Nathan Dykes

I’m a corpus linguist with an interdisciplinary background spanning German and English linguistics, computational linguistics, and Scandinavian Studies. My research interests include discourse analysis, digital humanities, and linguistic annotation, with a particular focus on methodology. I’m especially interested in questions like:

• How do linguistic patterns emerge across discourses and genres?
• How can we make corpus research more reproducible, interpretable and transparent while maintaining the crucial role of subjective interpretation?
• What can corpus methods offer in comparion to, and in conjunction with, machine learning?

Currently based in a digital humanities group, I’m a research associate on the Reading concordances in the 21st century (RC21) project, where we’re developing a flexible and transparent approach to concordance analysis.