About

I’m Nilo Pedrazzini (IPA: [ˈniˑlo pedraˈtːsiˑni], or something like knee-law pay-drah-tsee-knee). Born and raised in bleak Sesto San Giovanni, in Northern Italy, I’ve been living in the UK since 2014.

I’m a Turing Research Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. I recently obtained my PhD in Linguistics from the University of Oxford, with a thesis on Early Slavic participle clauses and temporal subordination in typological perspective.

I was previously a Research Software Engineer at Oxford, within the Digital Scholarship @ Oxford project (DiSc) and a Research Associate at the Turing Institute, within the Living with Machines project.

Current work and main research areas

Selected past contributions in collaborative projects

Zoom in on some of my projects

Parallel Bibles
Temporal subordination in 1400+ languages of the world
Machines in the media
Semantic change in the era of mechanization
OldSlavNet
A scalable dependency parser for pre-modern Slavic
Ancient Greek graph-based syntactic embeddings
Syntactic word representations for Ancient Greek