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• • May 2024. Workshop "How to do Multi-dimensional Analysis: Theoretical background and practical analyses in R" at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Campus. 

  • January 9, 2024. Open position for student assistant/python programmer in the research group on "Extra-linguistic triggers of Morphosyntactic Variation in Englishes". Click here for the full vacancy description.

  • December 22, 2023. Open PhD position in the research group on "Complexity, Causality, Change". Click here for the full vacancy description.

  • September 14, 2023. Why are podcasts are an emerging register of CMC? Check out the poster or short paper.

  • September 6, 2023. Professor Maite Taboada & Dr Katharina Ehret talk on Fake News and Online News Comments in the new episode of CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love.

  • May/June 2023. The Special Issue: Measuring Language complexity has appeared in Linguistics Vanguard!

  • June 1, 2020. Abstract submission for the Special Issue "Measuring Language Complexity" in Linguistics Vanguard is now open! Submit your abstract via EasyAbs: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/SpecialIssueMLC

  • April 2020. The new version of The electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English eWAVE 3.0 is now online.

  • March 26, 2020. A citable version of the scripts and sample data for the compression technique (Ehret 2017, 2018) has now been released on github: https://github.com/katehret/measuring-language-complexity

  • January 8, 2020. Metrics, code and data of the Interactive Workshop on Measuring Language Complexity are now available on github! Visit the repository at https://github.com/IWMLC

  • November 29, 2019. New repository MDA-Online Comments released on github! Replication data, code and statistics for Ehret and Taboada (2020), a multi-dimensional analysis of online news comments and other traditional English registers.

  • April 2019. Interactive Workshop on Measuring Language Complexity (IWMLC)

As main organiser I am convening the "Interactive Workshop on Measuring Language Complexity" at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) in Freiburg (Germany), from 12-13 September 2019. The workshop brings together researchers from cross-language typology and language evolution, psycholinguistics, first and second language acquisition, and computational linguistics, who are interested in measures of language complexity.

Language complexity has been a hot and controversial topic in the past decade which continues to fascinate researchers from diverse areas of linguistics and beyond.  The goal of this workshop is to evaluate and compare different measures of language complexity by means of a shared task.

The workshop includes both traditional keynote talks and presentations of the shared task, and will conclude with an interactive session in which the different measures will be evaluated.  Go to workshop website

Funding:

• • • DFG grant "International Scientific Events" (grant no. EH 532/1-1)

    • FRIAS award "FRIAS Junior conferences 2019/20"

• • May 7, 2018. Why online comments matter... find out why online comments are a fascinating new field of research! Go to article