haines, J., Johnston, R., Jones, S., Lodge, C., Machin, K., Marshall, P., Meacock, R., Penhaligon, K., Rakić, T., Rawsthorne, M., Rayson, P., Robinson, H., Rycroft-Malone, J., Semino, E., Shryane, N. & Wise, S., 30/07/2023, In: BMJ Open. 13, 7, p. e075142 075142.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Improving shared decision-making about cancer treatment through design-based data-driven decision-support tools and redesigning care paths: an overview of the 4D PICTURE project

    Rietjens, J. A. C., Griffioen, I., Sierra-Pérez, J., Sroczynski, G., Siebert, U., Buyx, A., Peric, B., Svane, I. M., Brands, J. B. P., Steffensen, K. D., Romero Piqueras, C., Hedayati, E., Karsten, M. M., Couespel, N., Akoglu, C., Pazo-Cid, R., Rayson, P., Lingsma, H. F., Schermer, M. H. N., Steyerberg, E. W., & 48 othersPayne, S. A., Korfage, I. J., Stiggelbout, A. M., Oliveira, C. C., Semino, E., Roobol, M., López-Forniés, I., Kunneman, M., Verberne, S., Kuld, A., van Mulligen, E. M., Knudsen, B. M., Kors, J. A., Venderbos, L. D. F., Donia, M., Koppert, L. B., Nwosu, A. C., Verheul, E. M., Sañudo, Y., Kremer, M., Gracia, J., Antón, A., Schreijer, M., Bangma, C., Hartman, L., van Klaveren, D., Valles, M. A., Pitarch, L., Hallsson, L. R., Wouters, M., Kapiteijn, E., de Glas, N., van Buchem, M., Doornkamp, F., Borštnar, S., Wee, L., Pross, T., Silva, M., Venegoni, E., Lorenzo, N., Wallberg, S., Dankl, K., de Jesús, T. P., Romera, J. L., Pons, P. G., Signerez, P. M., Secomandi, F. & Snelders, D., 31/01/2024, In: Palliative Care and Social Practice. 18, 15 p., 1-15.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. 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

  9. Published

    In Search of Meaning: Lessons, Resources and Next Steps for Computational Analysis of Financial Discourse

    El Haj, M., Rayson, P. E., Walker, M., Young, S. E. & Simaki, V., 30/04/2019, In: Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 46, 3-4, p. 265-306 42 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Increasing Interoperability for Embedding Corpus Annotation Pipelines in Wmatrix and other corpus retrieval tools

    Rayson, P. E., 7/05/2018, 6th Workshop on the Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora: Proceedings of the 11th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference - Miyazaki, Japan. Banski, P., Kupietz, M., Biber, H., Breiteneder, E., Clematide, S. & Witt, A. (eds.). p. 33-36 4 p.

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

  11. Published

    Infrastructure for Semantic Annotation in the Genomics Domain

    El-Haj, M., Rutherford, N., Coole, M., Ezeani, I., Prentice, S., Ide, N., Knight, J., Piao, S., Mariani, J., Rayson, P. & Suderman, K., 11/05/2020, LREC 2020, Twelfth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation: LREC'20. Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 6921-6929 9 p.

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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. Published

    Introduction: English corpus linguistics - Looking back, moving forward

    Hoffmann, S., Rayson, P. & Leech, G., 1/07/2012, In: Language and Computers. 74, p. 1-4 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineEditorialpeer-review

  15. Published

    iPOF: Improving Peer Online Forums

    Lobban, F., Rayson, P. & Coole, M., 15/06/2022.

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

  16. Published

    iPOF: Improving Peer Online Forums Update

    Coole, M., Marshall, P., Rayson, P. & Lobban, F., 15/06/2023.

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

  17. Published

    Isis: Protecting Children in Online Social Networks

    Rashid, A., Rayson, P., Greenwood, P., Walkerdine, J., Duquenoy, P., Watson, P., Brennan, M. & Jones, M., 2/06/2009, International Conference Advances in the Analysis of Online Paedophile Activity. Seifi, M. (ed.). Paris: Antipaedo Project, p. 33-38 6 p.

