--- title: "Barbara McGillivray — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Barbara McGillivray, King's College London: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2022), h-index 48 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barbara-mcgillivray/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barbara-mcgillivray/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Barbara McGillivray # Barbara McGillivray Barbara McGillivray has 2 papers in our library, in 2020–2022, most of them on [Historical linguistics & language change](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/), [Lexical semantics & word embeddings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/); often with [Dominik Schlechtweg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dominik-schlechtweg/), [Haim Dubossarsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haim-dubossarsky/), [Nina Tahmasebi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nina-tahmasebi/). 2 papers in our library · 2020–2022 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5062737501) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3426-8200) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59539000) · [**h-index 48**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5062737501) · [290 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5062737501) · [8,127 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5062737501&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barbara-mcgillivray/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 319 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barbara-mcgillivray/cited-by/) · [14 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5139](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/52/#star-5139) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Barbara+McGillivray) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Barbara+McGillivray) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Barbara+McGillivray) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Barbara+McGillivray) ## Affiliations [🎓**King's College London** London · United Kingdom 2021–2026 · 44 papersEmployment 2021–2025 · Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Cultural Computation, Digital HumanitiesEmployment since 2025 · Senior lecturer in digital and computational humanities, Digital Humanities*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/king-s-college-london/) · [🎓**University of British Columbia** Vancouver · Canada 1977–2020 · 82 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-british-columbia/) · [🔬**The Alan Turing Institute** London · United Kingdom 2017–2024 · 56 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/the-alan-turing-institute/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 2017–2024 · 44 papersEmployment 2017–2021 · Research fellow, Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🏥**BC Children's Hospital** Vancouver · Canada 1988–2008 · 7 papers](https://ror.org/04n901w50) · [🎓**University of Pisa** Pisa · Italy 2008–2010 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pisa/) · [🎓**University of Oxford** Oxford · United Kingdom 2012–2022 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oxford/) · [🏥**Children's & Women's Health Centre of British Columbia** Vancouver · Canada 2001–2019 · 4 papers](https://ror.org/01x69an44) · [🔬**Child and Family Research Institute** Vancouver · Canada 2006–2015 · 4 papers](https://ror.org/04yqm9y25) · [🏥**BC Cancer Agency** Vancouver · Canada 2013–2014 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/03sfybe47) 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. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Literature and Literary Theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Historical linguistics & language change · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/) · [Lexical semantics & word embeddings · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Lexical semantics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/lexical-semantics/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barbara-mcgillivray/year/2022/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barbara-mcgillivray/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[SemEval-2020 Task 1: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schlechtweg-2020-semeval-2020-task-1-unsupervised/)** *(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](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pedrazzini-2022-machines-media-semantic-change-lexicon/)** *(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 Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schlechtweg-2020-semeval-2020-task-1-unsupervised/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/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 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D19-1007/) 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 yet**Philippa Shoemark et al.*2019 · 111 citations* 3. **[The Diorisis Ancient Greek Corpus ↗](https://doi.org/10.1163/24523666-01000013) Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences 3(1), 55-65 · no summary yet**Alessandro Vatri, Barbara McGillivray*2018 · 54 citations* 4. **[GASC: Genre-Aware Semantic Change for Ancient Greek ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4707/) Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change · no summary yet**Valerio Perrone et al.*2019 · 44 citations* 5. **[A computational approach to lexical polysemy in Ancient Greek ↗](https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqz036) Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 34(4), 893-907 · no summary yet**Barbara McGillivray et al.*2019 · 36 citations* 6. **[The Index Thomisticus Treebank Project: Annotation, Parsing and Valency Lexicon ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2009.tal-2.5/) Traitement Automatique des Langues, Volume 50, Numéro 2 : Langues anciennes [Ancient Languages] · no summary yet**Barbara McGillivray, Marco Passarotti, Paolo Ruffolo*2009 · 24 citations* 7. **[Lemmatization for Ancient Greek: An experimental assessment of the state of the art ↗](https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-02002001) Journal of Greek Linguistics 20(2), 179-196 · no summary yet**Alessandro Vatri, Barbara McGillivray*2020 · 22 citations* 8. **[Vector space models of Ancient Greek word meaning, and a case study on Homer ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2019.tal-3.4/) Apollo (University of Cambridge) · no summary yet**Martina Astrid Rodda, Philomen Probert, Barbara McGillivray*2019 · 17 citations* 9. **[Lexical semantic change for Ancient Greek and Latin ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09069) arXiv:2101.09069 · no summary yet**Valerio Perrone et al.*2021 · 13 citations* 10. **[The Development of the “Index Thomisticus” Treebank Valency Lexicon ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-0306/) 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 yet**Barbara McGillivray, Marco Passarotti*2009 · 11 citations* 11. **[Language Pivoting from Parallel Corpora for Word Sense Disambiguation of Historical Languages: A Case Study on Latin ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.880/) Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · no summary yet**Iacopo Ghinassi et al.*2024 · 5 citations* 12. **[Machines in the media: semantic change in the lexicon of mechanization in 19th-century British newspapers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pedrazzini-2022-machines-media-semantic-change-lexicon/) [International Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4dh/)**Nilo Pedrazzini, Barbara McGillivray*2022 · 4 citations* 13. **[Automatic Selectional Preference Acquisition for Latin Verbs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P10-3013/) Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Student Research Workshop · no summary yet**McGillivray, Barbara*2010 · 4 citations* 14. **[Computational valency lexica and Homeric formularity ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.10795) arXiv:2208.10795 · no summary yet**Barbara McGillivray, Martina Astrid Rodda*2022 · 2 citations* 15. **[Sense-Based Annotation of Geographical Nouns in Ancient Greek and Latin: A Diachronic Study with LLMs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.latechclfl-1.26/) Proceedings of the 10th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature 2026 · no summary yet**Andrea Farina et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 16. **[Linguistic Knowledge Graphs for Sense Prediction: A Case-study on Latin ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.856/) Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yet**Eleonora Ghizzota et al.*2026 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dominik Schlechtweg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dominik-schlechtweg/) - [Haim Dubossarsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haim-dubossarsky/) - [Nina Tahmasebi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nina-tahmasebi/) - [Simon Hengchen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/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](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4dh/): [International Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4dh/2022/) - [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/): [SemEval 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/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 →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barbara-mcgillivray/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026