Andrea Nini

My latest monograph, "A Theory of Linguistic Individuality for Authorship Analysis", is now open access! Download it for free: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/theory-of-linguistic-individuality-for-authorship-analysis/E52B7B8ADC2B5EC5

Amazing! Really looking forward to this!

Semantic embeddings capture what is said. Style embeddings capture how, and get far less attention. Our #EMNLP2026 survey on representing linguistic style: definitions, methods, evaluation, open problems 🧵 📄 annawegmann.github.io/pdf/Style_Su... 🧑‍💻 annawegmann.github.io/StyleSurvey/

We are pleased to finally announce… 📢 Call for Papers: Corpus Linguistics 2027 Venice, Italy | 12th-16th July 2027 CfP details: www.cl2027.info/call-for-pap... Deadline: 8th January 2027 🔗 All links in bio 🔁 please share widely! #CL2027

We are hiring!! Indefinite lectureship in Discourse Studies in Linguistics & English Language at Lancaster University. Apply by 4th September @lancslinguistics.bsky.social hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

I have a #reMarkable tablet, which I love, but syncing with #Zotero is alway a little awkward. There are some existing plugins, but none really satisfying. So, together with Claude I created a little plugin to make life a bit easier. Check it out here: github.com/fbkarsdorp/z...

New PhD position in my group on Digital Forensic Linguistics! 🧑‍💻 If you think that's you, please contact me and/or apply! #linguistics #joboffer #phdPosition #phd https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/870a96abc9c1d265d30d96c359a15f0d1c02b97c0

Our lab presented five papers at the last European conference of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics in June in Montpellier. Here are some pictures as well as links to see the abstracts and slides of the talks.

Our latest research (led by Sadie Barlow, with Dr Edoardo Manino) found LambdaG doesn’t need a calibration dataset for well-calibrated likelihood ratios, just a simple correction! This simplifies analysis and makes it the only authorship verification method without calibration. Paper on arXiv now.

We can now announce the two keynote speakers for #CHR2027. See the conference website below!

We have bigger models. Bigger conferences. Have our questions become bigger, too? That was the question I posed in my Presidential Address at #ACL2026 in San Diego. (1/6)

I've been absolutely cranking on work and trying to lose some of 'final 2 years of PhD paunch' while here in Chiang Mai. This includes: Updated, better tests, BDI packge: github.com/bnagy/bdi New package for POS masking Latin text: github.com/bnagy/latin-... Maybe interesting for 6 people ;)

Recent chapters (co-authored w. Jesse Egbert) in Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics: 1. Corpus Linguistics & Register doi.org/10.1016/B978... 2. Register, Text Types, & Genre doi.org/10.1016/B978... Hope they're useful to those interested in #corpuslinguistics and #textanalysis!

Join us Manchester for the Computational Humanities Research conference 2027, hosted by our Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures, and Media! @ggrig.bsky.social @lukaszszulc.bsky.social @andreanini.com @uomsalc.bsky.social @digitaluom.bsky.social

"We're really interested in anything that's rude, that's a bit naughty, that might be counted as a swear word or a phrase" Can you help build the UK Swear Map? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A study by Dr Andrea Nini (@andreanini.com) shows that a grammar-based approach can match or outperform advanced AI systems in author identification. LambdaG uses grammatical patterns instead of large AI models, providing comparable accuracy, transparency, and lower costs. 🔗 doi.org/10.1057/s415...

After years in preprint, our paper is finally out! We introduce LambdaG, a simple new authorship verification method that matches complex neural approaches. This supports the theory of grammar as a behavioural biometric (like a signature or gait). www.nature.com/articles/s41... #nlp #llm #forensic

Well-known #forensic #linguistics cases involved impersonation, e.g. murderer pretending to be the victim in text messages. In a new preprint with Baoyi Zeng we show that #LLMs can't fool authorship verification methods via prompting alone. Paper on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29454

My #RStats package for forensic authorship analysis, 'idiolect', now has an associated paper published in the Journal of Open Source Software: https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07575. New release of idiolect, 1.2.0, also available from #CRAN. #forensic #linguistics

Just published in JOSS: 'idiolect: An R package for forensic authorship analysis' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07575

New PhD opportunity in Digital Humanities here in Manchester: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Opportunity for a PhD candidate in English linguistics. Please repost. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

🎉 NEW PAPER with @gsakr.bsky.social "Multivariate Analyses of Tongue Contours from Ultrasound Tongue Imaging" 👅📡🩻📉 doi.org/10.1177/0023...

Out in Evolutionary Human Sciences! With @mikekestemont.bsky.social, @jbcamps.bsky.social, @remcosleiderink.bsky.social & Anne Chao New work on unseen species models for cult heritage to the question: how many stories were _shared_ between medieval French and Dutch literature? lnkd.in/exyAWtir

: Save the date! IAFLL Porto 2027. 12-16 July 2027, at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FLUP) of the Universidade do Porto. Até já! youtu.be/LaJn_I7YzB8?...

