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Torruella Casañas, Joan
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ICREA Research Professor at UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Humanities
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Joan Torruella holds a PhD in Linguistics by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a Masters in Philosophy by the University of Manchester, and a Masters in Lexicography by the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He obtained a research grant by the Ministero degli Affari Esteri of Italy to conduct research on Romance Studies at the University of Florence. Later he worked at the University of Manchester as a Lecturer of Spanish and Catalan, while in turn he conducted his Masters in Philosophy. He has worked on a wide range of computing tools and resources in collaboration with the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche in Pisa (Italy). He is working as a Research Professor at the Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Studies ICREA. He is also co-director of the journal "Scriptum Digita" and a member of the Seminar of Philology and Computer Science. In 2009 he was awarded the Research Excellence Prize (PREI 2008).
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Research Interests
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My work consists of the research in the mediaeval Hispanic lexicon and of the development and application of new computer tools in order to understand and describe the process of language from real and quantifiable datum extracted from balanced corpora. At this moment I am working in contrastive studies among different Hispanic languages from the XIII to XIV centuries and in the realization of a corpus of texts of the Catalan language previous to the C. XVII (Corpus Informatitzat del Català Antic). I am also working in the development of a portal in Internet with scientific information about the lexicon of the Ibero-Romance languages (Portal de Léxico Hispánico), in the computerization of the Diccionario Crítico Etimológico Castellano e Hispánico, of Joan Coromines, among ather projects. I’m currently working on the development of a semi-automatic lemmatisator and morphological categorisator of the Old Catalan language.
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Key Words
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Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs); Computarizet corpora; Diachronic Linguistics; Textual Database
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