Mick O’Donnell

Mick O’Donnell is a Lecturer in the Department of English Studies in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He worked for 2 decades in the area of natural language processing using SFL, but moved on to corpus linguistics, and produced three annotation tools, Systemic Coder, RSTTool and UAM Corpustool. One branch of his research explores use of corpus analysis towards revealing meaningful patterns in discourse, particularly in political discourse. He is also exploring patterns of development of English proficiency in Spanish university learners.