Dr. Hermann Moisl is a retired senior lecturer and visiting fellow in Linguistics at Newcastle University. He was educated at various institutes, including Trinity College Dublin and the University of Oxford. Research interests include, amongst others, computational linguistics, Natural language processing, corpus linguistics, the cultural role of literacy and Celtic languages and history. He was a key investigator of the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English Project alongside former colleague, Professor Karen Corrigan, Professor of Linguistics and English Language. Other expertise Old / Middle English and Old Irish / Middle Irish language and literature. Selected publications Moisl HL, Maguire W, Allen W. Phonetic variation in Tyneside : Exploratory multivariate analysis of the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English. In: Frans Hinskens, ed. Language Variation - European Perspectives : Selected Papers from the Third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 3), Amsterdam, June 2005. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2006, pp. 127–141. Moisl HL, Maguire W. Identifying the Main Determinants of Phonetic Variation in the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 2008, 15, 46-69 Moisl HL, Jones VM. Cluster Analysis of the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English : A Comparison of Methods. Literary and Linguistic Computing 2005, 20(Suppl 1), 125-146 Moisl HL. Exploratory Multivariate Analysis. In: Lüdeling A, Kytö M, ed. Corpus Linguistics. An International Handbook (Series: Handbücher zur Sprache und Kommunikationswissenschaft/Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (in press), 2008. Moisl HL, Corrigan K, Beal J. The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English. Arts and Humanities Research Council, 2005. Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20080925210840/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/necte/. Moisl HL. Linguistic Computation with State Space Trajectories. In: Stefan Wermter, Jim Austin, David Willshaw, ed. Emergent Neural Computational Architectures Based on Neuroscience : Towards Neuroscience-Inspired Computing. Springer, 2001, pp. 442–460. Moisl HL. Linguistic Computation with State Space Trajectories. In: Stefan Wermter, Jim Austin, David Willshaw, ed. Emergent Neural Computational Architectures Based on Neuroscience : Towards Neuroscience-Inspired Computing. Springer, 2001, pp. 442–460. Projects A Linguistic Time-Capsule: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (NECTE), AHRB project code RE11776 Project Leaders: K. Corrigan, J. Beal, H. Moisl Postgraduate Supervision Natural language modelling and text processing. My specific areas of interest are natural language understanding systems and multivariate analysis of text corpora. Qualifications BA (McGill University) MPhil (Trinity College Dublin) DPhil (University of Oxford) MSc (Newcastle University) Postgraduate teaching SEL8000 Research Methods in language and linguistic Postgraduate supervision Natural language