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Digital Humanities @ University of Pisa
Alessandro Lenci
CoLing Lab – Laboratorio di Linguistica Computazionale
Università di Pisa
Aix-Marseille Université
26 November 2015
Main research areas
(not an exhaustive list…)
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• lexicons, term extraction, annotated corpora, NLP tools, etc.
• NLP and cognitive science
• NLP applied to DH
• legal text Processing, computational dialectology, historical text
processing, etc.
• Digital philology
• Greek and Latin processing
• digital text and manuscript encoding and visualization
• digital epigraphy
• Big data analysis, social network analysis, etc.
• 3D visualization and reconstruction applied to historical and
•
archeological research
Development of online databases for the humanities
• literature, linguistics, history, archeology, etc.
Academic and research institutions
involved in Digital Humanities in Pisa
• Università di Pisa
• Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics
» Computational Linguistics Lab (colinglab.fileli.unipi.it/)
» Phonetics Lab
(www.humnet.unipi.it/linguistica/lab_fonetica/index.ht
ml)
» Digital Culture Lab (labcd.humnet.unipi.it/)
• Department of Informatics
» Media Lab (medialab.di.unipi.it/wiki/Projects)
• Department of Civilization
» sections of Philosophy, History of Arts, History,
Archeology
Academic and research institutions
involved in Digital Humanities in Pisa
• CNR
• Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (ILC-CNR)
» CLARIN coordinator for Italy
• Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie dell’Informazione (ISTICNR)
» Visual Computing Lab (vcg.isti.cnr.it/)
» Human Interfaces in Information Systems Laboratory
Lab (giove.isti.cnr.it/)
» Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Lab (wwwkdd.isti.cnr.it/)
• Istituto di Informatica e Telematica (IIT-CNR)
• Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
• Perceptual Robotics Lab (www.percro.org/)
CoLing Lab
http://colinglab.fileli.unipi.it
War Memories (Memorie di Guerra)
http://www.memoriediguerra.it/wwm/
• An ongoing project to carry out a computational analysis and
semantic indexing of Italian texts about WWI
• University of Pisa, CoLing Lab
• ILC-CNR, Pisa
• history consultant: Prof. Nicola Labanca (University of Siena)
• Texts are annotated automatically with state-of-the-art NLP
tools to extract various kinds of information
• simple and multi-word terms
• named entities
• events and their participants
• georeferenced locations
War Memories (Memorie di Guerra)
http://www.memoriediguerra.it/wwm/
Natural Language Processing
HLT
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terms
thesauri
ontologies
Informatica Umanistica (Digital Humanities)
http://www.fileli.unipi.it/infouma/
• Started in 2002, Informatica Umanistica includes a 3-years
bachelor (Laurea) and a 2-years master (Laurea magistrale)
• hosted by the Dept. of Philology, Literature and Linguistics,
in collaboration with the Dept. of Informatics
Informatica Umanistica
bachelor program study plan
• First year (60 credits)
• informatics
» Foundations of programming languages (12 credits)
» Web design and programming (12 credits)
• humanities
» Cultural geography (6 credits)
» Italian linguistics (9 credits)
» Writing laboratory (6 credits)
» English language (9 credits)
» General linguistics (6 credits)
Informatica Umanistica
bachelor program study plan
• Second year (60 credits)
• informatics
» Algorithmics (6 credits)
» Databases and Web Laboratory (12 credits)
• humanities
» Introduction to historical studies (6 credits)
» Italian contemporary literature (6 credits)
» Computational linguistics (12 credits)
» Italian Literature (12 credits)
» History of arts (6 credits)
Informatica Umanistica
bachelor program study plan
• Third year (60 credits)
• informatics
» Telematics (6 credits)
» One course among (6 credits):
» Digital libraries, Multimedia production, E-learning technologies,
Graphic design
• humanities
» Text encoding (6 credits)
» Latin language or literature (6 credits)
» {English, French, Spanish, German} literature (6 credits)
• Free choice courses (18 credits)
• Stage (6 credits)
• Final thesis (6 credits)
Informatica Umanistica
bachelor program
• Professional profiles after the bachelor
• content managment and Web
development
• language technology
• electronic publishing houses
• e-learning
• journalism and communication
Employment rates after the bachelor
data collected in 2013
Informatica umanistica
Humanities
employment rate after 12 months
since the degree
employment rate after 12 months
since the degree
employed
62.5%
employed
44.4%
unemployed
37.5%
unemployed
55.6%
job coherence with the degree
job coherence with the degree
high
20%
medium
25%
medium
40%
low
25%
low
40%
null
50%
job satisfaction
job satisfaction
high
20%
high
25%
medium
60%
medium
50%
low
20%
low
25%
Informatica Umanistica
master program
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Programming and data analysis (15 credits)
Italian linguistics II (12 credits) (except for curr. D)
12 free choice credits
6 credits for the Seminar of Digital Culture
21 credits for the final thesis
54 specific credits for each curriculum:
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A. Electronic Publishing
B. Graphics, Interactivity and Virtual Environments
C. Knowledge Management
D. Language Technology
Informatica Umanistica
Electronic Publishing
• 18 credits among:
• Social network analysis, Electronic publishing, Collaborative
work platforms, Interface design and usability, Information
retrieval, Digital philology
• 12 credits among:
• Cartography, Legal aspects of informatics, Digital history,
History of printing and publishing
• 24 credits among:
• Communication, Editorial writing, Online journalism,
Internet marketing, Italian contemporary literature, Methods
of physics for the humanities, Sociology of cultural processes,
Technologies for Web marketing, Theory of literature, Visual
analytics
Informatica Umanistica
Graphics, Interactivity and Virtual Environments
• 18 credits among:
• Digital audio, Electronic publishing, 3D graphics for cultural
heritage, Collaborative work platforms, Interface design and
usability, Interface programming
• 12 credits among:
• Cartography, Legal aspects of informatics, Digital history,
Theory of TV and multimedia arts
• 24 credits among:
• Virtual environments, Communication, Online journalism,
Seminar on cinema, Geographical information systems,
Sociology of cultural processes, Technologies for Web
marketing, Technologies for e-learning, Visual analytics
Informatica Umanistica
Knowledge Management
• 18 credits among:
• Machine learning, Databases for decision support, Data
mining, Data-driven decision methods, Artificial intelligence,
Social network analysis, Information retrieval, Collaborative
work platforms
• 12 credits among:
• Cartography, Legal aspects of informatics, Digital history,
• 24 credits among:
• Communication, Knowledge management, Internet
marketing, Logic, Geographical information systems,
Informaton technologies for literature production, Methods
of physics for the humanities, Technologies for Web
marketing, Technologies for e-learning, Visual analytics
Informatica Umanistica
Language technology
• 18 credits among:
• Machine learning, Data mining, Artificial intelligence, Social
network analysis, Information retrieval, Natural language
processing, Information retrieval
• Italian linguistics (12 credits) is replaced with:
• Computational linguistics II
• General linguistics II
• 12 credits among:
• Cartography, Legal aspects of informatics, Digital history,
• 24 credits among:
• Applied linguistics, Phonetics and phonology, Philosophy of
languages, Logic, Neurolinguistics, Methods of physics for
the humanities
Enrolled students
bachelor
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
83
76
78
96
104
115
master
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
-
40
52
58
60
49
master students with a bachelor degree at Uni. Pisa
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
-
81.6%
73.1%
64.9%
56.9%
44.7%
Thanks!