BEAR Cloud Speaker

Dr Johan de Joode
Work in the department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Birmingham


Johan is a research fellow at the Centre for Corpus Research where he drives methodological and technological innovation within corpus linguistics. Born in Belgium, he studied linguistics (MA) and theology (MTh, Advanced MTh, PhD). His technological expertise applies natural language processing to small and big data. He has worked at the universities of Louvain and Nottingham before joining the department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Birmingham.

His research aims at interpreting literary texts. He is passionate about hermeneutics and particularly the ways in which people read texts and attribute meaning to them. He is currently author of the CLiC tool (Corpus Linguistics in Context) which studies Dickens’s fiction by extracting textual patterns that affect the reader’s conceptualisation of fictional characters. His favourite tools include Docker, Redis, PostgreSQL, and Python. His interdisciplinary research embraces data analysis and visualization.

Click here to view a video of the panel session at the 2016 BEAR Cloud Launch.

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