Monica Monachini of the Cnr-Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” (CNR-ILC) has received the Outstanding Service Award from the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Cyber Humanities (TCCH). The award recognizes her outstanding contributions to strengthening a community where researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds can meet, exchange perspectives, and develop new forms of collaboration. This achievement also reflects CLARIN-IT‘s commitment to fostering interdisciplinary research and bridging the Ηumanities, Language Science, and Technological Innovation.
The award was officially presented during the Gala Dinner of the IEEE Cyber Humanities Conference 2026, an annual event that focuses on theoretical and practical aspects of technologies applied to Social Science and Humanities (SSH) that includes Arts, Heritage, History, Archeology, Linguistics, Libraries, and so forth. The conference explores novel concepts, technologies, solutions and applications along the digital continuum within the Cultural Cyber Critical Ecosystem including digitization, curation, protection, reuse and dissemination of Digital Cultural Assets.