Akira Murakami
mrkm-a.bsky.social
Akira Murakami
@mrkm-a.bsky.social
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
The very final session of #ccrss25 is led by @matteofuoli.bsky.social‬ and is titled 'Corpus Annotation and Analysis with the UAM Corpus Tool'.
July 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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
July 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The next session, titled 'Topic Models in R,' is led by @mrkm-a.bsky.social‬. #ccrss25
July 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The next session, titled 'Analyzing Text with Python and spaCy,' is led by Dr Jason Grafmiller. #ccrss25
July 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The first session today, titled 'Analysing Learner Language', is led by external speaker Dr Joyce Lim from Aston University. #ccrss25
July 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Day 4 of Corpus Linguistics Summer School is here! #ccrss25
July 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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
July 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The second session today, led by Dr Sofia Malamatidou, is titled 'Corpus Triangulation: Its Application to the Analysis of Tourism Discourse'. #ccrss25
July 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Today's first session, titled 'Phraseology: A Critical Reassessment', is led by Dr Nick Groom. #ccrss25
July 9, 2025 at 9:06 AM
It's Day 3 of the Corpus Linguistics Summer School! #ccrss25
July 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Following participant presentations, the ongoing session, titled 'Readability and Environmental Texts', is led by Dr Michael Oakes. #ccrss25
July 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Up next, Dr Katharine Weetman leads a session on 'Analysing Healthcare Data Using Corpus Linguistics: Ethical Considerations'. #ccrss25
July 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The first session today is by @jwgrieve.bsky.social, titled 'The Language of Fake News: Latent Patterns of Linguistic Variation'. #ccrss25
July 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The second day of our Corpus Linguistics Summer School is starting in an hour! #ccrss25
July 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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
July 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The final session today, 'Introduction to Sketch Engine', is taught by Dr Paul Thompson. #ccrss25
July 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The second session today is taught by @adamcschembri.bsky.social‬ and is titled 'Towards a Corpus Linguistics of Sign Languages'. #ccrss25
July 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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
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
July 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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...
July 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
#CL2025 is over! See you all at #CL2027—if it happens and wherever it ends up being.
July 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The final plenary speech at #CL2025 will be delivered by @perez-paredes.bsky.social, titled ‘Corpus Linguistics and AI in the Reconfiguration of Language Learning Ecologies’.
July 3, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The Sinclair Lecture by @jwgrieve.bsky.social, mentioned by @lanthony.bsky.social in his plenary speech yesterday, will be held next Monday at 5pm at the University of Birmingham and will also be live-streamed. For details and registration, visit: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac... #CL2025
July 3, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Evening reception sponsored by Senso.cloud, featuring live music #CL2025
July 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Day 3 of #CL2025 concludes with a plenary speech by @lanthony.bsky.social , titled ‘Stochastic parrots meet corpus linguists: understanding language in the age of AI.’ The event takes place at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University.
July 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM