Bea Alex

Search results

• 2019

  Text Mining Brain Imaging Reports

  Alex, B., Grover, C., Tobin, R., Sudlow, C., Mair, G. & Whiteley, W., 12 Nov 2019, In: Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 10, 23.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Text Mining 100%
  • Healthcare Record 75%
  • Electronics 75%
  • Information Extraction 25%
  • Accuracy 25%

• Automatic coding of occupation and cause-of-death records

  Tobin, R., Farrow, E., Grover, C. & Alex, B., 8 Nov 2019, In: International Journal of Population Data Science. 4, 3, 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract

  Open Access

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• Detecting Topic-Oriented Speaker Stance in Conversational Speech

  Lai, C., Alex, B., Moore, J. D., Tian, L., Hori, T. & Francesca, G., 19 Sept 2019, Proceedings of Interspeech 2019. International Speech Communication Association, p. 46-50 5 p. (Interspeech).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Detection 100%
  • Representation 50%
  • Acoustic Feature 50%
  • Annotation 50%
  • Spoken Language 50%

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

  Casey, A., Bennett, M., Tobin, R., Grover, C., Engelmann, L. & Alex, B., 12 Sept 2019, HistoInformatics 2019: International Workshop on Computational History 2019. Wevers, M., Hasanuzzaman, M., Dias, G., Düring, M. & Jatowt, A. (eds.). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 2461. p. 50-59 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Text Mining 100%
  • Annotation 100%
  • Introspection 100%
  • Narrative 100%
  • Interdisciplinary Research 50%

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

  Wheater, E., Mair, G., Sudlow, C., Alex, B., Grover, C. & Whiteley, W., 9 Sept 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Bmc medical informatics and decision making.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Electronic Health Record 100%
  • Imaging 100%
  • Algorithm 100%
  • Radiology 100%
  • Phenotype 100%

• "Why is the Doctor a Man?" Reactions of Older Adults to a Virtual Training Doctor

  Constantin, A., Lai, C., Farrow, E., Alex, B., Pel-Littel, R., Nap, H. H. & Jeuring, J., 2 May 2019, Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Glasgow, Scotland UK: ACM, 6 p. LBW1719. (CHI EA '19).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Shared Decision 100%
  • Virtual Training 100%
  • Decision-Making 100%
  • User 25%
  • Contexts 25%

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

  Gorinski, P. J., Wu, H., Grover, C., Tobin, R., Talbot, C., Whalley, H., Whiteley, W. & Alex, B., 26 Feb 2019, (Accepted/In press). 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Named Entity Recognition 100%
  • Records 100%
  • Machine Learning Approach 100%
  • Electronics 100%
  • Electronic Health Record 100%
• 2018

  Text Mining Brain Imaging Reports

  Grover, C., Tobin, R., Alex, B., Sudlow, C., Mair, G. & Whiteley, W., Apr 2018.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Development 100%
  • Extraction 100%
  • Information Extraction 100%
  • Text Mining 100%
  • Reading 50%

• 'Multiplicity embarrasses the eye': The digital mapping of literary Edinburgh

  Loxley, J., Alex, B., Anderson, M., Hinrichs, U., Grover, C., Harris-Birtill, D., Thomson, T., Quigley, A. & Oberlander, J., 18 Jan 2018, The Routledge Companion to Spatial History . Gregory, I., DeBats, D. & Lafreniere, D. (eds.). Abingdon; New York: Routledge, p. 604-628 25 p. (Routledge Companions).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Edinburgh 100%
  • Multiplicity 100%
  • Palimpsest 71%
  • Text 28%
  • System 28%
• 2017

  Palimpsest: Improving Assisted Curation of Loco-specific Literature

  Alex, B., Grover, C., Oberlander, J., Thomson, T., Anderson, M., Loxley, J., Hinrichs, U. & Zhou, K., 1 Apr 2017, In: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 32, 1, p. i4-i16 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Curation 100%
  • Literature 100%
  • Palimpsest 100%
  • Research 66%
  • Process 50%

• Sensitizing social data science: Combining empirical social research with computational approaches to the analysis of career data

  Campagnolo, G., Williams, R., Alex, B., Acerbi, A. & Chapple, D., 2017, (In preparation) p. 1-49, 49 p.

