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Maciej Eder<\/a> works as Visiting Professor in Digital Humanities at the University of Tartu, and Professor in Linguistics at the Institute of Polish Language (Polish Academy of Sciences). Currently, he is also the Chair of the Committee of Linguistics at the Polish Academy of Sciences, the principal investigator of the project Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure, co-founder of the Computational Stylistics Group, and the main developer of the R package \u2018Stylo\u2019 for performing stylometric analyses. While Maciej\u2019s background is Early Modern literature, specifically the 17th-century Polish and Latin prose, his career path was shaped by a few unexpected twists, including a position of a lexicographer (working on the 15th-century Polish), and then a researcher in quantitative linguistics (exploring language change). Currently, Maciej\u2019s main research area lays somewhere between literary studies and linguistics, and revolves around computer-assisted text analysis and quantitative approaches to style variation. These include measuring style using statistical methods, authorship attribution based on quantitative measures, as well as \u2018distant reading\u2019 methods to analyze dozens (or hundreds) of literary works at a time.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Liina Lindstr\u00f6m<\/a> is Head of the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics at the University of Tartu. She is also working as the Head of Centre for Digital Humanities<\/a> and as professor of Modern Estonian Language. She was awarded her Doctoral degree<\/a> in 2005 at the University of Tartu. Before her current position, she has worked as a researcher at the University of Turku and as a senior researcher and docent at the University of Tartu.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Joshua Wilbur<\/a> works as Lecturer is Digital Linguistics. After completing his MA in General Linguistics from the University of Leipzig, he started a PhD project aimed at documenting and describing Pite Saami, a critically endangered Uralic language spoken in northern Scandinavia. The resulting documentation corpus was the basis for his PhD in General Linguistics from Kiel University and for A Grammar of Pite Saami<\/a>, a fully open-access monograph. In the context of a postdoc project at the University of Freiburg, he began working with the Giellatekno Research group for Saami Language Technology<\/a> to implement an NLP infrastructure for Pite Saami, including automatically annotating his spoken-language documentation corpus. He also published a (paper) dictionary of Pite Saami and continues to develop and maintain an online digital lexical resource<\/a> for Pite Saami. He moved to Tartu in 2019 and worked as Visiting Lecturer in Digital Humanities for 3.5 years, before he finally stopped \u201cvisiting\u201d and settled down in Tartu in his current position as Lecturer in Digital Linguistics. Joshua is the National Coordinator for CLARIN ERIC<\/a> in Estonia and is the Chair of the Pite Saami Standardization Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Loone Vilumaa is working as Project Manager of Digital Humanities since the beginning of the DigiTS project in March 2025. Before joining the University of Tartu, she was working at the Estonian Research Council (2019-2025)- first as an R&D Analyst and then in the field of Research Culture as a Coordinator of Research Ethics and later as Senior Adviser of Research Culture. Before moving to Tartu, she was studying and working in Tallinn- she has a Master\u2019s degree in Sociology and before switching fields was working at the International Organization for Migration (United Nations). <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kristiina Vaik<\/a> is a research fellow in Digital Humanities and holds a PhD in Linguistics. Her research background centers on corpus and computational linguistics and natural language processing, with particular interest in text classification and Web corpora. During her doctoral research<\/a>, she addressed the limitations of existing taxonomies for classifying Web corpora and developed a theoretical framework for automatic text classification. She has also worked as a data scientist at TEXTA, the first language technology startup in Estonia focused on natural language processing and its applications. Her broader experience spans multiple research initiatives, including creating essential tools and resources for parsing Estonian within the \u201cEstonian Language Technology\u201d national programme. She also enjoys teaching students practical and applied skills in computational linguistics.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Botond Szemes is a research fellow in Digital Humanities and holds a PhD in Literary Studies. He previously worked at the Institute for Literary Studies (Department of Literary Theory) in Budapest, Hungary. His research explores computational approaches to literature, including stylometry, quantitative drama analysis and network theory, as well as the role of statistical methods and data visualization in knowledge production. His 2024 book offers the first Hungarian overview of computational literary studies. He is secretary of the Hungarian Comparative Literary Studies Association and a member of the ICLA Digital Comparative Literature Committee.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Thiago Dumont Oliveira<\/a> is a research fellow in Digital Humanities\u00a0at the University of Tartu and a research associate at the Centre of Latin American Studies<\/a>, University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Siena and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Basel, the University of Turin, and Arizona State University. His research agenda focuses on political economy, sustainable development, and computational linguistics. He is currently investigating the coevolution of theories, practices, and conceptions of sustainable development in Brazil since 1930. This project aims to provide an in-depth account of the changing nature of development strategies in Brazil, unpacking its meanings and practices through the interrelated dimensions of knowledge production, expertise, political praxis, and institutional sedimentation, contributing to policy frameworks that can accelerate the transition to inclusive sustainability in the Global South.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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DigiTS PhD students <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Bhumika Bhattacharyya, Junior Researcher in Digital Humanities, holds an MA in Linguistics and a BA in Bengali Language and Literature from Jadavpur University<\/a>, complemented by certification in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science. Her research focuses on computational linguistics and digital humanities, with particular interest in low-resource Indic languages, hate speech detection, and content moderation. She has contributed to projects on political discourse analysis, multilingual data annotation, and ethical AI, and has professional experience as a research contributor in conflict studies and as a translator of Bengali literature. In 2025, she started her PhD studies at the University of Tartu.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sofia Kriuchkova<\/a> is a Junior Researcher in Linguistics. She holds an MA in Computational Linguistics and a BA in German Language and Literature (major) and English Language and Literature (minor) from the University of Tartu. Her main research interests are grammar, language variation, sociolinguistics, and gender studies in linguistics. She contributes to projects on variational linguistics and automated processing of old Estonian texts. In 2025, she started her PhD studies at the University of Tartu. Her dissertation focuses on differences in the language use of Estonian-speaking men and women.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Olga Filippova <\/strong>is involved in DigiTS at the University of Tartu, where, under Thiago Dumont Oliveira\u2019s supervision, she researches political and economic discourse using LLMs and statistical methods. She has a background in economics and is currently completing a Master\u2019s degree in Political Science at the Johan Skytte Institute. Previously, Olga has worked as a\u00a0research intern at the SEB bank, where she studied the impact of inflation on young people\u2019s behaviour, She has also contributed to international MOOCs about democracy and polarization as a teaching assistant.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Manpreet Kaur<\/strong> is a Master\u2019s student in Rare Book and Digital Humanities at Universit\u00e9 Marie et Louis Pasteur, France. She holds a Bachelor\u2019s degree (Honors) in History from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. Her research focuses on women\u2019s writing and travel narratives in colonial India, combining literary analysis with digital methods. At DigiTS, she contributes to projects involving digital approaches to cultural and historical texts, supervised by Botond Szemes and Bhumika Bhattacharyya. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manpreet Kaur\u2019s internship is funded by the Erasmus+ program. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ove \u00dcllar Viesemann <\/strong>is studying Finno-Ugric languages in the University of Tartu Linguistics MA program. He graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Linguistics degree from Seoul National University with focus on pragmatics, historical linguistics, and Estonian. As a corpus linguist, Ove is currently working on creating the Estonian Drama Corpus at DigiTS to research how the use of different conventionalized phrases have changed over time. Under the guidance of Botond Szemes, he is also stepping into the field of character network analysis.
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DigiTS is a project funded by the European Union under grant agreement ID 101186601<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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