Maria Pia Ester Cristaldi

Maria Pia Ester Cristaldi has a PhD in Communication obtained at the University of Marmara in Istanbul. She has worked on a thesis demonstrating the continuity of the Turkish language between the Late Nineteenth Century and the first years of the Turkish Republic (Early Twentieth Century) through a survey of Ottoman newspapers. Her research interests cover language sciences, sociolinguistics, and the analysis of non- Latin writing systems. She is interested in Natural Language Processing.

She is currently working as a post-doctoral research assistant in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bologna. In the same Department, she is a researcher in the European Research Council- funded project NONWESTLIT, a comparative study of cultural reforms, linguistic renewal, and literary renaissance movements in three imperial traditions, caught between the East-West divide in the 19th century: Turkey, Russia and Japan. In the project, she is responsible for the linguistic and quantitative data analysis.

 

Project website: https://site.unibo.it/nonwestlit/en

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