Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing (CLLC)

The Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing (CLLC) was established to continue the development and application of statistical and computing tools for the analysis of (literary) texts.

Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing is based in the School of Humanities and Social Sciencein the Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle, some of the centre highlights are;

• Prof. Craig awarded Discovery Grant for 'Folio Shakespeare texts and their Quarto and Octavo antecedents', 2016
• Hosted the Wollombi Seminar for leading international thinkers in Computational Stylistics, 2015
• Emeritus Professor John Burrows presented the Wisbey Lecture in King's College, University of London in September 2006
• In 2004 the group hosted an international conference on humanities computing
• Emeritus Professor John Burrows travelled to New York in June 2001 to receive the 2001 Busa Award
• A Practicable Future for Computing in the Humanities: An International Symposium, The University of Newcastle, July 2001

Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing members (L to R) Prof Hugh Craig, Naomi Fraser, Dr Elizabeth Spencer, Bill Pascoe and Reuben Ramsay

Current Collaborations

• Priority Research Centre in Bioinformatics "Biomarker discovery and Information-based Medicine – on the classification and description of literary texts using bioinformatics and information theory quantifiers."
• Centre for the Study of Research Training and its Impact (SORTI) "the Stylistics of PhD examination reports."

Students interested in doing postgraduate research in areas covered by the centre should send an email to: research@newcastle.edu.au or visit research higher degrees page.