I'm a full-time researcher working in interdisciplinary projects in Classics, Digital Scholarly Editing and Natural Language Processing (NLP). I occasionally step 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 tongues, and I can hold conversations in Spanish and German.
A full CV available is upon request. You can also find me on Linkedin.
Researcher at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen | January 2015-present
Member of a Digital Humanities Early Career Research Group focussing on automatic text reuse detection in historical, and particularly classical, texts.
Visiting Scholar at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore | October-December 2017
Performed automatic text reuse detection analyses on the Summa Contra Gentiles of Thomas Aquinas.
Research Associate at Universität Leipzig | May 2013-December 2014
Coordinated a number of contracts for the digitisation of critical editions of classical texts.
Current research projects
2012-present. A collaboration with ÖAW ACDH to survey practice in digital scholarly editing.
2015-present. An Early Career Research Group focussing on the advancement of automatic text reuse detection in historical texts.
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
Journal articles
- Franzini, G., Terras, M., Mahony, S. (Provisionally accepted 2018) '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.
- 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
- 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.
Edited journal issues and volumes
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.
User manual
Data-sets
- 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-) Catalogue of Digital Editions.

Weimar, DE
2018 Antwerp, BE - Köln, 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.