Beatrice Alex

According to our database, Beatrice Alex authored at least 62 papers between 2004 and 2025.

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2025

Perceptions of Edinburgh: Capturing neighbourhood characteristics by clustering geoparsed local news.

Andreas Grivas, Claire Grover, Richard Tobin, Clare Llewellyn, Eleojo Oluwaseun Abubakar, Chunyu Zheng, Chris Dibben, Alan Marshall, David J. Pearce, Beatrice Alex

Inf. Process. Manag., 2025

2024

Can GPT-3.5 generate and code discharge summaries?

Matús Falis, Aryo Pradipta Gema, Hang Dong, Luke Daines, Siddharth Basetti, Michael Holder, Rose S. Penfold, Alexandra Birch, Beatrice Alex

J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2024

A Comparative Study on Patient Language across Therapeutic Domains for Effective Patient Voice Classification in Online Health Discussions.

Giorgos Lysandrou, Roma English Owen, Vanja Popovic, Grant Le Brun, Aryo Pradipta Gema, Beatrice Alex, Elizabeth A. L. Fairley

CoRR, 2024

Infusing clinical knowledge into tokenisers for language models.

Abul Hasan, Jinge Wu, Quang Ngoc Nguyen, Salomé Andres, Imane Guellil, Huayu Zhang, Arlene Casey, Beatrice Alex, Bruce Guthrie, Honghan Wu

CoRR, 2024

Edinburgh Clinical NLP at SemEval-2024 Task 2: Fine-tune your model unless you have access to GPT-4.

Aryo Gema, Giwon Hong, Pasquale Minervini, Luke Daines, Beatrice Alex

Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2024

Enhancing Natural Language Processing Capabilities in Geriatric Patient Care: An Annotation Scheme and Guidelines.

Imane Guellil, Salomé Andres, Bruce Guthrie, Atul Anand, Huayu Zhang, Abul Kalam Hasan, Honghan Wu, Beatrice Alex

Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing and Information Systems, 2024

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of LLaMA for the Clinical Domain.

Aryo Gema, Pasquale Minervini, Luke Daines, Tom Hope, Beatrice Alex

Proceedings of the 6th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop, 2024

Edinburgh Clinical NLP at MEDIQA-CORR 2024: Guiding Large Language Models with Hints.

Aryo Gema, Chaeeun Lee, Pasquale Minervini, Luke Daines, T. Ian Simpson, Beatrice Alex

Proceedings of the 6th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop, 2024

2023

Ontology-driven and weakly supervised rare disease identification from clinical notes.

Hang Dong, Víctor Suárez-Paniagua, Huayu Zhang, Minhong Wang, Arlene Casey, Emma M. Davidson, Jiaoyan Chen, Beatrice Alex, William Whiteley, Honghan Wu

BMC Medical Informatics Decis. Mak., December, 2023

FLAP: a framework for linking free-text addresses to the Ordnance Survey Unique Property Reference Number database.

Huayu Zhang, Arlene Casey, Imane Guellil, Víctor Suárez-Paniagua, Clare Macrae, Charis Marwick, Honghan Wu, Bruce Guthrie, Beatrice Alex

Frontiers Digit. Health, May, 2023

Understanding the performance and reliability of NLP tools: a comparison of four NLP tools predicting stroke phenotypes in radiology reports.

Arlene Casey, Emma M. Davidson, Claire Grover, Richard Tobin, Andreas Grivas, Huayu Zhang, Patrick Schrempf, Alison Q. O'Neil, Liam Lee, Michael Walsh, Freya Pellie, Karen Ferguson, Vera Cvoro, Honghan Wu, Heather Whalley, Grant Mair, William Whiteley, Beatrice Alex

Frontiers Digit. Health, March, 2023

Classifying patient voice in social media data using neural networks: A comparison of AI models on different data sources and therapeutic domains.

Giorgos Lysandrou, Roma English Owen, Vanja Popovic, Grant Le Brun, Beatrice Alex, Elizabeth A. L. Fairley

CoRR, 2023

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of LLaMA for the Clinical Domain.

Aryo Pradipta Gema, Luke Daines, Pasquale Minervini, Beatrice Alex

CoRR, 2023

Segmentation of White Matter Hyperintensities and Ischaemic Stroke Lesions in Structural MRI.

Jesse Phitidis, Alison Q. O'Neil, Stewart Wiseman, David Alexander Dickie, Eleni Sakka, Agniete Kampaite, William Whiteley, Miguel O. Bernabeu, Beatrice Alex, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Maria del C. Valdés Hernández

Proceedings of the Medical Image Understanding and Analysis - 27th Annual Conference, 2023

Collaboration Across the Archival and Computational Sciences to Address Legacies of Gender Bias in Descriptive Metadata.

Lucy Havens, Rachel Hosker, Beatrice Alex, Benjamin Bach, Melissa Terras

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2023

2022

A survey on clinical natural language processing in the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2022.

Honghan Wu, Minhong Wang, Jinge Wu, Farah Francis, Yun-Hsuan Chang, Alex Shavick, Hang Dong, Michael Tin Chung Poon, Natalie K. Fitzpatrick, Adam P. Levine, Luke T. Slater, Alex Handy, Andreas Karwath, Georgios V. Gkoutos, Claude Chelala, Anoop D. Shah, Robert Stewart, Nigel Collier, Beatrice Alex, William Whiteley, Cathie Sudlow, Angus Roberts, Richard J. B. Dobson

npj Digit. Medicine, 2022

Automated clinical coding: what, why, and where we are?

Hang Dong, Matús Falis, William Whiteley, Beatrice Alex, Joshua Matterson, Shaoxiong Ji, Jiaoyan Chen, Honghan Wu

npj Digit. Medicine, 2022

Ontology-Based and Weakly Supervised Rare Disease Phenotyping from Clinical Notes.

Hang Dong, Víctor Suárez-Paniagua, Huayu Zhang, Minhong Wang, Arlene Casey, Emma M. Davidson, Jiaoyan Chen, Beatrice Alex, William Whiteley, Honghan Wu

CoRR, 2022

Automated Clinical Coding: What, Why, and Where We Are?

Hang Dong, Matús Falis, William Whiteley, Beatrice Alex, Shaoxiong Ji, Jiaoyan Chen, Honghan Wu

CoRR, 2022

Beyond Explanation: A Case for Exploratory Text Visualizations of Non-Aggregated, Annotated Datasets.

Lucy Havens, Benjamin Bach, Melissa Terras, Beatrice Alex

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLPerspectives@LREC 2022, 2022

Edinburgh_UCL_Health@SMM4H'22: From Glove to Flair for handling imbalanced healthcare corpora related to Adverse Drug Events, Change in medication and self-reporting vaccination.

Imane Guellil, Jinge Wu, Honghan Wu, Tony Sun, Beatrice Alex

Proceedings of The Seventh Workshop on Social Media Mining for Health Applications, 2022

Horses to Zebras: Ontology-Guided Data Augmentation and Synthesis for ICD-9 Coding.

Matús Falis, Hang Dong, Alexandra Birch, Beatrice Alex

Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing, 2022

2021

Comparison of rule-based and neural network models for negation detection in radiology reports.

D. Sykes, Andreas Grivas, Claire Grover, Richard Tobin, Cathie Sudlow, William Whiteley, Andrew M. McIntosh, Heather Whalley, Beatrice Alex

Nat. Lang. Eng., 2021

A systematic review of natural language processing applied to radiology reports.

Arlene Casey, Emma M. Davidson, Michael Tin Chung Poon, Hang Dong, Daniel Duma, Andreas Grivas, Claire Grover, Víctor Suárez-Paniagua, Richard Tobin, William Whiteley, Honghan Wu, Beatrice Alex

BMC Medical Informatics Decis. Mak., 2021

Classifying patient and professional voice in social media health posts.

Beatrice Alex, Donald Whyte, Daniel Duma, Roma English Owen, Elizabeth A. L. Fairley

BMC Medical Informatics Decis. Mak., 2021

Plague Dot Text: Text mining and annotation of outbreak reports of the Third Plague Pandemic (1894-1952).

