Verena Lyding is a computational linguist and post-doc researcher at the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Eurac Research in Bolzano, Italy. Her research interest is centered around the application of computational means to support human-driven empirically based research, analysis and data curation processes. She has concluded her PhD on user-centered needs around corpus analysis tools and has worked with the visualization of linguistic data for several years.
More recently, her research focus has shifted towards Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science approaches, both for the creation of NLP resources and for supporting data processing and user involvement in the Digital Humanities. For the past four years, she has been (co-)leading the COST Action European Network for Combining Language Learning with Crowdsourcing Techniques (enetCollect) whose efforts are meant to be continued within the D4COLLECT DARIAH Working Group.