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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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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...

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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...

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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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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!

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

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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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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 edin.ac/3DwwC1f

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

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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

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Council of Europe also calls for more support for Cornish, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Manx Gaelic www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

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A fantastic dataset to analyse

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