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  1. Creating a Hybrid Rule and Neural Network Based Semantic Tagger Using Silver Standard Data: The PyMUSAS Framework for Multilingual Semantic Annotation

    Article • May 2026, ELDA (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  2. Who uses mental health support forums, and why? Triangulating findings from surveys, interviews, and forum posts

    Article • Digital Health, February 2026, SAGE Publications

    Dr Anna Cermakova, Dr Paul Rayson

  3. Improving on State-of-the-Art Models for Sentiment Analysis on Saudi-English Code-Switching Text

    Article • January 2026, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  4. Overview of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026)

    Article • January 2026, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  5. Front Matter

    Article • January 2026, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  6. Front Matter

    Article • January 2026, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  7. Evaluating Peer Online Forums to Support Health: Ethical and Practical Challenges

    Article • Journal of Medical Internet Research, December 2025, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Paul Rayson

  8. Impacts of Using Peer Online Forums in Mental Health: Realist Evaluation Using Mixed Methods

    Article • Journal of Medical Internet Research, October 2025, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Paul Rayson, Dr Anna Cermakova

  9. Understanding the Needs of Moderators in Online Mental Health Forums: Realist Synthesis and Recommendations for Support

    Article • JMIR Mental Health, September 2025, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Paul Rayson

  10. Annotator Disagreement-Based Analysis for Developing Bias Benchmark Datasets in Resource-Restricted Settings

    Article • July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Rayson

  11. Understanding Safety in Online Mental Health Forums: Realist Evaluation

    Article • JMIR Mental Health, June 2025, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Paul Rayson

  12. Co-design of moderator training: Integrating knowledge from forum moderators, users and researchers with the improving peer online forums (iPOF) project

    Article • Mental Health & Prevention, June 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Paul Rayson

  13. Who uses mental health support forums, and why? Triangulating findings from surveys, interviews, and forum posts

    Article • May 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Paul Rayson

  14. Navigating Hypersexuality in Bipolar: Insights from a Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of Reddit Posts

    Article • INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing, May 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paul Rayson

  15. ‘In my experience …’: The use of the word experience in peer online forums for mental health

    Article • Digital Health, May 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paul Rayson, Dr Anna Cermakova

  16. Using Natural Language Processing Methods to Build the Hypersexuality in Bipolar Reddit Corpus: Infodemiology Study of Reddit

    Article • JMIR Infodemiology, March 2025, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Paul Rayson

  17. ParlaMint II: advancing comparable parliamentary corpora across Europe

    Article • Language Resources and Evaluation, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Rayson

  18. FreeTxt: A corpus-based bilingual free-text survey and questionnaire data analysis toolkit

    Article • Applied Corpus Linguistics, December 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Paul Rayson

  19. Using Natural Language Processing Methods to Build the Hypersexuality in Bipolar Reddit Corpus: Infodemiology Study of Reddit (Preprint)

    Article • August 2024, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Paul Rayson

  20. Understanding the Impacts of Online Mental Health Peer Support Forums: Realist Synthesis

    Article • JMIR Mental Health, May 2024, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Paul Rayson

  21. Lived experience at the core: A classification system for risk-taking behaviours in bipolar

    Article • Digital Health, January 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paul Rayson

  22. Improving shared decision-making about cancer treatment through design-based data-driven decision-support tools and redesigning care paths: an overview of the 4D PICTURE project

    Article • Palliative Care and Social Practice, January 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paul Rayson

  23. Towards an Extensible Framework for Understanding Spatial Narratives

    Article • November 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Joanna Taylor, David Bodenhamer, Ignatius Ezeani, Dr Paul Rayson

  24. How People With a Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis Talk About Personal Recovery in Peer Online Support Forums: Corpus Framework Analysis Using the POETIC Framework

    Article • JMIR Medical Informatics, November 2023, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Paul Rayson

  25. Posting patterns in peer online support forums and their associations with emotions and mood in bipolar disorder: Exploratory analysis

    Article • PLOS One, September 2023, PLOS

    Dr Paul Rayson

  26. Improving Peer Online Forums (iPOF): protocol for a realist evaluation of peer online mental health forums to inform practice and policy

    Article • BMJ Open, July 2023, BMJ

    Dr Paul Rayson

  27. Semantic Tagging for the Urdu Language: Annotated Corpus and Multi-Target Classification Methods

    Article • ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  28. Cross-Lingual Text Reuse Detection at Document Level for English-Urdu Language Pair

