Quantitative Linguistics and Data Visualisation

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 Matteo Fuoli

Dr Matteo Fuoli

Associate Professor of Corpus-based Discourse Analysis
International Exchange Tutor

Dr Florent Perek

Dr Florent Perek

Associate Professor in Cognitive Linguistics
Deputy Director of the Centre for Corpus Research