Professor Paul Rayson

Professor of Natural Language Processing

Web Links

Personal website: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/rayson/

Selected Publications

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. 12/05/2017 In: Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics. 31, 1, p. 27-49. 23 p.
Journal article

Creating and validating multilingual semantic representations for six languages: expert versus non-expert crowds
El-Haj, M., Rayson, P., Piao, S., Wattam, S. 3/04/2017
Conference contribution/Paper

Lancaster A at SemEval-2017 Task 5: Evaluation metrics matter: predicting sentiment from financial news headlines
Moore, A., Rayson, P.E. 4/08/2017
Conference contribution/Paper

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.
Journal article

Word frequencies in written and spoken English: based on the British National Corpus.
Leech, G., Rayson, P., Wilson, A. 2001 London : Longman. 304 p. ISBN: 0582320070.
Book

From key words to key semantic domains
Rayson, P. 2008 In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 13, 4, p. 519-549. 31 p.
Journal article

Experiments in 17th century English:: manual and automatic conceptual history
Pumfrey, S., Rayson, P., Mariani, J. 2010
Conference paper

Classification of Short Text Comments by Sentiment and Actionability for VoiceYourView
Simm, W., Ferrario, M., Piao, S., Whittle, J., Rayson, P. 2010
Conference contribution/Paper

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.
Journal article

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.
Journal article

Automatic standardisation of texts containing spelling variation: How much training data do you need?
Baron, A., Rayson, P. 2009
Conference contribution/Paper

DSI: A Small Welsh Language Model Pilot for Sentiment Analysis Testing
01/07/2024 → 28/02/2025
Research

DSI: Welsh Digital Grid
01/07/2023 → 29/03/2024
Research

DSI: Horizon Europe: 4D PICTURE: Design-based Data-Driven Decision-support Tools: Producing Improved Cancer Outcomes Through User- Centred Research
01/10/2022 → 30/09/2027
Research

Understanding imprecise space and time in narratives through qualitative representations, reasoning, and visualisation
01/04/2022 → 30/06/2026
Research

DSI: FreeTxt: supporting bilingual free-text survey and questionnaire data analysis
01/03/2022 → 31/10/2023
Research

DSI: Realist evaluation of online mental health communities to improve policy and practice
01/03/2022 → 31/12/2024
Research

The Igbo-English Machine Translation Project
03/02/2020 → 29/01/2021
Research

BioTM Project
01/05/2018 → 31/03/2019
Research

Analysing Narrative Aspects of UK Preliminary Earnings Announcements and Annual Reports: Tools and Insights for Researchers and Regulators
01/12/2017 → 31/07/2020
Research

Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language
01/05/2016 → 31/10/2019
Research

The National Corpus of Contemporary Welsh
01/03/2016 → 31/08/2019
Research

Native Language Influence Detection 6 Project
23/11/2015 → 31/10/2018
Research

Geospatial Innovations in the Digital Humanities: A Deep Map of the English Lake District
19/10/2015 → 19/10/2018
Other

SenseSourcing
01/12/2014 → 01/07/2015
Other

Understanding Corporate Communications
01/12/2014 → 01/10/2016
Other

VardSourcing
01/12/2014 → 01/07/2015
Other

Semantic Annotation and Mark Up for Enhancing Lexical Searches (SAMUELS)
01/01/2014 → 31/03/2015
Research

Software Architecture for Mental health Self management
01/04/2013 → 30/09/2016
Research

ESRC centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science - CASS
31/03/2013 → 30/03/2018
Research

Understanding the Influences of Financial Reporting, Corporate Disclosure and financial media on the Corporate Financial Information Environment
01/12/2012 → 30/11/2014
Research

Metaphor in End of Life Care
01/09/2012 → 28/06/2014
Research

FP7: Spatial Humanities
01/01/2012 → 31/12/2016
Research

Corpus Research in Early Modern English
01/10/2011 → …
Research

FP7: iCOP
01/06/2011 → 30/11/2013
Research

FP7: CLARIN
01/01/2008 → 30/06/2011
Research

Variability in child language
01/04/2007 → …
Other

Using a semantic annotation tool for research on metaphor in discourse
01/12/2005 → …
Research

