At #iclave12 I was part of the panel “Embracing variability in NLP”. Together with Yves Scherrer, Aleksandra Miletić and Noëmi Aepli I had a talk on extracting dialect features from dialect classifiers. Slides & panel details are now online at mainlp.github.io/iclave12/

Brief recap of my visit to University of Helsinki and Helsinki-NLP :)

Deception detection is a critical area, but do we all lie in the same way? We're looking for British-English-speaking adults (18+) who are either neurotypical or have ADHD to take part in a short 10-15 min study. Your participation can make a difference! lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dm…

Excited to be on my way to Lancaster University and NLPAICS to talk about our (+ Yves Scherrer & Aleksandra Miletić) work on explainability of dialect classifiers in forensic linguistics. Conference proceedings here: nlpaics.com/conference-pro…

Save the date! Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025 #CL2025 📍 Birmingham, UK ⏰ Mon 30th June - Fri 4th July 2025 💬 Plenaries: Laurence Anthony, Gavin Brookes, Lizzy Hanks, Pascual Pérez-Paredes 🇪🇺, Charlotte Taylor & anna marchi 🏳️‍🌈 Check website for further announcements! cl2025.co.uk

Today is my last day as Director of Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics with Krzysz and Nicci MacLeod taking over as Director and Deputy from tomorrow. Krzysz and I joined Aston on August 1st 2007 (that's 17 yrs ago ), with Malcom Coulthard we launched the Centre for Forensic Linguistics in 2008 (16 yrs ago)

From today, we have a new department name. Welcome to the Department of Linguistics and Communication at Uni of Birmingham!

Hier noch der Link zu meinem Interview zur forensischen Sprachwissenschaft in der dieswöchigen Ausgabe der coop_ch-Zeitung: epaper.coopzeitung.ch/aviator/aviato… Merci @julia_gohl!

Thanks @sean_trott for this great write up on our preprint! seantrott.substack.com/p/what-languag…

I'm pleased to announce the release of version 1 of "idiolect", my new package to carry out Forensic Authorship Analysis using R. The website of the package (andreanini.github.io/idiolect/index…) contains a Get Started page with a brief tutorial.

My article with Dana Roemling has left is now available! Check it out to learn about the difference between real law and pseudolaw and how to visualize the spatial distribution of features in corpus. #languageandlaw #pseudolaw #openaccess #forensiclinguistics link.springer.com/article/10.100…

We are looking for a Lecturer on 0.6 basis (teaching and research). Apply to join us at the School of English jobs.bcu.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

I’m in Tampere joining a criminology conference and telling people about forensic linguistics (in Finnish!) ☺️

🔎| We Solve Murders by Richard Osman demonstrates the impact of ChatGPT on forensic linguistics ✍Emily Chiang and Robert Davies look at authorship analysis for The Conversation #TeamAston Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics 🚨 This article contains spoilers 👇 theconversation.com/we-solve-murde…

We've got good news! Information regarding our 2025 International Summer School in Forensic Linguistic Analysis is now online - check it out now 👉 aston.ac.uk/research/foren…

‘From Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong’ Please join us for the inaugural lecture of Professor Bodo Winter on Friday 21 February 2025 (16:00-17:00) in the Alan Walters Building, G03. Register: birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/…