Paul Rayson

I am director of the UCREL research centre and a lecturer in the School of Computing and Communications (previously the Computing Department), in the Infolab21 building at Lancaster University in Lancaster, UK. I'm also a member of the Investigative Expertise Unit (IEU) based in the Psychology Department at Lancaster University.

New stuff:

• My official university research portal page
• You can follow me on Twitter if you really want to!
• This week I've been mostly reading ... my blog.
• Collocate cloud visualisation tool: CONE (released September 2010)
• I co-edit the Corpora Journal published by Edinburgh University Press. Issue 6:2 is now published. We're proofreading issue 7:1.
• ICAME Journal published by Aksis (Bergen, Norway); printed and distributed by UCREL. Issue 35 has come back from the printers and was published in May 2011.
• Language Resources and Evaluation Journal special issue on Multiword expressions: All the papers have now appeared in volume 44 numbers 1 and 2 of the journal.
• Along with Mark Davies (Brigham Young University) I co-edit the Routledge Frequency Dictionaries Series. The Frequency Dictionary of Arabic was published in February 2011.

• I'm currently supervising five students: Eddie Bell and Stephen Wattam (both joint with Maths and Stats, co-supervised with Damon Berridge), Katharina MacInnes and Sheryl Prentice (both joint with Psychology, co-supervised with Paul Taylor), and John Vidler (co-supervised by Andrew Scott).
• Three of my students have passed their vivas: Alistair Baron (spelling variation in historical corpora); Ricardo Gacitua (OntoLancs: an evaluation framework for ontology learning by ensemble methods); Patrick Tschorn (Incremental inductive logic programming for learning from annotated corpora)

• SCC120 Fundamentals of Computer Science: Moodle | SCC intranet
• CSc200 Group Project LUVLE | SCC intranet
• CSc200X Group Project LUVLE | SCC intranet
• CSc254 Languages and Compilation: LUVLE | SCC intranet

Research:

• CLARIN: Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure
• iCop: Identifying and Catching Originators in P2P Networks
• Isis: Protecting children in online social networks
• Spatial Humanities: Bringing Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to the Digital Humanities
• Variability in child language: A feasibility and pilot study on the exploitation of the Child Language Survey
• Variant spellings: in Early Modern English in particular
• Extending a semantic annotation tool for research on metaphor in discourse: funded by the British Academy.

• There's more information about my academic research and publications on separate pages.
• I used to go to school at Toot Hill in Bingham, Notts and some of my ancestors lived in Rutland.