Refereed publications
2026
Bednarek, Monika & Helen Caple. 2026. Exploring corpora through seed term visualisation and metadata analysis: A case study of a newspaper corpus covering violence against women. In Laura Mercé & Sergio Maruenda-Bataller (eds.), Discourse Approaches to Gender-based Violence: Deconstructing Social Inequality through Linguistic Inquiry, 135–160. De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111348889-007
Bednarek, Monika, Carly Bray, T. Coltman-Patel & C. Bonfiglioli. 2026. Examining the uptake of media guidelines: A corpus analysis of obesity representation in Australian and UK news. In G. Brookes, N. Curry & R. Love (eds.), Applications of Corpus Linguistics: Established and Emergent Contexts, 196–232. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009382007.010
Bednarek, Monika & Kelvin K. H. Lee. 2026. Deduplicating corpora: Introducing the Document Similarity tool. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.24197.bed
Lensch, Anke, Hanna Bruns & Martin Schweinberger. 2026. Introduction: Address Terms in World Englishes. World Englishes. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.70032
Nguyen, Li, Francesco Ricatti, Sacha Davis, Jaime W. Hunt, James A. Walker, John Hajek & Catherine E. Travis. 2026. Engaging with oral community language collections in Australia: Practices, challenges, and ways forward. Journal of Intercultural Studies. 104–121. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2025.2592305
Schweinberger, Martin & Amir Sheikhan. 2026. English address terms in Australian, British and North American English on Twitter/X. World Englishes. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.70025
Schweinberger, Martin & Chang Hao Luo. 2026. A corpus-based analysis of general extenders in Irish English. In Javier Pérez-Guerra, Yolanda Fernández-Pena & Ana Elina Martínez-Insua (eds.), Grammar through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics, 105–132. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.128.04sch
Schweinberger, Martin. 2026. Reproducibility in corpus linguistics. In Reference Module in Social Sciences. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00967-4
Schweinberger, Martin, Michael Haugh, Mikko Laitinen, Masoud Fatemi, Sam Hames, Paula Rautionaho & Marissa Takahashi. 2026. Swearing online: Exploring dimensions of variability in born-digital data. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqag070
Schweinberger, Martin, Paula Rautionaho & Kate Burridge. 2026. Vulgarity and bad language in online and public discourse: An introduction. Lingua. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2026.104133
2025
Bednarek, Monika & Barbra A. Meek. 2025. “Are you Navajo or Inuit?” Identity, television dialogue, and Indigenizing semiotics. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 35(1). e12449. https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12449
Bednarek, Monika & Maite Taboada. 2025. Attitude in Reported and Non-reported News: A Critique of Sentiment Analysis in Corpus Pragmatics. Corpus Pragmatics 9(2). 111–133. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41701-025-00185-6
Barrowcliffe, Rose, Dakota Feirer, Alex Ip & Ben Foley. 2025. Reconnecting Indigenous Data to Country. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 9. 1–3. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.9.174854
Hames, Sam, Michael Haugh & Simon Musgrave. 2025. “How is that unparliamentary?”: The metapragmatics of ‘unparliamentary’ language in the Australian Federal Parliament. Lingua 320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103932
Haugh, Michael, Simon Musgrave & Robert McLellan. 2025. The Language Data Commons of Australia: Towards a Nationally Distributed Research Infrastructure. In Cristina Grisot & Thalassia Kontino (eds.), CLARIN Annual Conference Proceedings, 2025, 21–25. Vienna, Austria. ISSN 2773-2177. https://www.clarin.eu/sites/default/files/CLARIN2025_ConferenceProceedings.pdf
Lukin, Annabelle, Izabella Rosa Malta, Rodrigo Araújo Castro, Tamer Morris, Alexandra García Marrugo & Emily Crawford. 2025. Palestine/Israel UN Resolutions Corpus (PIURC): Design and pilot study of discourse patterns. Journal of Speech Sciences 14. 1–112. https://doi.org/10.20396/joss.v14i00.20402
Musgrave, Simon. 2025. Australian slang as a literary genre. Australian Journal of Linguistics 44(4). 411–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2024.2444219
Reimann, R., K. E. Lynch, S. A. Gawronski, J. Chan & P. E. Griffiths. 2025. Classifying Genetic Essentialist Biases using Large Language Models. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-025-00770-3
Schweinberger, Martin & Kate Burridge. 2025. Vulgarity in online discourse around the English-speaking world. Lingua 320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103946
Schweinberger, Martin & Michael Haugh. 2025. Reproducibility, replicability, and robustness in corpus linguistics: An introduction. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.25081.sch
Schweinberger, Martin & Michael Haugh. 2025. Reproducibility and transparency in interpretive corpus pragmatics. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.23033.sch
2024
Bednarek, Monika. 2024. Topic modelling in corpus-based discourse analysis: Uses and critiques. Discourse Studies 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241293075
Bednarek, Monika. 2024. Analysing intra-textual patterns in corpus-assisted discourse studies. Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies 7. 43–62. https://doi.org/10.18573/jcads.113
Bednarek, Monika, Martin Schweinberger & Kelvin K. H. Lee. 2024. Corpus-based discourse analysis: from meta-reflection to accountability. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2023-0104
Dumlao, Remart Padua & Louisa Willoughby. 2024. Representation of migrant accents in media discourse: A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis. AILA Review 37(1). 98–119. https://doi.org/10.1075/aila.23016.dum
Foley, Ben, Peter Sefton, Simon Musgrave & Moises Sacal Bonequi. 2024. Access control framework for language collections. In Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti & Nianwen Xue (eds.), Proceedings of the 2024 joint international conference on computational linguistics, language resources and evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), 113–121. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.10
Maxwell, Christina, Hema Preya Selvanathan, Sam Hames, Charlie R. Crimston & Jolanda Jetten. 2024. A mixed-methods approach to understand victimization discourses by opposing feminist sub-groups on social media. British Journal of Social Psychology, 00, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12785
Schweinberger, Martin. 2024. Seeded topic modeling as a more appropriate alternative to unsupervised standard topic models. Discourse Studies 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241293895
Schweinberger, Martin. 2024. A computational approach to analysing the Corpus of Oz Early English. In Amador-Moreno C, Haumann D & Peters A (eds.), The Words That Remain: (Doing) Historical Linguistics in the Digital Era. London: Routledge, 73–88.
