Andrea is a PhD Candidate in Digital Humanities, holding a UKRI scholarship from the London Arts & Humanities Partnership (LAHP). With a background in Classics (University of Milan) and Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (University of Pavia), he specialises in syntactic and semantic annotation and has contributed to global projects such as the Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit WordNets and the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit.

Andrea is committed to advancing open access research, particularly in Classical studies, and serves as Senior Editor and Senior Social Media Editor for the Journal of Open Humanities Data. He is the creator and convenor of the Data in Historical Linguistics international seminar series. He is a member of the Computational Humanities Research Group at King’s and of the Regional Advisory Committee of the Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics for the European area.

Research Interests

• Development of computational tools and methods for Historical Linguistics
• Corpus-based analysis of diachronic syntax and semantics in ancient languages, particularly Latin and Ancient Greek
• Design and implementation of databases and Linked Open Data for historical languages
• Application of generative AI (e.g., Large Language Models) to quantitative analyses on historical languages
• Data-driven approaches to the Ancient World, focusing on dataset creation, curation, and their use in Digital/Computational Humanities research

Selected Publications

• PrevNet. A FAIR and inclusive resource for the study of preverbs in historical languages

  Farina, A. & McGillivray, B., 2025, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings del XIV Convegno Annuale AIUCD, Verona 11-13 giugno 2025, Università di Verona. Rebora, S., Rospocher, M. & Bazzaco, S. (eds.). p. 2-10 9 p.

• Farina, A., Marongiu, P., Bru, M., & Borkowski, D. (2025). When Data Meets the Past: Data Collection, Sharing, and Reuse in Ancient World Studies. Open Information Science, 9 (1), 1-20. Advance online publication. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2025-0014

• Wigdorowitz, Mandy, Marton Ribary, Andrea Farina, Eleonora Lima, Daniele Borkowski, Paola Marongiu, Amanda H. Sorensen, Christelle Timis, and Barbara McGillivray. (2024). It Takes a Village! Editorship, Advocacy, and Research in Running an Open Access Data Journal. In Publications, 12(3):24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/publications12030024

• Farina, A. (2024). Guidelines for a linguistic annotation of preverbed verbs of motion. Figshare. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18742/25055573

• Farina, A. (2023). Lost at Sea: A Dataset of 25+ SEA Words Morpho-Semantically Annotated in Ancient Greek and Latin. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 9: 24, pp. 1–7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.139

• Farina, A., Giudice, A. (2022). Aśokan salavaḍhi. New insights on the meaning of sala. In Aevum, 96(1), 65-82.