I work as a Research Engineer in the Research Engineering team.
There has been enormous interest in generative AI since ChatGPT was launched in 2022. I am conducting an exploratory study of generative AI for research data processing tasks by applying this new technique to the following projects involving complex data processing tasks:
- Seedlists: Extraction of plant species names from historical seedlists (catalogues of seeds) published by botanical gardens. This is an information extraction task.
- Health Technology Assessment (HTA) documents: Extraction of certain data points (name of drug, name of health indication, relative effectiveness, cost effectiveness, etc.) from documents published by HTA organisations in the EU. This is a natural language understanding task.
- Kickstarter: Assignment of industry codes to projects on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. This is a text classification task.