Irina Nikishina

Professor: Alexander Panchenko

Graduated from: Natural Research University “Higher School of Economics”

Research interests: Natural Language Processing, Distributional Semantics, Entity Linking, Taxonomy enrichment

Thesis title: Tensor Decomposition in Semantic Tasks of Natural Language Processing

Personal links: Google Scholar, ORCID, GitHub

Curriculum Vitae: download

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Publications

1. Nikishina I., Logacheva, V., Panchenko A.,  Loukachevitch, N. (2020) RUSSE’2020: Findings of the First Taxonomy Enrichment Task for the Russian Language. In: Computational linguistics and intellectual technologies: Papers from the annual conference “Dialogue”. (2020).
2. Sysoev A., Nikishina I. (2019) Deep JEDi: Deep Joint Entity Disambiguation to Wikipedia. (in proceedings of Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts. AIST 2019.)
3. Kutuzov A., Nikishina I. (2019) Double-Blind Peer-Reviewing and Inclusiveness in Russian NLP Conferences. (in proceedings of Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts. AIST 2019.)
4. Nikishina I., Sokolova I., Tikhomirov D., Bonch-Osmolovskaya A. (2019) Automatic Direct Speech Tagging in Russian Prose: Markup and Parser. — Dialogue Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Technologies, 2019. URL: http://www.dialog-21.ru/media/4657/dialogue.pdf
5. Sysoev A., Nikishina I. (2018) Smart Context Generation for Disambiguation to Wikipedia Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language. — Springer, Cham, 2018. — P. 11-22.
6. Nikishina I., Bakarov A., Kutuzov A. (2018) RusNLP: Semantic Search Engine for Russian NLP Conference Papers. In: van der Aalst W. et al. (eds) Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts. AIST 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11179. Springer, Cham
7. Bakarov A., Kutuzov A., Nikishina I. (2018) Russian Computational Linguistics: Topical Structure in 2007-2017 Conference Papers. — Dialogue Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Technologies, 2018. URL: http://www.dialog-21.ru/media/4542/bakarovapluskutuzovaplusnikishinai.pdf

Project participation:

• RUSSE’2020 shared task organization (2019-2020): CodaLab
• Automatic censor (2020): video presentation
• RusNLP search engine for papers presented in Russian NLP conferences (2017 – now): website
• Direct Speech project (2017-2019): GitHub
• Development of an application for first-year students studying relational algebra at Franche-Comte University (2016)

Teaching:

1. Teaching Assistant, Fall 2019. Neural Natural Language Processing course at Skoltech
2. Instructor, 2019-2020. Digital Literacy course at Higher School of Economics

Academic mobility:

• August 2019, 31st European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (Riga, Latvia)
• January 2016 – May 2016, Exchange Program at Franche-Comte University (Besançon, France)

Foreign languages:

• English (Advanced)
• French (Advanced)
• Spanish (Intermediate)
• German (Intermediate)

Hobbies: ping-pong, painting