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.
10 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 (15)
system-analysis10
semantic9
multilingual9
comparable8
nlp8
corpus8
python7
natural-language-processing7
parliamentary-data7
linguistics6
semantic-analysis5
spacy5
dto4
java2
openjdk2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
UCREL/SigEff
Jul 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
UCREL/Multilingual-USAS
Sep 2015 - Jan 2022
Lexicons for the Multilingual UCREL Semantic Analysis System
Contributions:1 release, 28 reviews, 32 commits in 6 years 5 months
nlpsystem-analysissemantic-analysismultilingualsemantic
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