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Curriculum Vitae Olga Lyashevskaya Professor, School of Linguistics Curriculum vitae Olga Lyashevskaya Professor, School of linguistics, Faculty of humanities Leading research fellow, Linguistic Convergence Laboratory Higher School of Economics, Moscow 20 Myasnitskaya ul. Moscow 101000 Russia Senior researcher Dept. of corpus linguistics and poetics Vinogradov Institute of Russian language Volkhonka ul. 18/2 Moscow 125190 Russia Born: May 7, 1973, Moscow, USSR Research interests: Lexical and grammatical semantics cognitive semantics, construction grammar, grammatical category of number, space and grammar, lexical classifications Corpus linguistics Russian National Corpus grammatical, semantic, word-formation and MWE databases of RNC, Russian FrameBank Lexicography corpus-based lexicography, Frequency dictionary of RNC, Grammatical dictionary of new words, Word-formation and morphemic dictionary Computational linguistics morphological and semantic annotation, word-sense disambiguation, frequency dictionary, construction learning, RU-EVAL (Workshop on Russian NLP evaluation) Russian language Education: 12/1995 - 11/1998 Dept. of Computational Science, PhD courses, All-Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information (VINITI RAN), 10/1999 Ph.D. in Philology (kandidat nauk) Ph.D. thesis: “Non-standard semantics of Russian nominal number” [in Russian, “Nestandartnoje chislovoje povedenije russkix suschestvitel'nyx”], supervisor: Prof. E.V. Paducheva 09/1990 – 06/1995 Faculty of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU), Moscow Diploma in Linguistics Diploma thesis: “Semantics of Number in Russian Nouns with Defective Paradigm (Names of Substances and Aggregates)” [in Russian, “Semantika chislovoj defektnosti (imena veschestv i sovokupnostej v russkom jazyke)”] supervisor: Dr. V.A. Plungian Employment: 01/2017 - present Leading research fellow, Linguistic Convergence Laboratory National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia 09/2011 - present Professor, Faculty of humanities (before 2014 - Faculty of philology) National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia 06/2011-present Senior researcher (part-time) Vinogradov Institute of Russian language, Moscow, Russia 01/2010-07/2011 Associate Professor of Russian linguistics, 02/2008-01/2010 Postdoctor in Russian linguistics, Dept. of language and linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Tromso, Norway 04/2002-02/2008 Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Linguistic Research, 01/2000-03/2002 Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Computational Sciences, All-Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information (VINITI RAN), Moscow 02/1997-01/2001 Teacher of Russian as a foreign language, 04/1996-06/1998 Specialist in teaching methods, Philological Faculty, Moscow State University Awards and accomplishments: 2013, 2017, 2019 Best academic supervisor (Best student research paper in linguistics) 2017 A letter of gratitude, National Research University Higher School of Economics 2005 Academia Europaea Prize for Young Russian Scientists 1993 – 1995 Moscow Mayor personal scholarship for honours students, Russian State University for the Humanities Grants and scholarships: 2018 "Materials for the frequency dictionary of the Russian poetry", HSE Research and Study Groups grant # 18-05-0047 (project leader) 2018-2020 DiAsPol250: The Development of the Polish Aspect System in the Last 250 Years against the Background of Neighbouring Languages, Beethoven II – Polish-German Funding Initiative, DFG/NCN (cooperation partner) 2018-2020 TWIRLL: Targeting Wordforms in Russian Language Learning, SIU, The cooperation program with Russia, UiT The Arctic University of Norway (CPRU-2017/10027) (cooperation partner) 2018-2020 DigiPalSlav: Digital Paleoslavistics, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Programm zur Förderung von Institutspartnerschaften Abteilung Förderung und Netzwerk (cooperation partner) 2016 "Learner corpus REALEC: Lexicological observations", HSE Research and Study Groups grant # 16-05-0057 (project leader) 2015-2017 "Standards for Russian NLP evaluation", Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant # 15-07-09306-a (as supervisor) 2015-2017 "Development of historical modules of the Russian National Corpus", Rusian Foundation for the Humanties grant # 15-04-12050-v (as research fellow) 2014-2015 "Quantitative corpus study of the grammatical category of Russian number", NRU HSE Scientific foundation, individual research grant 2014 "Corpus Instruments for Russian Grammar Study", Basic Linguistic Research Foundation publishing grant # B-28-2014 2013-2015 "New open electronic thesaurus for the Russian language", Rusian Foundation for the Humanties grant # 13-04-12020-v (as research fellow) 2012-2013 “Dictionary of Russian inflexional paradigms”, NRU HSE research grant. 2012-2014 “Syntactic annotation of RNC”, Presidium RAS program for basic research “Corpus linguistics” (project leader) 2011 “Word-formation annotation of RNC”, Presidium RAS program for basic research “Corpus linguistics” (project leader) 2011, 2012-2014 “FrameBank”, Presidium RAS program for basic research “Corpus linguistics” (project coordinator) 2010-2012 “From corpus to dictionary: unsupervised learning and categorization of Russian constructions”, Russian Scientific Foundation for the Humanities grant # 10- 06-00586-a for scientific research projects (co-leader with Olga Mitrofanova) 2009-2011 “Word-Formation in Text Dynamics”, Program of the Russian Academy of Sciences, History and Philology Branch (project leader) 2008 “Frequency dictionary of Russian”, Russian Scientific Foundation for the Humanities publishing grant # 08-04-16280д (supervisor) 2008 – 2010 “Exploring Emptiness: Russian Verbal Morphology and Cognitive Linguistics”, Laura Janda and Tore Nesset’s project supported by Norsk forskningsråd (as research fellow) 2007 – 2009 “Topological types of Russian nouns: corpus-based research”, Russian Scientific Foundation for the Humanities grant # 07-04-00240a for scientific research projects (project leader) 2002 – 2005, “Russian National Corpus XIX-XXI”, project of the Federal Principal 2006 – 2007 Program “Russian Language”, Russian Federal Agency of Education (as research fellow) 2007 “Unsupervised compilation of the dictionary with the lemmatization of unknown word forms”, Yandex Company scholarship (project leader) 2007 “Verb word-sense disambiguation with the help of government patterns extracted from electronic dictionaries”, Yandex Company scholarship (as research fellow) 2005 - 2007 “Semantic classes of verbs and deverbal nouns in the expert system “Lexicographer” and in the Russian National Corpus”, Russian Scientific Foundation for the Humanities grant # 05-04-04130а for scientific research projects (as research fellow) 2005 - 2007 “Constructions as an Instrument for Disambiguation in the Russian National Corpus”, Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant 05-06-80396-а for innovative projects (as research fellow) 2005 “Word-sense disambiguation in mass media texts: shallow rules and statistic evaluation”, Yandex Company scholarship (project leader) 2003 “Semantics of number in Russian”, Russian Scientific Foundation for the Humanities publishing grant 2003 Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant for young scientists 2001 - 2003 “Computer oriented approaches to revealing the structure of the lexicon“, Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant # 01-06-80419a for innovative projects (as research fellow) Courses taught at university level: MA level: Linguistic data analysis: statistics and visualization; Functional and cognitive models in linguistics; Development and management of linguistic systems and components; Cognitive Linguistics; Models of corpus linguistics (MA level); National Research University BA level: Programming and linguistic data; Computer tools for Higher School of Economics, lexical research; Theoretical and computational lexicography; Moscow (since 2011) Construction Grammar: quantitative approaches; Modern Russian language; Introduction to linguistics; Standard Russian: theory and practice; Russian language and speech culture; Creative language: novel words Corpus and cognitive liguistics; Concepts and categories: University of Tromso (2010- contemporary Russian cognitive linguistics; Practical Russian 2011) (master level); Russian level 1, Russian level 2 (grammar, oral skills, translation - bachelor level) Lomonosov Moscow State FrameBank (special course), Russian as a foreign language University (BA, MA, postgraduates) Contact details: Office Home Address School of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities Krupskoy ul. National Research University Higher School of 119331 Moscow Economics Russia Staraya Basmannaya 21/4 106055 Moscow Russia Vinogradov Institute of Russian Language RAS Department of corpus linguistics and linguistic poetics Volkhonka str. 18/2 125190 Moscow Russia Phone (+7) 906 798 60 21 (mobile) Fax E-mail [email protected], [email protected] WWW http://olesar.narod.ru Books: 2018 Kopotev, Mikhail, Olga Lyashevskaya, and Arto Mustajoki (eds.) Quantitative Approaches to the Russian Language. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2018. 200 p. ISBN 9781138097155 (hardback), 9781315105048 (eBook). 2016 Lyashevskaya, Olga Korpusnye instrumenty v leksiko-grammaticheskikh issledovavijakh russkogo jazyka [Corpus approach to Russian grammar and lexicon]. Languages of Slavic culture press, Moscow. 520 pp. 2013 Janda, Laura, Anna Endresen, Julia Kuznetsova, Olga Lyashevskaya, Anastasia Makarova, Tore Nesset, Svetlana Sokolova Why Russian aspectual prefixes aren't
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