Consider a noun phrase formed by a noun, an adjective, a numeral and a demonstrative. There are 24 possible orders but only some of them have been attested when examining the preferred order in world languages. Some researchers hypothesize that there is a hard constraint banning certain orders.

My latest paper with Hugo Bowles and Claire Wood examines a Dickens mystery: did he author the recently decoded story “The Two Brothers”? The answer is complicated. The paper showcases our new method, LambdaG (forthcoming!).

What an absolute pleasure it was to attend the 6th edition of CHR! Huge thanks to everyone who helped make this edition even better than the last #CHR2025 Onward to Manchester, home of some wonderful computing history: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/com...

How good are LLMs at identifying and tagging metaphors in text? Turns out, pretty good! In our new study, we ask 10 different open- and closed-source LLMs to label all metaphorical expressions in a dataset of film reviews using <Metaphor> and </Metaphor> XML tags. arxiv.org/abs/2509.24866

The Derek Bentley Case 👇 In a gripping two-part series, the Writing Wrongs podcast investigates one of the UK’s most infamous miscarriages of justice: the tragic story of Derek Bentley, who was sentenced to death in 1953.

If you're attending Konvens 2025 at Hildesheim, don't miss our tutorial on Reading Concordances with Algorithms tomorrow, where we talk about our mathematical framework and given some background on the FlexiConc library. konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/program/#fle... @rc21project.bsky.social

📢 Season 2 of Writing Wrongs kicks off tomorrow! 📢 The first episode is a two-parter exploring the classic case of #DerekBentley. We're joined by Prof. Malcolm Coulthard whose analysis contributed to Derek's posthumous acquittal. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Pat Strycharczuk will be presenting our paper at #Interspeech2025 on Wednesday afternoon (A02-O6), where we applied forensic speaker comparison methods to ultrasound tongue imaging data to think about the individuality of articulatory strategy 📄 www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...

Super excited to share our new multimodal corpus analysis, "Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures" 🥳 Project led by our PhD student Ell Wilding and in collab w/ @jeannettel.bsky.social & @mperlman.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

📢📃 New open access 🔓 paper with @perez-paredes.bsky.social in @registerstudies.bsky.social: Exploring public-oriented research communication - A register perspective. You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1075/rs.2... & some details in the 🧵 below⬇️ @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @um.es

🔊 Dropping this Friday, the Series 1 finale of Writing Wrongs, the AIFL podcast! 🔊 @timgrant123.bsky.social and @drniccimacleod.bsky.social will be answering some of the questions that have come in from listeners over the course of the past 7 episodes 👇👇👇

On Monday, Dr James Tompkinson (University of York) and I presented this paper at the IAFPA 2025 conference, where we showed preliminary results of applying authorship analysis techniques to transcribed speech. You can find the slides at the link below.

Abstract and slides for my #DH2025 talk "Examining an author’s individual grammar" can now be found on my website below. This also includes a tutorial to use LambdaG to study authors' idiosyncratic grammar patterns.

I recently had the pleasure of being a guest on the ‘Writings Wrongs’ podcast, where we discussed the Aiya Napa rape case and my trial evidence. I highly recommend this episode and the whole podcast: https://www.aston.ac.uk/research/forensic-linguistics/writing-wrongs

The slides and abstract of our talk "A corpus analysis of idiolectal n-grams" at #CL2025 are now available here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15806985

In case you missed the QR code during my talk on Geometric Multivariate Analysis @cl2025.co.uk: You can find slides, code, and data at osf.io/9p25y

The Sinclair Lecture by @jwgrieve.bsky.social, mentioned by @lanthony.bsky.social in his plenary speech yesterday, will be held next Monday at 5pm at the University of Birmingham and will also be live-streamed. For details and registration, visit: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac... #CL2025

It seems that the Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics series is free to download for the duration of #CL2025 again — including my own. I’m never one to pass up a freebie, so do take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Only two weeks to go! We're working away to finalise the conference programme, featuring: • 200+ paper presentations • 50+ poster presentations • 7 thematic panels • 5 plenary talks • 5 pre-conference workshops (29th June) See you all soon! #CL2025 www.cl2025.co.uk/home

✴️ Episode 6 of 🎧 Writing Wrongs 🎧 podcast out now! ✴️ 👉🎙️The Disputed Confessions of Darnell Rusan🎙️👈 A man confesses to murder - eleven times. But was it his story or the detective’s? @drniccimacleod.bsky.social and @timgrant123.bsky.social chat with Dr Marlon Hurt aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs

Join us on 7th July for a hybrid workshop on Bayesian regression models for linguistics (and adjacent disciplines), led by @scoretta.bsky.social ✨ A small number of travel bursaries is available to support PGRs and ECRs. Please share! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bayesian-r...