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Akira Murakami
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Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Communication, University of Birmingham, as well as a Visiting Scientist at the Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, RIKEN. Website: http://www.akira-murakami.com/ Twitter (X): @mrkm_a
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jan 16
Excited to share my open-access paper published in Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (@RMALJournal)! It critically explores the limitations of traditional linear regression models (assuming normal error distribution) for analysing syntactic complexity measures. 1/10
Screenshot of the title page and the abstract of the paper
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 11
That's a wrap on #ccrss25! Thanks to everyone who took part.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 11
This year's Sinclair Lecture is now available to watch on YouTube. #ccrss25 #SinclairLecture
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 11
The very final session of #ccrss25 is led by @matteofuoli.bsky.social‬ and is titled 'Corpus Annotation and Analysis with the UAM Corpus Tool'.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 10
The final session today, titled 'What children hear, read, and write: A corpus approach to language and literacy', is led by Dr Yaling Hsiao. #ccrss25
A photo of Dr Yaling Hsiao teaching a session at the summer school A photo of Dr Yaling Hsiao teaching a session at the summer school
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 10
The next session, titled 'Topic Models in R,' is led by @mrkm-a.bsky.social‬. #ccrss25
Title slide for the 'Topic Models in R' session
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 10
The next session, titled 'Analyzing Text with Python and spaCy,' is led by Dr Jason Grafmiller. #ccrss25
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 10
The first session today, titled 'Analysing Learner Language', is led by external speaker Dr Joyce Lim from Aston University. #ccrss25
A photo of Dr Joyce Lim teaching a session at the summer school A photo of Dr Joyce Lim teaching a session at the summer school
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 10
Day 4 of Corpus Linguistics Summer School is here! #ccrss25
The programme of Corpus Linguistics Summer School, with Day 4 highlighted
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 9
Following a participant presentation session, the next session is led by external speaker @meganbushnell.bsky.social‬ from the University of Oxford and CLARIN UK, titled 'Applying FAIR Data Principles in Corpus Linguistics'. #ccrss25
A photo of @meganbushnell.bsky.social teaching a session at the summer school A photo of @meganbushnell.bsky.social teaching a session at the summer school
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 9
The second session today, led by Dr Sofia Malamatidou, is titled 'Corpus Triangulation: Its Application to the Analysis of Tourism Discourse'. #ccrss25
A photo of Dr Sofia Malamatidou teaching a session at the summer school A photo of Dr Sofia Malamatidou teaching a session at the summer school
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 9
Today's first session, titled 'Phraseology: A Critical Reassessment', is led by Dr Nick Groom. #ccrss25
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 9
It's Day 3 of the Corpus Linguistics Summer School! #ccrss25
The programme of the summer school, with Day 3 highlighted
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 8
The final session today is my session titled 'Introduction to R'. #ccrss25
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 8
Following participant presentations, the ongoing session, titled 'Readability and Environmental Texts', is led by Dr Michael Oakes. #ccrss25
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 8
Up next, Dr Katharine Weetman leads a session on 'Analysing Healthcare Data Using Corpus Linguistics: Ethical Considerations'. #ccrss25
A photo of Dr Katharine Weetman teaching a session at the summer school A photo of Dr Katharine Weetman teaching a session at the summer school
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 8
The first session today is by @jwgrieve.bsky.social, titled 'The Language of Fake News: Latent Patterns of Linguistic Variation'. #ccrss25
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 8
The second day of our Corpus Linguistics Summer School is starting in an hour! #ccrss25
The programme of the summer school, with the second day highlighted in yellow
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EuroSLA @eurosla.bsky.social · Jul 7
EuroSLA 35 will be in Lisbon, 24-27 June 2026

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EuroSLA 35 to be held in Lisbon in June 2026 - Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
The Research Center for Linguistics (CLUNL) at NOVA University Lisbon is proud to announce that the 35th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA 35) will take place in L...
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 7
The Sinclair Lecture has just started! This year, it is delivered by @jwgrieve.bsky.social and is titled 'Corpus linguistics is all you need: Large language models and the legacy of John Sinclair'. #SinclairLecture #ccrss25
A photo of Professor Jack Grieve giving the Sinclair Lecture A photo of Professor Jack Grieve giving the Sinclair Lecture A photo of Professor Jack Grieve giving the Sinclair Lecture
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 7
The final session today, 'Introduction to Sketch Engine', is taught by Dr Paul Thompson. #ccrss25
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 7
Fenlon, J., & Hochgesang, J. A. (2022). Signed language corpora. Gallaudet University Press.
gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/S/Sign... #ccrss25
Signed Language Corpora
Jordan Fenlon and Julie A. Hochgesang present a revolutionary contribution to the field of signed language linguistics with Signed Language Corpora, the first volume to provide a comprehensive overvie...
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 7
The second session today is taught by @adamcschembri.bsky.social‬ and is titled 'Towards a Corpus Linguistics of Sign Languages'. #ccrss25
A photo of Adam teaching a session at the summer school A photo of Adam teaching a session at the summer school
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 7
The very first session of #ccrss25 is led by Dr Paul Thompson and is titled 'Introduction to Corpus Linguistics'.
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 7
Our annual Corpus Linguistics Summer School is starting in an hour and a half! After being held online since 2021, it’s back in person for the first time since 2019! #ccrss25
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · Jul 7
Our new PLOS ONE paper, led by a PhD student co-supervised by @jwgrieve.bsky.social and me, is out! We fine-tuned LLMs per author to create Authorial Language Models, attributing texts via perplexity. The method matches or beats SOTA and offers word-level insights.
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A screenshot of the webpage linked in the post, showing the paper's title, abstract, and a few additional details.
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