Name: Eoin McElroy
School/Department: Psychology
Faculty: Life and Health Sciences
Institution: Ulster University

Subject:

  • Psychology
  • Public Health
  • Epidemiology
  • Survey research

Research/Teaching:

  • Research

Research Application(s):

  • Data harmonization
  • Scale development

Teaching Application(s):

AI Tool(s) Used:

  • Natural language processing
  • SBERT transformer neural network
Skills needed: Prior skills: Basic familiarity with emerging AI applications Upskilling required: engagement with capabilities of NLP at the conceptual level. Additional appreciation and skills with general machine learning methods.
Benefits: Short term: Assists with identifying and providing a consistent and replicable indicator of semantic similarity between survey variables from different sources. Long term: Will speed up and increase the replicability of data discoverability and harmonization processes in survey-based research.
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