LEXECON The international research network on economics lexicon
Requisitos
The trainees will experience a lively multidisciplinary atmosphere of research, combining economics,
history and linguistics. Under the guidance of the Department’s researchers, they will follow the
whole chain of construction of a digital corpus of texts and learn the computer-assisted techniques of:
• production of a bibliographic record and its metadata
• processing of annotated digital texts: scanning, OCR recognition, error cleaning, mark-up
and linguistic annotation
• linguistic analysis of texts
Although the activities focus on economic texts, the skills acquired are transferable to all humanities
and social sciences.
We encourage applications from master’s students and young graduates in:
• linguistics
• European literatures
• humanities (history, philosophy, anthropology, digital humanities)
• economic sciences
• political and social sciences
• computer science
Se ofrece
The Department of Economics and Management of the University of Pisa, in collaboration with the
Centro Interuniversitario di documentazione sul Pensiero Economico Italiano (CIPEI,
https://cipei.unipi.it/), offers three traineeships, each of the duration of min. 4 – max. 6 months to
master’s students or young graduates enrolled in European universities members of Erasmus+
mobility. The project will be hosted by the LEXECON research programme of the University of Pisa,
too, recently awarded by an Italian National grant (PRIN).
The trainees will contribute to the creation of a bibliographical database and a specialized corpus of
digital texts on economics that were published between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. The
texts that will be considered for the project are published in one of the following languages:
• Italian
• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
The trainees will be based at the CIPEI premises (Department of Economics and Management, Via
Cosimo Ridolfi 10, Pisa), but, in case of emergencies related to pandemic’s events or other force
majeure, they can also work remotely.
Internship eligible languages:
• English or Italian (at least B1) for communication
• Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese (at least C1) for research-related
activities
