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Professor Paul Rayson

Professor of Natural Language Processing

  1. 2014
  2. Published

    Experiences with parallelisation of an existing NLP pipeline: tagging Hansard

    Wattam, S., Rayson, P., Alexander, M. & Anderson, J., 2014, LREC 2014, Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Calzolari, N., Choukri, K., Declerck, T., Loftsson, H., Maegaard, B., Mariani, J., Moreno, A., Odijk, J. & Piperidis, S. (eds.). Paris: EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOC-ELRA, p. 4093-4096 4 p.

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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Published

    Safeguarding cyborg childhoods: incorporating the on/offline behaviour of children into everyday social work practices

    May-Chahal, C., Mason, C., Rashid, A., Walkerdine, J., Rayson, P. & Greenwood, P., 2014, In: British Journal of Social Work. 44, 3, p. 596-614 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. 2013
  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  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. 2012
  15. Published

    English style on the move: Variation and change in stylistic norms in the twentieth century

    Leech, G., Smith, N. & Rayson, P., 1/09/2012, In: Language and Computers. 76, p. 69-98 30 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineReview articlepeer-review

  16. 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

  17. Published

    Differentiating act from ideology: evidence from messages for and against violent extremism

    Prentice, S., Taylor, P., Rayson, P. & Giebels, E., 08/2012, In: Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. 5, 3, p. 289-306 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. 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

  19. 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)

  20. Published

    Document attrition in web corpora: An exploration

    Wattam, S., Rayson, P. & Berridge, D., 1/01/2012, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 1486-1489 4 p.

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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. Published

    Experiments in 17th century English: manual versus automatic conceptual history

    Pumfrey, S., Rayson, P. & Mariani, J., 2012, In: Literary and Linguistic Computing. 27, 4, p. 395-408 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 2011
  28. 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

  29. Published

    Analyzing the semantic content and persuasive composition of extremist media: a case study of texts produced during the Gaza conflict

    Prentice, S., Taylor, P. J., Rayson, P., Hoskins, A. & O'Loughlin, B., 03/2011, In: Information Systems Frontiers . 13, 1, p. 61-73 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. 2010
  35. 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

  36. Published

    Classification of Short Text Comments by Sentiment and Actionability for VoiceYourView

    Simm, W., Ferrario, M., Piao, S., Whittle, J. & Rayson, P., 2010, IEEE Second International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), 2010 . IEEE, p. 552-557 6 p.

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

  37. Unpublished

    Experiments in 17th century English: manual and automatic conceptual history

    Pumfrey, S., Rayson, P. & Mariani, J., 2010, (Unpublished). 0 p.

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

  38. 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

  39. 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

  40. 2009
  41. 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

  42. Published

    Forensics Software for Detecting Online Paedophile Activity

    Walkerdine, J., Greenwood, P., Rashid, A., Rayson, P., May-Chahal, C., Duquenoy, P., Watson, P., Jones, M. & Brennan, M., 11/2009. 2 p.

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

  43. Published

    Who said what? Methodological issues in applying corpus-based methods to analyse online chat data

    Rayson, P., Greenwood, P., Rashid, A. & Walkerdine, J., 07/2009, CL2009 Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Conference.

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

  44. 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

  45. 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

  46. 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

  47. Published

    A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese: Core vocabulary for learners

    Xiao, R., Rayson, P. & McEnery, T., 2009, London: Routledge.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  48. Published

    A Parsimonious Measure of Lexical Similarity for the Characterisation of Latent Stylistic Profiles

    Bell, E., Berridge, D. & Rayson, P., 2009, Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Conference CL 2009. Mahlberg, M., González-Díaz, V. & Smith, C. (eds.). Lancaster: Lancaster University, 14 p.

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

  49. 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

  50. 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

  51. 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

  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

    A flexible framework to experiment with ontology learning techniques

    Gacitua, R., Sawyer, P. & Rayson, P., 04/2008, In: Knowledge-Based Systems. 21, 3, p. 192-199 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  56. 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

  57. Published

    A flexible framework to experiment with ontology learning techniques

    Gacitua, R., Sawyer, P. & Rayson, P., 2008, Proceedings of AI-2007 Twenty-seventh SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Bramer, M., Coenen, F. & Petridis, M. (eds.). Springer, p. 153-166 14 p.

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

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