Laurence Anthony, Ph.D.

Waseda University Tokyo (Japan)

Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Science and Engineering

Website: https://laurenceanthony.net/

Guest lecture

»Integrating traditional corpus methods with AI using the AntConc corpus analysis toolkit«
on Tuesday, June 25 at 6.15 pm

Room 03.11 (3rd floor)
Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61, 91052 Erlangen

Biography

Laurence Anthony is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan. He has a BSc degree (Mathematical Physics) from the University of Manchester, UK, and MA (TESL/TEFL) and PhD (Applied Linguistics) degrees from the University of Birmingham, UK. He is a founding member of the Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering (CELESE), which runs discipline-specific language courses for the 10,000 students of the faculty. His main research interests are in language data science, educational technology, corpus linguistics, and English for Specific Purposes (ESP) program design and teaching methodologies. He received the National Prize of the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies (JAECS) in 2012 for his work in corpus software tools design, including the creation of AntConc.