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Professor Paul Rayson

Professor of Natural Language Processing

  1. 2021
  2. Published

    Review of the State of the Art in Financial Narrative Processing

    El-Haj, M., Rayson, P., El Maarouf, I., Bentabet, N.-I., Mariko, D., Labidurie, E., Litvak, M., Giannakopoulos, G., AbuRa'ed, A. & Zmandar, N., 13/12/2021, Financial Narrative Processing in Spanish. Moreno Sandoval, A. (ed.). Tirant lo Blanch, p. 51-98 48 p. (Tecnología, traducción y cultura).

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

  3. 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

  4. Published

    Proceedings of the 3rd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop: FNP 2021

    El-Haj, M. (Editor), Rayson, P. (Editor) & Zmandar, N. (Editor), 26/10/2021, Lancaster, United Kingdom: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Anthology).

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsProceedings

  5. 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

  6. Published

    GIBBON: General-purpose Information-Based Bayesian Optimisation

    Moss, H. B., Leslie, D. S., Gonzalez, J. & Rayson, P., 8/10/2021, In: Journal of Machine Learning Research. 22, 235, p. 1-49 49 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Published

    Social Media Monitoring of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Influenza Epidemic With Adaptation for Informal Language in Arabic Twitter Data: Qualitative Study

    Alsudias, L. & Rayson, P., 17/09/2021, In: JMIR Medical Informatics. 9, 9, 17 p., e27670.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Problematising Characteristicness: A Biomedical Association Case Study

    Prentice, S., Knight, J., Rayson, P., El-Haj, M. & Rutherford, N., 31/08/2021, In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 26, 3, p. 305-335 31 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. Published

    Extending the key semantic domains method beyond English corpora: Wmatrix version 5

    Rayson, P., 13/07/2021.

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

  12. Published

    Detecting COVID-19 Misinformation in Arabic Tweets

    Alsudias, L. & Rayson, P., 17/06/2021.

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

  13. 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

  14. Published

    Analysing Keyword Lists

    Rayson, P. & Potts, A., 5/05/2021, A Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Paquot, M. & Gries, S. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 119-139 21 p.

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

  15. 2020
  16. Published

    BOSS: Bayesian Optimization over String Spaces

    Moss, H., Beck, D., Gonzalez, J., Leslie, D. & Rayson, P., 1/12/2020, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 2020 ed. MIT Press, Vol. 2020-December. p. 15476-15486 11 p. (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems).

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

  17. Published

    Proceedings of the 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation

    El-Haj, M., Rayson, P., Athanasakou, V., Bouamor, H., Salzedo, C., Giannakopoulos, G., Litvak, M., Pittaras, N., Elhag, A. & Ferradans, S., 1/12/2020, Association for Computational Linguistics.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsProceedings

  18. Published

    COVID-19 and Arabic Twitter: How can Arab World Governments and Public Health Organizations Learn from Social Media?

    Alsudias, L. & Rayson, P., 27/10/2020, NLP COVID-19 Workshop : an emergency workshop at ACL 2020. Association for Computational Linguistics

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

  19. Published

    MUMBO: MUlti-task Max-value Bayesian Optimization

    Moss, H. B., Leslie, D. S. & Rayson, P., 14/09/2020, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2020, Proceedings. Hutter, F., Kersting, K., Lijffijt, J. & Valera, I. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 447-462 16 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 12459).

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

  20. Published

    BOSH: Bayesian Optimization by Sampling Hierarchically

    Moss, H. B., Leslie, D. S. & Rayson, P., 18/07/2020. 8 p.

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

  21. Published

    Developing an Arabic Infectious Disease Ontology to Include Non-Standard Terminology

    Alsudias, L. & Rayson, P., 11/05/2020, 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation: LREC2020. Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 4842-4850

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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. Published

    Analyzing the Spread of Influenza in Arabic Twitter

    Alsudias, L. & Rayson, P., 23/04/2020.

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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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.-J. & Leroi, I., 1/03/2020, In: Requirements Engineering . 25, 1, p. 1-20 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  29. Published

    Retrieving, Classifying and Analysing Narrative Commentary in Unstructured (Glossy) Annual Reports Published as PDF Files

    El Haj, M., Alves, P., Rayson, P., Walker, M. & Young, S., 1/01/2020, In: Accounting and Business Research. 50, 1, p. 6-34 29 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  30. Published

    Annual Report Commentary on the Value Creation Process

    Athanasakou, V., El-Haj, M., Rayson, P., Walker, M. & Young, S., 2020, p. 1-63, 63 p.

