Executive committee

	Document Contents 2006-2009 2007-2010 2008-2011 Co-opted Members

Members of the Executive Committee are elected by the Annual General Meeting of the Association. There are nine members of the committee, each serving a three year term. At each AGM three members retire, and three are elected. Retiring members may be nominated for re-election. Current members are:

2006-2009

	John Nerbonne		Melissa Terras - Membership Services Coordinator		Dino Buzzetti

2007-2010

	Elisabeth Burr		Laszlo Hunyadi		Liliane Gallet-Blanchard

2008-2011

	Alejandro Bia		Arianna Ciula		Øyvind Eide

Co-opted Members 2008-2009

	Espen Ore		Jan Christoph Meister		Tomoji Tabata

2006-2009

John Nerbonne

John Nerbonne has been professor of Computational Linguistics and chair of Humanities Computing (with a secondary appointment in computer science) at the University of Groningen since 1993. He likewise has served as director of the 100-member Center for Language and Cognition Groningen since 1999. He has led projects on Computer-Assisted Language Learning, machine learning applied to grammar, and natural language processing techniques applied to the retrieval of handwritten documents.

John Nerbonne's current research interests are focused on the analysis of linguistic variation, especially algorithms measuring pronunciation differences, which have been applied to Dutch, German, Norwegian, American English, Sardinian, Bulgarian, and Gabon Bantu.

Nerbonne served as president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2002 and was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in 2005.

Melissa Terras

m.terras [at] ucl.ac.uk

Melissa Terras is a Lecturer in Electronic Communication and Publishing at University College London, teaching Internet Technologies, Web Publishing, and Digital Resources in the Humanities in the School of Library, Archive, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Her research interests include Humanities Computing, Digitisation and Digital Imaging, Artificial Intelligence, Palaeography, Knowledge Elicitation, Internet Technologies, and Virtual Reality.

Prior to joining UCL in August 2003, she was the Assistant Manager of the Engineering Policy department at the Royal Academy of Engineering. Melissa was awarded a DPhil from The University of Oxford in 2002, her doctoral work being a joint project between the Department of Engineering Science and the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, which looked at how to build cognitive systems to aid historians in the reading of damaged and deteriorated texts. Melissa has published various articles on virtual reality and archaeology, and the use of image processing in the study of ancient documents. She is involved in various research projects, and collaborations with other universities and institutions.

Dino Buzzetti

buzzetti [at] philo.unibo.it

Dino Buzzetti is an historian of philosophy and teaches medieval philosophy at the University of Bologna. He has published essays on medieval logic and metaphysics and the history of logic in general. He has also taught document representation and processing in the Faculty of Preservation of the Cultural Heritage in Ravenna and gives humanities computing courses to philosophy students. He has published articles on digital editions of manuscript texts and digital text representation and is among the contributors to the TEI/MLA volume on Electronic Textual Editing.

A complete list of publications can be found here.

2007-2010

Elected for 2 further years under new Constitution

Elisabeth Burr

Elisabeth.Burr [at] uni-duisburg.de

Elisabeth Burr studied Romance, English and German literature and linguistics at the universities of Tübingen, Leeds and Amien from 1971 to 1980. After having spent more than 5 years in Naples (Italy) as a lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service she took up a post in the Italian Department at Duisburg University where she taught Italian linguistic and was awarded a PhD in 1991 for a dissertation on Verb and Variety (Verb und Varietät. Ein Beitrag zur Bestimmung der sprachlichen Variation am Beispiel der italienischen Zeitungssprache) conducted on the basis of a corpus of Italian newspaper language created by herself. After having concluded her 'Habilitation' (post-doctoral monograph) on Repeated Discourse and idiomatic competence (Wiederholte Rede und idiomatische Kompetenz. Französisch, Italienisch, Spanisch) based on a corpus of French, Italian and Spanish newspaper language (created by herself ), she held several temporary professorships of Romance linguistics (universities of Cologne, Siegen, Bremen and Marburg). In 2005 she was offered the Chair of French, Francophone and Italian linguistics at Leipzig University. Her research, teaching and main publications focus on corpora and corpus linguistics, language varieties, language and gender, language policy, the impact of tecnologies on the status of languages and the linguistic attitudes of human communities, and the integration of philologies and IT.

She participated in the project proposal EUROSYNCH, represented her university in the Thematic Network ACO*HUM, proposed the project "Humanities and Information Technologies (HUM*IT)" in the framework of the European Year of Languages 2001, organised SILFI 2000 and CLiP 2001 and is a prominent member of the Network of Excellence "Computing & Humanities in Multilingual Europe" (CHiME). In 2001 the Humanities Computing Unit at Oxford University offered her a Distinguished Visiting Scholarship and in 2004 and 2005 the European Commission appointed her as an independent expert to the evaluation sessions for proposals received in response to the calls FP6-2003-Infrastructures-4 and FP6-2004-Infrastructures-5.

Having joined the ALLC in 1989 and having served as associated member of its Executive Committee from 1998 to 2001 she was elected member of the ALLC's Executive Committee in 2001. The other steering boards she is currently a member of are the boards of the German Association for Applied Linguistics (GAL), of Computer - Literature - Philology (CLiP) and of the Circolo dei dialettologi di Sappada. At the moment she is also Chair of the Standing Committee on Multi-lingualism & Multi-culturalism of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) and Internationalisation Editor of the Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ).

For more details, see her web page.

Laszlo Hunyadi

hunyadi [at] ling.arts.klte.hu

Laszlo Hunyadi studied English and Russian philology at the University of Debrecen and received his university diploma in 1971. Since then he has been working at the same university, currently as chairman of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. He earned his university doctorate in 1975, PhD in 1981 and received the title Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Science in 2001. His main theoretical interest has been the syntax-semantics and the syntax-prosody interface (Hungarian Sentence Prosody and Universal Grammar; Peter Lang 2001). In the field of applied linguistics his main interest is computational linguistics (machine translation, experimental phonetics) and multimedia.

Between 1992 and 1996, as manager of a World Bank project he initiated the introduction of computational approaches across several humanities disciplines, establishing laboratories of computational linguistics, language teaching and multimedia design at the Faculty of Humanities.

He organized the first Hungarian national conference 'Computers and the Humanities' and was the local organizer of the 1998 joint ALLC-ACH Conference held at Debrecen.

He established the Digital Humanities Centre at the University of Debrecen in 2006.

Liliane Gallet-Blanchard

Prof. Liliane Gallet-Blanchard is co-director of the Research Centre ‘Cultures Anglophones et Technologies de l’ Information’ (CATI) at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, which supports the introduction of IT into humanities disciplines and authors digital documents. She was project leader for CATI cd rom on 18th century cities (2000), and is now directing the centre current project, a VR model of Montmartre in the jazz age.

She is head of the Electronic Communication Unit at the Sorbonne, and is conducting an experiment in distance-learning with a course management unit. Her research seminar concerns humanities computing.

Internationally, she has presented her work at several DRH and ALLC conferences, and written extensively on the subject.

A full biographical note may be found here.

2008-2011

Alejandro Bia

alex.bia [at] ua.es

Alejandro Bia has a background in computer science. He studied at ORT University, Oxford University and the at University of Alicante.

Currently he is a full time lecturer at the Miguel Hernández University, within the Department of Statistics, Mathematics, and Computer Science. He has lectured for the Master in Digital Humanities (2005-present), and the Master in Web Technology (2005-2007) at the University of Castilla La Mancha, for the Department of Languages and Information Systems (2002-2004) and the Department of Fundamentals of Economic Analysis of the University of Alicante (2002), and at ORT University (1990-1996). His lecture topics are XML,TEI, and digital libraries, software engineering, project management, concurrent programming, operating systems, computer architecture, computer networks and English for computer sciences.

At present, he participates in two emergent digitisation projects: the Bibliotheca Europa project of the University of Alicante, and with the Atenea project of the University of Málaga. In 2005, he has done consultancy work for the National Library of Spain.

From 1999 to 2004, he has been Head of Research and Development of the Miguel de Cervantes Digital Library at the University of Alicante. Previously, he has worked as Special-Projects Manager at NetGate (1996), and as Documentation Editor of the GeneXus project at Advanced Research and Technology (ARTech) (1991-1994).

His current interests are the application of software engineering methods and techniques to digital libraries and to enhance document structure design, multilingual markup languages, digitisation automation by computer means, digital preservation, digitisation metrics and cost estimates.

Arianna Ciula

arianna.ciula [at] kcl.ac.uk

Arianna Ciula graduated with BA (Hons) in Communication sciences (University of Siena, Italy) in 2001. She received an MA in Applied Computing in the Humanities from King's College London in 2004 and received a PhD in Manuscript and Book Studies from the University of Siena in 2005 (a full CV is available at http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~aciula/cv/cv.html). She is currently Research Associate at Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London. She has worked in the XML team of the department for four years, her primary responsibility being the support of around 20 digital humanities research projects. Her work deals with document analysis, basic and advanced training on text encoding and development of digital resources. She also teaches a postgraduate course on 'Material Culture of the book: Digital Models' in the MA of Digital Humanities and has been lecturing within seminars, workshops, undergraduates and postgraduate programmes on humanities computing and primary sources at various Universities.

