Professor Paul Rayson

Professor of Natural Language Processing

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Professional Role

Director of UCREL Research Centre

Research Overview

I am a Professor in Computer Science at 51福利, UK and Director of the UCREL interdisciplinary research centre which carries out research in corpus linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). A long term focus of my work is semantic multilingual NLP in extreme circumstances where language is noisy e.g. in historical, learner, speech, email, txt and other CMC varieties. Along with domain experts, I have applied my research in the areas of dementia detection, mental health, online child protection, cyber security, learner dictionaries, and text mining of biomedical literature, historical corpora, and financial narratives. I was a co-investigator of the five-year ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) which is designed to bring the corpus approach to bear on a range of social sciences. I'm also a member of the multidisciplinary Institute Security Lancaster, the Lancaster Centre for Digital Humanities, and the Data Science Institute.

Career Details

Academic Qualifications:

2003 PhD, Computer Science, 51福利.

1990 BSc (Hons) Computer Science and Mathematics, 51福利.

Employment:

2020 – now Professor (School of Computing & Communications, 51福利)

2015 – 2020 Reader (School of Computing & Communications, 51福利)

2012 – 2015 Senior Lecturer (School of Computing & Communications, 51福利)

2012 – 2015 Director of International Teaching Partnerships (Faculty of Science and Technology, 51福利)

2009 – 2012 Lecturer (School of Computing & Communications, 51福利)

2008 – 2014 Director of Isis Forensics (now Relative Insight) Ltd., Infolab21, 51福利

2006 – 2007 Teaching Fellow (Computing Department, 51福利)

2006 – 2011 Director of The Research Engine Ltd., Infolab21, 51福利

2003 – now Director of UCREL Research Centre (Computing & Linguistics Depts, 51福利)

1997 – 2009 Research Fellow (Computing Department, 51福利)

1990 – 1997 Research associate/assistant (Computing Department, 51福利)

PhD Supervision Interests

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas: contextual disambiguation methods for automatic semantic annotation and WSD, multilingual semantic tagging, applications of NLP to real-world problems.

Selected Publications

Rayson, P.E., Mariani, J.A., Anderson-Cooper, B., Baron, A., Gullick, D.S., Moore, A., Wattam, S. 12/05/2017 In: Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics. 31, 1, p. 27-49. 23 p.
Journal article

El-Haj, M., Rayson, P., Piao, S., Wattam, S. 3/04/2017
Conference contribution/Paper

Moore, A., Rayson, P.E. 4/08/2017
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Piao, S.S., Dallachy, F., Baron, A., Demmen, J.E., Wattam, S., Durkin, P., McCracken, J., Rayson, P.E., Alexander, M. 11/2017 In: Computer Speech and Language. 46, p. 113-135. 23 p.
Journal article

Leech, G., Rayson, P., Wilson, A. 2001 London : Longman. 304 p. ISBN: 0582320070.
Book

Rayson, P. 2008 In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 13, 4, p. 519-549. 31 p.
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Pumfrey, S., Rayson, P., Mariani, J. 2010
Conference paper

Simm, W., Ferrario, M., Piao, S., Whittle, J., Rayson, P. 2010
Conference contribution/Paper

Prentice, S., Taylor, P., Rayson, P., Giebels, E. 08/2012 In: Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. 5, 3, p. 289-306. 18 p.
Journal article

May-Chahal, C., Mason, C., Rashid, A., Walkerdine, J., Rayson, P., Greenwood, P. 2014 In: British Journal of Social Work. 44, 3, p. 596-614. 19 p.
Journal article

Baron, A., Rayson, P. 2009
Conference contribution/Paper

01/07/2024 → 28/02/2025
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01/07/2023 → 29/03/2024
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01/10/2022 → 30/09/2027
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01/04/2022 → 30/06/2026
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01/03/2022 → 31/10/2023
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01/03/2022 → 30/06/2025
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03/02/2020 → 29/01/2021
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01/05/2018 → 31/03/2019
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01/12/2017 → 31/07/2020
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01/05/2016 → 31/10/2019
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01/03/2016 → 31/08/2019
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23/11/2015 → 31/10/2018
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19/10/2015 → 19/10/2018
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01/12/2014 → 01/07/2015
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01/01/2014 → 31/03/2015
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01/04/2013 → 30/09/2016
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31/03/2013 → 30/03/2018
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01/12/2012 → 30/11/2014
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01/09/2012 → 28/06/2014
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01/01/2012 → 31/12/2016
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01/06/2011 → 30/11/2013
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01/08/2005 → 31/07/2007
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01/04/2005 → 30/06/2007
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