Arlene Casey, Mike Bennett, Richard Tobin, Claire Grover, Iona Walker, Lukas Engelmann, Beatrice Alex

J. Data Min. Digit. Humanit., 2021

The Online Pivot: Lessons Learned from Teaching a Text and Data Mining Course in Lockdown, Enhancing online Teaching with Pair Programming and Digital Badges.

Beatrice Alex, Clare Llewellyn, Pawel Michal Orzechowski, Maria Boutchkova

CoRR, 2021

The reporting quality of natural language processing studies: systematic review of studies of radiology reports.

Emma M. Davidson, Michael Tin Chung Poon, Arlene Casey, Andreas Grivas, Daniel Duma, Hang Dong, Víctor Suárez-Paniagua, Claire Grover, Richard Tobin, Heather Whalley, Honghan Wu, Beatrice Alex, William Whiteley

BMC Medical Imaging, 2021

CoPHE: A Count-Preserving Hierarchical Evaluation Metric in Large-Scale Multi-Label Text Classification.

Matús Falis, Hang Dong, Alexandra Birch, Beatrice Alex

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

Extending defoe for the Efficient Analysis of Historical Texts at Scale.

Rosa Filgueira, Claire Grover, Vasilios Karaiskos, Beatrice Alex, Sarah Van Eyndhoven, Lisa Gotthard, Melissa Terras

Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on eScience, 2021

2020

Situated Data, Situated Systems: A Methodology to Engage with Power Relations in Natural Language Processing Research.

Lucy Havens, Melissa Terras, Benjamin Bach, Beatrice Alex

CoRR, 2020

Not a cute stroke: Analysis of Rule- and Neural Network-based Information Extraction Systems for Brain Radiology Reports.

Andreas Grivas, Beatrice Alex, Claire Grover, Richard Tobin, William Whiteley

Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, 2020

2019

A validated natural language processing algorithm for brain imaging phenotypes from radiology reports in UK electronic health records.

Emily Wheater, Grant Mair, Cathie Sudlow, Beatrice Alex, Claire Grover, William Whiteley

BMC Medical Informatics Decis. Mak., 2019

Geoparsing historical and contemporary literary text set in the City of Edinburgh.

Beatrice Alex, Claire Grover, Richard Tobin, Jon Oberlander

Lang. Resour. Evaluation, 2019

Named Entity Recognition for Electronic Health Records: A Comparison of Rule-based and Machine Learning Approaches.

Philip John Gorinski, Honghan Wu, Claire Grover, Richard Tobin, Conn Talbot, Heather Whalley, Cathie Sudlow, William Whiteley, Beatrice Alex

CoRR, 2019

Text mining brain imaging reports.

Beatrice Alex, Claire Grover, Richard Tobin, Cathie Sudlow, Grant Mair, William Whiteley

J. Biomed. Semant., 2019

Detecting Topic-Oriented Speaker Stance in Conversational Speech.

Catherine Lai, Beatrice Alex, Johanna D. Moore, Leimin Tian, Tatsuro Hori, Gianpiero Francesca

Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2019

Plague Dot Text: Text Mining and Annotation of Outbreak Reports of the Third Plague Pandemic (1894-1952).

Arlene Casey, Mike Bennett, Richard Tobin, Claire Grover, Lukas Engelmann, Beatrice Alex

Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Computational History, 2019

"Why is the Doctor a Man": Reactions of Older Adults to a Virtual Training Doctor.

Aurora Constantin, Catherine Lai, Elaine Farrow, Beatrice Alex, Ruth Pel-Littel, Henk Herman Nap, Johan Jeuring

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019

2017

Palimpsest: Improving assisted curation of loco-specific literature.

Beatrice Alex, Claire Grover, Jon Oberlander, Tara Thomson, Miranda Anderson, James Loxley, Uta Hinrichs, Ke Zhou

Digit. Scholarsh. Humanit., 2017

2016

Homing in on Twitter Users: Evaluating an Enhanced Geoparser for User Profile Locations.