Thieberger, Nick, Michael Aird, Clint Bracknell, Jason Gibson, Amanda Harris, Marcia Langton, Gaye Sculthorpe & Jane Simpson. 2024. The New Protectionism: Risk Aversion and Access to Indigenous Heritage Records. Archives & Manuscripts e10971. https://doi.org/10.37683/asa.v51.10971
Travis, Catherine E. 2024. Sydney Speaks Corpus: An overview. Australian Journal of Linguistics 44(2–3). 163–181. https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2024.2386387
Travis, Catherine E. & Li Nguyen (eds.). 2024. Special Issue: Language corpora in Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics 44(2–3). 99–103. https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2024.2389151
2023
Bednarek, Monika & Carly Bray. 2023. Trialling corpus search techniques for identifying person-first and identity-first language. Applied Corpus Linguistics 3(1). 10–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acorp.2023.100046
Sefton, Peter, Moises Sacal Bonequi, Simon Musgrave & Jenny Fewster. 2023. A CARE- and FAIR-Ready Distributed Access Control System for Human-Created Data. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digital Language Archives: LangArc-2023. University of North Texas. https://doi.org/10.12794/langarc2114294
2022
Smith, River Tae, Louisa Willoughby & Trevor Johnston. 2022. Integrating Auslan Resources into the Language Data Commons of Australia. In Proceedings of the LREC2022 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources, 181–186. Marseille, France: European Language Resources Association. https://aclanthology.org/2022.signlang-1.28
Other publications
2025
Kemble, Melissa. 2025. Triangulating semantic tagging and affect analysis to investigate gender-stereotypical emotion in sports news discourse. Sydney Corpus Lab. https://sydneycorpuslab.com/triangulating-semantic-tagging-and-affect-analysis-to-investigate-gender-stereotypical-emotion-in-sports-news-discourse/
Lemon, Barbara. 2025. Language as data. Information Professional, Summer 2025. https://lemonbell.press/pdf/Scripturient-infoProSummer2025.pdf
Thieberger, Nick. 2025. Records of Pacific Languages: Where Are They and Who Can See Them? Department of Pacific Affairs In Brief 2025/23. Canberra, ACT: Department of Pacific Affairs, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University. https://doi.org/10.25911/4Q9D-VM92
Thieberger, Nick. 2025. The tip of the iceberg: Public good and the curation of humanities research records. Arena Online. https://arena.org.au/public-good-curation-of-humanities-research/
2022
Sheppard, Harriet & Simon Musgrave. 2022. Bringing data to life: Co-designing a Language Data Commons. A Summary Report. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.7425925
Media coverage
2026
Morrow, Christian. 2026. Unlocking the histories of botanical specimens held overseas in New York. Koori Mail, 15 July 2026, 32. https://readnow.isentia.com/Temp/218232-1368641812/1217405693_20270715.pdf
2025
Richards, Sarah. 2025. From 'snotty nose' to 'giggling goose', how language used by MPs is deemed to be unparliamentary. ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-05/history-of-unparliamentary-language-in-queensland/105847384
Schweinberger, Martin. 2025. Interview on vulgarity in public and online discourse. ABC Radio Brisbane Drive. https://abc.net.au/listen/programs/brisbane-drive/drive/105307926
Schweinberger, Martin. 2025. Interview on vulgarity in public and online discourse. ABC Radio Melbourne Drive. https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/melbourne-drive/drive/105312406
Australians swear less than some other nations, research suggests. 2025. SBS News. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/australians-swear-less-than-some-other-nations-research-suggests/dw436hub1
Americans and British swear more online than Australians, study finds. 2025. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/23/americans-british-swear-more-online-than-australians
WTF? Australians don’t swear as much as others do online, study shows. 2025. Brisbane Times. https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/wtf-australians-don-t-swear-as-much-as-others-do-online-study-shows-20250523-p5m1nd.html
Australia’s online swearing compared with other countries. 2025. The New Daily. https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/people/2025/05/23/australia-online-swearing
Global study finds Australians aren’t the most prolific swearers online. 2025. Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2025-05-global-australians-prolific-swearers.html
Surprise as Australians found swearing less than others. 2025. Canberra CityNews. https://citynews.com.au/2025/surprise-as-australians-found-swearing-less-than-others/
Study finds Aussies swear less online than Americans and Brits. 2025. The Epoch Times. https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/study-finds-aussies-swear-less-online-than-americans-and-brits-5862282