Digital Humanities @ University of Pisa

Alessandro Lenci

CoLing Lab – Laboratorio di Linguistica

Computazionale

Università di Pisa

Aix-Marseille Université26 November 2015

• 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.

Main research areas(not an exhaustive list…)

• 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.html)

»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

(ISTI-CNR)»Visual Computing Lab (vcg.isti.cnr.it/)»Human Interfaces in Information Systems

Laboratory Lab (giove.isti.cnr.it/)»Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Lab

(www-kdd.isti.cnr.it/)• Istituto di Informatica e Telematica (IIT-CNR)

• Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna• Perceptual Robotics Lab (www.percro.org/)

Academic and research institutions involved in Digital Humanities in Pisa

CoLing Labhttp://colinglab.fileli.unipi.it

• 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/

War Memories (Memorie di Guerra)http://www.memoriediguerra.it/wwm/

HLT

Natural Language Processing

ontologies

terms

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• 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 (Digital Humanities)http://www.fileli.unipi.it/infouma/

• 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 Umanisticabachelor 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 Umanisticabachelor 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 Umanisticabachelor program study plan

• Professional profiles after the bachelor• content managment and Web

development• language technology• electronic publishing houses• e-learning• journalism and communication

Informatica Umanisticabachelor program

Employment rates after the bachelordata collected in 2013

employed 62.5%

unemployed 37.5%

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medium 40%

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job satisfaction

job coherence with the degree

employment rate after 12 months since the degree

employed 44.4%

unemployed 55.6%

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low 25%

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job satisfaction

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employment rate after 12 months since the degree

Informatica umanistica Humanities

• 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:• A. Electronic Publishing• B. Graphics, Interactivity and Virtual

Environments• C. Knowledge Management• D. Language Technology

Informatica Umanisticamaster program

• 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 UmanisticaElectronic Publishing

• 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 UmanisticaGraphics, Interactivity and Virtual

Environments

• 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 UmanisticaKnowledge Management

• 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

Informatica UmanisticaLanguage technology

Enrolled students

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

83 76 78 96 104 115

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

- 40 52 58 60 49

bachelor

master

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

- 81.6% 73.1% 64.9% 56.9% 44.7%

master students with a bachelor degree at Uni. Pisa

Thanks!