Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
- Analysis of word meaning change in historical and contemporary texts
- Open data and data publishing in the humanities
Education/Academic qualification
computational linguistics, Doctor of Letters, Computational Linguistics, University of Pisa
1 Jan 2007 → 17 Dec 2010
Award Date: 17 Dec 2010
Classics, Bachelor of Arts, Classics, Università di Firenze
Award Date: 1 May 2006
mathematics, Master of Mathematics, Algebraic Geometry, Università di Firenze
Award Date: 1 Apr 2004
External positions
Turing fellow, Alan Turing Institute
1 Sept 2021 → …
Editor-in-chief, Journal of Open Humanities Data, Ubiquity Press
1 Oct 2019 → …
Keywords
- P Philology. Linguistics
- computational linguistics
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Are Large Language Models able to grasp Latin semantics? A study on preverbed motion verbs
McGillivray, B. & Farina, A., 14 Jan 2026, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 23rd International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
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Sense-Based Annotation of Geographical Nouns in Ancient Greek and Latin: A Diachronic Study with LLMs
Farina, A., Ciletti, M., McGillivray, B. & Ballatore, A., 5 Feb 2026, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
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Analysing the language of mechanisation in nineteenth-century British newspapers
McGillivray, B., Pedrazzini, N., Ciula, A., Lawrence, J., Ong, T., Ridge, M. & Monteiro Vieira, J. M., 1 May 2025, Living with Machines: Computational Histories of the Age of Industry. Ahnert, R., Griffin, E. & Lawrence, J. (eds.). University of London PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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An Annotation Protocol for Diachronic Evaluation of Semantic Drift in Disability Sources
Jain, N., Di Bonaventura, C., Merono Penuela, A. & McGillivray, B., 31 Jul 2025, Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025). Peng, S. & Rehbein, I. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 160–172Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
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Finding the Paper Behind the Data: Automatic Identification of Research Articles related to Data Publications
McGillivray, B., Aryan Poo, K., Harperath, V., Ribary, M. & Wigdorowitz, M., 11 Nov 2025, (Accepted/In press) Workshop for Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Publications (WASP) 2025.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
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COALA: Computational Corpus Annotation for Quantitative Analysis of Latin Lexical Semantics
McGillivray, B. (Primary Investigator)
EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/02/2025 → 31/01/2030
Project: Research
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MuseIT: Multi-sensory, User-centred, Shared cultural Experiences through Interactive Technologies
Merono Penuela, A. (Primary Investigator), McGillivray, B. (Co-Investigator) & Simperl, E. (Co-Investigator)
1/10/2022 → 31/12/2025
Project: Research
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Living with Machines
McGillivray, B. (Primary Investigator) & Ciula, A. (Co-Investigator)
AHRC Arts and Humanities Research Council
1/09/2021 → 31/10/2023
Project: Research
Activities
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Advisory board of the journal "Computational Humanities Research" (External organisation)
McGillivray, B. (Member)
1 Jun 2024 → 31 Dec 2025Activity: Membership › Membership of board
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Short paper session on Collaborative publishing practice, Digital Humanities 2023
McGillivray, B. (Chair)
12 Jul 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Humanities Forward (Event)
McGillivray, B. (Chair)
13 May 2023Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
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Paola Marongiu
McGillivray, B. (Host)
9 May 2023 → 26 May 2023Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
Thesis
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A computational approach to Latin verbs: new resources and methods
McGillivray, B. (Author), Lenci, A. (Supervisor) & Marotta, G. (Supervisor), 17 Oct 2010Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
Datasets
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Le Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) : enjeux et défis dans la publication de data papers pour les sciences humaines et sociales (SHS)
Marongiu, P., Pedrazzini, N., Ribary, M. & McGillivray, B., Zenodo, 9 Feb 2023
Dataset
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DWUG DE: Diachronic Word Usage Graphs for German
Schlechtweg, D., McGillivray, B., Hengchen, S., Dubossarsky, H. & Tahmasebi, N., Zenodo, 1 Nov 2024
Dataset
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SemEval-2020 Task 1: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection
Schlechtweg, D., McGillivray, B., Hengchen, S., Dubossarsky, H. & Tahmasebi, N., Zenodo, 27 May 2020
Dataset
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Data Science & Digital Humanities: new collaborations, new opportunities and new complexities
Alex, B., Alexander, A., Beavan, D., Goudarouli, E., Impett, L., McGillivray, B., McGregor, N. & Ridge, M., DataverseNL, 17 Dec 2019
DOI: 10.34894/b1ufvh
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Prizes
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Inter Circle U. Prize
McGillivray, B. (Recipient), 25 Nov 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Publications 2022 Best Paper Award for 10th Anniversary
McGillivray, B. (Recipient), Marongiu, P. (Recipient), Pedrazzini, N. (Recipient), Ribary, M. (Recipient), Wigdorowitz, M. (Recipient) & Zordan, E. (Recipient), 6 Feb 2024
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)