My name is izi, computational linguist, super-passioned about biodiversity and about
the
preservation of botanical and agricultural heritage knowledge.
After working with natural language processing for multilingual biodiversity literature,
I focused on database maintenance and web development for biodiversity research groups
(data collection and field projects for mushrooms and endangered lichens).
I am thrilled to experiment with
state-of-the-art technologies to make biodiversity and sustainable agriculture more visible.
Currently, I live on a farm in the Tuscan hills where I work remotely on different projects.
In one of my early coding projects, I developed a Named Enity Recognition text processing pipeline
(BOTANICAL NER)
to detect and extract scientific and vernacular plant names from German and English texts.
The processing pipeline has been applied to
digitized botanical works to make species-related information available as Linked Open
Data
(more
INFO).
After my studies, I gained some experience in frontend web development and database maintenance
for endangered species and geo-distributed data, such as the
SPECIES WEB ATLAS.
Another research project involved developing a conversion pipeline for Linked Open Data for
visualizing forest data (LD-LFI).
Learn collectively, decompose social constructs and patterns and grow individually.
And then, go for a walk and reflect.
dragon dreaming in progress:
Creating an inclusive, feminist collective safe-space on a farm, solve problems together,
learn and grow together - no judgement for failures!
Share the spark, expand the space!
what happened in the past:
PDC 72h (women's Permaculture Design Course, L'asino e la luna, 2024).
