Forthcoming Article
May 2026
Robinson, J. A., Sandow, R. J., Matcham, F. & Sooraj, Gayathri. (2026) ‘Mass Observing Loneliness: A Mixed-Methods Linguistic Analysis of Public Conceptualisations’ (see previous research in our working paper).
Forthcoming Article
April 2026
Robinson, J. A., Andito, A., Davey, R., Kearney, W., Laaouach, Y., Sandow, R. J., Weeds, J. & Young, Sandra. (2026) Conceptual profiling of big text data: A methodological description of the ConceptCruncher (See previous research).
Peer Reviewed Article
November 2025
Robinson, J. A., Sandow, R. J. & Andito, A. (in press). ‘Conceptual variation: Gendered differences in the lexicalization of the concept of commodity in environmental narratives.’ In R. J. Sandow & N. Braber (eds.) Sociolinguistic Approaches to Lexical Variation in English. Routledge, pp. 173-193. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003510581
Peer Reviewed Article
October 2025
Laaouach, Y. (2025) ‘Reversal Is Structural: Concept-Aware Post-Training Recovers Rare, Deep Mathematical Skills’, in Proceedings of the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Efficient Reasoning, pp. 1-15. Available at: https://openreview.net/forum?id=RQ86Hokr9N
Working Paper
September 2025
Robinson, J. A., Sandow, R. J. & Andito, A. (in press). ‘Conceptual variation: Gendered differences in the lexicalization of the concept of commodity in environmental narratives.’ In R. J. Sandow & N. Braber (eds.) Sociolinguistic Approaches to Lexical Variation in English. Routledge.
Radio Interview
July 2025
Robinson, J. A. (2025) ‘Comments on the drop in A-levels in modern languages’. Interviewed by Bridgitte Tetteh. Bridgitte Tetteh on Radio Berkshire. BBC Radio Berkshire. 31st July.
Peer Reviewed Article
July 2025
Laaouach, Y. (2025) ‘HALT-CoT: Model-Agnostic Early Stopping for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Answer Entropy’. In Proceedings of the 4th Muslims in ML Workshop (co-located with ICML 2025), pp. 1-7. Available at: https://openreview.net/forum?id=CX5c7C1CZa.
Radio Interview
June 2025
Robinson, J. A. (2025) ‘What are the benefits of learning foreign languages’. Interviewed by Sarah Gorrell. Sarah Gorrell. BBC Radio Sussex and BBC Radio Surrey. 19th June.
Peer Reviewed Article
2025
Robinson, J. A., Winters, L. A., Sandow, R. J., Young, S. & Hogan, C. (2025) ‘We’re saying that we trust them but really we don’t’: Citizens’ jurors discursive framing of trust in international trade policy’, Journal of Language and Politics, 25(3), pp. 405-429. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24178.rob
Presentation
March 2025
Weeds, J. (2025) Can we trust Artificial Intelligence? Sussex AI Lecture, University of Sussex, 26th March
Training
September 2024
Robinson, J. A. & Sandow, R. J. (2024) ‘How to automate meaning extraction from large text data?: Opportunities and insights from corpus linguistics’.12th September, NCRM Workshop at MethodsCon: Futures. Manchester.
Briefing Paper
June 2024
Gasiorek, M., Robinson, J. A. & Sandow, R. J. (2024) ‘Labour’s Progressive Trade Policy: Consultations and policy formulation’. Briefing Paper 81. UK Trade Policy Observatory.
Briefing Paper
2023
Gasiorek, M & Robinson, J. (2023) ‘What can be learnt from the Labour Party’s consultation on Trade?’ UK Trade Policy Observatory.
Presentation
October 2023
Weeds, J. (2023) ‘Can we trust ChatGPT?’ The Institution of Engineering and Technology guest lecture, University of Sussex, 17th October.
