Established February 2019
Director: Prof Monika Bednarek

Mission

The Sydney Corpus Lab aims to promote corpus linguistics in Australia. Its mission is to build research capacity in corpus linguistics at the University of Sydney, to connect Australian corpus linguists, and to promote the method in Australia. Lab members actively participated in the Sydney Centre for Language Research (Computational Approaches to Language node) and the Sydney Digital Humanities Research Group. Currently, we have strong links with the Computational Social Science Lab. In 2023, the lab was identified as a critical element of the research infrastructure currently available to support Australian social science and was included in the respective Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia stocktake.

Through collaboration with the University of Queensland, the Sydney Corpus Lab is currently participating in the Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP) and in the HASS Research Data Commons and Indigenous Research Capability Program. These projects explore language-related technologies, data collection infrastructure and text analysis environments, and have received investment from the Australian Research Data Commons/ARDC (https://doi.org/10.47486/PL074 and https://doi.org/10.47486/HIR001). The ARDC is funded by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).

Contact

info@sydneycorpuslab.com

Mailing list

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Initial funding

The establishment of the Sydney Corpus Lab was funded through a University of Sydney Research Accelerator (SOAR) prize.