New PhD position in my group on Digital Forensic Linguistics! 🧑‍💻 If you think that's you, please contact me and/or apply! #linguistics #joboffer #phdPosition #phd https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/870a96abc9c1d265d30d96c359a15f0d1c02b97c0

PhD Candidate (65%, m/f/x) in Digital Forensic Linguistics

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Our lab presented five papers at the last European conference of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics in June in Montpellier. Here are some pictures as well as links to see the abstracts and slides of the talks.

Our Lab’s contributions to IAFLL 2026 in Montpellier

Our lab presented five papers at the last European conference of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics in June in Montpellier. Here are some pictures as well as links to see the abstracts and slides of the talks:

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Our latest research (led by Sadie Barlow, with Dr Edoardo Manino) found LambdaG doesn’t need a calibration dataset for well-calibrated likelihood ratios, just a simple correction! This simplifies analysis and makes it the only authorship verification method without calibration. Paper on arXiv now.

LambdaG: A simplified approach to Authorship Verification

In our latest research, led by Sadie Barlow and with Dr Edoardo Manino, we discovered a very important property of LambdaG: it does not require a calibration dataset to produce well calibrated likelihood ratios. A simple correction is sufficient. This means that the analysis is significantly simpler to implement and explain. LambdaG is therefore also the only existing authorship verification method that does not require a calibration analysis to produce likelihood ratios. The paper, currently under review, is available on arXiv here:

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We can now announce the two keynote speakers for #CHR2027. See the conference website below!

@ggrig.bsky.social · 4w ago

Excited to announce the amazing keynote speakers for #CHR2027, @UoM in January 2027: Katherine McDonough and Fotis Jannidis! CFP is now open: we look forward to welcoming you in Manchester 2027.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/ #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalHumanities #AI

We have bigger models. Bigger conferences. Have our questions become bigger, too? That was the question I posed in my Presidential Address at #ACL2026 in San Diego. (1/6)

I've been absolutely cranking on work and trying to lose some of 'final 2 years of PhD paunch' while here in Chiang Mai. This includes: Updated, better tests, BDI packge: github.com/bnagy/bdi New package for POS masking Latin text: github.com/bnagy/latin-... Maybe interesting for 6 people ;)

GitHub - bnagy/bdi: Bootstrap Distance Imposters, a stylometric method

Bootstrap Distance Imposters, a stylometric method - bnagy/bdi

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Recent chapters (co-authored w. Jesse Egbert) in Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics: 1. Corpus Linguistics & Register doi.org/10.1016/B978... 2. Register, Text Types, & Genre doi.org/10.1016/B978... Hope they're useful to those interested in #corpuslinguistics and #textanalysis!

Submissions welcomed for the 2nd Symposium on German Authorship Analysis (“Textuelle Identität: Autorschaft und Schreibstil in der aktuellen Forschung”). The symposium will be held at the University of Graz on 20. and 21. November. The deadline for submissions is June 15. 1/2 #ForensicLinguistics

Join us Manchester for the Computational Humanities Research conference 2027, hosted by our Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures, and Media! @ggrig.bsky.social @lukaszszulc.bsky.social @andreanini.com @uomsalc.bsky.social @digitaluom.bsky.social

Computational Humanities Research@comphumresearch.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢 CfP for #CHR2027 is out! Submissions on all aspects of computational humanities research welcome; all details available here: 2027.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/ And yes, CHR2027 will take place a little later than usual. So you *could* start later… but we suggest starting now!

"We're really interested in anything that's rude, that's a bit naughty, that might be counted as a swear word or a phrase" Can you help build the UK Swear Map? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Linguists collecting regional swear words to map UK dialects

Dr Chris Montgomery says the team is

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A study by Dr Andrea Nini (@andreanini.com) shows that a grammar-based approach can match or outperform advanced AI systems in author identification. LambdaG uses grammatical patterns instead of large AI models, providing comparable accuracy, transparency, and lower costs. 🔗 doi.org/10.1057/s415...

