Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Profile
PhD student researching linguistic dispersion. Developer of #LancsBox X (now only part-time), a powerful toolbox for analysing large corpora (collections of text that may be structured and annotated). Co-creator of the British National Corpus 2014 (BNC2014).
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Qualifications
Master of Mathematics and Computer Science (University of Oxford)
Other Interests and Hobbies
- Critical thinking methods
- Philosophy
- Constructed languages
- Mathematical logics
- High-level political and propaganda trends
Related documents
Education/Academic qualification
Master of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Oxford
11/10/2015 → 2/07/2019
Award Date: 2/07/2019
Keywords
- Theoretical and corpus-based linguistics
- #LancsBox X
- BNC2014
- Corpus Linguistics
- corpus tools
- corpus creation
- dispersion
- association
- keywords
- statistical measures
- Collocations
- Software engineering
- #LancsBox X
- Java
- performance
- TDD
- concurrency
- information retrieval
- R
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Recent external collaboration on country/territory level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots or
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Keywords and key emoji: Investigating a university’s Twitter posts before, during and after Covid-related restrictions
Collins, L. & Platt, W., 31/08/2025, In: Corpora. 20, 2, p. 205-238 34 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Review of Gries (2024): Frequency, Dispersion, Association, and Keyness: Revising and tupleizing corpus-linguistic measures
Platt, W., 1/11/2025, In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 30, 3, p. 417-424Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
Open AccessFile10 Downloads (Pure) -
#LancsBox X
Brezina, V. & Platt, W., 2022, ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS).Research output: Other contribution
Datasets
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The Written British National Corpus 2014
Brezina, V. (Creator), Hawtin, A. (Creator), McEnery, T. (Creator) & Platt, W. (Creator), Lancaster University, 2021
DOI: 10.17635/lancaster/researchdata/584, https://lancsbox.lancs.ac.uk
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