Darja Fišer, PhD

RESEARCH

Research interests:

• Corpus linguistics
• Digital humanities
• Language technologies

On-going projects:

• DIHUR: Digital Humanities: Resources, Tools, Methods
• LiLaH: The linguistic landscape of hate speech on social media
• SSHOC: Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud
• RSDO: Development of Slovene in a Digital Environment – Language Resources and Technologies

Past projects:

• FRENK: Resources, methods and tools for the understanding, identification and classification of various forms of socially unacceptable discourse in the information society
• KAS: Slovene scientific texts: resources and description
• JANES: Resources, Tools and Methods for the Research of Nonstandard Internet Slovene

FUNCTIONS

Positions:

• DARIAH-SI: national coordinator
• ESSLLI: chair of the Standing Committee
• ACDH: vice-chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Austrian centre for digital humanities and cultural heritage at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• CLaDA-BG: meber of the Scientific Advisory Board of the E-infrastructure for Bulgarian language and cultural heritage
• FoLLI: member of the Management Board
• SDJT: member of the Management Board

Editorial board member:

• JLM: Journal of language modelling (since 2012)
• Slo2.0: Slovenščina 2.0 : empirical, applied and interdisciplinary research (since 2012)

Guest editor:

• EUJAL: European journal of applied linguistics (2019)
• PNZ: Contributions to Contemporary History (2019)

Programme chair:

• JTDH: Language Technologies and Digital Humanities conference 2018, 2020, 2022
• ParlaCLARIN: Workshop on creating, using and linking of parliamentary corpora 2018, 2020, 2022
• TwinTalks: Workshop on understanding and facilitating collaboration in Digital Humanities 2019, 2020a, 2020b
• Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora 2016

Area chair:

• LREC: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2022, Area Corpora and Annotation

Organization:

• JTDH: Language Technologies and Digital Humanities conference 2016
• CMC-corpora: Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora 2016
• ESSLLI: European Summer School in Language, Logic and Computation 2011

Reviewing:

Journals

• Natural Language Engineering
• Language Resources and Evaluation

Conferences

• ACL (since 2013)
• EACL (since 2012)
• EMNLP (since 2013)
• NAACL (since 2019)
• RANLP (since 2013)
• TSD (since 2010)

Workshops

• DIPADA: Digital parliamentary data in action 2022
• LTaDH-BG: Language Technologies and Digital Humanities in Bulgaria 2021

TEACHING

• PhD course:

Corpus linguistics and the use of language technologies in lexicography at Post-graduate School ZRC SAZU

• PhD students:
  • Kristina Pahor de Maiti: Metaphor in socially unacceptable discourse online
  • Jasmin Franza: Emotion recognition and analysis in socially unacceptable discourse on social media
  • Jaka Čibej: Corpus analysis and detection of regional language variants in Internet Slovene (defended in October 2021)