ABOUT ME

Hi, I'm Anna!

I studied mathematics at the University of Bologna, in Italy. I am interested in applied mathematics, in particular to linguistics. Let me tell you why. I have always had a strong passion for literature and in general for everything that has to do with the act of writing. I have always loved writing mails and send them by post (even if it was already old fashioned when I started), I was into calligraphy before it become a trend, I love reading anything I can find and I notice and remember people's handwriting (my high school math teacher had the best handwriting I have ever seen - maybe that's why I chose to study mathematics at the University). I have always thought that my job would have been related to what I studied and that my free time would be massively dedicated to reading. I never thought that there could have been a way of connecting those two so different interests. Unexpectedly, during the first year of my Master's I discovered the existence of text analysis. It was so surprising because I expected mathematics to be applicable to anything that is in some way measurable and quantifiable. I never expected that maths could be applied to the most unquantifiable thing I knew: writing! That schocking finding changed my life. I got very exicted about it, and I still am.

If you want to find out more about myself, my interests and my research, just read ahead!

MY CURRICULUM VITAE

Here is my curriculum.

Education

Languages I speak:

🇮🇹Italian

🇬🇧English

🇩🇪German

PUBLICATIONS

Here I list my latest publications

• August 2020, A structured open dataset of government interventions in response to COVID-19
  
• August 2019, Text analysis with colexification clusters, in proceedings for ESSLLI2019 Summer school.
  

TALKS AND EVENTS

My last talks and events.

• April 2021, Colexification networks encode affective meaning, Society for Affective Science virtual meeting
• 3 December 2020, Colexification networks encode affective meaning, Utrecht University, NLP group
• 30 October 2020, Colexification networks encode affective meaning, CSH Vienna
• cancelled, Subcritical Social Impact and Sentiment in Twitter, EASP symposium 2020, Warsaw, Poland.
• 8 August 2019, Text analysis with colexification clusters, ESSLLI2019 Summer school, Riga, Latvia.
  
• 18 July 2019, Subcritical Social Impact and Sentiment in Twitter, IC2S2 2019, Amsterdam, The Nederlands.

MY RESEARCH GROUP

Here's my group

I am a PhD student working on the project "Emotional Well-Being in the Digital Society", lead by David Garcia and funded by WWTF.

WHERE I WORK

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