Michaela Mahlberg - Professor & Chair in Corpus Linguistics at University of Birmingham

Natural Language Processing is a subfield of A.I where the main goal is to enable machines to analyze, understand and manipulate language.  That is why the academic field of linguistics and especially computational linguistics has really gained massive attention both in the academia but also industry. Therefore we invited Michaela Mahlberg on to the show to talk about her perspective on the field and where she sees the field heading. Michaela has a very fresh perspective when it comes to the collaboration between academia and industry, which lead to multiple collaborations already with her team and multiple organizations. She currently works with 'The Times' digital archive to apply data science methods to all their digitised issues back to 18th century - to explore political trends and how they were reflected in the news Tune in and Subscribe to the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast!