Lorella Viola
Assistant Professor In Digital Humanities And Society at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolLorella Viola is an Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities and Society with eight years of interdisciplinary experience at the intersection of linguistics, NLP, and heritage studies. Fluent in five languages, she applies critical discourse analysis, digital heritage methods, and computational approaches to study multilingual and multicultural data while promoting critical data literacy and ethical, inclusive research practices. Her career spans research and leadership roles across European institutions including VU Amsterdam, University of Luxembourg, Utrecht University, and DARIAH ERIC, where she coordinated national digital humanities engagement. Known for blending humanistic inquiry with technical skill, she designs projects that translate linguistic insight into practical digital tools and policy-relevant outputs. An attentive project manager and collaborator, she brings integrity and a problem-solving mindset to team-based research and teaching.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at School of Politics, Philosophy and Language & Communication StudiesDepartment of History and Art HistoryMaster's degree, Master's degree at Università degli Studi di UdineBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici
Spanish, English, French, Italian
Github Skills (58)
python8
deep-learning8
gpu8
machine-learning8
corenlp7
digital-humanities7
facebook7
acl7
phonetics7
natural-language-processing7
scrape7
nlp7
collections6
facebook-page6
neural-network6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DHARPA-Project/TopicModelling-
Mar 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:138 commits, 136 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
lorellav/DeXTER-DeepTextMiner
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
A deep learning workflow to contextually enrich digital heritage collections (with visualisation)
Contributions:1 release, 70 commits, 2 PRs in 11 months
visualisationdeep-learningheritagedigital-heritageenrich
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