🧑‍🔬 Barbara McGillivray

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓King's College LondonLondon · United Kingdom2021–2026 · 44 papersEmployment 2021–2025 · Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Cultural Computation, Digital HumanitiesEmployment since 2025 · Senior lecturer in digital and computational humanities, Digital Humanitiescurrent🎓University of British ColumbiaVancouver · Canada1977–2020 · 82 papers🔬The Alan Turing InstituteLondon · United Kingdom2017–2024 · 56 papers🎓University of CambridgeCambridge · United Kingdom2017–2024 · 44 papersEmployment 2017–2021 · Research fellow, Linguistics🏥BC Children's HospitalVancouver · Canada1988–2008 · 7 papers🎓University of PisaPisa · Italy2008–2010 · 5 papers🎓University of OxfordOxford · United Kingdom2012–2022 · 4 papers🏥Children's & Women's Health Centre of British ColumbiaVancouver · Canada2001–2019 · 4 papers🔬Child and Family Research InstituteVancouver · Canada2006–2015 · 4 papers🏥BC Cancer AgencyVancouver · Canada2013–2014 · 3 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 18 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📅 Works by year

2020s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. SemEval-2020 Task 1: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection (2020 · 351 citations)
   Research on lexical semantic change (LSC), meaning how word meanings shift over time, has had no shared gold standard, so published models could not be compared fairly.
2. Machines in the media: semantic change in the lexicon of mechanization in 19th-century British newspapers (2022 · 4 citations)
   The paper asks whether computational tools can follow the meaning shifts that 19th-century industrialisation caused in English words about machines and transport, and whether these tools agree with traditional philological accounts.

All works

16 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. SemEval-2020 Task 1: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change DetectionInternational Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)Dominik Schlechtweg, Barbara McGillivray, Simon Hengchen, et al.2020 · 351 citations
2. Room to Glo: A Systematic Comparison of Semantic Change Detection Approaches with Word Embeddings ↗Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP) · no summary yetPhilippa Shoemark et al.2019 · 111 citations
3. The Diorisis Ancient Greek Corpus ↗Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences 3(1), 55-65 · no summary yetAlessandro Vatri, Barbara McGillivray2018 · 54 citations
4. GASC: Genre-Aware Semantic Change for Ancient Greek ↗Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change · no summary yetValerio Perrone et al.2019 · 44 citations
5. A computational approach to lexical polysemy in Ancient Greek ↗Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 34(4), 893-907 · no summary yetBarbara McGillivray et al.2019 · 36 citations
6. The Index Thomisticus Treebank Project: Annotation, Parsing and Valency Lexicon ↗Traitement Automatique des Langues, Volume 50, Numéro 2 : Langues anciennes [Ancient Languages] · no summary yetBarbara McGillivray, Marco Passarotti, Paolo Ruffolo2009 · 24 citations
7. Lemmatization for Ancient Greek: An experimental assessment of the state of the art ↗Journal of Greek Linguistics 20(2), 179-196 · no summary yetAlessandro Vatri, Barbara McGillivray2020 · 22 citations
8. Vector space models of Ancient Greek word meaning, and a case study on Homer ↗Apollo (University of Cambridge) · no summary yetMartina Astrid Rodda, Philomen Probert, Barbara McGillivray2019 · 17 citations
9. Lexical semantic change for Ancient Greek and Latin ↗arXiv:2101.09069 · no summary yetValerio Perrone et al.2021 · 13 citations
10. The Development of the “Index Thomisticus” Treebank Valency Lexicon ↗Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on Language Technology and Resources for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education (LaTeCH – SHELT&R 2009) · no summary yetBarbara McGillivray, Marco Passarotti2009 · 11 citations
11. Language Pivoting from Parallel Corpora for Word Sense Disambiguation of Historical Languages: A Case Study on Latin ↗Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · no summary yetIacopo Ghinassi et al.2024 · 5 citations
12. Machines in the media: semantic change in the lexicon of mechanization in 19th-century British newspapersInternational Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital HumanitiesNilo Pedrazzini, Barbara McGillivray2022 · 4 citations
13. Automatic Selectional Preference Acquisition for Latin Verbs ↗Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Student Research Workshop · no summary yetMcGillivray, Barbara2010 · 4 citations
14. Computational valency lexica and Homeric formularity ↗arXiv:2208.10795 · no summary yetBarbara McGillivray, Martina Astrid Rodda2022 · 2 citations
15. Sense-Based Annotation of Geographical Nouns in Ancient Greek and Latin: A Diachronic Study with LLMs ↗Proceedings of the 10th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature 2026 · no summary yetAndrea Farina et al.2026 · 1 citation
16. Linguistic Knowledge Graphs for Sense Prediction: A Case-study on Latin ↗Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yetEleonora Ghizzota et al.2026 · 1 citation

🤝 Co-authors here

4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Dominik Schlechtweg
• Haim Dubossarsky
• Nina Tahmasebi
• Simon Hengchen

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• International Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities: International Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities 2022
• International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval): SemEval 2020
• Apollo (University of Cambridge)
• Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 34(4), 893-907
• Journal of Greek Linguistics 20(2), 179-196
• Proceedings of the 10th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature 2026
• Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change
• Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
• Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
• Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Student Research Workshop
• Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on Language Technology and Resources for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education (LaTeCH – SHELT&R 2009)
• Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 319 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 23 citing papers with a page here →.

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