Greta Franzini, Ph.D
#digitalhumanities

I'm a researcher working in interdisciplinary projects in Digital Classics (particularly Latin), Digital Scholarly Editing and Natural Language Processing. I've occasionally stepped out of my comfort zone to explore other fields of study, such as visual text analysis, digitisation and stylometry.

I'm fluent in Italian and English, my native languages. I can also hold conversations in Spanish and German, and speak basic French and Modern Greek (well, Κυπριακά).

A full CV is available upon request. You can also find me on Linkedin.

Journal articles

• Franzini, G., Terras, M., Mahony, S. (2019) 'Digital Editions of Text: Surveying User Requirements in the Digital Humanities', Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH) - Special Issue on Evaluation of Digital Cultural Resources, 12(1), pp. 1-23. 10.1145/3230671
• Franzini, G., Kestemont, M., Rotari, G., Jander, M., Ochab, J. K., Franzini, E., Byszuk, J., Rybicki, J. (2018) 'Attributing authorship in the noisy digitized correspondence of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm', Frontiers in Digital Humanities, 5(4). DOI: 10.3389/fdigh.2018.00004
• Jänicke, S., Franzini, G., Faisal, C., Scheuermann, G. (2017) 'Visual Text Analysis in Digital Humanities', Computer Graphics Forum, 36(6), pp. 226-250. DOI: 10.1111/cgf.12873
• Moritz, M., Pavlek, B., Franzini, G., Crane, G. (2016) 'Sentence Shortening via Morpho-Syntactic Annotated Data in Historical Language Learning', Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 9(1). DOI: 10.1145/2810040
• Jänicke, S., Geßner, A., Franzini, G., Terras, M., Mahony, S., Scheuermann, G. (2015) 'TRAViz: A Visualization for Variant Graphs', Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 30(suppl_1). DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqv049
• Berti, M., Almas, B., Dubin, D., Franzini, G., Stoyanova, S. and Crane, G. (2015) 'The Linked Fragment: TEI and the encoding of text reuses of lost authors', Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, 8. DOI: 10.4000/jtei.1218

Conference proceedings

• Franzini, G., Passarotti, M., Moritz, M., Büchler, M. (2018) 'Using and evaluating TRACER for an Index fontium computatus of the Summa contra Gentiles of Thomas Aquinas', Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2018). Torino, December 2018, 10-12. Available at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2253/paper22.pdf
• Büchler, M., Eckart, T., Franzini, G., Franzini, E. (2017) 'Mining and Analysing One Billion Requests to Linguistic Services', Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2016 (IEEE BigData 2016). Washington DC, December 2016, 5-8. DOI: 10.1109/BigData.2016.7840979
• Jänicke, S., Franzini, G., Faisal, C., Scheuermann, G. (2015) 'On Close and Distant Reading in Digital Humanities: A Survey and Future Challenges. A State-of-the-Art (STAR) Report', Proceedings of the EuroVis 2015 Conference on Visualization (EuroVisSTAR 2015). Cagliari, May 2015, 25-29. DOI: 10.2312/eurovisstar.20151113
• Büchler, M., Franzini, G., Franzini, E., Moritz, M. (2014) 'Scaling Historical Text Re-Use', Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2014 (IEEE BigData 2014). Washington DC, October 2014, 27-30. DOI: 10.1109/BigData.2014.7004449
• Almas, B., Babeu, A., Baumgardt, F., Berti, M., Cerrato, L., Crane, G., Franzini, G., Krohn, A. and Stoyanova, S. (2014) 'Cataloging for a Billion Word Library of Greek and Latin', Proceedings of the First International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage (DATeCH 2014). Madrid, 19-20 May. DOI: 10.1145/2595188.2595190
• Berti, M., Franzini, G., Franzini, E., Celano, G. (2014) 'L’Open Philology Project dell’Università di Lipsia: per una filologia “sostenibile” in un mondo globale', Proceedings of the second AIUCD Annual Conference (AIUCD 2013). Padova, 11-12 December.

Book chapters

• Franzini, G., Mahony, S., and Terras, M. (2016), 'A Catalogue of Digital Editions', In: Pierazzo, E. and Driscoll, M. J. (eds) Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0095
• Büchler, M., Burns, P. R., Müller, M., Franzini, E., Franzini, G. (2014) 'Towards a Historical Text Re-use Detection', In: Biemann, C. and Mehler, A. (eds) Text Mining, Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing. Springer International Publishing Switzerland. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-12655-511

Edited journal issues and volumes

• Franzini, G. (2017) 'Göttingen Dialog in Digital Humanities 2015', Digital Humanities Quarterly, 11(2), URL: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/11/2/index.html

Invited reviews

• Franzini, G. (forthcoming) A New Republic of Letters by Jerome McGann (Harvard University Press, 2014). Reviewed in Variants, 14.
• Franzini, G. (2017) Spectateurs. Reviewed (in Italian) in RIDE: A Review Journal for Scholarly Digital Editions and Resources - Special Issue on Digital Text Collections, 6. DOI: 10.18716/ride.a.6.6
• Franzini, G. (2015) Digital Critical Editions by Daniel Apollon, Claire Bélisle, and Philippe Régnier (University of Illinois Press, 2014). Reviewed in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 30(4). DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqv025

Italian translations

• Voyant Tools (2016) Voyant Tools is an open source web-based application that allows users to work with their own texts or existing text collections to perform basic text mining functions.
• Digital Medievalist Wikipedia page (2016) Digital Medievalist is an international web-based community for medievalists working with digital media.
• Textal: Text Analysis App (2013) Textal is a free smartphone app that allows you to analyse websites, tweet streams, and documents, as you explore the relationships between words in the text via an intuitive word cloud interface.
• EpiDoc Guidelines (2011) EpiDoc is an international, collaborative effort that provides guidelines and tools for encoding scholarly and educational editions of ancient documents.

User manual

• Franzini, G., Franzini, E., Bulert, K., Büchler, M., Moritz, M. (2016-present) TRACER: An Automatic Text Reuse Detection Machine.

Data-sets

• Franzini, G. (2018-present) riley-latin-quotations: A manually-corrected version of the OCR'd Latin text of H.T. Riley's 'Dictionary of Latin and Greek Quotations, Proverbs, Maxims and Mottos, Classical and Mediaeval. Including Law Terms and Phrases', 1891.
• Franzini, G. et al. (2016) csel-dev: Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum - A machine-corrected version of the public domain volumes of the monumental collection of Latin Church Fathers.
• Franzini, G. (2012-present) Catalogue of Digital Editions.

Miami, FL, USA

2019 Vienna, AT  ·  Torino, IT  ·  Udine, IT  ·  Poitiers, FR.
2018 Torino, IT  ·  Liège, BE  ·  Mexico City, MX  ·  Hannover, DE  ·  Weimar, DE  ·  Antwerp, BE  ·  Cologne, DE  ·  Bari, IT.
2017 Innsbruck, AT  ·  Milan, IT  ·  Verona, IT  ·  Trento, IT  ·  Montréal, CA  ·  London, UK  ·  Rome, IT.
2016 Antwerp, BE  ·  Vienna, AT  ·  Venice, IT  ·  Kraków, PL  ·  Cologne, DE  ·  Leipzig, DE  ·  Galway, IE.
2015 Leicester, UK  ·  Tartu, EE  ·  Berlin, DE.
2014 Norman, OK, USA  ·  Tbilisi, GE  ·  Lausanne, CH  ·  Lyon, FR.
2013 Padova, IT.

Last updated: 2019-02-19