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. For example, I have always loved writing letters to my friends and sending 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 ;) ). 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 my second passion, 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 NLP and text analysis. It was so surprising because I expected mathematics to be applicable to anything that is in some way measurable and quantifiable but I never expected that it could also be applied to the most unquantifiable thing I knew: writing! That schocking finding changed my ideas about my future. I got very exicted about it, and I still am.

My long-term aim is to bring computational and data science approach into linguistics. Therefore, I decided to fill the gaps in my background by enrolling in the English and American Studies Bachelor's at the University of Vienna. What will I finish first, my PhD or my second Bachelor's?

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 are my latest publications

• July 2022, Collective emotions during the COVID-19 outbreak , in Emotion.
• May 2022, LEXpander: applying colexification networks to automated lexicon expansion , ArXiv preprint
• May 2022, LEXpander web app
• December 2021, 🤌 and its meanings: An emojical study , in CSS Lab Holiday Paper Series.
• May 2021,Colexification networks encode affective meaning , in Affective Science.
• August 2020, A structured open dataset of government interventions in response to COVID-19, in Scientific data.
• August 2019, Text analysis with colexification clusters , in proceedings for ESSLLI2019 Summer school.
  

TALKS AND EVENTS

My last talks and events.

• 19 July 2022, How to use Amazon Mechanical Turk to run digitally powered surveys, Tutorial held at SICSS Aachen and Graz, Summer Institute in Computational Social Science
• 27-31 July 2021, Colexification networks encode affective meaning, IC2S2 2021
• 5-10 July 2021, Colexification networks encode affective meaning, Networks 2021
• 15-16 April 2021, Colexification networks encode affective meaning, Society for Affective Science virtual meeting talk material
• 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.

WHERE I WORK

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