Language & Computers - Franciska de Jong

Описание: The way Franciska uses Computer Science and Language and Literature to complement each other stems from a time long before the ‘Balkan Voices’-project was initiated. After her PhD in Language Theory, she did pioneering work in the area of automated machine translation at Philips Research in 1985 - at that time a tough problem that seemed impossible to solve. After that, she has become Full Professor of Language Technology at the University of Twente in 1992 and, as of 2015, she has equally become Full Professor of e-Research for the Humanities at the University of Utrecht. Her current research interest is in line with the course of such a career: creating access technologies for digital libraries, text mining, cross-language retrieval and the disclosure of cultural heritage collections. Evidently, ‘Balkan Voices’ is a great example of the latter. Moreover, being the executive director of CLARIN ERIC, Franciska devotes herself to providing scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences access to digital language data and processing tools all across Europe.

Indeed, Franciska has contributed greatly - and still is - to the ‘marriage’ of the Humanities and Computer Science. She seems to be a spiritual heir of Ada Lovelace, who equally pondered that such a combination could enable opportunities for collaborative creativity. As Franciska herself once steadily claimed, she will not abide by the belief that people can only possess ‘alfa’ or ‘beta’ qualities. She possesses both.

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