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unusual facts about University of Lancaster



Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen Corpus

The Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus (often abbreviated as LOB Corpus) is a million-word collection of British English texts which was compiled in the 1970s in collaboration between the University of Lancaster, the University of Oslo, and the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, Bergen, to provide a British counterpart to the Brown Corpus compiled by Kucera and Francis for American English in the 1960s.

Paul R. Mather

He obtained an MA in Accounting and Finance University of Lancaster UK, PhD in Accounting and Finance from Monash University in additions to Fellowships in accounting such as FCA (England and Wales) and FCPA.

Spoken English Corpus

The Spoken English Corpus (SEC) is a speech corpus used in corpus linguistics consisting of a collection of recordings of spoken British English compiled during the period 1984-7 through a collaboration, funded by IBM, between the Unit for Computer Research on the English Language (UCREL) at the University of Lancaster and the IBM Scientific Centre in Winchester.

Timothy W. Potter

Potter taught at the University of Lancaster (1973-1978) where he instituted a new archaeology program.

Torrisholme

It also hosts Lancashire County Cricket district junior matches and is used as an outground for Lancaster Royal Grammar School, the University of Lancaster and the University of Cumbria.


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