Data Driven Chat: Corpus Linguistics & Data Science || Michaela Mahlberg

In this episode of the Data Driven Chat series, Ganna Pogrebna interviews Professor Michaela Mahlberg (Professor of Corpus Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham). How can you start a career in corpus linguistics? What is the link between #DataScience, #NaturalLanguageProcessing and #CorpusLinguistics? How can we use #language to better understand and predict #social #development? What is the future of #conversational #AI? Check out this episode to learn answers to these questions and many more!

As a corpus linguist, Michaela is interested in language as a social phenomenon and the way in which we use language to understand and shape the world we live in. A large part of her research focuses on the language of Dickens’s fiction, literary linguistics, and discourse analysis. She is currently a Principal Investigator on the AHRC funded CLiC Dickens project. Michaela Mahlberg is also part of the Birmingham Plastics Network, an interdisciplinary team of more than 40 academics working together to shape the fate and sustainable future of plastics. This unique team brings together chemists, environmental scientists, philosophers, linguists, economists, artists, writers, lawyers and experts in many other fields, to holistically address the global plastics problem.

After completing a Staatsexamen in English and Mathematics at the University of Bonn (in 2000), Michaela became increasingly interested in corpus linguistics, so she went on to do a PhD on high-frequency nouns and graduated from the University of Saarbruecken in 2004. Before joining the University of Birmingham in 2015, she taught English Language and Linguistics at the University of Bari (Italy), Liverpool University College (UK), the University of Liverpool (UK) and the University of Nottingham (UK).

To find out more about Michaela and her work, see:

YouTube summary of Corpus Linguistics by Professor Mahlberg:    • Видео  

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?...

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/...

Twitter: @MichaMahlberg

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Centre for Corpus Research: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research...