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

  18. Published

    Joint abstractive and extractive method for long financial documentsummarization

    Zmandar, N., Singh, A., El-Haj, M. & Rayson, P., 26/10/2021, p. 99-105. 7 p.

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

  19. Published

    Key category analysis of a spoken corpus for EAP

    Jones, M., Rayson, P. & Leech, G., 06/2004.

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

  20. Published

    Key domain analysis: mining text in the humanities and social sciences

    Rayson, P. & Archer, D., 2008. 0 p.

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

  21. Published

    Known and unknown requirements in healthcare

    Sutcliffe, A., Sawyer, P., Stringer, G., Couth, S., Brown, L. J. E., Gledson, A., Bull, C., Rayson, P., Keane, J., Zeng, X. & Leroi, I., 1/03/2020, In: Requirements Engineering . 25, 1, p. 1-20 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Lancaster A at SemEval-2017 Task 5: Evaluation metrics matter: predicting sentiment from financial news headlines

    Moore, A. & Rayson, P. E., 4/08/2017, Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval-2017). Stroudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 581-585 5 p.

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

  23. Published

    Language engineering for the recovery of requirements from legacy documents

    Rayson, P., Garside, R. & Sawyer, P., 05/1999, Lancaster University.

    Research output: Working paper

  24. Published

    Language independent evaluation of translation style and consistency: comparing human and machine translations of Camus’ novel “The Stranger”

    El-Haj, M., Rayson, P. & Hall, D., 2014, Text, speech and dialogue: 17th International Conference, TSD 2014, Brno, Czech Republic, September 8-12, 2014. Proceedings. Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopecek, I. & Pala, K. (eds.). Springer International Publishing, p. 116-124 9 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 8655).

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

  25. Published

    Language Resources and Tools for Supporting The System Engineering Process

    Onditi, V., Rayson, P., Ransom, B., Ramduny-Ellis, D., Sommerville, I., Dix, A., Meziane, F. (ed.) & Métais, E. (ed.), 06/2004, NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS. Springer, p. 147-158 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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

  26. 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

  27. Published

    Learning tone and attribution for financial text mining

    El-Haj, M., Rayson, P. E., Young, S. E., Walker, M., Moore, A., Athanasakou, V. & Schleicher, T., 23/05/2016, Proceedings of LREC 2016, Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Calzolari, N., Choukri, K., Declerck, T., Grobelnik, M., Maegaard, B., Mariani, J., Moreno, A., Odijk, J. & Piperidis, S. (eds.). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 1820-1825 6 p.

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

  28. Published

    Leveraging Pre-Trained Embeddings for Welsh Taggers

    Ezeani, I., Piao, S., Neale, S., Rayson, P. & Knight, D., 2/08/2019, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2019): Held at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Florence, Italy: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 270-280 11 p.

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

  29. Published

    Lexical coverage evaluation of large-scale multilingual semantic lexicons for twelve languages

    Piao, S. S., Rayson, P. E., Archer, D., Bianchi, F., Dayrell, C., El-Haj, M., Jiménez, R-M., Knight, D., Křen, M., Lofberg, L., Nawab, R. M. A., Shafi, J., Teh, P. L. & Mudraya, O., 23/05/2016, LREC 2016, Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Calzolari, N., Choukri, K., Declerck, T., Grobelnik, M., Maegaard, B., Mariani, J., Moreno, A., Odijk, J. & Piperidis, S. (eds.). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 2614-2619 6 p.

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

  30. Published

    lexiDB: a scalable corpus database management system

    Coole, M., Rayson, P. E. & Mariani, J. A., 5/12/2016, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). IEEE, p. 3880-3884 5 p.

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

  31. Published

    LexiDB: Patterns & Methods for Corpus Linguistic Database Management

    Coole, M., Rayson, P. & Mariani, J., 11/05/2020, Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 3128-3135 8 p.

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

  32. Published

    Love - 'A familiar of a devil'? An exploration of key domains in Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies.

