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Senioringeniør Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology bjorn-richard.pedersen@uit.no +4777644241 Tromsø You can find me here

Bjørn-Richard Pedersen

Job description

Senior engineer working at HistLab.

Main task is to contribute to new technological solutions within the fields of handwritten text recognition and data processing using Artificial Intelligence on population censuses and church books.
Areas of interest include machine learning, MLOps, NLP, and LLMs.

  • Bjørn-Richard Pedersen, Rigmor Katrine Johansen, Einar Jakobsen Holsbø, Hilde Leikny Sommerseth, Lars Ailo Aslaksen Bongo :
    More Efficient Manual Review of Automatically Transcribed Tabular Data
    Historical Life Course Studies 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Louise Ludvigsen, Mads Perner, Bjørn-Richard Pedersen, Rafael Nozal Cañadas, Anders Sildnes, Nikita Shvetsov et al.:
    Automated Coding of Historical Danish Cause of death Data Using String Similarity
    Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications (DHNB Publications) 2023 DOI
  • Bjørn-Richard Pedersen, Einar Holsbø, Trygve Andersen, Nikita Shvetsov, Johan Ravn, Hilde Leikny Sommerseth et al.:
    Lessons Learned Developing and Using a Machine Learning Model to Automatically Transcribe 2.3 Million Handwritten Occupation Codes
    Historical Life Course Studies 06. January 2022 ARKIV / DATA / DOI
  • Hilde Leikny Sommerseth, Bjørn-Richard Pedersen, Doris Tove Kristoffersen, Ingrid Hellem Nygaard, Petja Lyn Langholz, Binod Baniya :
    Helse, Død og Data
    2024 OMTALE
  • 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
  • Bjørn-Richard Pedersen, Einar Jakobsen Holsbø, Rigmor Katrine Johansen, Hilde Leikny Sommerseth, Lars Ailo Aslaksen Bongo :
    Manual review and correction of ML transcribed occupational codes from the Norwegian population census of 1950
    2023
  • Bjørn-Richard Pedersen, Hilde Leikny Sommerseth, Einar Jakobsen Holsbø, Rigmor Katrine Johansen, Trygve Andersen, Nikita Shvetsov et al.:
    Automatic transcription of handwritten Norwegian occupation codes: The lessons learned
    2023
  • Bjørn-Richard Pedersen, Maria Hiltunen Maltesdotter, Hilde Leikny Sommerseth, Trygve Andersen :
    Towards automated processing of historical causes of death by combining text classification algorithms with machine learning
    2023
  • Bjørn-Richard Pedersen, Trygve Andersen, Lars Ailo Bongo, Hilde Leikny Sommerseth :
    What to do with the stubborn 3 percent?
    2022
  • Hilde Leikny Sommerseth, Bjørn-Richard Pedersen, Trygve Andersen :
     A FAIR Approach to Harmonized Data
    2021
  • Lars Ailo Bongo, Bjørn-Richard Pedersen, Einar Holsbø, Trygve Andersen, Tim Alexander Teige, Nikita Shvetsov et al.:
    Automated approaches for Transcription of 20th Century Norwegian Census Microdata - Lessons Learned
    2021
  • Hilde Leikny Sommerseth, Trygve Andersen, Bjørn-Richard Pedersen :
    Automatic data coding of historic population data
    2020

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