Besides ALLC, she is member of other international digital communities relevant to the humanities (she is elected member of the TEI Consortium technical Council and of the Digital Medievalist executive board). She has been involved in the organisation of international conferences (DIGIMED, CLiP 2006, TEI Members Meeting 2008). Dr Ciula's research interests focus, in general, on the debate and creation of digital resources related to primary sources. Having worked on digitisation projects and having experience on image-processing, she is interested in the connection between image-based research and textual technologies.

Øyvind Eide

Øyvind Eide is a senior analyst at the Unit for Digital Documentation, University of Oslo. He has been involved in several digitisation and database development projects in the humanities, including the Documentation Project, the Museum Project and the Ibsen Manuscript Project. He is the co-convener of the TEI Ontologies SIG and the chair of The CIDOC Co-reference Working Group.

He has a master degree in Humanities Computing from the University of Oslo from 2004. The name of the master thesis is Fra SGML til begrunnede påstander om verden : et system for analyse av geografiske resonnementer uttrykt i historiske tekster (From SGML to Motivated Statements about the World : a System for Analysis of Geographic Reasoning Expressed in Historical Texts). He has also studied mathematics, computer science and general literature in the late 1980's.

He worked in the library sector from 1991-1995. From 1995 onwards he has been an employee of the University of Oslo, in the following positions:

• 1995-97: Technical consultant at the Documentation Project, responsible for a sub-project in which text collections, map facsimiles and bibliographical material were digitised.
• 1998-2000: Manager of the Henrik Ibsen Manuscript Project, in which all available Ibsen manuscripts were digitised, and about half of the letters. This work included digitisation of material from more than 20 institutions, as well as the development of a web publishing system for the facsimiles with connected metadata.
• 2000-: Senior analyst at the Unit for Digital Documentation at the University of Oslo. In this period, he has taken part in the modelling and development of several database systems for the culture heritage sector, to a large extent through the Museum Project and the lexicographical project Norsk Ordbok 2014 ( Norwegian Dictionary 2014 ). He has taken part in two EU funded projects, ARENA and EPOCH and two NUFU funded projects working with African lexicography, ALLEX and CROBOL.
• In the period 2001-2002, he was the director of the Museum Project.

His research interests include modelling geographical expressions found in texts into conceptual models and, more generally, the connection between text encoding and ontological systems. A list of publications can be found here.

Co-opted Members

Espen Ore

Espen.Ore [at] nb.no

Espen S. Ore works in the ICT-department of the National Library of Norway, Oslo, where he works with computerising among other things the manuscript collection and parts of the so called special collections. He also works with text encoding and text archives. He was employed at the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities (NCCH) at the University of Bergen since from 1984 to 2001. From 1980-83 he worked with software development for various projects in the humanities at the University of Oslo, and in 1995 he served as a temporary director for the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB). From 1998 to 2001 he was responsible for the text encoding used in the editorial project "Henrik Ibsen's Writings".

He is doing work in papyrology and has directed a project in runology which had as one of its result a WWW-accessible database of runic inscriptions from Bergen.

He has also worked with multimedia and hypertext.

He has published numerous articles in national and international books and journals, and with Anne Haavaldsen at the NCCH he has published a catalogue of runic inscriptions found in Bergen. He was the local organizer of the 1996 joint ALLC-ACH conference in Bergen, and was area coordinator for the 'Textual Scholarship' area in the European project ACO*Hum (Advanced Computing in the Humanities). He has published numerous articles in national and international books and journals, and with Anne Haavaldsen at the NCCH he has published a catalogue of runic inscriptions found in Bergen.

He was the local organizer of the 1996 joint ALLC-ACH conference in Bergen, and was area coordinator for the 'Textual Scholarship' area in the European project ACO*Hum (Advanced Computing in the Humanities).

Jan Christoph Meister

mail [at] jcmeister.de

Jan Christoph Meister is a Professor of Modern German Literature with specialisations in Theory of Literature, Methodology of Textual Analysis and Literary Computing, in the Department of Language, Literature and Media at the University of Hamburg.

Among his publications in Literary Computing are the book Computing Action. A Narratological Approach (Berlin, New York 2003) and a number of articles on computer aided modeling of time and theme structures in narratives. He is also engaged in the development of game based eLearning applications and is a founder member of Hamburg Digital Humanities, an alliance of Digital Humanities oriented initiatives. He is also Vice-President of the Intedisciplinary Centre for Narratology at his Hamburg University.

For further details, see his web site www.jcmeister.de

Tomoji Tabata