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Isobelle Clarke is a Lecturer in Security and Protection Science and UKRI Future Leader Fellow in the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University, UK.

Elena Semino is Distinguished Professor in Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK, and Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science.

Zsófia Demjén is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics.

Tara Coltman-Patel is a former Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University. She is a Research Consultant at the digital consumer intelligence and social listening firm, Brandwatch.

William Dance is a former Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University.

Richard Gleave is a part-time Senior Associate Tutor and D Phil student at Oxford University, UK, and the Director of Science Strategy at the UK Health Security Agency.