  Research output: Working paper

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  • Approach 100%
  • Occupational Career 100%
  • Professional Occupations 100%
  • Social Data 100%
  • Analysis 100%

• Sensitizing social data science: combining empirical social research with computational approaches to influencer detection

  Campagnolo, G., Williams, R., Alex, B., Acerbi, A. & Chapple, D., 2017, (Submitted).

  Research output: Working paper

• 2016

  User-driven Text Mining of Historical Text

  Alex, B., Grover, C., Klein, E., Llewellyn, C. & Tobin, R., 12 Jun 2016, Working with Text: Tools, Techniques and Approaches for Text Mining. Tonkin, E. & Tourte, G. (eds.). 1st ed. Chandos Publishing, p. 209-230 22 p. ( Chandos Information Professional Series).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Mining 100%
  • User 100%
  • Text Mining 100%
  • Economics 66%
  • Project 66%

• Homing in on Twitter users: Evaluating an Enhanced Geoparser for User Profile Locations

  Alex, B., Llewellyn, C., Grover, C., Oberlander, J. & Tobin, R., May 2016, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 3936-3944 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • User 100%
  • Multiple Location 28%
  • Granularity 14%
  • Level Sentiment Analysis 14%
  • Evaluation 14%

• Palimpsest/LitLong: Mining and Mapping Literary Edinburgh

  Loxley, J. & Alex, B., 1 Jan 2016, Collection of creative and critical work.

  Research output: Other contribution

• Geoparsing History: Locating Commodities in Ten Million Pages of Nineteenth-Century Sources

  Clifford, J., Alex, B., Coates, C., Klein, E. & Watson, A., 2016, In: Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History. 49, 3, p. 115-131 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Nineteenth Century 100%
  • History 100%
  • Text 75%
  • Interdisciplinary 50%
  • Scientists 50%
• 2015

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

  Hinrichs, U., Alex, B., Clifford, J., Watson, A., Quigley, A., Klein, E. & Coates, C. M., 1 Dec 2015, In: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 30, suppl 1, p. 50-75 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Visualization 100%
  • Case Study 100%
  • Text Mining 100%
  • Contexts 66%
  • Information Visualization 66%

• Extracting a Topic Specific Dataset from a Twitter Archive

  Llewellyn, C., Grover, C., Alex, B., Oberlander, J. & Tobin, R., 28 Nov 2015, Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2015, Poznań, Poland, September 14-18, 2015, Proceedings. Springer, p. 364-367 4 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 9316).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Hashtag 100%
  • Twitter 33%
  • Microblogging 33%
  • Linear Discriminant Analysis 33%
  • Evaluation 33%

• Litlong: Edinburgh

  Loxley, J. (ed.), Oberlander, J., Grover, C., Alex, B., Anderson, M., Otty, L., Thomson, T., Hinrichs, U., Osborne, N., Reid, J., Aaron, Q. & Harris-Birtill, D., 31 Mar 2015

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site

• Adapting the Edinburgh Geoparser for Historical Georeferencing

  Alex, B., Byrne, K., Grover, C. & Tobin, R., 1 Mar 2015, In: International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. 9, 1, p. 15-35 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Texts 100%
  • Position (Location) 22%
  • Language 22%
  • Utilization 22%
  • Information 22%

• Palimpsest: Improving Assisted Curation of Loco-specific Literature

  Alex, B., Grover, C., Oberlander, J., Zhou, K. & Hinrichs, U., 2015, Proceedings of Digital Humanities 2015, 2-3 July, Sydney, Australia. 5 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Palimpsest 100%
  • Literature 100%
  • Edinburgh 75%
  • Literary works 50%
  • Text 50%
• 2014

  A Web-based Geo-resolution Annotation and Evaluation Tool

  Alex, B., Byrne, K., Grover, C. & Tobin, R., 1 Aug 2014, Proceedings of LAW VIII - The 8th Linguistic Annotation Workshop. Dublin, Ireland: Association for Computational Linguistics and Dublin City University, p. 59-63 5 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Tool 100%
  • Evaluation 100%
  • Annotation 100%
  • Texts 66%
  • Position (Location) 33%

• Estimating and Rating the Quality of Optically Character Recognised Text

  Alex, B. & Burns, J., 19 May 2014, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage. Madrid, Spain: ACM Association for Computing Machinery, p. 97 102 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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  • Personality 100%
  • Character Recognition 60%
  • Documents 60%
  • Optical Character Recognition 60%
  • Commodities 40%