Beatrice Alex, Clare Llewellyn, Claire Grover, Jon Oberlander, Richard Tobin

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016, 2016

2015

Trading Consequences: A Case Study of Combining Text Mining and Visualization to Facilitate Document Exploration.

Uta Hinrichs, Beatrice Alex, Jim Clifford, Andrew Watson, Aaron J. Quigley, Ewan Klein, Colin Coates

Digit. Scholarsh. Humanit., 2015

Adapting the Edinburgh Geoparser for Historical Georeferencing.

Beatrice Alex, Kate Byrne, Claire Grover, Richard Tobin

Int. J. Humanit. Arts Comput., 2015

Extracting a Topic Specific Dataset from a Twitter Archive.

Clare Llewellyn, Claire Grover, Beatrice Alex, Jon Oberlander, Richard Tobin

Proceedings of the Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 2015

2014

Bootstrapping a historical commodities lexicon with SKOS and DBpedia.

Ewan Klein, Beatrice Alex, Jim Clifford

Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, 2014

Trading Consequences: A Case Study of Combining Text Mining & Visualisation to Facilitate Document Exploration.

Uta Hinrichs, Beatrice Alex, Jim Clifford, Aaron Quigley

Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2014

Estimating and rating the quality of optically character recognised text.

Beatrice Alex, John Burns

Proceedings of the Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage 2014, 2014

A Web-based Geo-resolution Annotation and Evaluation Tool.

Beatrice Alex, Kate Byrne, Claire Grover, Richard Tobin

Proceedings of the 8th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, 2014

2012

Digitised historical text: Does it have to be mediOCRe?.

Beatrice Alex, Claire Grover, Ewan Klein, Richard Tobin

Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2012

2010

Edinburgh-LTG: TempEval-2 System Description.

Claire Grover, Richard Tobin, Beatrice Alex, Kate Byrne

Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2010

Agile Corpus Annotation in Practice: An Overview of Manual and Automatic Annotation of CVs.

Beatrice Alex, Claire Grover, Rongzhou Shen, Mijail A. Kabadjov

Proceedings of the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop, 2010

2008

Automatic detection of English inclusions in mixed-lingual text with an application to parsing.

Beatrice Alex

PhD thesis, 2008

Assisted Curation: Does Text Mining Really Help?.

Beatrice Alex, Claire Grover, Barry Haddow, Mijail Kabadjor, Ewan Klein, Michael Matthews, Stuart Roebuck, Richard Tobin, Xinglong Wang

Proceedings of the Biocomputing 2008, 2008

Exploiting Multiply Annotated Corpora in Biomedical Information Extraction Tasks.

Barry Haddow, Beatrice Alex

Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2008

Comparing Corpus-based to Web-based Lookup Techniques for Automatic English Inclusion Detection.

Beatrice Alex

Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2008

2007

Using Foreign Inclusion Detection to Improve Parsing Performance.

Beatrice Alex, Amit Dubey, Frank Keller

Proceedings of the EMNLP-CoNLL 2007, 2007

Recognising Nested Named Entities in Biomedical Text.

Beatrice Alex, Barry Haddow, Claire Grover

Proceedings of the Biological, translational, and clinical language processing, 2007

2006

The Impact of Annotation on the Performance of Protein Tagging in Biomedical Text.

Beatrice Alex, Malvina Nissim, Claire Grover

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2006

2005

Exploring the boundaries: gene and protein identification in biomedical text.

Jenny Rose Finkel, Shipra Dingare, Christopher D. Manning, Malvina Nissim, Beatrice Alex, Claire Grover

BMC Bioinform., 2005

Investigating the Effects of Selective Sampling on the Annotation Task.

Ben Hachey, Beatrice Alex, Markus Becker

Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2005

An Unsupervised System for Identifying English Inclusions in German Text.

Beatrice Alex

Proceedings of the ACL 2005, 2005

2004

Cross-Lingual Question Answering Using Off-the-Shelf Machine Translation.

Kisuh Ahn, Beatrice Alex, Johan Bos, Tiphaine Dalmas, Jochen L. Leidner, Matthew Smillie

Proceedings of the Multilingual Information Access for Text, 2004