Written by Kelvin Lee To help promote corpus linguistics and text analytics in the Arts and Social Sciences, the Sydney Corpus Lab recently participated in the HASS RDC and IRC Computational Skills Summer School organised by the Australian Research Data Commons (February 2023) and in the University of Sydney’s Digital Humanities Day jointly hosted by…

In 2023, the Sydney Corpus Lab is pleased to be featuring edited extracts from Dr Robbie Love’s CorpusCast podcast about corpus linguistics. In each blog post published throughout the year, we present the answers of leading corpus linguists to three questions. Specifically, all blog posts present answers to the following two questions: Posts from episodes…

Written by Darcy McCarthy The first few years of the 2020s have accelerated climate change issues to the core of Australian discourse. Since the 2019-20 bushfires, climate change and its impacts have become fixtures in the nation’s headspace. However, linguistic research on the topic has not matched the pace of climate change’s growing importance to…

In 2023, the Sydney Corpus Lab is pleased to be featuring edited extracts from Dr Robbie Love’s CorpusCast podcast about corpus linguistics. In each blog post published throughout the year, we present the answers of leading corpus linguists to three questions. Specifically, all blog posts present answers to the following two questions: Posts from episodes…

In 2023, the Sydney Corpus Lab is pleased to be featuring edited extracts from Dr Robbie Love’s CorpusCast podcast about corpus linguistics. In each blog post published throughout the year, we present the answers of leading corpus linguists to three questions. Specifically, all blog posts present answers to the following two questions: Posts from episodes…

written by Monika Bednarek As 2022 is drawing to an end, here’s the year in review from the Sydney Corpus Lab. This year, we were able to start a number of new informal collaborations with corpus linguistic and sociolinguistic centres and labs in Australia and overseas, including the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Corpus Research,…

written by Marcel Reverter-Rambaldi The development of large-scale linguistic corpora has broadened greatly the scope of research that can be done into language. Projects including the Language Data Commons of Australia and Sydney Speaks demonstrate the value that is placed on comprehensive collections of language data. As corpora continue to grow in scale, the benefit…

written by Carly Bray The findings of the Royal Commission Into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, published more than 30 years ago, noted widespread dissatisfaction with mainstream media representation of First Nations people among these communities. In the years since then, First Nations groups have developed a range of reporting guidelines which outline preferred and dispreferred…

Written by Raphael Lo Schiavo-Rega Like many people across the English-speaking world, the January 6th capitol attack (Image 1) both surprised and intrigued me. I was especially interested in the reaction of the media, and the wildly different representations created of the event by mouthpieces on both sides of the American political chasm. It made…

Written by Danielle Barth (Australian National University, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language) Last semester (S1 2022) I taught Corpus Linguistics, the first time it has been offered at the Australian National University. It ran as a “special topics” course but has now officially been added to our regular offerings. This course…