    Article • ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, May 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  29. Correction: Social Media Monitoring of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Influenza Epidemic With Adaptation for Informal Language in Arabic Twitter Data: Qualitative Study

    Article • JMIR Medical Informatics, February 2023, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Paul Rayson

  30. A Comparative Study of Evaluation Metrics for Long-Document Financial Narrative Summarization with Transformers

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Rayson

  31. Semantic domains across topics, genders and languages

    Article • November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Paul Rayson

  32. Textual variations affect human judgements of sentiment values

    Article • Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, May 2022, Elsevier

    Phoey Lee Teh, Dr Paul Rayson

  33. Natural Language Processing Methods and Bipolar Disorder: Scoping Review

    Article • JMIR Mental Health, April 2022, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Paul Rayson

  34. Assessment of non-directed computer-use behaviours in the home can indicate early cognitive impairment: A proof of principle longitudinal study

    Article • Aging & Mental Health, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Paul Rayson

  35. The ParlaMint corpora of parliamentary proceedings

    Article • Language Resources and Evaluation, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tomas Krilavicius, Dr Paul Rayson

  36. UNLT: Urdu Natural Language Toolkit

    Article • Natural Language Engineering, January 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Paul Rayson

  37. Natural Language Processing Methods and Bipolar Disorder: Scoping Review (Preprint)

    Article • December 2021, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Paul Rayson

  38. Multilingual Financial Word Embeddings for Arabic, English and French

    Article • December 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  39. A Domain Based Approach to Semantic Lexicon Expansion

    Article • International Journal of Lexicography, December 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  40. Social Media Monitoring of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Influenza Epidemic With Adaptation for Informal Language in Arabic Twitter Data: Qualitative Study

    Article • JMIR Medical Informatics, September 2021, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Paul Rayson

  41. Problematising characteristicness

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, July 2021, John Benjamins

    Dr Paul Rayson

  42. Social Media Monitoring of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Influenza Epidemic With Adaptation for Informal Language in Arabic Twitter Data: Qualitative Study (Preprint)

    Article • February 2021, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Paul Rayson

  43. MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages

    Article • Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, January 2021, The MIT Press

    Dr Paul Rayson

  44. Understanding who uses Reddit: Profiling individuals with a self-reported bipolar disorder diagnosis

    Article • January 2021, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  45. MUMBO: MUlti-task Max-Value Bayesian Optimization

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Rayson

  46. Uncovering Environmental Change in the English Lake District: Using Computational Techniques to Trace the Presence and Documentation of Historical Flora

    Article • Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, December 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  47. Analysing Keyword Lists

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Rayson

  48. A Sense Annotated Corpus for All-Words Urdu Word Sense Disambiguation

    Article • ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, December 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  49. Retrieving, classifying and analysing narrative commentary in unstructured (glossy) annual reports published as PDF files

    Article • Accounting and Business Research, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Paul Rayson

  50. Developing Multilingual Automatic Semantic Annotation Systems

    Article • June 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Paul Rayson

  51. In search of meaning: Lessons, resources and next steps for computational analysis of financial discourse

    Article • Journal of Business Finance &amp Accounting, March 2019, Wiley

    Dr Paul Rayson

  52. Leveraging Pre-Trained Embeddings for Welsh Taggers

    Article • January 2019, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  53. A word sense disambiguation corpus for Urdu

    Article • Language Resources and Evaluation, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Rayson

  54. CLEU - A Cross-Language English-Urdu Corpus and Benchmark for Text Reuse Experiments

    Article • Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, November 2018, Wiley

    Dr Paul Rayson

  55. Known and unknown requirements in healthcare

    Article • Requirements Engineering, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Rayson, Dr Christopher Bull

  56. Multilingual Text Analysis

    Article • July 2018, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Paul Rayson

  57. Can you detect early dementia from an email? A proof of principle study of daily computer use to detect cognitive and functional decline

    Article • International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, February 2018, Wiley

    Dr Paul Rayson, Dr Christopher Bull

  58. A deeply annotated testbed for geographical text analysis

    Article • November 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Paul Rayson, Joanna Taylor

