Our department is a world leader in the development and application of a wide range of advanced statistical and computational methods for linguistic analysis, especially techniques for modelling and visualising complex natural language data.
We are also dedicated to the open science movement, ensuring that the methods and results of our quantitative linguistic research are robust, replicable, and accessible.
Our areas of methodological expertise include:
- Bayesian statistics
- Data visualisation
- Exploratory multivariate analysis
- Machine learning and natural language processing
- Regression analysis and linear modelling
- Spatial analysis
![Dr Gareth Carrol](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/elal/carrol-gareth.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Senior Lecturer in Psycholinguistics
![Professor Dagmar Divjak](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/languages/divjak-dagmar-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Professorial Research Fellow in Cognitive Linguistics and Language Cognition
![Dr Matteo Fuoli](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/elal/fuoli-matteo-new-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Associate Professor of Corpus-based Discourse Analysis
International Exchange Tutor
![Dr Jason Grafmiller](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/elal/grafmiller-jason-230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Lecturer in corpus-based sociolinguistics
![Professor Jack Grieve](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/elal/grieve-jack-230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Professor of Corpus Linguistics
![Professor Michaela Mahlberg](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/elal/mahlberg-michaela-square-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Chair in Corpus Linguistics
Co-Director, Centre for Corpus Research
![Professor Petar Milin](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/languages/petar-milin-315-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Professor of Psychology of Language and Language Learning
![Dr Florent Perek](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/elal/perek-florent-315-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Associate Professor in Cognitive Linguistics
Deputy Director of the Centre for Corpus Research
![Dr Bodo Winter](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/elal/winter-bodo-315-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Associate Professor in Cognitive Linguistics