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Dr. Franziska Pannach is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands), affiliated with the Centre for Language and Cognition (CLCG). She specializes in Computational Linguistics, Digital Humanities, and Semantic Web Technology, focusing on modeling narratives and mythological texts using NLP and ontologies. Her work emphasizes Open Science and cross-cultural comparisons of folktales and myths.
- Education: Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) in Applied Computer Science (Digital Humanities/Computational Linguistics), University of Göttingen, Germany (2024)
- MSc in Applied Computer Science (Digital Humanities), University of Göttingen (2019)
- BSc in Applied Computer Science (Computational Neuroscience), University of Göttingen (2013)
Research Interests include computational approaches to mythological and folkloristic analysis, shallow ontologies for narrative comparison, and semantic web applications in cross-cultural studies. She leads the GOLEM (Graph Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models) project and contributed to the STRATA (Stratification Analyses for Mythic Narrative Materials) project.
- Teaching: Semantic Web Technology (MSc), Database-driven Web Technology (BSc), Digital Humanities: Tools and Methods (MSc), Analysing Data (MSc)
- Supervision: PhD students Pritha Majumdar (RUG) and Kristina Schneider (RUG/University of Mainz)
Publications focus on narrative ontologies, mythological event annotation, and NLP for under-resourced languages. Her recent work includes the GOLEM Triple Store and shallow ontologies for myth comparison.
Networks & Memberships:
- Member, Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) since 2019
- Co-founder and editor of the Journal of Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (JDHASA)
- Collaborations with institutions in Germany, South Africa, and Denmark
