Paul Rayson
Professor at Lancaster University
Lancaster, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Rayson is a Professor of Computer Science at Lancaster University and Director of the interdisciplinary UCREL centre, combining deep expertise in corpus linguistics and multilingual NLP with a focus on noisy-language settings such as historical texts, learner language, speech and CMC. Over a long academic career he has translated research into real-world impact across dementia detection, mental health, online child protection, cyber security and biomedical and financial text mining, often working closely with domain experts. He co-led the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) and is active in cross-disciplinary initiatives including Security Lancaster, the Lancaster Centre for Digital Humanities and the Data Science Institute. Known for tackling language data at scale and in challenging conditions, he has also bridged academia and industry through roles like Director of Language Technology at Isis Forensics.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Toothill comprehensive schoolDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Lancaster University
Github Skills (14)
semantic-analysis8
comparable8
nlp8
spacy8
natural-language-processing8
python8
tei7
multilingual7
parliamentary-data7
linguistics6
corpus5
dto5
java2
openjdk2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
UCREL/SigEff
Jul 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
perayson/manifestos
May 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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