Pablo Ruiz Fabo

Pablo Ruiz Fabo is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Language Technologies and Digital Humanities of the University of Strasbourg since 2018. He is currently developing a research project at CiTIUS, funded by a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. His academic journey began with a PhD in Language Sciences at Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL) in 2017, where he focused on Natural Language Processing applications to Digital Humanities use cases.

Dr. Ruiz Fabo's primary research interests include Natural Language Processing, Digital Humanities, Computational Literary Studies, and language technologies with specific applications to poetry and theater analysis. His work centers on developing NLP applications for literary analysis, automation of digital corpus development, and promoting digital visibility for less commonly studied literary traditions. He has made significant contributions to the computational analysis of Spanish and Galician literature through corpus development and linguistic annotation.

His publication record shows a clear trajectory of increasingly sophisticated computational approaches to literary analysis, moving from foundational NLP applications to complex diachronic corpus studies and specialized analysis of poetic devices. Recent work demonstrates expertise in transfer learning, emotion analysis in historical corpora, and specialized theater text processing. His research bridges computational methods with humanities scholarship, creating valuable resources for both communities.

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship

Dr. Ruiz Fabo has led several significant research projects including the MeThAL project (creating the first large public electronic corpus for theater in Alsatian), the Thealtres project (comparing social variables of 19th century theater characters), and the COMPEL project (computational analysis of literature in Galician). His work focuses on developing resources that increase digital visibility for less commonly studied literary traditions, adding diversity to Computational Literary Studies. He is also the creator of the Diachronic Spanish Sonnet Corpus (DISCO), a major resource for researchers in Spanish poetry.

His laboratory work centers around the development of digital resources and computational tools for literary analysis, with particular emphasis on theater and poetry corpora. The DISCO project represents one of his most significant contributions to the field, providing a richly annotated corpus of Spanish sonnets spanning five centuries with specialized linguistic and literary annotations.