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Piroska Lendvai studied Anglo-Saxon and Slavic philology (Pécs, Hungary). Being inspired by seminal science fiction literature such as ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘Neuromancer’, she decided to do a PhD in a field that combines languages and AI - natural language processing (Tilburg, Netherlands). After spending several years on training algorithms to understand what people do when they must talk to a machine, for example about about train connections (‘Computer, I never told you I wanted to go to Mügli am See! Restart again!’), or when they must sort zoology metadata into museum databases (‘Computer, ‘dead humid leaves’ should be the finding place of this animal, not the cause of its death!’), she decided to go back to her roots, and has taken up a position at the Research Institute for Linguistics (Budapest, Hungary). Currently, she is affiliated to the Digital Humanities Lab of the University of Basel (Switzerland), where she supports research in Humanities and Social Sciences via tools and approaches from language technology.