Mr Andrea Farina
PhD Candidate in Digital Humanities
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Biography
Andrea is a PhD Candidate in Digital Humanities, holding a UKRI scholarship from the London Arts & Humanities Partnership (LAHP). He holds a bachelor’s degree in Classics and a master’s degree in Linguistics and has been involved in the syntactic and semantic annotation for different ongoing projects (the Greek WordNet, the Latin WordNet, the Sanskrit WordNet, the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit).
Andrea is a member of the Computational Humanities Research Group at King’s. He is Associate Editor and Social Media Editor of the Journal of Open Humanities Data. He is also the creator and convenor of the Data in Historical Linguistics international seminar series.
Research interests and PhD supervision
- Computational tools and methods for Historical Linguistics.
- Syntactic and semantic annotation and quantitative analysis in ancient languages (Latin, Ancient Greek).
- Analysis of the semantics of pre-verbs via computational methods in ancient languages (Latin, Ancient Greek).
- Analysis of literal and metaphorical motion events.
Selected Publications
- 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.
Research
Computational Humanities Research Group
Computational Humanities research group
Events
Data Driven Classics: Exploring the Power of Shared Datasets
The study of the ancient world increasingly relies on curated datasets, emphasising the importance of data sharing and reproducibility for open research in...
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Seminar: Museums online: defining and evaluating success
During the COVID-19 national lockdowns, there was a significant increase in the amount of content UK museums uploaded online. By publishing on social media...
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High-dimensional cinema
Discover how Artificial Intelligence and related technologies are reshaping the production and understanding of audiovisual culture.
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Research
Computational Humanities Research Group
Computational Humanities research group
Events
Data Driven Classics: Exploring the Power of Shared Datasets
The study of the ancient world increasingly relies on curated datasets, emphasising the importance of data sharing and reproducibility for open research in...
Please note: this event has passed.
Seminar: Museums online: defining and evaluating success
During the COVID-19 national lockdowns, there was a significant increase in the amount of content UK museums uploaded online. By publishing on social media...
Please note: this event has passed.
High-dimensional cinema
Discover how Artificial Intelligence and related technologies are reshaping the production and understanding of audiovisual culture.
Please note: this event has passed.