From Research Idea to Publications

A hands-on, data driven, three-week intensive training program combining methodology, statistics, Python, visualizations, and academic writing.

About this workshop

Future-Ready Language Research: Corpus, AI, Analytics, and Publication Success. Who Should Attend? • Master's (MS/MPhil) students in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, TESOL, Translation Studies and related fields. • PhD scholars seeking advanced research and publication skills. • Early-career researchers planning international publications. • Academics, lecturers, assistant professors, associate professors and professors in Language Sciences. • Corpus linguists, discourse analysts, translation researchers, computational linguists and NLP researchers. Key Skills You Will Master Research Design & Development • Research Question Development • Literature Review Strategies • Research Proposal Writing • Research Methodology Design Corpus & Dataset Development • Corpus Building • Data Collection • Corpus Annotation • Web Scraping Computational Research Skills • Python for Language Research • R for Statistical Analysis • Discourse Analysis • Metaphor Analysis Data Analytics & Visualization • Statistical Analysis • Advanced Visualization • Publication-Ready Figures • Bayesian Networks Artificial Intelligence • Generative AI • AI-Assisted Writing • Ethical AI Use • Research Productivity Publication & Impact • Manuscript Development • Journal Selection • Reviewer Responses • High-Impact Publishing Week 1 Expected Outcomes • Develop publishable proposals • Build and annotate corpora • Design robust methodologies • Prepare datasets Week 2 Expected Outcomes • Analyze data using R and Python • Conduct discourse analysis • Create professional visualizations • Build web-derived corpora Week 3 Expected Outcomes • Apply Bayesian analysis • Use AI responsibly • Prepare publishable manuscripts • Develop publication strategies

Sessions and learning materials

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Session 1

Opening Talk & First Session on Topic Development (July 31st)

18:00 to 20:00

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Session 2

Session 2: Python, R, Statistics & Visualization (August 1st - August 5th)

18:00 to 20:00

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Subsessions

Data Analysis with R

August 1st Ian Joo, Associate Professor, Otaru University of Commerce, Japan

18:00 to 20:00

Data Visualization With R

August 2nd Ian Joo, Associate Professor, Otaru University of Commerce, Japan

18:00 to 20:00

How to do discourse analysis with Python

Changpeng Huan, University of Macau, August 3rd.

18:00 to 20:00

Identifying Metaphors in Discourse: Principles, Practices, and Corpus-Based Methods

Yufeng Liu, Senior Research Associate, Lancaster University, UK, August 4th

18:00 to 20:00

Web scraping, and Corpus Building

Muhammad Faseeh, Jeju University, South Korea, August 5th

18:00 to 20:00

Session 3

Session 3: Research Design, Corpus Building & Dataset Preparation

18:00 to 20:00

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Subsessions

Introduction to Academic Research

18:00 to 20:00

Literature Review & Research Proposal Development

Speaker: Muhammad Afzaal

18:00 to 20:00

Dataset and Corpus Development

Speaker: Muhammad Afzaal Date: 29th July, 2026

18:00 to 20:00

Corpus Annotation & Data Preparation

Speaker: Muhammad Afzaal

18:00 to 20:00

Research Methodology Design

Speaker: Muhammad Afzaal

18:00 to 20:00

Session 4

Session 4: Academic Writing & Publication Preparatioin

18:00 to 20:00

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Subsessions

Data Analysis with GeNle and Hugin

Dr. Rafi Ullah Khan, LOOM Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

18:00 to 20:00

Generative AI for Research & Academic Writing

Muhammad Afzaal, August 12th

18:00 to 20:00

Publication Strategy and Journal Selection

Muhammad Afzaal, August 13th

18:00 to 20:00