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Martin Wynne

Digital Humanities
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Martin Wynne is active in the Digital Humanities team in OeRC. He is Director of User Involvement for CLARIN, a major pan-European initiative to build a research infrastructure for the creation and use of electronic language resources in the Humanities and Social Sciences. He is also UK national representative for CLARIN, and is working with the National Grid Initiative to host CLARIN services on a cloud computing platform.

Martin has a role in IT Services, where he is Senior Research Support Officer, running the Oxford Text Archive and the British National Corpus, and working with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). He is also a member of the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, and teaches a research methods for the English faculty. Martin has previously worked as a researcher in linguistics at the Universities of Birmingham and Lancaster, and the Institut für Deutsche Sprache in Germany, and as a lecturer at Goldsmiths, London, and at the University of Lodz in Poland. His main research interest is in studying the language of literary and non-literary texts using electronic tools and methods.

Recent publications

  • M. Wynne, 'How CLARIN will Transform Research in the Language-related Disciplines', International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing (accepted for publication, forthcoming 2013).

  • M. Wynne, 'Review of Corpus Linguistics in Principles and Practice', Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2012 27 (4): 474-476.

  • M Wynne, 'Interdisciplinary relationships' in: Worlock Pope, Caty (ed.), The Bootcamp Discourse and Beyond. Special Issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 15:3 (2010) . 2010. ca. (pp. 425–427)
  • P. Wittenburg, N. Bel, L. Borin, G. Budin, N. Calzolari, E. Hajicova, K. Koskenniemi, L. Lemnitzer, B. Maegaard, M. Piasecki, J.M. Pierrel, S. Piperidis, I. Skadina, D. Tufis, R.v. Veenendaal, T. Váradi, M. Wynne , 'Resource and Service Centres as the Backbone for a Sustainable Service Infrastructure', Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC10), 2010, published by the European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

  • M. Wynne, 'Focus on Corpus Design', Anglistik, 20:1, Winter Verlag, 2009.

Selected Recent Presentations

  • 'Forms of Assessment: repositories, resources, services', CLARIN Centres Workshop
  • 'Corpus and Text Analysis for Historians', HiCor Workshop, Faculty of History, Oxford, 2013.
  • Do we need annotated corpora in the era of the data deluge?', Annotated Corpora for Research in the Humanities conference, Lisbon 2012 (keynote)

  • 'Digital Transformations in the Humanities', Digital Humanities Seminar, Darmstadt, 2012 (invited speaker)