Bilde av Islam, Maisha
Bilde av Islam, Maisha
Head Engineer Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology maisha.islam@uit.no Tromsø You can find me here

Maisha Islam


Job description

Engineer at HistLab at AHR.

Main Project  : National Historical Population Register (https://rhd.uit.no/nhdc/hpr.html)

I am working on the encoding of historical population registers. My role involves assigning standardized codes to variables extracted from archival records using machine learning techniques, ensuring consistency, comparability, and accessibility of historical data for research and analysis. I explore modern technological solutions to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the encoding process.

Areas of Interest

  • Machine Learning, Deep Learning.
  • Data Processing using Artificial Intelligence.
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP), Language Models.
  • Data Standardization & Coding Systems.

  • Bjørn-Richard Pedersen, Maisha Islam, Doris Tove Kristoffersen, Lars Ailo Aslaksen Bongo, Eilidh Garrett, Alice Reid et al.:
    Coding Historical Causes of Death Data with Large Language Models
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Bjørn-Richard Pedersen, Maisha Islam, Lars Ailo Aslaksen Bongo, Eilidh Garrett, Alice Reid, Hilde Leikny Sommerseth :
    Coding historical causes of death data using Large Language Models
    2023

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