  59. A time-sensitive historical thesaurus-based semantic tagger for deep semantic annotation

    Article • Computer Speech & Language, November 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Paul Rayson

  60. Exploring Deep Mapping Concepts: Crosthwaite’s Map and West’s Picturesque Stations

    Article • September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Rayson

  61. The 2017 Annual Meeting of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society

    Article • Genetic Epidemiology, August 2017, Wiley

    Dr Paul Rayson

  62. Measuring Short Text Reuse For The Urdu Language

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  63. Lancaster A at SemEval-2017 Task 5: Evaluation metrics matter: predicting sentiment from financial news headlines

    Article • January 2017, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  64. Sampling labelled profile data for identity resolution

    Article • December 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  65. lexiDB: A scalable corpus database management system

    Article • December 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  66. Combining Mouse and Keyboard Events with Higher Level Desktop Actions to Detect Mild Cognitive Impairment

    Article • October 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paul Rayson, Dr Christopher Bull

  67. COUNTER: corpus of Urdu news text reuse

    Article • Language Resources and Evaluation, September 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Rayson

  68. Towards Interactive Multidimensional Visualisations for Corpus Linguistics

    Article • Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics, July 2016, University Library J. C. Senckenberg

    Dr Paul Rayson

  69. Reversing the Polarity with Emoticons

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Rayson, Phoey Lee Teh

  70. Heterogeneous Narrative Content in Annual Reports Published as PDF Files: Extraction, Classification and Incremental Predictive Ability

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Paul Rayson

  71. Metaphor, Popular Science, and Semantic Tagging: Distant reading with theHistorical Thesaurus of English

    Article • Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, October 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  72. Scaling out for extreme scale corpus data

    Article • October 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  73. A Systematic Survey of Online Data Mining Technology Intended for Law Enforcement

    Article • ACM Computing Surveys, September 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  74. A computer-assisted study of the use of Violence metaphors for cancer and end of life by patients, family carers and health professionals

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, August 2015, John Benjamins

    Professor Elena Semino, Dr Paul Rayson

  75. Exploring fine-grained sentiment values in online product reviews

    Article • August 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paul Rayson, Phoey Lee Teh

  76. Dementia and Social Sustainability: Challenges for Software Engineering

    Article • May 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paul Rayson, Dr Christopher Bull

  77. The online use of Violence and Journey metaphors by patients with cancer, as compared with health professionals: a mixed methods study

    Article • BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, March 2015, BMJ

    Dr Paul Rayson

  78. Geoparsing, GIS, and Textual Analysis: Current Developments in Spatial Humanities Research

    Article • International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, March 2015, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Paul Rayson

  79. Guidelines for normalising Early Modern English corpora: Decisions and justifications

    Article • ICAME Journal, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Dr Paul Rayson

  80. Sentiment analysis tools should take account of the number of exclamation marks!!!

    Article • January 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Paul Rayson, Phoey Lee Teh

  81. Automatically Analyzing Large Texts in a GIS Environment: The Registrar General's Reports and Cholera in the 19th Century

    Article • Transactions in GIS, November 2014, Wiley

    Dr Paul Rayson

  82. Dealing with heterogeneous big data when geoparsing historical corpora

    Article • October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  83. A Service-Indepenent Model for Linking Online User Profile Information

    Article • September 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  84. Discovering affect-laden requirements to achieve system acceptance

    Article • August 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paul Rayson, Dr Christopher Bull

  85. “i didn’t spel that wrong did i. Oops”

    Article • January 2014, John Benjamins

    Dr Paul Rayson

  86. Language Independent Evaluation of Translation Style and Consistency: Comparing Human and Machine Translations of Camus’ Novel “The Stranger”

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Rayson

  87. Crossing Boundaries: Using GIS in Literary Studies, History and Beyond

    Article • January 2014, OpenEdition

    Dr Paul Rayson

  88. Customising geoparsing and georeferencing for historical texts

    Article • October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  89. Who Am I? Analyzing Digital Personas in Cybercrime Investigations

    Article • Computer, April 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  90. Children Online

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, December 2012, John Benjamins

    Dr Paul Rayson

  91. “i didn’t spel that wrong did i. Oops”

    Article • Lingvisticae Investigationes, December 2012, John Benjamins

    Caroline Tagg, Dr Paul Rayson

  92. The language of Islamic extremism

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, November 2012, John Benjamins

