Lorella Viola
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| Faculty or Centre | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | ||||
| Department | Digital History and Historiography | ||||
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Université du Luxembourg Maison des Sciences Humaines 11, Porte des Sciences L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette |
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| Campus Office | MSH, E04 35-000 | ||||
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| Telephone | (+352) 46 66 44 5009 | ||||
Lorella Viola holds a PhD in Language and Communication Studies from the University of East Anglia - UEA (UK) and an MA in Translation and Cultural Mediation from the University of Udine (Italy). Within her PhD, she developed a data-driven, corpus-based method to investigate media-induced language change in Italian.
After an AHRC funded postdoc at UEA - during which she implemented an extensive Outreach plan for the Faculty of Humanities, she joined Utrecht University in 2018. She was Work Package leader of Oceanic Exchanges (OcEx), a Digging into Data challenge project funded by the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO). OcEx examined patterns of information flow across national and linguistic boundaries in nineteenth-century newspapers by linking digitised newspaper corpora previously siloed in national collections.
In parallel with her research strand in Historical Linguistics, she has focussed on developing Digital Humanities methodologies that combine both quantitative and qualitative analysis and assist humanities scholars to contextualize and unveil the patterns hidden within large digital collections. One of her latest works is the GeoNewsMiner (GNM), an Open Access app that interactively displays geographical references in a textual collection. She has also released two fully Open Access historical newspapers collections of Italian American immigrant newspapers, ChroniclItaly and ChroniclItaly 2.0.
Lorella has recently joined C2 DH to work with Sean Takats on the DHARPA Project. The team is building software to facilitate computational analysis, replicability, transparency, Open Access publication, standardization and research dissemination.
Last updated on: Thursday, 09 February 2023
2022
On the use of sì? (‘yes?’) as invariant follow-up in Italian: A historical corpus-based account of pragmatic language changein Journal of Historical Pragmatics (2022)
“Italy, for example, is just incredibly stupid now”. European crisis narrations in relation to Italy’s response to COVID-19in Frontiers in Communication (2022)
Introducing the DHARPA Project: An Interdisciplinary Lab to Enable Critical DH Practice; ; ;
in DH Benelux Journal (2022), 4(1), 29-41
Using word vector models to trace conceptual change over time and space in historical newspapers, 1840–1914; ; ; ; ; ;
in Digital Humanities Quarterly (2022), 16(2),
2021
ChroniclItaly and ChroniclItaly 2.0: Digital Heritage to access narratives of migrationin International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing (2021), 15(1-2), 170-185
The Importance of Being Digital (keynote)in Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Computational History (HistoInformatics 2021) co-located with ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021 (JCDL 2021) (2021)
Introducing the DHARPA Project: An interdisciplinary lab to enable critical DH practice; ;
Scientific Conference (2021)
ChroniclItaly 3.0. A deep-learning, contextually enriched digital heritage collection of Italian immigrant newspapers published in the USA 1898-1936.;
Textual, factual or bibliographical database (2021)
2020
Make Italy great again. Trump’s echo and discursive manipulations in Salvini’s end of the year Facebook speechin Breeze, Ruth; Llamas, carmen (Eds.) Metaphor in politics and populism (2020)
On the diachrony of giusto? (right?) in Italian: A new discoursivizationin Journal of Historical Pragmatics (2020), 21(1), 83-109
From Digitized Sources to Digital Data, Behind the Scenes of (Critically) Enriching a Digital Heritage Collection;
in Weber, Andreas; Heerlien, Maarten; Gassó Miracle, Eulàlia; Wolstencroft, Katherine (Eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference Collect and Connect: Archives and Collections in a Digital Age (2020)
Machine Learning to Geographically Enrich Understudied Sources: A Conceptual Approach;
in Rocha, Ana; Steels, Luc; van den Herik, Jaap (Eds.) Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ARTIDIGH (2020)
The GeoNewsMiner: An interactive spatial humanities tool to visualize geographical references in historical newspapers;
Scientific Conference (2020)
One hundred years of migration discourse in The Times: A discourse-historical word vector space approach to the construction of meaning;
in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (2020), 3(64),
2019
Polentone vs terrone: a historical corpus-based analysis of media representation of Italian internal migrationin Viola, Lorella; Musolff, Andreas (Eds.) Migration and Media: Discourses about identities in crisis (2019)
ChroniclItaly 2.0. A corpus of Italian American newspapers annotated for entities, 1898-1920Textual, factual or bibliographical database (2019)
Mining ethnicity: Discourse-driven topic modelling of immigrant discourses in the USA, 1898-1920;
in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (2019)
2018
ChroniclItaly: A corpus of Italian language newspapers published in the United States between 1898 and 1922Textual, factual or bibliographical database (2018)
DuFLOR: A parallel corpus of Italian dubbed films from 1965 to 2003Textual, factual or bibliographical database (2018)
2017
A corpus-based investigation of language change in Italian: The case of grazie di and grazie perin Journal of Historical Linguistics (2017)
2016
Stai scherzando? Are you kidding? Investigating the influence of dubbing on the Italian progressivein Italian Journal of Linguistics (2016)
2015
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