Dr. A. Brandsen

Alex Brandsen is a digital archaeologist specialising in text mining and machine learning. He finalised his PhD in 2022 and is currently working as a postdoc at Leiden University, where he is creating an intelligent search engine for archaeological texts. He has been an organiser of the Digital Archaeology Group for 4 years, and has recently joined the CAA-NL-FL local chapter as Communications Officer.

• Tenzer, M., Pistilli, G., Brandsen, A., & Shenfield, A. (2024). Debating AI in Archaeology: applications, implications, and ethical considerations. Internet Archaeology, (67). https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.67.8
• Brandsen, A. (2023). Information Extraction and Machine Learning for Archaeological Texts. In: Gonzalez-Perez, C., Martin-Rodilla, P., Pereira-Fariña, M. (eds) Discourse and Argumentation in Archaeology: Conceptual and Computational Approaches. Quantitative Archaeology and Archaeological Modelling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37156-1_11
• Brandsen, A., Verberne, S., Lambers, K. and Wansleeben, M.. (2022). “Can BERT Dig It? – Named Entity Recognition for Information Retrieval in the Archaeology Domain.” Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage 15 (3): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3497842
• Brandsen, A., and Lippok, F. (2021). “A Burning Question – Using an Intelligent Grey Literature Search Engine to Change Our Views on Early Medieval Burial Practices in the Netherlands.” Journal of Archaeological Science 133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2021.105456
• Brandsen, A., Verberne, S., Wansleeben, M. and Lambers, K. (2020). Creating a Dataset for Named Entity Recognition in the Archaeology Domain. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 4573–4577, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association. https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.562/