Diana Santos: Short presentation

I am currently teaching Portuguese language and linguistics at the University of Oslo (Institute for European languages, literature and area studies), after 25 years of research and development on the computational processing of Portuguese, which included the launching and management of the Linguateca project, which is still alive.

For my current and past teaching, please see my institutional page at UiO. My research interests (both from a language and a computational point of view) are Semantics, Translation, Corpus-based research and teaching, Evaluation, Cultural studies, and Statistical methods in linguistics and literature.

Identitywise, I am therefore: a language engineer, a computational linguist, a corpus linguist, and a researcher in digital humanities. See my homepage at the Linguateca site for further information and publications, mainly for a lusophone or at least lusophile audience.

But life at university is much more than teaching and/or writing papers... so:

I have also engaged in 2013-14 in a uproar against enforcing an email proprietary system at the University of Oslo, see the Against MS Exchange page.
I keep fighting for hiring a new colleague for lusophone literature and culture since the end of 2011, see Why we need an expert on Portuguese literature and culture and not on "Portuguese literature/culture in Brasil"... Full story soon.
I have also organized, with Kai Wikberg and Kari Fonnes, the ILOS reading circle 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 until summer 2015.
I organize, together with Ana Rita Ferreira, João Marques Lopes and Fabiana Michalsen, first; then with the two first and Larissa Avelar; and now with Emanoel Pires, Rebeca Schumacher Fuão and Marcia Langfeldt, a reading circle in Portuguese on lusophone authors since february 2016
I keep a blog on lusophone/lusophile matters.
I put some effort in dissemination activities around Portuguese, as the following dissemination page shows.

I have also written a booklet on Portuguese to convince pupils and their parents to choose Portuguese as foreign language at high school, and co-authored a book to teach Portuguese:

Portugisisk i verden. Fremmedspråksenteret, desember 2015: pdf
Londrim, Graciete, Diana Santos, Fabiana Michalsen & Heidi Jansen. Viva!, Fagbokforlaget, 2017.

Of historical interest (?), see my interview (in Norwegian) as new employee at ILOS, 18 March 2011.

Last modified: 21 August 2017