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General Information

Full Name Irina Nikishina
Date of Birth 13th December 1995
Languages Russian, English, French, German

Education

Work Experience

  • 2022 - 2025
    (Postdoctorate) Research Assistant
    Universität Hamburg, Germany
  • 2021-2022
    Research Engineer (Python)
    Skoltech
    • dataset annotation and annotation verification; technical support for the Text Detoxification project
  • 2021
    Data Scientist, Python NLP engineer
    Innoscripta
    • Developing system for keyword search, improve NER for extracting keywords and German product names, management of keyword annotation in Doccano for the German language
  • 2017-2019
    Research assistant in Python and Java in the Texterra team
    ISP RAS
  • 2018
    Summer internship
    MrBot
    • Developing dialogue system architecture in Python
  • 2017
    Junior software engineer
    NetCracker
    • Developing a T-SDN controller automatic testing system (selenium, requests, openpyxl, pyyaml)
  • 2016
    Summer internship
    Franche-Comte University, Besancon, France
    • Developing a Python tool for interpreting queries in Relational Algebra

Organizing Experience

  • 2024
    Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts
    • a member of AIST organizing committee,
    • conference management, contacting authors/participants, call for papers design and distribution, sending invitations to the reviewers, website design and publishing updates on the website.
  • 2024
    TextGraphs-17
    • member of TextGraphs-17 organizing committee Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing collocated with ACL-2024 in Bangkok, Thailand on August 11–16, 2024
    • organizing shared task in Codalab
  • 2023
    Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts
    • a member of AIST organizing committee,
    • conference management, contacting authors/participants, call for papers design and distribution, sending invitations to the reviewers, website design and publishing updates on the website.
  • 2022
    RuArg-2022 shared task
    • organizer of Dialogue 2022 shared task on Argument Mining for the Russian Language
    • links - Github, CodaLab
  • 2022
    RUSSE'2022 shared task
    • organiser of the shared task on Russian Text Detoxification Based on Parallel Corpora for the Dialogue-2022 conference
    • links Github, CodaLab
  • 2021
    Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts
    • a member of AIST organizing committee,
    • conference management, contacting authors/participants, call for papers design and distribution, sending invitations to the reviewers, website design and publishing updates on the website.
  • 2020
    Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts
    • a member of AIST organizing committee,
    • conference management, contacting authors/participants, call for papers design and distribution, sending invitations to the reviewers, website design and publishing updates on the website.
  • 2020
    RUSSE'2020 shared task
    • organiser of the shared task on Taxonomy enrichment for the Dialogue-2020 conference
    • links - Github, CodaLab

Reviewing

Invited Talks

  • 2024
    • HSE University, Guest seminar on “Taxonomy Enrichment with LLMs”
    • ISLE Expert Online Forum, Panelist on the topic “Linguistics versus AI”
  • 2023
    • MBZUAI, UAE, Guest talk on “Comparative Question Answering“ and “Taxonomy Enrichment“
    • NLP Group in Oslo, Norway, Guest seminar on “Taxonomy Enrichment“ (based on PhD thesis)
  • 2022
    • Guest seminar on “Taxonomy Enrichment“ (based on the PhD thesis)
    • Indiana University, USA, Guest seminar on “Taxonomy Enrichment“ (based on the PhD thesis)
  • 2021
    • AIST conference, Tbilisi, Georgia, Guest talk on “Taxonomy Enrichment with Texts and Graph Vector Representations“

Awards

  • Junction 2021, Empathy Challenge (third prize). The adaptation of text detoxification research results for a gaming industry use-case.

Academic Interests

  • Question Answering,
  • Argument Mining,
  • Retrieval Augmented Generation,
  • Lexical Semantics,
  • Taxonomies, Taxonomy Enrichment,
  • Detoxification,
  • Relation Extraction,
  • Entity Linking,
  • Entity Disambiguation,
  • Linguistics

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: traveling, museums, art galleries,painting, handmade beaded jewelry, France, French culture, foreign languages, gym, ping-pong, snowboarding