Peer Reviewed Article
September 2023
Robinson, J. A., Sandow, R. J. & Piazza, R. (2023). ‘Introducing the keyconcept approach to the analysis of language: The case of REGULATION in Covid-19 diaries’. In J. A. Robinson, R. Piazza & R. Jones (eds) Unhealthy Language: Linguistic investigations of Covid-19 discourse. Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 6.doi:10.3389/frai.2023.1176283
Presentation
May 2023
Robinson, J. A. (2023) ‘How Sussex Humanities are guiding the energy sector towards future recycling solutions’. Research with Impact Forum at Sussex University, 10th May.
Presentation
May 2023
Robinson, J. A. (2023) ‘Concept-led approach to semantic change’. Guest talk at Variation and change in the history of the English lexicon. University of Zurich, 2nd May.
Presentation
April 2023
Robinson, J. A. & Sandow, R. J. (2023). ‘Conceptual variation in Covid-19 Mass Observation diaries’. Presented at Mass Observation’s 85th Anniversary Festival, Mass Observation Archive, The Keep, 23rd April. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3VY-nD5W_Y.
Peer Reviewed Article
November 2022
Robinson, J. A. and Weeds, J. (2022) ‘Cognitive sociolinguistic variation in the Old Bailey Voices Corpus: The case for a new concept-led framework’. Transactions of the Philological Society. Special issue: “Digital methods for studying meaning in historical English”, 120(3), pp. 399-426. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12250
Radio Interview
November 2022
Robinson, J. A. (2022) ‘Does an accent hold people back in their careers?’ Interviewed by Sarah Gorrell. Sarah Gorrell. BBC Radio Sussex and BBC Radio Surrey. 3rd November.
Briefing Paper
April 2022
Robinson, J. A. & Weeds, J. (2022) ‘New ways of analysing conceptual variation’. Paper presented at Research on Language and Linguistics at Sussex, University of Sussex, 27th April.
Briefing Paper
November 2021
Robinson, J. A., Sandow, R. J., Andito, A., Nye, H., Raw, B., Thompson-Smith, J. & Weeds, J. (2021) ‘“I wore a face mask and felt like less of a criminal”: Cognitive restructuring in the concept of crime during the Covid-19 pandemic’. Paper presented at Virtual Covid Conference for Sussex Researchers, University of Sussex, 1st November.
Briefing Paper
October 2021
Robinson, J. A., Sandow, R. J., Andito, A., Nye, H., Raw, B., Thompson-Smith, J. & Weeds, J. (2021) ‘Conceptual WORK during the Covid-19 era’. Paper presented at The Language of Covid-19: Discourse Analytic and Sociolinguistic Approaches to an ‘Unprecedented’ Health Crisis, University of Sussex, 22nd October.
Briefing Paper
September 2021
Robinson, J. A. & Sandow, R. J. (2021) ‘Linguistic insights into the Mass Observation Archive’. Paper presented at New Ways of Doing Archival Research, University of Sussex,15th September.
Briefing Paper
July 2021
Robinson, J. A., Sandow, R. J., Andito, A., Nye, H., Raw, B. & Weeds, J. (2021) ‘Conceptual restructuring as an outcome of lockdown: Changes in working practices in the UK, 2006-2021’. Paper presented at Learning from Lockdown Symposium, Nottingham Trent University, 22nd July.
Briefing Paper
November 2021
Robinson, J. A., Sandow, R. J., Andito, A., Nye, H., Raw, B., Thompson-Smith, J. & Weeds, J. (2021) ‘“I wore a face mask and felt like less of a criminal”: Cognitive restructuring in the concept of crime during the Covid-19 pandemic’. Paper presented at Virtual Covid Conference for Sussex Researchers, University of Sussex, 1st November.
Briefing Paper
June 2020
Robinson, J. A. & Sandow, R. J. (2020) ‘Health, diaries, and digital technologies’. Paper presented at Corpus and Discourse International Conference, University of Sussex, 17th June.
We identify conceptual patterns and change in human thought through a combination of distant text reading and corpus linguistics techniques
Sussex Digital Humanities Lab
University of Sussex
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