Darja Fišer

Darja Fišer is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History and at the Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute. Between 2018 and 2020 she served as Vice-Executive Director of CLARIN ERIC and as Director of User Involvement between 2016 and 2020. Since 2016, she has also been Chair of the FoLLI Steering Committee of the biggest European summer school on language, logic, and computation ESSLLI, and is serving as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and of the National Interdisciplinary Research E-Infrastructure for Bulgarian Language and Cultural Heritage Resources and Technologies. She was President of the Slovenian Language Technologies Society between 2014 and 2018 and is now a member of its Management Board.

She is an expert in the development of resources, technologies, and methods for the analysis of specialized discourse, such as parliamentary debates and Netspeak, for Slovene, and related languages, such as Croatian and Serbian. Her work has a strong interdisciplinary dimension and combines corpus linguistic theory and methodology with natural language processing techniques, applied to socially contextualized language use. With her involvement in the international e-infrastructure landscape (CLARIN ERIC, EOSC, RDA) she also plays an important role in the Open Science agenda, FAIR data principles, and reproducible and replicable research and policy.

CV updated on 2022-10-01.