Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to the seminar “Corpus Linguistics Meets Data Science” by Professor Łukasz Grabowski (University of Opole), which will take place on December 9 at 3 pm. in Room 92.
Abstract: Nowadays, in many empirical language studies researchers make ample use of large volumes of linguistic data, which often requires application of statistical methods, data visualization techniques, etc. This makes such language studies, especially the ones conducted by corpus linguists, closer to data science, which has recently become, in a sense, a separate discipline devoted to data analysis. In this presentation targeted at, but not limited to, MA students, I will discuss the overlap between corpus linguistics and data science using two case studies focusing on the use of apologies by British men and women, and on the factors that impact literary translators’ decisions when dealing with recurrent reporting verbs signalling direct speech in the English-to-Lithuanian language pair. The second case study is a fragment of an ongoing research project titled “Stance and voice and their relation to repetition in literary translation: a multifactorial study in English-Polish and English-Lithuanian perspectives” conducted together with colleagues from Vilnius University and funded by the Polish Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA). Apart from presenting the latest partial findings, I will also make an attempt at identifying the skills that may help aspiring corpus linguists to flourish in the research field in the 2020s.
Łukasz Grabowski is Professor of Linguistics at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Opole, Poland. His main research interests include corpus linguistics, formulaic language, translation studies and computer-assisted methods of text analysis. He is currently interested in the application of multifactorial statistics in explanatory research on translation. In 2013, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Research on English (CARE) at the University of Birmingham (UK). He also worked at the University of Ostrava (Czechia) and, on a number of corpus projects, at the University of Łódź (Poland) and Aston University (UK). Łukasz is an editorial board member of English for Specific Purposes and Applied Corpus Linguistics. In the fall semester 2025/2026, he is a visiting researcher at the Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, funded by the Polish Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) under the agreement no BPN/BEK/2024/1/00078.