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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/
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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
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Results of the replication are in!

Chocolate is more desirable than poop:

Cohen's d_rm = 6.20, 95%CI [5.63, 6.78]

N = 486, two single item 1-7 Likert scales of desirability.

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ianhussey.mmmdata.io Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · Oct 13
Make an effect size prediction!

@jamiecummins.bsky.social and I are replicating Balcetis & Dunning's (2010) "chocolate is more desirable than poop" (Cohen's d = 4.52)

Let us known in the replies what effect size you think we'll find. Details of the study in the thread below.
October 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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That's a wrap on #ccrss25! Thanks to everyone who took part.
July 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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This year's Sinclair Lecture is now available to watch on YouTube. #ccrss25 #SinclairLecture
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXAk...
July 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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The very final session of #ccrss25 is led by @matteofuoli.bsky.social‬ and is titled 'Corpus Annotation and Analysis with the UAM Corpus Tool'.
A photo of @matteofuoli.bsky.social teaching a session at the summer school A photo of @matteofuoli.bsky.social teaching a session at the summer school
July 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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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
July 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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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
July 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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The next session, titled 'Analyzing Text with Python and spaCy,' is led by Dr Jason Grafmiller. #ccrss25
A photo of Dr Jason Grafmiller teaching a session at the summer school A photo of Dr Jason Grafmiller teaching a session at the summer school
July 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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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
July 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Day 4 of Corpus Linguistics Summer School is here! #ccrss25
The programme of Corpus Linguistics Summer School, with Day 4 highlighted
July 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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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
July 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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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
July 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Today's first session, titled 'Phraseology: A Critical Reassessment', is led by Dr Nick Groom. #ccrss25
A photo of Dr Nick Groom teaching a session at the summer school A photo of Dr Nick Groom teaching a session at the summer school
July 9, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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It's Day 3 of the Corpus Linguistics Summer School! #ccrss25
The programme of the summer school, with Day 3 highlighted
July 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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The final session today is my session titled 'Introduction to R'. #ccrss25
July 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Following participant presentations, the ongoing session, titled 'Readability and Environmental Texts', is led by Dr Michael Oakes. #ccrss25
A photo of Dr Michael Oakes teaching a session at the summer school A photo of Dr Michael Oakes teaching a session at the summer school
July 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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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
July 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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The first session today is by @jwgrieve.bsky.social, titled 'The Language of Fake News: Latent Patterns of Linguistic Variation'. #ccrss25
A photo of Jack teaching a session at the summer school A photo of Jack teaching a session at the summer school
July 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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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
July 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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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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July 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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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
July 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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The final session today, 'Introduction to Sketch Engine', is taught by Dr Paul Thompson. #ccrss25
A photo of Paul teaching a session at the summer school A photo of Paul teaching a session at the summer school
July 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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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
July 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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The very first session of #ccrss25 is led by Dr Paul Thompson and is titled 'Introduction to Corpus Linguistics'.
July 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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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
Poster of the summer school The programme of the summer school A photo of the venue of the summer school
July 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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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.
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
A screenshot of the webpage linked in the post, showing the paper's title, abstract, and a few additional details.
July 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM