Guest Contributor for South Asian Studies
Erica Biagetti earned a BA in Classics and a MA in Linguistics (La Sapienza University of Rome, University of Pavia). During her MA, she focused on Sanskrit, Computational Linguistics, and the syntax of ancient Indo-European languages; she also did an internship at CIRCSE (UCSC Milan), where she worked on a treebank of Classical Sanskrit.
During her PhD at the University of Pavia (2018-2021), Erica contributed to the construction of the Vedic Treebank, hosted by the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit. In the project, she focused on the annotation of the most ancient text of Vedic literature, the Rigveda.
Since 2021, she is a post-doctoral researcher in Pavia, where she continues working on treebanks and the construction of digital resources for ancient languages. She is a member of the project Linked WordNets for Ancient Indo-European Languages, aimed at building three linked databases for the study of the Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, and Latin lexicon, and she co-founded a working group for the morphosyntactic annotation of ancient languages (Universal Dependencies for Historical Languages, UD4HL). She teaches Digital Humanities at the University of Pavia.
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