    Culpeper, J., Archer, D. & Rayson, P., 2009, What's in a word-list? Investigating word frequency and keyword extraction. Archer, D. (ed.). Farnham: Ashgate, p. 136-157 22 p. (Digital research in the Arts and Humanities).

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

  33. Published

    Love - a familiar or a devil? An exploration of key domains in Shakespeare Comedies and Tragedies

    Archer, D., Culpeper, J. & Rayson, P., 2008, What's in a word-list? Investigating word frequency and keyword extraction. Archer, D. (ed.). Ashgate

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

  34. Published

    Love - a familiar or a devil? An exploration of key domains in Shakespeare's Comedies and Tragedies

    Archer, D., Culpeper, J. & Rayson, P., 06/2005.

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

  35. Published

    Love - 'A familiar or a devil'? An exploration of key domains in Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies

    Archer, D., Culpeper, J. & Rayson, P., 1/12/2009, What's in a Word-list?: Investigating Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., p. 137-157 21 p.

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

  36. Published

    MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages

    Masakhane, 1/10/2021, In: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 9, p. 1116-1131 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  37. Published

    Matrix: a statistical method and software tool for linguistic analysis through corpus comparison

    Rayson, P., 02/2003, Lancaster University.

    Research output: ThesisDoctoral Thesis

  38. Published

    Measuring MWE compositionality using semantic annotation

    Piao, S., Rayson, P., Mudraya, O., Wilson, A. & Garside, R., 07/2006, MWE '06 Proceedings of the Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identifying and Exploiting Underlying Properties. Stroudsburg: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 2-11 10 p.

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

  39. Published

    Measuring MWE compositionality using semantic annotation.

    Piao, S. L., Rayson, P., Mudraya, O., Wilson, A. & Garside, R., 2006, Proceedings of COLING/ACL Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identifying and Exploiting Underlying Properties.

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

  40. Published

    Measuring Short Text Reuse For The Urdu Language

    Sameen, S., Muhammad, S., Nawab, R. M. A., Rayson, P. E. & Muneer, I., 9/03/2018, In: IEEE Access. 6, p. 7412-7421 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  41. Published

    Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life: A Corpus-based Study

    Semino, E., Demjen, Z., Hardie, A., Payne, S. A. & Rayson, P. E., 2018, London: Routledge. 308 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  42. Published

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

    Alexander, M., Anderson, J., Dallachy, F., Kay, C., Piao, S. & Rayson, P., 2014.

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

  43. 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

  44. 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

  45. Published

    Mining Aspects in Requirements

    Sampaio, A., Loughran, N., Rashid, A. & Rayson, P., 01/2005.

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

  46. Published

    Modelling space in historical texts

    Gregory, I. N., Donaldson, C. E., Hardie, A. & Rayson, P. E., 30/10/2018, The Shape of Data in Digital Humanities: Modeling Texts and Text-based Resources. Flanders, J. & Jannidis, F. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 133-149 17 p. (Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  47. Published

    Multilingual Financial Narrative Processing: Analysing Annual Reports in English, Spanish and Portuguese

    El Haj, M., Rayson, P. E., Young, S. E., Alves, P. & Herrero Zorita, C., 02/2019, Multilingual Text Analysis: Challenges, Models, and Approaches. Litvak, M. & Vanetik, N. (eds.). World Scientific Publishing

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  48. Published

    Multilingual Financial Word Embeddings for Arabic, English and French

    Zmandar, N., El-Haj, M. & Rayson, P., 13/01/2022, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). IEEE, p. 4584-4589 6 p.

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

  49. Published

    Multiword expressions: hard going or plain sailing?

    Rayson, P., Piao, S., Sharoff, S., Evert, S. & Moiron, B. V., 2010, In: Language Resources and Evaluation. 44, 1-2, p. 1-5 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  50. Published

    MUMBO: MUlti-task Max-value Bayesian Optimization

    Moss, H. B., Leslie, D. S. & Rayson, P., 14/09/2020, achine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2020, Proceedings. Springer, p. 447-462 16 p.

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

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