Maud Ehrmann is a research scientist and lecturer at the Digital Humanities Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics from the Paris Diderot Universtiy (Paris 7) and has been engaged in a large number of scientific projects centred on information extraction and text analysis, both for present-time and historical documents. Before joining the DHLAB, she worked at the Linguistics Computing Laboratory at the Sapienza University of Rome where she worked on the BabelNet resource and contributed to the LIDER project (2013-2014). Prior to that, she worked at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, as member of the OPTIMA unit (now Text and Data mining unit) which develops innovative and application-oriented solutions (Europe Media Monitor) for retrieving and extracting information from the Internet with a focus on high multilinguality (2009-2013). Previously, she worked at the Xerox Europe Research Centre in Grenoble, France (now Naver Labs Europe) in the Parsing and Semantics unit, first as PhD candidate supported by a CIFRE grant (2005-2008), then as a post-doctoral researcher (2008-2009). There, her research focused mainly on the automatic processing and fine-grained analysis of entities of interest, specifically named entities and temporal expressions.