Dr. Beatrice Alex
Chancellor's Fellow and Turing Fellow
- Edinburgh Futures Institute
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
- School of Informatics
Contact details
Address
- Street
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50 George Square
Room 2.46 - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JU
Background
Beatrice Alex graduated in Languages, Translation and Interpreting (French and Russian) from Heriot-Watt University and received post-graduate training in computational linguistics and speech and language processing at the University of Edinburgh. She obtained her MSc in Speech and Language Processing and her Euromasters in Speech Processing in 2002 and her PhD in automatically detecting anglicisms in French and German text in 2008. She has been based at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh as a Research Fellow for a number of years working on text mining for different applications in literature, history, biomedicine and healthcare. Since 2018, she has been Chancellor's Fellow at the Edinburgh Futures Institute and the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures as well as Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute and the School of Informatics.
Her research focuses on text mining and natural language processing to extract information from raw text. She was part of the Palimpsest project on Mining Literary Edinburgh and is one of the core developers of the Edinburgh Geoparser. Since 2018, she has been leading the Edinburgh Language Technology Group (LTG), a research and development group working in the area of natural language engineering at the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Alex is PI or Co-I on a number of awards for text mining research.
Responsibilities & affiliations
She has been co-organiser of LaTeCH and LaTeCH-CLfL workshops. She is also co-convener of the Data Science and Digital Humanities special interest group at The Alan Turing Institute.
Research summary
Dr. Alex's research interests include text mining for written text and speech transcripts and her work is applied in different domains such as digital humanities and healthcare.
Research activities
- Digital Humanities 2019 Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
- Using Curatorial Voice Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
- Plague DOT text: Text mining and annotation of plague outbreak reports Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
- Centre for Medical Informatics Seminar Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
- Second UK Healthcare Text Analytics Conference Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Plague Dot Text : Text mining and annotation of outbreak reports of the Third Plague Pandemic (1894-1952)
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution (Accepted/In press) -
Detecting Topic-Oriented Speaker Stance in Conversational Speech
(5 pages)
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution (Accepted/In press) -
"Why is the Doctor a Man?" Reactions of Older Adults to a Virtual Training Doctor
(6 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312811
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution (Published) -
Named Entity Recognition for Electronic Health Records: A Comparison of Rule-based and Machine Learning Approaches
(8 pages)
Contribution to conference › Paper (Accepted/In press) -
Geoparsing Historical and Contemporary Literary Text set in the City of Edinburgh
(24 pages)
In:
Language Resources and Evaluation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-019-09443-x
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)