    Research output: Working paper

  31. Published
  32. 2019
  33. Published

    Proceedings of the Second Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2019)

    El-Haj, M. (Editor), Rayson, P. (Editor), Young, S. (Editor), Bouamor, H. (Editor) & Ferradans, S. (Editor), 30/09/2019, Stroudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics. 87 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsProceedings

  34. Published

    A word sense disambiguation corpus for Urdu

    Saeed, A., Nawab, R. M. A., Stevenson, M. & Rayson, P., 1/09/2019, In: Language Resources and Evaluation. 53, 3, p. 397–418 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  35. 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

  36. Published

    FIESTA: Fast IdEntification of State-of-The-Art models using adaptive bandit algorithms

    Moss, H. B., Moore, A., Leslie, D. S. & Rayson, P., 30/07/2019, Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Stroudsburg PA: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 2920-2930 11 p.

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

  37. Published

    Open Welsh Language Resources for a Corpus Annotation Framework

    Piao, S. S., Neale, S., Ezeani, I., Rayson, P. E., Knight, D. & Donnelly, K., 26/07/2019.

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

  38. Published

    Enhancing the linguistic discovery potential of historical corpora: A twin-track approach using ARCHER

    Smith, N., Schneider, G., Hoffmann, S., Rayson, P. & Lehmann, H. M., 23/07/2019, Proceedings of the 10th International Corpus Linguistics Conference.

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

  39. Published

    Classifying Information Sources in Arabic Twitter to Support Online Monitoring of Infectious Diseases

    Alsudias, L. & Rayson, P., 22/07/2019, Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics: (WACL-3). Association for Computational Linguistics, 9 p.

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

  40. Published

    CLEU- A Cross-Language-Urdu Corpus and Benchmark For Text Reuse Experiments

    Muneer, I., Muhammad, S., Iqbal, M., Nawab, R. M. A. & Rayson, P. E., 1/07/2019, In: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 70, 7, p. 729-741 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  41. Published

    Developing multilingual automatic semantic annotation systems

    Löfberg, L. & Rayson, P., 10/06/2019, Advances in Empirical Translation Studies: Developing Translation Resources and Technologies. Ji, M. & Oakes, M. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 94-109 16 p.

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

  42. Published

    How do people describe personal recovery experiences in bipolar disorder in structured and informal settings?

    Jagfeld, G., Jones, S., Rayson, P. & Lobban, F., 20/05/2019.

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

  43. Published

    A Sense Annotated Corpus for All-Words Urdu Word Sense Disambiguation

    Saeed, A., Nawab, R. M. A., Stevenson, M. & Rayson, P. E., 1/05/2019, In: ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP). 18, 4, 14 p., 40.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  44. 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

  45. 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

  46. Published

    Corpus analysis of key words

    Rayson, P., 2019, The Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Chapelle, C. (ed.). Wiley, p. 320-326

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNEntry for encyclopedia/dictionary

  47. 2018
  48. 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

  49. Published

    Using JK-fold Cross Validation To Reduce Variance When Tuning NLP Models

    Moss, H., Leslie, D. & Rayson, P., 31/08/2018, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Santa Fe: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 2978-2989 12 p.

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

  50. Published

    Bringing replication and reproduction together with generalisability in NLP: Three reproduction studies for Target Dependent Sentiment Analysis

    Moore, A. & Rayson, P. E., 20/08/2018, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 1132-1134 13 p.

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

  51. Published

    Can you detect early dementia from an email? A proof of principle study of daily computer use to detect cognitive and functional decline

    Stringer, G., Couth, S., Brown, L. J. E., Montaldi, D., Gledson, A., Mellor, J., Sutcliffe, A., Sawyer, P., Keane, J., Bull, C., Zeng, X., Rayson, P. & Leroi, I., 07/2018, In: International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 33, 7, p. 867-874 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  52. 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

  53. Published

    Profiling Medical Journal Articles Using a Gene Ontology Semantic Tagger

    El Haj, M., Rayson, P. E., Piao, S. S. & Knight, J., 11/05/2018, 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. 4593-4597 5 p.

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

  54. Published

    Arabic Dialect Identification in the Context of Bivalency and Code-Switching

    El Haj, M., Rayson, P. E. & Aboelezz, M., 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.). p. 3622-3627 6 p.

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

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