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Who am I?

Martin Wynne is Head of the Oxford Text Archive in the Research Technologies Service in the Oxford University Computing Services. Martin is on the Executive Board of the CLARIN project, which is building a pan-European research infrastructure for research with language resources in the Humanities. He has also recently taken up the role of liaison between the Research Technolologies Service and the Oxford e-Science Research Centre, in which role he has a particular interest in developing e-Research projects in the Arts and Humanities.

Martin has a background in teaching and research in linguistics, and before coming to Oxford, he worked at the Universities of Birmingham and Lodz, the Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Goldsmiths College, London, and Lancaster University. He studied Linguistics at Leeds University and French at Queen Mary College, London. Among the research projects that he has worked on are French wordclass tagging and alignment on the CRATER project; the BNC tag enhancement project; the Lancaster Speech, Thought and Writing Presentation project; the PELCRA Polish corpus building project; TELRI, building a resource infrastructure in central and eastern Europe, and the associated TRACTOR archive of language resources and tools; and building the BNC-Baby corpus.

Martin is webmaster for the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), and runs a Corpus Stylistics special interest group, and email discussion list corpus-style. He is also a member of the Association for Computing in the Humanities, and a member of the organising committee of the Teaching and Language Corpora (TALC) series of conferences.

In his spare time Martin plays football, skis, kayaks, appreciates medieval and renaissance art and architecture, travels, takes an interest in European history and culture, tries to speak foreign languages, and sometimes just sits around reading books or drinking martinis.