Changing English across the 20th Century: A Corpus-based Study
01/08/2005 → 31/07/2007
Other

ASSIST: Automated Semantic Assistance for Translators
01/04/2005 → 30/06/2007
Other

Semantic Annotation
Invited talk

Integrating health research, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics to analyse peer online support forum posts on personal recovery in bipolar disorder
Oral presentation

EACL Student Research Workshop (Event)
Publication peer-review

Corpus Linguistics (Event)
Publication peer-review

Sixth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts held in conjunction with the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (Event)
Publication peer-review

Healthcare text analytics conference 2023 (Event)
Publication peer-review

Language, Data and Knowledge (Event)
Publication peer-review

What can you do with the CLARIN research infrastructure?
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Spatial Humanities: Finding spatial and time narratives in corpus data
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Event)
Publication peer-review

Methods and applications for multilingual semantic analysis
Invited talk

Methods and resources for multilingual semantic taggers
Invited talk

Corpus Framework Analysis: Integrating computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, and clinical psychology to analyse online posts on personal recovery in bipolar disorder
Oral presentation

Multilingual semantic tagger
Invited talk

An exploratory analysis of the relationship of posting in peer online support forums and trait mood in bipolar disorder
Oral presentation

Talking about personal recovery in bipolar disorder: Integrating natural language processing, corpus linguistics and health research to analyse peer online support forum posts
Oral presentation

The 4th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Methods and applications for semantic tagging
Invited talk

Text2Story 2022 (Event)
Publication peer-review

13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (Event)
Publication peer-review

International Conference for Learner Corpus Research (Event)
Publication peer-review

ParlaCLARIN III at LREC2022 (Event)
Publication peer-review

10th Workshop on the Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora (Event)
Publication peer-review

Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (Event)
Publication peer-review

The 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Event)
Publication peer-review

The Third Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (Event)
Publication peer-review

Financial Narrative processing conference 2021
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Bipolar disorder and recovery on Reddit: a corpus linguistic analysis
Oral presentation

The 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Event)
Publication peer-review

EACL Student Research Workshop (SRW) 2021 (Event)
Publication peer-review

NAACL Student Research Workshop (SRW) 2021 (Event)
Publication peer-review

The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Event)
Publication peer-review

9th Workshop on the Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora (Event)
Publication peer-review

The 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (Event)
Publication peer-review

International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) conference (Event)
Publication peer-review

8th workshop on "Challenges in the management of large corpora" (Event)
Publication peer-review

AACL-IJCNLP 2020 Student Research Workshop (Event)
Publication peer-review

The 2nd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

The 3rd Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Talking about personal recovery in bipolar disorder
Oral presentation

Twenty eight years of semantic tagging
Invited talk

A whistle stop tour of Natural Language Processing and Corpus Linguistics methods and applications
Invited talk

5th Learner Corpus Research Conference (Event)
Publication peer-review

28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Event)
Publication peer-review

The 10th International Corpus Linguistics Conference (Event)
Publication peer-review

ACL Student Research Workshop (SRW) (Event)
Publication peer-review

Shared Task on the Reproduction of Research Results in Science and Technology of Language (Event)
Publication peer-review

7th workshop on "Challenges in the management of large corpora" (CMLC-7) (Event)
Publication peer-review

Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr) (Event)
Publication peer-review

Using CorCenCC: Corpws Cenedlaethol Cymraeg Cyfoes – National Corpus of Contemporary Welsh
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

The 1st Financial Narrative Processing Workshop in LREC 2018
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

SCC (Data Science), UCREL - University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language

SCC (Data Science), UCREL - University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language

SCC (Data Science), UCREL - University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language

SCC (Data Science), UCREL - University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language

  • Cyber Security Research Centre (Data)
  • Digital Health Group
  • DSI - Foundations
  • DSI - Health
  • Lancaster Centre for Digital Humanities
  • Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre
  • LIRA - Fundamentals
  • SCC (Data Science)
  • Security Lancaster
  • Security Lancaster (Academic Centre of Excellence)
  • Security Lancaster (Behavioural Science)
  • UCREL - University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language