After years in preprint, our paper is finally out! We introduce LambdaG, a simple new authorship verification method that matches complex neural approaches. This supports the theory of grammar as a behavioural biometric (like a signature or gait). www.nature.com/articles/s41... #nlp #llm #forensic

Well-known #forensic #linguistics cases involved impersonation, e.g. murderer pretending to be the victim in text messages. In a new preprint with Baoyi Zeng we show that #LLMs can't fool authorship verification methods via prompting alone. Paper on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29454

My #RStats package for forensic authorship analysis, 'idiolect', now has an associated paper published in the Journal of Open Source Software: https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07575. New release of idiolect, 1.2.0, also available from #CRAN. #forensic #linguistics

Just published in JOSS: 'idiolect: An R package for forensic authorship analysis' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07575

New PhD opportunity in Digital Humanities here in Manchester: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Artificial Weather: Mining the Language and Visual Culture of Weather and Climate Modification (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Artificial Weather: Mining the Language and Visual Culture of Weather and Climate Modification (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Opportunity for a PhD candidate in English linguistics. Please repost. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

Universität Basel: PhD position in English linguistics

As of August 1, 2026, the Department of Languages and Literatures of the University of Basel (English division, Prof. Miriam Locher) is seeking to fill a 60% PhD position in English linguistics. The p...

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🎉 NEW PAPER with @gsakr.bsky.social "Multivariate Analyses of Tongue Contours from Ultrasound Tongue Imaging" 👅📡🩻📉 doi.org/10.1177/0023...

Out in Evolutionary Human Sciences! With @mikekestemont.bsky.social, @jbcamps.bsky.social, @remcosleiderink.bsky.social & Anne Chao New work on unseen species models for cult heritage to the question: how many stories were _shared_ between medieval French and Dutch literature? lnkd.in/exyAWtir

: Save the date! IAFLL Porto 2027. 12-16 July 2027, at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FLUP) of the Universidade do Porto. Até já! youtu.be/LaJn_I7YzB8?...

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Consider a noun phrase formed by a noun, an adjective, a numeral and a demonstrative. There are 24 possible orders but only some of them have been attested when examining the preferred order in world languages. Some researchers hypothesize that there is a hard constraint banning certain orders.

My latest paper with Hugo Bowles and Claire Wood examines a Dickens mystery: did he author the recently decoded story “The Two Brothers”? The answer is complicated. The paper showcases our new method, LambdaG (forthcoming!).

Delighted to announce this book is finally being published! Over 3 years in the production. I've written Chapter 3 - Ethics and Professional Conduct Oversight in Forensic Linguistic Expert Evidence. #ForensicLinguistics #Ethics #ExpertEvidence

The Routledge Handbook of Ethics in Forensic Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Ethics in Forensic Linguistics is the first comprehensive reference work to explore the ethical dimensions of forensic language analysis across a range of applied and academi...

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What an absolute pleasure it was to attend the 6th edition of CHR! Huge thanks to everyone who helped make this edition even better than the last #CHR2025 Onward to Manchester, home of some wonderful computing history: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/com...

Listen to the First Computer-Generated Christmas Carols, From Alan Turing's Lab

"Jingle Bells" and "Good King Wenceslas" haven't sounded like this in a long time.

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How good are LLMs at identifying and tagging metaphors in text? Turns out, pretty good! In our new study, we ask 10 different open- and closed-source LLMs to label all metaphorical expressions in a dataset of film reviews using <Metaphor> and </Metaphor> XML tags. arxiv.org/abs/2509.24866

Metaphor identification using large language models: A comparison of RAG, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning

Metaphor is a pervasive feature of discourse and a powerful lens for examining cognition, emotion, and ideology. Large-scale analysis, however, has been constrained by the need for manual annotation d...

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The Derek Bentley Case 👇 In a gripping two-part series, the Writing Wrongs podcast investigates one of the UK’s most infamous miscarriages of justice: the tragic story of Derek Bentley, who was sentenced to death in 1953.

If you're attending Konvens 2025 at Hildesheim, don't miss our tutorial on Reading Concordances with Algorithms tomorrow, where we talk about our mathematical framework and given some background on the FlexiConc library. konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/program/#fle... @rc21project.bsky.social

📢 Season 2 of Writing Wrongs kicks off tomorrow! 📢 The first episode is a two-parter exploring the classic case of #DerekBentley. We're joined by Prof. Malcolm Coulthard whose analysis contributed to Derek's posthumous acquittal. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Pat Strycharczuk will be presenting our paper at #Interspeech2025 on Wednesday afternoon (A02-O6), where we applied forensic speaker comparison methods to ultrasound tongue imaging data to think about the individuality of articulatory strategy 📄 www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...

Justin Lo@justinjhlo.bsky.social · last yr.

We've got 2 papers accepted to #Interspeech2025 (although you'll only see my collaborators and not me at Rotterdam 🥲): 1. Articulatory strategy in vowel production as a basis for speaker discrimination - with Pat Strycharczuk & Sam Kirkham @phoneticslab.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social