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General Information
Full Name | Irina Nikishina |
Date of Birth | 13th December 1995 |
Languages | Russian, English, French, German |
Education
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2022
PhD in Computer Science
Skoltech, Moscow, Russia
- supervisor Alexander Panchenko
- thesis title Learning Linguistic Tree Structures with Text and Graph Methods
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2019
Master's degree (with honors) in Computational Linguistics
HSE University, Moscow, Russia
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2017
Java and Oracle courses
Innoscripta
- advisor Dmitry Amosov
- Oracle, Java, OOP, MapReduce, Postgres, Spring, ONOS, GWT, Ajax
- final project Developing a T-SDN controller tester (using selenium, requests, openpyxl, pyyaml Python libraries
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2016
Exchange Program
Franche-Comte University, France
- semester spent at Franche-Comte University, courses language was French
- internship project Developing a Python tool for interpreting queries in Relational Algebra
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2017
Bachelor's degree (with honors) in Fundamental and Computational Linguistics
HSE University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- supervisor Irina Utkina, Alexey Malafeev
- thesis title Automatic Information Extraction about Persons from News Articles
Work Experience
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2022 - 2025
(Postdoctorate) Research Assistant
Universität Hamburg, Germany
- ACQuA-2.0 project, “Development of the Comparative Question Answering system“ hosted by Chris Biemann
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2021-2022
Research Engineer (Python)
Skoltech
- dataset annotation and annotation verification; technical support for the Text Detoxification project
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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
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2017-2019
Research assistant in Python and Java in the Texterra team
ISP RAS
- NLP research in Entity Linking, writing research articles
- supervisors Andrey Sysoev and Ivan Andrianov
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2018
Summer internship
MrBot
- Developing dialogue system architecture in Python
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2017
Junior software engineer
NetCracker
- Developing a T-SDN controller automatic testing system (selenium, requests, openpyxl, pyyaml)
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2016
Summer internship
Franche-Comte University, Besancon, France
- Developing a Python tool for interpreting queries in Relational Algebra
Organizing Experience
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
Reviewing
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ACL
- 4 papers in 2024, 3 papers in 2023, 1 paper in 2020 as subreviewer
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EMNLP
- 4 papers 2024, 3 papers in 2023
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LREC-COLING 2024
- 3 papers in 2024
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HPCMASC24
- 1 paper
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KONVENS 2023
- 1 paper in 2023
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EMNLP
- 4 papers 2024, 3 papers in 2023
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ICLR 2021
- 1 paper as sub-reviewer in 2021
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J Machine Learning 2021
- 1 paper as sub-reviewer
Invited Talks
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2024
- HSE University, Guest seminar on “Taxonomy Enrichment with LLMs”
- ISLE Expert Online Forum, Panelist on the topic “Linguistics versus AI”
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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)
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2022
- Guest seminar on “Taxonomy Enrichment“ (based on the PhD thesis)
- Indiana University, USA, Guest seminar on “Taxonomy Enrichment“ (based on the PhD thesis)
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2021
- AIST conference, Tbilisi, Georgia, Guest talk on “Taxonomy Enrichment with Texts and Graph Vector Representations“
Summer School and Conference participation
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2020
- The Summer School of Machine Learning at Skoltech (SMILES)
Awards
- Junction 2021, Empathy Challenge (third prize). The adaptation of text detoxification research results for a gaming industry use-case.
Academic Interests
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Question Answering,
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Argument Mining,
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Retrieval Augmented Generation,
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Lexical Semantics,
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Taxonomies, Taxonomy Enrichment,
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Detoxification,
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Relation Extraction,
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Entity Linking,
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Entity Disambiguation,
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Linguistics
Other Interests
- Hobbies: traveling, museums, art galleries,painting, handmade beaded jewelry, France, French culture, foreign languages, gym, ping-pong, snowboarding