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Professor Paul Rayson

Professor of Natural Language Processing

  1. Published

    Taxonomies for semantic tagging: how large do they need to be?

    Rayson, P. E., 9/02/2016.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Speech

  2. 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)

  3. Published

    Template analysis: bridging the gap between grammar and the lexicon

    Fligelstone, S., Rayson, P. & Smith, N., 01/1996, Using corpora for language research: Studies in the Honour of Geoffrey Leech. Thomas, J. & Short, M. (eds.). London: Longman, p. 181-207 27 p.

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

  4. Published

    Textual Variations Affect Human Judgements of Sentiment Values

    Lee Teh, P., Rayson, P., Pak, I., Piao, S., Sze Yin Ho, J., Moore, A. & Cheah, Y-N., 31/05/2022, In: Electronic Commerce Research and Applications. 53, 11 p., 101149.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  5. Published

    The ACAMRIT semantic tagging system: progress report

    Rayson, P. & Wilson, A., 01/1996, p. 13-20. 8 p.

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

  6. Published

    The automatic content analysis of spoken discourse.

    Garside, R., Rayson, P., Leech, G., Wilson, A. & Thomas, J. A., 01/1992

    Research output: Other contribution

  7. Published
  8. Published

    The Child Language Survey

    Pooley, N., Hardie, A., Rayson, P., Hoffmann, S., Alcock, K. & Cain, K., 01/2008.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Poster

  9. Published

    The CLAWS Web Tagger

    Rayson, P. & Garside, R., 04/1998, In: ICAME Journal. 22, p. 121-123 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    The expression of obligation and necessity in British English across the twentieth century: developments in matching corpora

    Smith, N., Leech, G. & Rayson, P., 08/2006.

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

  11. 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

  12. Published

    The Financial Narrative Summarisation Shared Task (FNS 2022)

    El-Haj, M., Zmandar, N., Rayson, P., AbuRa'ed, A., Litvak, M., Pittaras, N., Giannakopoulos, G., Kosmopoulos, A., Carbajo-Coronado, B. & Sandoval, A., 15/06/2022, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022). Calzolari, N. (ed.). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 52-61 9 p.

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

  13. Published

    The Financial Narrative Summarisation Shared Task FNS 2021

    Zmandar, N., El-Haj, M., Rayson, P., Abura'Ed, A., Litvak, M., Giannakopoulos, G. & Pittaras, N., 26/10/2021, Proceedings of the 3rd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop: FNP 2021. Lancaster, United Kingdom: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Anthology), Vol. 3. p. 120-125 6 p.

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

  14. Published

    The Geography of 'Fear', 'Sadness', 'Anger' and 'Joy': Exploring the Emotional Landscapes in the Holocaust Survivors' Testimonies

    Ezeani, I., Rayson, P., Gregory, I. N., Cole, T., Steiner, E. & Frank, Z., 24/03/2024, Proceedings of Text2Story - Seventh Workshop on Narrative Extraction From Texts held in conjunction with the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 3671. p. 93-103 11 p. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; vol. 3671).

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

  15. Published

    The identification of spelling variants in English and German historical texts: manual or automatic?

    Archer, D., Ernst-Gerlach, A., Kempken, S., Pilz, T. & Rayson, P., 07/2006, p. 3-5. 3 p.

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

  16. Published

    The identification of spelling variants in English and German historical texts: manual or automatic?

    Pilz, T., Ernst-Gerlach, A., Kempken, S., Rayson, P. & Archer, D., 2008, In: Literary and Linguistic Computing. 23, 1, p. 65-72 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  17. Published

    The key domain method for the study of language varieties

    Rayson, P. & Smith, N., 06/2006.