• Data mining uncovers 19th century Britain’s fat habit

  Alex, B., 3 Apr 2014, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Bootstrapping a historical commodities lexicon with SKOS and DBpedia

  Klein, E., Alex, B. & Clifford, J., 1 Apr 2014, Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH). Gothenburg, Sweden: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 13-21 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Machine Learning 100%
  • Visualization 100%
  • Named Entity Recognition 100%
  • Domains 100%
  • Text Mining 100%

• Digging Into Data White Paper: Trading Consequences

  Klein, E., Alex, B., Grover, C., Tobin, R., Coates, C., Clifford, J., Quigley, A., Hinrichs, U., Reid, J., Osborne, N. & Fieldhouse, I., Mar 2014, Trading Consequences Project. 67 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

  Open Access

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  • Consequences 100%
  • Commodities 100%
  • Nineteenth Century 57%
  • Project 50%
  • Primary Source 28%

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

  Hinrichs, U., Alex, B., Clifford, J. & Quigley, A., 2014, Proceedings of Digital Humanities 2014 (DH 2014). 7 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Text 100%
  • Case Study 100%
  • Visualization 100%
  • Text Mining 100%
  • Feedback 66%
• 2012

  Digitised Historical Text: Does it have to be mediOCRe?

  Alex, B., Grover, C., Klein, E. & Tobin, R., 2012, Proceedings of KONVENS 2012 (LThist 2012 workshop). p. 401-409 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Text Mining 100%
  • Evaluation 50%
  • Gold Standard 50%
  • Named Entity Recognition 50%
  • Optical Character Recognition 50%
• 2011

  A System for Synergistically Structuring News Content from Traditional Media and the Blogosphere

  Sarris, N., Potamianos, G., Renders, J-M., Grover, C., Karstens, E., Kallipolitis, L., Tountopoulos, V., Petasis, G., Krithara, A., Gallé, M., Jacquet, G., Alex, B., Tobin, R. & Bounegru, L., 2011, eChallenges e-2011 Conference Proceedings, Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds), IIMC International Information Management Corporation Ltd 2011.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Events 100%
  • Domains 66%
  • Models 66%
  • Algorithms 66%
  • User 33%
• 2010

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

  Alex, B., Grover, C., Shen, R. & Kabadjov, M., 1 Jul 2010, Proceedings of the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop. Uppsala, Sweden: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 29-37 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Annotation 100%
  • Corpus Annotation 100%
  • Automatic Annotation 100%
  • Potential 33%
  • Testing 33%

• Labelling and Spatio-Temporal Grounding of News Events

  Alex, B. & Grover, C., 1 Jun 2010, Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Computational Linguistics in a World of Social Media. Los Angeles, California, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 27-28 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Events 100%
  • Analysis System 50%
  • Systems Analysis 50%

• Edinburgh-LTG: TempEval-2 System Description

  Grover, C., Tobin, R., Alex, B. & Byrne, K., 2010, SemEval '10 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation Pages 333-336 Association for Computational Linguistics Stroudsburg, PA, USA ©2010 table of contents. Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 333-336 4 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • System Description 100%
  • Information Extraction 100%

• Labelling and Spatio-Temporal Grounding of News Events

  Alex, B., Grover, C. & Alex, B., 2010, Proceedings of the workshop on Computational Linguistics in a World of Social Media at NAACL 2010. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Events 100%
  • Analysis System 50%
  • Systems Analysis 50%
• 2008

  Automating curation using a natural language processing pipeline

  Alex, B., Grover, C., Haddow, B., Kabadjor, M., Klein, E., Matthews, M., Tobin, R. & Wang, X., Sept 2008, In: Genome Biology. 9, Suppl 2, 14 p., S10.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Natural Language Processing 100%
  • Natural Language 100%
  • Normalization 75%
  • Natural Language Processing Systems 50%
  • Language Processing System 50%

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

  Alex, B., May 2008, Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008, 26 May - 1 June 2008, Marrakech, Morocco. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 2693-2697 5 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Language 100%
  • Inclusions 100%
  • Corpus 100%
  • Detection 100%
  • Classifier 100%

• The ITI TXM corpora: Tissue expressions and protein-protein interactions

  Alex, B., Grover, C., Haddow, B., Kabadjov, M., Klein, E., Matthews, M., Roebuck, S., Tobin, R. & Wang, X., May 2008, LREC 2008 Workshop: Building and evaluating resources for biomedical text mining. 8 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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  • Protein Protein Interaction 100%
  • Tissues 100%
  • Protein-Protein Interaction 100%
  • Mutant 50%
  • Mutant Protein 50%

• Assisted Curation: Does Text Mining Really Help?

