Lancaster University

About

The team at Lancaster University consists of experts in natural language processing,
corpus linguistics, cancer, palliative and end of life care.

We have considerable experience of research on the use of metaphor in cancer, and working on large international research projects.

The Lancaster University team work across three departments; School of Computing and Communications, Linguistics and English Language and the International Observatory on End of Life Care.

Examples of our expertise can be found in projects that we have been involved in recently, including the Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life Project, (MELC).

Visit our ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), and our University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language, (UCREL), to learn more about what we do.

Lancaster team

Anthony Greenwood

Web Administrator

I will be responsible for maintaining the content of the 4DPicture website.

Daisy Monika Lal

Research Associate - NLP

I am a computer scientist interested in NLP technologies. As a Research Associate-NLP on the project, my responsibilities include assisting with the implementation of NLP and ML pipelines, as well as successful coordination with larger Lancaster project teams and external work package partners.

Yufeng LIU (Kiki)

Senior Research Associate - Metaphor Analysis

I am a linguist with an interest in metaphor, translation and communication studies. My primary role in the project is to develop a new English version of the Metaphor Menu for People with cancer, using both manual analysis and corpus-based methods, and coordinating with the broader project teams.

Andrew Moore

Research Software Engineer

I am a computer scientist interested in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. I will be extending the open source Python multilingual semantic tagger, called PyMUSAS, as well as contributing towards the analysis of the text data gathered in this project to improve the Metaphor Menu.

Amara Nwosu

Senior Clinical Lecturer in Palliative Care

I am a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Palliative Care at Lancaster Medical School. My research interest is the evaluation of technology to support care for patients with advanced disease. My role in the project is to develop podcasts to help facilitate dissemination of the 4D PICTURE results.

Sheila Payne

Emeritus Professor

I am a health psychologist and nurse with an interest in palliative care research. I have a long track record in palliative and end of life care research and scholarship. My primary role in the project will be to support the dissemination activities.

Paul Rayson

Professor

I am a computer scientist with research interests in natural language processing and corpus linguistics. I lead WP3 where such techniques will be extended and applied to cancer narratives.