    Dr Paul Rayson

  93. Corpus Analysis of Key Words

    Article • November 2012, Wiley

    Dr Paul Rayson

  94. Safeguarding Cyborg Childhoods: Incorporating the On/Offline Behaviour of Children into Everyday Social Work Practices

    Article • The British Journal of Social Work, August 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Claire Mason, Dr Paul Rayson

  95. Differentiating Act from Ideology: Evidence from Messages For and Against Violent Extremism

    Article • Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, July 2012, Wiley

    Professor Ellen Giebels, Dr Paul Rayson

  96. Experiments in 17th century English: manual versus automatic conceptual history

    Article • Literary and Linguistic Computing, June 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  97. What is middleware made of?

    Article • January 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  98. Automatic error tagging of spelling mistakes in learner corpora

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Dr Paul Rayson

  99. Analyzing the semantic content and persuasive composition of extremist media: A case study of texts produced during the Gaza conflict

    Article • Information Systems Frontiers, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Rayson

  100. Classification of Short Text Comments by Sentiment and Actionability for VoiceYourView

    Article • August 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  101. Improving the precision of corpus methods

    Article • January 2010, John Benjamins

    Dr Paul Rayson

  102. Multiword expressions: hard going or plain sailing?

    Article • Language Resources and Evaluation, October 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Rayson

  103. From key words to key semantic domains

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, December 2008, John Benjamins

    Dr Paul Rayson

  104. An Exploratory Study of Information Retrieval Techniques in Domain Analysis

    Article • September 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  105. A flexible framework to experiment with ontology learning techniques

    Article • Knowledge-Based Systems, April 2008, Elsevier

    Ricardo Gacitua, Dr Paul Rayson

  106. A framework for P2P application development

    Article • Computer Communications, February 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Paul Rayson

  107. 18. Automatic extraction of translation equivalents of phrasal and light verbs in English and Russian

    Article • January 2008, John Benjamins

    Dr Paul Rayson

  108. The Identification of Spelling Variants in English and German Historical Texts: Manual or Automatic?

    Article • Literary and Linguistic Computing, December 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Paul Rayson, Professor Dawn E Archer

  109. Corpus Tools and Methods, Today and Tomorrow: Incorporating Linguists' Manual Annotations

    Article • Literary and Linguistic Computing, October 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  110. Semantics-based composition for aspect-oriented requirements engineering

    Article • January 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  111. A tool suite for aspect-oriented requirements engineering

    Article • January 2006, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  112. ASSIST

    Article • January 2006, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  113. Annotated web as corpus

    Article • January 2006, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  114. Measuring MWE compositionality using semantic annotation

    Article • January 2006, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  115. EA-Miner

    Article • November 2005, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  116. Shallow knowledge as an aid to deep understanding in early phase requirements engineering

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, November 2005, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  117. Comparing and combining a semantic tagger and a statistical tool for MWE extraction

    Article • Computer Speech & Language, October 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Dawn E Archer, Dr Paul Rayson, Professor Dawn E Archer

  118. Artefacts as designed, artefacts as used: resources for uncovering activity dynamics

    Article • Cognition Technology & Work, June 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Rayson

  119. Early-AIM: an approach for identifying aspects in requirements

    Article • January 2005, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  120. Natural Language Processing and Information Systems

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Rayson

  121. Extracting multiword expressions with a semantic tagger

    Article • January 2003, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Professor Dawn E Archer, Dr Paul Rayson

  122. Article • Information Systems Frontiers, January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Rayson

  123. The REVERE Project: Experiments with the Application of Probabilistic NLP to Systems Engineering

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Rayson

  124. Assisting Requirements Recovery from Legacy Documents

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Rayson

  125. Comparing corpora using frequency profiling

    Article • January 2000, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  126. Comparing corpora using frequency profiling

    Article • January 2000, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Dr Paul Rayson

  127. Social Differentiation in the Use of English Vocabulary

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, January 1997, John Benjamins

    Dr Paul Rayson

  128. A Flexible Framework To Experiment With Ontology Learning Techniques

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Rayson

  129. Supporting Law Enforcement in Digital Communities through Natural Language Analysis

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Rayson

  130. EA-Miner: Towards Automation in Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Rayson

  131. P2P-4-DL: digital library over peer-to-peer

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Paul Rayson