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

  18. Published

    The language of Islamic extremism: towards an automated identification of beliefs, motivations and justifications

    Prentice, S., Rayson, P. & Taylor, P., 2012, In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 17, 2, p. 259-286 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Published

    The language of over-50s in online dating classified ads

    Mudraya, O. & Rayson, P., 2011, In: Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English. 6

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  20. Published

    The online use of Violence and Journey metaphors by patients with cancer, as compared with health professionals: a mixed methods study

    Semino, E., Demjen, Z., Demmen, J., Koller, V., Payne, S., Hardie, A. & Rayson, P., 1/03/2017, In: BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care. 7, 1, p. 60-66 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  21. Published

    The ParlaMint corpora of parliamentary proceedings

    Erjavec, T., Ogrodniczuk, M., Osenova, P., Ljubešić, N., Simov, K., Pančur, A., Rudolf, M., Kopp, M., Barkarson, S., Steingrímsson, S., Çöltekin, Ç., de Does, J., Depuydt, K., Agnoloni, T., Venturi, G., Pérez, M. C., de Macedo, L. D., Navarretta, C., Luxardo, G., Coole, M., & 8 othersRayson, P., Morkevičius, V., Krilavičius, T., Darǵis, R., Ring, O., van Heusden, R., Marx, M. & Fišer, D., 31/03/2023, In: Language Resources and Evaluation. 57, 1, p. 415-448 34 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    The REVERE project: Experiments with the application of probabilistic NLP to systems engineering

    Rayson, P., Emmet, L., Garside, R. & Sawyer, P., 1/01/2001, Natural Language Processing and Information Systems - 5th International Conference on Applicationsof Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2000, Revised Papers. Springer-Verlag, p. 288-300 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 1959).

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

  23. Published

    The UCREL semantic analysis system.

    Rayson, P., Archer, D., Piao, S. & McEnery, A. M., 2004, Proceedings of the beyond named entity recognition semantic labelling for NLP tasks workshop, Lisbon, Portugal, 2004. Lisbon, p. 7-12 6 p.

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

  24. Published

    Towards a Multilingual Financial Narrative Processing System

    El Haj, M., Rayson, P. E., Alves, P. & Young, S. E., 7/05/2018, The First Financial Narrative Processing Workshop: Proceedings of the 11th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference - Miyazaki, Japan. El-Haj, M., Rayson, P. & Moore, A. (eds.). p. 52-58 7 p.

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

  25. Published

    Towards a semantic tagger for analysing contents of Chinese corporate reports

    Piao, S. S., Hu, X. & Rayson, P. E., 2015.

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

  26. Published

    Towards A Welsh Semantic Annotation System

    Piao, S. S., Rayson, P. E., Knight, D. & Watkins, G., 9/05/2018, LREC 2018, Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Calzolari, N., Choukri, K., Cieri, C., Declerck, T., Goggi, S., Hasida, K., Isahara, H., Maegaard, B., Mariani, J., Mazo, H., Moreno, A., Odijk, J., Piperidis, S. & Tokunaga, T. (eds.). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 980-985 6 p.

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

  27. Published

    Towards a Welsh semantic tagger: creating lexicons for a resource poor language

    Piao, S. S., Rayson, P. E., Knight, D., Watkins, G. & Donnelly, K., 24/07/2017. 4 p.

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

  28. Published

    Towards an Extensible Framework for Understanding Spatial Narratives

    Ezeani, I., Rayson, P., Gregory, I., Haris, E., Cohn, A., Stell, J., Cole, T., Taylor, J., Bodenhamer, D., Devadasan, N., Steiner, E., Frank, Z. & Olson, J., 13/11/2023, GeoHumanities '23: Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities. New York: ACM, p. 1-10 10 p. (Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities).

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

  29. 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

  30. Published

    Tracker: a framework to support reducing rework through decision management

    Rayson, P., Sharp, B., Alderson, A., Cartmell, J., Chibelushi, C., Clarke, R., Dix, A., Onditi, V., Quek, A., Ramduny-Ellis, D., Salter, A., Shah, H., Sommerville, I. & Windridge, P., 04/2003, p. 344-351. 8 p.

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

  31. 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

  32. Published

    Uncovering Environmental Change in the English Lake District: Using Computational Techniques to Trace Shifting Practice in the Historical Documentation of Flora

    Smail, R., Donaldson, C., Stevens, C., Rayson, P. & Govaerts, R., 30/09/2021, In: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 36, 3, p. 736-756 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  33. Published

    Understanding actionable knowledge in social media: BBC Question Time and Twitter, a case study

    Ferrario, M. A., Simm, W., Whittle, J., Rayson, P., Terzi, M. & Binner, J., 2012, Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. AAAI, p. 455-458 4 p.

