Beatrice Alex
Senior Lecturer And Chancellor's Fellow At The University Of Edinburgh at Edinburgh University
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBeatrice Alex is a Professor in AI at Heriot-Watt University with 12 years of research and teaching experience focused on natural language processing and text mining across multiple domains. She leads the Edinburgh Language Technology Group and co-leads the Edinburgh Clinical NLP group, applying state-of-the-art methods to problems from historical trade data to biomedical information extraction. Her background combines a PhD in Computational Linguistics with practical roles in project management and industry advisory positions, including ongoing work with Talking Medicines. Notably, she has steered large annotation and evaluation efforts and led text-mining for the Digging into Data "Trading Consequences" project, revealing her ability to translate complex NLP research into domain-specific insights.
12 years of coding experience
Ph.D, Ph.D at The University of EdinburghHeriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
german, english, french, russian
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Github Skills (49)
historian10
digital-humanities10
python10
network-analysis10
linked-open-data10
open-source10
website-hosting10
data-management10
mining10
ckan10
api10
hosting10
brat9
nlp8
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
digtrade/digtrade
Jan 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 13 pushes in 1 year 1 month
algorithmic-tradingtrading-bottradingtrading-strategiestrading-algorithms
bea-alex/DH-MSc-POStagging-lesson
Mar 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:26 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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