Maria Jimena Flores

Maria Jimena Flores is a doctoral research fellow and part of the CASCADE Doctoral Network who is currently based at The University of Sheffield. She earned her  bachelor’s degree in Languages from Universidad de las Américas Puebla in México and went on to complete a master’s degree in Linguistics and Literary studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussels under the Mastermind Scholarship Scheme. She has a wide variety of research interests including language teaching and language acquisition, Spanish as a Foreign language, corpus linguistics and lexicography. Her current research focuses on the development of new methods for historical thesauri creation by blending aspects of techniques like hierarchical structures, word embedding and linguistic concept modelling.