Artificial Intelligence for the Digital Humanities

The research area on "Artificial Intelligence for the Digital Humanities" investigates the development of Artificial Intelligence methodologies, techniques, and tools, and their application to support Digital Humanities studies, in particular related to Foreign Languages and Literatures. The main research streams concern the development of tools and techniques for: natural language processing and the extraction of quality knowledge from textual resources; the well-founded representation of the extracted knowledge and automated reasoning for deriving new one; the development of resources and applications according to Semantic Web and Linked Data best practices; effective information and document retrieval.