Beatrice Alex
Professor In AI 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, Computational Linguistics, Ph.D, Computational Linguistics at The University of EdinburghHeriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
german, english, french, russian
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Github Skills (29)
digital-humanities10
python10
network-analysis10
linked-open-data10
open-source10
website-hosting10
data-management10
api10
textual9
data-mining8
text-analysis8
nlp6
natural-language-processing6
nltk6
coreference-resolution5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
LibraryCarpentry/lc-tdm
Nov 2019 - Sep 2020
Library Carpentry: Text & Data Mining
Contributions:39 commits, 33 pushes, 1 comment in 10 months
data-mining
digtrade/digtrade
Jan 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 13 pushes in 1 year 1 month
algorithmic-tradingtrading-bottradingtrading-strategiestrading-algorithms
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