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

  34. Published

    Understanding corpus text prototypicality: A multifaceted problem

    Anthony, L., Smith, N., Hoffmann, S. & Rayson, P., 18/05/2023.

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

  35. Published

    Understanding the Impacts of Online Mental Health Peer Support Forums: Realist Synthesis

    Marshall, P., Booth, M., Coole, M., Fothergill, L., Glossop, Z., Haines, J., Harding, A., Johnston, R., Jones, S., Lodge, C., Machin, K., Meacock, R., Nielson, K., Puddephatt, J-A., Rakic, T., Rayson, P., Robinson, H., Rycroft-Malone, J., Shryane, N., Swithenbank, Z., & 2 othersWise, S. & Lobban, F., 9/05/2024, In: JMIR Mental Health. 11, e55750.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  36. Published

    Understanding who uses Reddit: Profiling individuals with a self-reported bipolar disorder diagnosis

    Jagfeld, G., Lobban, F., Rayson, P. & Jones, S., 11/06/2021, Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: Improving Access: Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop. Goharian, N., Resnik, P., Yates, A., Ireland, M., Niederhoffer, K. & Resnik, R. (eds.). Stroudsberg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Anthology), p. 1-14 14 p.

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

  37. Published

    Unfinished Business: Construction and Maintenance of a Semantically Tagged Historical Parliamentary Corpus, UK Hansard from 1803 to the present day

    Coole, M., Rayson, P. & Mariani, J., 11/05/2020, Proceedings of the Second ParlaCLARIN Workshop. Fišer, D., Eskevich, M. & de Jong, F. (eds.). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 23-27 5 p.

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

  38. Published

    UNLT: Urdu Natural Language Toolkit

    Shafi, J., Iqbal, H. R., Nawab, R. M. A. & Rayson, P., 31/07/2023, In: Natural Language Engineering. 29, 4, p. 942-977 36 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  39. Published

    UPPC - Urdu Paraphrase Plagiarism Corpus

    Muhammad, S., Rayson, P. E. & Nawab, R. M. A., 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. 1832-1836 5 p.

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

  40. Published

    Using a keyness metric for single and multi document summarisation

    El-Haj, M. & Rayson, P., 08/2013, Proceedings of the MultiLing 2013 Workshop on Multilingual Multi-document summarization . Sofia, Bulgaria: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 64-71 8 p.

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

  41. Published

    Using a semantic annotation tool for the analysis of metaphor in discourse.

    Koller, V., Hardie, A., Rayson, P. & Semino, E., 2008, In: metaphorik.de. 15, p. 141-160 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  42. Published

    Using a semantic tagger as dictionary search tool

    Lofberg, L., Juntunen, J., Nykanen, A., Varantola, K., Rayson, P. & Archer, D., 07/2004, p. 127-134. 8 p.

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

  43. Published

    Using an historical semantic tagger as a diagnostic tool for variation in spelling

    Archer, D. & Rayson, P., 08/2004.

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

  44. E-pub ahead of print

    Using J-K-fold Cross Validation to Reduce Variance When Tuning NLP Models

    Moss, H., Leslie, D. S. & Rayson, P. E., 06/2018, (E-pub ahead of print) Proceedings of COLING 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Anthology), p. 2978–2989 12 p. (Proceedings of COLING 2018).

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

  45. 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

  46. Published

    VARD versus WORD: A comparison of the UCREL variant detector and modern spellcheckers on English historical corpora

    Rayson, P., Archer, D. & Smith, N., 07/2005.

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

  47. 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

  48. Published

    Versioning the web

    Kirby, A., Rayson, P., Rodden, T., Sommerville, I., Dix, A. & Reidar, C. (ed.), 05/1997, p. 163-173. 11 p.

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

  49. Published

    Visualising corpus linguistics

    Rayson, P. & Mariani, J., 2009, CL2009 Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Conference. p. n/a

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

  50. Published

    What is middleware made of? exploring abstractions, concepts, and class names in modern middleware

    Taiani, F., Rice, J. & Rayson, P., 2012, ARM '12 Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware . New York: ACM, 6 p. 6

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

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