Research Software Engineer. Main focus: Digital Lexicography, Software Architecture, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), OCR methods.
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Francisco Mondaca is a Research Software Engineer with a focus on Digital Lexicography, Software Architecture, and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). His work also encompasses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) methods. He earned his master’s degree in Computational and General Linguistics from the University of Cologne. Since 2013, Mr. Mondaca has been part of the University of Cologne, contributing to various departments. At the Department for Linguistic Information Processing (2013–2018), he worked as a programmer and project coordinator, mainly focusing on externally funded projects. Between 2020 and 2021, he was involved in developing an image search system using image embeddings at NFDI4Culture (Prometheus Image Archive). Mr. Mondaca has been with the Cologne Center for eHumanities since 2017, working on data modeling, software architecture, and programming for linguistics. Additionally, Mr. Mondaca has played a significant role in securing research grants.
While pursuing his studies, he was responsible for initiating and consolidating the Spanish department at Linguee, a translation search engine. This role underscored his leadership in linguistic technology and project management. Currently, Mr. Mondaca is focusing on advancing his expertise in digital lexicography and linguistic software development.