#ccrss26 has come to an end. Thank you all for your participation.

I'm wrapping up #ccrss26 with my own session, "Topic models in R".

The next session is "Corpus-based forensic authorship analysis" by Dana Roemling. #ccrss26

The first session this afternoon is "Corpus linguistics and law" by Dr Edward Clay. #ccrss26

The final day of #ccrss26 has just kicked off. The first session today is "Towards a corpus linguistics of signed languages" by Prof. Adam Schembri.

The final session today is "Introduction to CQPweb" by Dr Florent Perek. #ccrss26

The first afternoon session on Day 3 is "Studying language change in online data" by Dr Matt Gee and Dr Emma Franklin. #ccrss26

The final session today is "Introduction to corpus triangulation" by Dr Sofia Malamatidou. #ccrss26

"Introduction to Sketch Engine" by Dr Paul Thompson is underway. #ccrss26

Up next, after another participant presentation session, is "Introduction to the tidyverse" by Prof. Bodo Winter. #ccrss26

The second day of #ccrss26 has just started. The first session is "Analysing Learner Language" by Dr Joyce Lim.

The Sinclair Lecture has just started! This year, it is delivered by Professor Andrew Kehoe (Birmingham City University) and is titled "Tracking language use across time: 25 years of innovation". #ccrss26

After a participant presentation session, the final session of the day is "Introduction to R" by Prof. Bodo Winter. #ccrss26

The first session after lunch is "Using corpus data in psycholinguistics" by Dr Michal Laznicka. #ccrss26

The session "Interpreting concordance lines" by Prof. Susan Hunston was delivered this morning at #ccrss26.

The very first session of #ccrss26 is "Introduction to corpus linguistics" by Dr Paul Thompson.

The Corpus Linguistics Summer School has just begun! #ccrss26

The third EuroSLA plenary talk being delivered by Emma Marsden (University of Oxford).

Anna Pietruszewska (U of Lodz) is the winner of this year’s EuroSLA Junior Researcher LAB award for the most promising PhD project. Congratulations! 🎉

The second EuroSLA 35 plenary: Vincent DeLuca

EuroSLA 35 officially kicks off with a plenary by Melissa Baese-Berk.

Melissa Baese-Berk@m2b2.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m thrilled to be giving a keynote lecture this morning @eurosla.bsky.social. I’ll be talking about speech perception, speech production, the messy results in the field, what that might mean, and where I’m going next. Excited to meet new faces at the meeting!

A first at a EuroSLA: musical interlude, Luis Ribeiro & Caje Garcia

EuroSLA 35 pre-conference event is underway. This year’s Language Learning Roundtable focuses on research impact pathways.

👏🎉 Huge congratulations to Nick Ellis on receiving the EuroSLA Distinguished Scholar Award! A pioneer of usage-based approaches to language learning, Nick’s bridge-building across traditions has shaped the field and inspired generations of scholars over four decades. www.eurosla.org/eurosla-dist...

Joining #CogSci2026 from Japan? 🇯🇵🤝🇧🇷 The CogSci Meetup 2026 in Hamamatsu is a two-day hybrid event connecting researchers in Japan with the main conference in Rio de Janeiro. 📍Hamamatsu, Japan 🗓️ July 23–24, 2026 Learn more and register at sites.google.com/view/cogsci-...

CogSci Meetup Hamamatsu

Update information April 10, 2026 : Website launched and call for submissions begins.

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Thank you! I’m really looking forward to speaking at APCLC 2026 in Toyama this September. The abstract submission is still open for those interested in corpus linguistics and related areas. #APCLC2026

Chris Cooper@coopersensei.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Call for Papers is still out on APCLC 2026 (#corpuslinguistics conference that is in Japan this year). The so-far announced plenaries look great @mrkm-a.bsky.social and Eric Friginal smartconf.jp/content/apcl...

Registration for #ccrss26 closes this weekend. If you missed any of our session spotlights, you can explore the full thread below. More information and registration details: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/corpu...

Akira Murakami@mrkm-a.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Over the coming days, we’ll be spotlighting sessions from this year’s Corpus Linguistics Summer School (#ccrss26, 6–9 July). Stay tuned and don’t miss your chance to join us! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/corpu...

We are pleased to announce this year’s Sinclair Lecture by Professor Andrew Kehoe, titled “Tracking language use across time: 25 years of innovation”, on 6 July. The lecture is open to the public and will be livestreamed. Details and registration below: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/track...

Best JESLA Paper Prize 2025 awarded to Brasolin & Bienati (2025), Phraseology meets information theory: Going beyond the bag-of-words approach in complexity measures. Congratulations! Part of the special collection Multiple views on phraseology in SLA. euroslajournal.org/articles/10....

Phraseology meets information theory: Going beyond the bag-of-words approach in complexity measures | Journal of the European Second Language Association

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I’m excited to be teaching topic modelling again at #ccrss26! Registration for the Corpus Linguistics Summer School is still open for anyone interested. www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/corpu...

Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2026 - University of Birmingham

Open to undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students, as well as researchers who want to improve their skills to apply corpus methods in their research.

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Akira Murakami@mrkm-a.bsky.social · 3mo ago

At #ccrss26, I will demonstrate how probabilistic topic models can be used to analyse corpus data. Using R, I’ll cover pre-processing, model building, topic interpretation, and how to carry out quantitative analyses informed by the resulting topics.