  Alex, B., Grover, C., Haddow, B., Kabadjor, M., Klein, E., Matthews, M., Roebuck, S., Tobin, R. & Wang, X., 2008, Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (Biocomputing 2008). Altman, R. B., Dunker, A. K., Hunter, L., Murray, T. & Klein, T. E. (eds.). World Scientific, p. 556-567 12 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Natural Language Processing 100%
  • Text Mining 100%
  • Usability 25%
  • Speed-up 25%

• Automatic detection of English inclusions in mixed-lingual data with an application to parsing

  Alex, B., 2008

  Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis

• Exploiting Multiply Annotated Corpora in Biomedical Information Extraction Tasks

  Haddow, B. & Alex, B., 2008, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008). 5 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Information Extraction 100%
  • Annotation 100%
  • Performance Gain 50%
  • Named Entity Recognition 50%
• 2007

  Recognising Nested Named Entities in Biomedical Text

  Alex, B., Haddow, B. & Grover, C., 2007, Proceedings of BioNLP 2007. ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL, p. 65-72 8 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

  File

  • Annotation 100%
  • Biomedical Data 50%

• Using foreign inclusion detection to improve parsing performance

  Alex, B., Dubey, A. & Keller, F., 2007, Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL 2007. 10 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Detection 100%
  • Parsing 100%
  • Evaluation 50%
  • Performance Gain 50%
  • Gold Standard 50%
• 2006

  Integrating Language Knowledge Resources to Extend the English Inclusion Classifier to a New Language

  Alex, B., 2006, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006). ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL, p. 2431-2436 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Language Knowledge 100%
  • Classifier 100%
  • Knowledge Resource 100%
  • Evaluation 50%
  • Domains 50%

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

  Alex, B., Nissim, M. & Grover, C., 2006, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006). 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Annotation 100%
  • Portability 25%
• 2005

  An Unsupervised System for Identifying English Inclusions in German Text

  Alex, B., 2005, Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2005), Student Research Workshop. ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL, p. 133-138 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Text 100%
  • Inclusions 100%
  • System 100%
  • Experiment 50%
  • Corpus 25%

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

  Ahn, K., Alex, B., Bos, J., Dalmas, T., Leidner, J. L. & Smillie, M. B., 2005, Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images: 5th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2004, Bath, UK, September 15-17, 2004, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, p. 446-457 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 3491).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Accuracy 100%
  • Machine Translation 100%
  • Software 50%
  • Domains 50%
  • Target Language 50%

• Exploring the Boundaries: Gene and Protein Identification in Biomedical Text

  Finkel, J., Dingare, S., Manning, C., Nissim, M., Alex, B. & Grover, C., 2005, In: Bioinformatics. 6, p. 1-9 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Identification 100%
  • Protein Analysis 100%
  • Evaluation Study 100%
  • Gene Identification 100%
  • Evaluation 66%

• Investigating the Effects of Selective Sampling on the Annotation Task

  Hachey, B., Alex, B. & Becker, M., 2005, Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2005). Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 144-151 8 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Annotation 100%
  • Active Learning 75%
  • Domains 50%
  • Named Entity Recognition 25%
  • Utilities 25%

• Optimising Selective Sampling for Bootstrapping Named Entity Recognition

  Becker, M., Hachey, B., Alex, B. & Grover, C., 2005, Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2005) Workshop on Learning with Multiple Views. 7 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Named Entity Recognition 100%
  • Domains 100%
  • Active Learning 66%
  • Annotation 66%
  • Named Entity Recognition System 66%
• 2004

  An XML-based Tool for Tracking English Inclusions in German Text

  Alex, B. & Grover, C., 2004, PAPILLON 2004 - Workshop on Multilingual Lexical Databases. 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

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  • Tools 100%
  • Text 100%
  • Inclusions 100%
  • Natural Language Processing 66%
  • Corpus 66%

• BioCreative Task 2.1. The Edinburgh-Stanford System

  Krymolowski, Y., Alex, B. & Leidner, J. L., 2004, Proceedings of the BioCreAtIvE (Critical Assessment of Information Extraction Systems in Biology) Workshop 2004.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Annotation 100%