Contact LADAL
Get in touch, contribute, report errors, or find out about our services
Whether you have a question about our tutorials, want to report an error, are interested in contributing, or simply want to connect — the LADAL team is happy to help.
Get in Touch
The most direct way to reach us.
ladal@uq.edu.au
Mailing List
Stay informed about new tutorials and events. Email us with subject line: email list
Address
School of Languages and Cultures
The University of Queensland
St Lucia QLD 4072, Australia
We welcome messages about questions on tutorials or resources, requests for support or guidance, suggestions for new topics, proposals for collaboration, workshop enquiries, and anything else LADAL-related. We aim to respond promptly — if your message is urgent, please indicate this in your subject line.
Share Your Story
📣 We Want to Hear From You!
We are actively collecting user stories to understand and showcase how people use LADAL resources. Have you copied a code snippet for your own project, learned a new method through a tutorial, attended a LADAL workshop, used our materials in your teaching, or applied our tools in your research?
If so, we'd be extremely grateful if you shared your experience. Write a short paragraph describing how you've used LADAL and what you used it for, then send it to ladal@uq.edu.au. Your story helps us understand LADAL's real-world impact and inspires others to engage with language data science.
Workshops and Events
LADAL regularly offers free workshops and webinars on language technology, language data science, and computational methods — open to all, from complete beginners to experienced researchers.
- 📅 Upcoming workshops — see the Events page
- 🎬 Past webinars and recordings — also on the Events page
Contribute to LADAL
There are many ways to get involved with LADAL, big and small.
✍️ Write a Tutorial
Share your expertise — we welcome tutorials on any topic relevant to language data science from researchers at all career stages.
🔧 Fix an Error
Found a mistake? Help us improve by reporting it or fixing it directly via GitHub.
🎤 Present a Webinar
Share your research or methods with the LADAL community through an online presentation.
📣 Spread the Word
Share LADAL with colleagues, students, and networks. Every referral helps grow the community.
📦 Share Resources
Point us to useful tools, datasets, or methods we should know about or feature.
🤝 Become an Affiliate
Join LADAL's growing network of supporters. Contact us to enquire.
How to Submit a Tutorial
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Download the template
Get the LADAL tutorial skeleton (.Rmd) — a template with the correct structure and formatting.
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Write your tutorial
Use the template to write your tutorial. Include text, code, and examples following the LADAL style. Topics can cover language data science, corpus linguistics, text analytics, statistics, visualisation, or related areas.
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Send it to us
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Review and publication
The LADAL team will review your submission. Once approved, your tutorial is published as an official LADAL tutorial with full attribution to you.
Reporting and Fixing Errors
Found a mistake in a tutorial? Every correction helps make LADAL better for everyone. Choose whichever option suits you best.
Services
LADAL offers services to members of the School of Languages and Cultures at UQ, as well as to external partners, research teams, institutions, businesses, and individual researchers.
🎓 Training and Upskilling
- Workshops on language technology and data science
- Bespoke training for research teams or departments
- Webinars and online learning events
- One-on-one or small group consultations
🛠️ Resources and Support
- Access to LADAL tutorials and tools
- Guidance on choosing appropriate methods
- Support for corpus construction and data management
- Advice on reproducible research workflows