Loryn Isaacs is a doctoral student at the University of Granada’s Department of Translation and Interpreting. He’s a member of the VARITERMIHUM research project, which studies term variation, multidimensionality, knowledge extraction, and knowledge representation in the humanitarian action domain. He’s also been a member of knowledge transfer contracts with the Humanitarian Encyclopedia, a resource for the humanitarian community that studies key humanitarian concepts with corpus-based linguistic analysis. Loryn is a recipient of the 2024 Arqus Talent Fund scholarship, from the Arqus European University Alliance.
Loryn’s research focuses on methodological aspects of corpus linguistics and natural language processing. He has developed tools to produce and maintain multilingual billion-token corpora, implement state-of-the-art corpus query features, and visually explore corpora with frequency data. Some of his most recent work is on training language models to detect anglicisms in specialized domains. His undergraduate teaching includes courses in Terminology and Specialized Translation.