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Beatrice Alex

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Senior Lecturer and Chancellor’s Fellow in Language Technology at University of Edinburgh; School Research Ethics Lead for LLC; Head of the Edinburgh Language Technology Group; NLP-lead of the Edinburgh Clinical NLP Group

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Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · Dec 17

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@EdiClinicalNLP group is now on Bluesky for further announcements: bsky.app/profile/edin...

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Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you for your vision to set up this journal.

Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · 12d

Happy 10th Anniversary to the JOHD: openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com. It's wonderful to celebrate open access to humanities data as supported by this journal. And thank you for inviting me to speak about our work www.hiddenheritages.ai where we provide access to digitised Irish and Gaelic folktales.

Decoding Hidden Heritages

Explore the shared linguistic and cultural heritage of Ireland and Scotland

www.hiddenheritages.ai

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 16d

#Edinburgh folks: free hackathon for 15-18 year olds on Sat 27th Sept. Build a project in a day. Free, beginner-friendly, and open to secondary students. Food, drinks, snacks, and swag are provided. At @codebasetech.bsky.social, Castle Terrace. Sign up at: lochdin-edinburgh.netlify.app Please share!

Loch'd In — Teen Hackathon in Edinburgh

Loch'd In is a 12-hour teen hackathon in Edinburgh. Free, beginner-friendly, and myth-inspired.

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Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · Aug 21

Interesting stats from EMNLP: This year, we received 8174 submissions and accepted 22.16% of the submissions as Main papers and 17.35% as Findings. … 82 papers were desk-rejected because at least one of their authors had been identified as an irresponsible reviewer 2025.emnlp.org/desk-rejecti...

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · Aug 13

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Google Scholar Is Doomed

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

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Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · Jun 10

Hidden Heritages - a great resource providing access to digitised Gaelic and Irish folktales. The transcription was done automatically using @transkribus.bsky.social or crowdsourcing. A great example of the use of AI and NLP for the benefits of research and society.

Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · Jun 9

Newly launched- the Decoding Hidden Heritages project brings together over 5,500 Gaelic folktales from Ireland & Scotland, transcribed & made searchable using advanced AI. Congrats to Will Lamb, Bea Alex and wider team!

Decoding Hidden Heritages

Explore the shared linguistic and cultural heritage of Ireland and Scotland

www.hiddenheritages.ai

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Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · Jun 10

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Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · May 31

Do you have a source for this?

Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · May 26

This work is part of the AIM-CISC project funded by @nihr.bsky.social and affiliated with the Advanced Care Research Centre: usher.ed.ac.uk/advanced-car...

Advanced Care Research Centre

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Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · May 26

Published today! 🗞️🗞️🗞️

Can Topic Modeling of Local Newspaper Texts Enhance Understanding of Neighborhood Effects on Health?
Eleojo O. Abubakar, A. Grivas, B. Guthrie, C. Zheng, C. Grover, C. Llewellyn, C. MacRae, R. Tobin, B. Alex, C. Dibben, J. Pearce and A. Marshall
doi.org/10.1111/gean...

Can Topic Modeling of Local Newspaper Texts Enhance Understanding of Neighborhood Effects on Health?

Social attributes of neighborhoods, like heritage, and low-level social disorder, are not reflected in official metrics such as deprivation indices. However, research suggests these attributes are im...

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Apr 23

Cuts to the the Women’s Health Initiative “will lead to incalculable losses to scientific discovery and human health.” www.statnews.com/2025/04/22/w...

Women’s Health Initiative, known for hormone therapy trials, to lose federal funding

The Women's Health Initiative, the enormous study that shaped treatment of menopause and other conditions, is on the verge of shutting down.

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Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · Apr 15

Spaces still available!

Join us in two days for this beginner-level online lesson where we’ll teach you how to create a digital gazetteer from historical texts, using the Linked Places Delimited (LP-TSV) format.

No programming skills needed!

📅Thur 17 April
🔗 edin.ac/3FBtHoy

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Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · Apr 11

Wonderful to see all the hard work of my PhD student Sarah Immel of the CDT for Designing Responsible NLP exhibited at the Edinburgh Science Festival. Today at the Edinburgh Futures Institute!

Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · Apr 3

Thank you very much for speaking to the group. So important seeing work on AI involving patients.

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arxiv cs.CL @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social · Apr 2

Lucy Havens, Benjamin Bach, Melissa Terras, Beatrice Alex
Investigating the Capabilities and Limitations of Machine Learning for Identifying Bias in English Language Data with Information and Heritage Professionals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00860

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · Mar 27

Simple but impactful chart shows the leading cause of death throughout the lifecycle.

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Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · Mar 17

Spaces still available to join our two-class course on Bayesian Statistics!

We'll cover the fundamentals and provide hands-on practice with Bayesian models in R.

📆 Wed 25 Mar & 2 Apr, 14:00 – 16:00
🔗 edin.ac/42XeZ54

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Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · Mar 17

Curious about Machine Learning?

Join us for our next Digital Methods of the Month session where we'll break down the basics and discuss some of its real world applications.

No prior knowledge needed - this session is beginner friendly!

📆 Mon 7 April, 13:00 - 14:00
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Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · Mar 10

Are you a CAHSS researcher with an excellent data-led project? Nominate your work (or someone else's!) for a CDCS Digital Research Prize - there's £250 towards research costs up for grabs!

Deadline for nominations NOW EXTENDED: 14th March 2025

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Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · Dec 17

The
@EdiClinicalNLP group is now on Bluesky for further announcements: bsky.app/profile/edin...

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Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · Dec 14

What’s a better citation for distant reading? Genuinely curious. Wondering if distant reading/Macroanalysis are still a thing in DH or if folk have moved on to use different terminology.

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Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · Nov 19

Amazing. Thank you. I’m leading the Edinburgh Clinical NLP Group.

Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · Nov 15

My first thought exactly.

Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social · Nov 15

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Kasia Banas @edinkasia.bsky.social · Nov 8

Come join us for the Edinburgh Winter School on Teaching Programming across Disciplines!
📍 Where: University of Edinburgh and online
📅 When: Wed 8th January, 9am-5pm GMT
💲 Cost: FREE
📋 More info: pairprogramming.ed.ac.uk/winter-schoo...
👍 Registration: forms.office.com/e/d3WABzje3n
#Edusky

Winter School 2025: Program and Details – Teaching Programming across Disciplines at the University of Edinburgh

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