28.1711, Meet our next Featured Linguist, Nicoletta Calzolari!

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1711. Fri Apr 07 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1711, Meet our next Featured Linguist, Nicoletta Calzolari!

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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 11:46:54
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Meet our next Featured Linguist, Nicoletta Calzolari!

 
Dear subscribers,

We are pleased to present you our next featured linguist of the 2017 Fund
Drive: Nicoletta Calzolari! Read her story and more on our blog or on our fund
drive web page:

http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/

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It is difficult to write about myself, but it can be an occasion to relive
some moments of my life. I am grateful to Damir also for this. Here some
notes, with personal memories interspersed with moments of professional life.

The beginning: the role of chance

Immediately after I graduated in philosophy, with a thesis on Logical
antinomies, I remember saying to myself: words, words, words, I have enough of
words! I did not know, but my destiny was linked to words.

So many things in life happen by chance. I moved to Pisa from Ferrara for
family reasons and I saw a notice for a grant at Pisa University in a
completely new field: Computational Linguistics. I tried applying, knowing
that it would have been impossible. But I won it. This was the beginning.

(...)

Read more:
http://blog.linguistlist.org/fund-drive/featured-linguist-nicoletta-calzolari

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