Adrien Barbaresi

Current position

Research scientist, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
Center for Digital Lexicography of German
→ Notably in charge of contemporary and web text collections

Research Interests

• (Web) corpus construction and exploitation, from crawling/OCR to visualization
• Corpus and computational linguistics with emphasis on non-standard data

For more information see research blog and software released under open-source licenses

Services

• Reviews for conferences (notably ACL, CMC-Corpora, Computational Humanities Research, Digital Humanities, EACL, EMNLP, KONVENS), SwissText; research projects (ESF, FWO); volume chapters (e.g. proofreader profile for Language Science Press); journals (Journal of Open Humanities Data, Language Resources and Evaluation); and workshops (CPSS, SOCAI)
• Organization of conferences (KONVENS 2018) and workshops, e.g. Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora (CMLC) & 12th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-XII)
• Editor (2017-2021) of the Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (JLCL) and member of the executive board of the German Society for Computational Linguistics & Language Technology (GSCL)
• Director (2011-2013) of ENthèSe (association of doctoral candidates)

Teaching

• Guest lecturer at Zhejiang University (浙大) (Hangzhou, China) since 2016. Classes on methodological and practical aspects of corpus linguistics, text analysis and visualization (School of international studies / 外语学院)
• Master level classes and tutoring at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (2011-2013): Collaborative work and language teaching, (Open) Data collection and visualization, Web design with CSS/XHTML for beginners, Introduction to and Advanced LaTeX
• Associate lecturer at the University of Freiburg (Germany) (2005-2006): translation (German to French) and text analysis (French texts) on Bachelor and Master level.

For more information see the archives or my presentations on SlideShare.

Selected Publications

See also my profile on Google Scholar.

• Trafilatura: A Web Scraping Library and Command-Line Tool for Text Discovery and Extraction
  Adrien Barbaresi
  Proceedings of ACL/IJCNLP 2021: System Demonstrations, pp. 122-131, 2021.
  [PDF] [Code] [Project]

• Out-of-the-Box and Into the Ditch? Multilingual Evaluation of Generic Text Extraction Tools
  Adrien Barbaresi, Gaël Lejeune
  Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020), Proceedings of the 12th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-XII), pp. 5-13, 2020.
  [PDF] [Code] [Project]

• A corpus of German political speeches from the 21st century
  Adrien Barbaresi
  11th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018), pp. 792-797, 2018.
  [PDF] [Project]

• A Constellation and a Rhizome: Two Studies on Toponyms in Literary Texts
  Adrien Barbaresi
  Visualisierung sprachlicher Daten: Visual Linguistics – Praxis – Tools, N. Bubenhofer & M. Kupietz (eds.), Heidelberg University Publishing, pp. 167-184, 2018.
  [PDF]

Education

• Dr. phil. in Linguistics: Ad hoc and general-purpose corpus construction from web sources (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 2015).
  Thesis committee: Benoît Habert (advisor), Thomas Lebarbé (chair), Henning Lobin (reviewer), Jean-Philippe Magué (co-advisor), Ludovic Tanguy (reviewer).

Past Projects

• CLARIN-D and German Text Archive (DTA) projects at the BBAW
• Research associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Academy Corpora group)
• COW at the FU Berlin
• Corpus Linguistics and Instrumented Text Databases team at ICAR lab

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