Projects per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
We specialize in the automatic or computer-aided analysis of large bodies of naturally-occurring language ('corpora') and we have a record of achievement of more than thirty years as pioneers in this field whilst remaining at the leading edge of computer corpus construction and analysis. Our work focuses on modern English, early modern English, modern foreign languages, minority, endangered, and ancient languages. We operate at the interface of corpus linguistics and natural language processing.
For more information please visit our official website http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Profiles
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CREME @ Lancaster: Corpus Research in Early Modern English
Pumfrey, S. (Principal Investigator), Rayson, P. (Principal Investigator), Hardie, A. (Principal Investigator), Baron, A. (Principal Investigator), Findlay, A. (Principal Investigator), Oakley-Brown, L. (Principal Investigator), Culpeper, J. (Principal Investigator), Gregory, I. (Principal Investigator) & Tadmor, N. (Principal Investigator)
1/10/11 → …
Project: Research
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Using a semantic annotation tool for research on metaphor in discourse
Semino, E. (Co-Investigator), Hardie, A. (Co-Investigator), Koller, V. (Co-Investigator) & Rayson, P. (Co-Investigator)
1/12/05 → …
Project: Research
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Computational Analysis of Historical Narratives through Large Language Models
Nanomi Arachchige, I., 1/06/2026, Lancaster University. 303 p.Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
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Creating a Hybrid Rule and Neural Network Based Semantic Tagger using Silver Standard Data: the PyMUSAS framework for Multilingual Semantic Annotation
Moore, A., Rayson, P., Knight, D., Czerniak, T., Archer, D., Lal, D., Ó Donnchadha, G., Ó Meachair, M., Piao, S., Uí Dhonnchadha, E., Vuorinen, J., Yabo, Y. & Yang, X., 11/05/2026. 12 p.Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review
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Improving on State-of-the-Art Models for Sentiment Analysis on Saudi-English Code-Switching Text
Alghamdi, S., Rayson, P. & Alotibi, R., 1/03/2026, Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script. El-Haj, M., Rayson, P., Jarrar, M., Ezeani, I., Ezzini, S., Ahmadi, S., Haddad Haddad, A., Amol, C., Abdelali, A. & Abudalfa, S. (eds.). Rabat, Morocco: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 218-228 11 p.Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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Activities
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HealthcareNLP: where we are and what’s next?
Moore, A. (Organiser), Rayson, P. (Organiser), Verberne, S. (Organiser), Han, L. (Organiser) & Nenadic, G. (Organiser)
12/05/2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference - Academic
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Multilingual semantic annotation with PyMUSAS and Wmatrix7
Rayson, P. (Speaker)
14/11/2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4)
El-Haj, M. (Advisor)
31/01/2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Prizes
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Best Paper Award for Qur’an QA shared task at the 5th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools
Dola Mullage, D. (Recipient), Ranasinghe, T. (Recipient), Zaghouani, W. (Recipient) & Mitkov, R. (Recipient), 22/06/2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Best System in WMT QE Shared Task 2020
Ranasinghe, T. (Recipient), Orasan, C. (Recipient) & Mitkov, R. (Recipient), 11/2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Press/Media
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Research on language and cancer reported in New Scientist
15/10/16
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Research on metaphors for cancer in Swedish newspaper
9/05/16
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Newspaper Article
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Research on metaphor for cancer in Huffington Post UK
25/04/16
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Alternative Performance Measures: Analysis and Conclusions
Young, S. E. (Participant), Walker, M. (Participant) & Alves, P. (Participant)
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Campus in the City
Taylor, J. E. (Participant), Gregory, I. N. (Participant), Bushell, S. C. (Participant), Butler, J. O. (Participant), Rayson, P. E. (Participant), Atkin, P. (Participant) & Kay, C. (Participant)
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Datasets
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Welsh Text Summarisation Dataset
Ezeani, I. (Creator), El-Haj, M. (Creator), Morris, J. (Creator) & Knight, D. (Creator), Github, 2022
https://github.com/UCREL/welsh-summarization-dataset
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UNLT: Urdu Natural Language Toolkit
Shafi, J. (Creator), Nawab, R. M. A. (Creator), Rayson, P. (Creator) & Iqbal, R. (Creator), Lancaster University, 2021
DOI: 10.17635/lancaster/researchdata/494, https://github.com/UCREL/UNLT
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COVID-19 Arabic tweets
Alsudias, L. (Creator) & Rayson, P. (Creator), Lancaster University, 2020
DOI: 10.17635/lancaster/researchdata/394
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