Svetlana Toldova

Laboratory Head:Faculty of Humanities / Laboratory of Formal Models in Linguistics
Associate Professor:Faculty of Humanities / School of Linguistics

Svetlana Toldova has been at HSE since 2013.

Education and Degrees

1994
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in Language Theory
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Thesis Title: Discourse structure and focusing as the important factors for the nomination of a particular referent
1990
Degree in Applied mathematics
Lomonosov Moscow State University
1985
Degree in Linguistics
Lomonosov Moscow State University

* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.

Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience

The 9th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval (RuSSIR 2015). August 24-28, 2015 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Сo-organized by the National Research University Higher School of Economics and the Russian Information Retrieval Evaluation Seminar (ROMIP).

Professional Interests

natural language processing Nakh-daghestanian languages differential object marking finno-ugric languages information extraction anaphora resolution

Student Term / Thesis Papers

Bachelor
E. Zakharova «Sentence Level Rhetoric Relations Extractor for Russian». Faculty of Humanities, 2018
D. Rakhman «The Syntax of Purpose Clauses in Hill Mari». Faculty of Humanities, 2018
A. Bobrenkova «First and Secondary Nominal Predicates Marking in Moksha». Faculty of Humanities, 2017
D. Kolomeitsev «Automatic Extraction of Verb Collocations». Faculty of Humanities, 2017
A. Prisyazhnaya «The Analysis of Methods of Authorship Verification Based on Short Russian Texts». Faculty of Humanities, 2016
V. Gorbachev «Methods for Automatic Sentiment Lexicon Extraction». Faculty of Humanities, 2016
N. Zhadaev «Coreference Resolution». Faculty of Humanities, 2016
E. Zinchenko «Possessive Constructions in Russian: a Corpus-based Study». Faculty of Humanities, 2016
Master
P. Taratynov «Automatic Terminology Collocations Extraction from Medical Texts in Russian.». Faculty of Humanities, 2017
S. Baranova «Automatic Academic Vocabulary Extraction». Faculty of Humanities, 2017
A. Makeeva «Irony Detection: Lexical and Structural Features». Faculty of Humanities, 2017
M. Nefedov «Unsupervised Relation Extraction from Russian News Texts». Faculty of Humanities, 2017
R. Mukhanova «A Multifactorial Corpus Analysis of Adjective Order in Russian». Faculty of Humanities, 2017
O. Drozd «Native Language Identification Using English Texts». Faculty of Humanities, 2017
J. Lyell «The Effectiveness of Sieve System Architecture on the Extraction of Coreferential Relationships in the Russian Language». Faculty of Humanities, 2017
V. Piskunov «Ontology-Based Relation Extraction in Texts of "Oral History" Stories». Faculty of Humanities, 2016
D. Pisarevskaya «Rhetorical Structure Theory Application in the Detection of Deceptive News Stories». Faculty of Humanities, 2016
I. Azerkovich «Contribution of Semantic Information to Coreference Resolution». Faculty of Humanities, 2016
A. Sutormina «Extraction of the Hidden Assessment». Faculty of Philology, 2014

Full list of of student term / thesis papers

Courses (2018/2019)

Computational Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Computational Linguistics"; 1 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Computational Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Computational Linguistics"; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Computational Linguistics and Information Technology (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Fundamental and Computational Linguistics"; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Linguistic Approaches to Discourse (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2 module)Rus
Natural Language Processing (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Fundamental and Computational Linguistics"; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Project and Design Seminar "Engineering of Linguistic Resources and Systems" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Computational Linguistics"; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Research Seminar "Finno-Ugric Languages" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Fundamental and Computational Linguistics"; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Past Courses

Courses (2017/2018)

Anaphora and Binding (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Fundamental and Computational Linguistics"; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Computational Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Computational Linguistics"; 1 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Computational Linguistics and Information Technology (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Fundamental and Computational Linguistics"; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Language Functioning: Discourse, Experimental Methods in Psycho- and Neurolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Modern Russian: Syntax and Discourse (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Fundamental and Computational Linguistics"; 4 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Natural Language Processing (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Fundamental and Computational Linguistics"; 3 year, 4 module)Rus
Project Making and Development of Linguistic Systems and Entities (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Fundamental and Computational Linguistics"; 4 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Research Seminar "Finno-Ugric Languages" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; programme "Fundamental and Computational Linguistics"; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus

Courses (2016/2017)

Computational Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Computational Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1 module)Rus
Information Search and Data Mining (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1 module)Rus
Methods of computer processing of linguistic data (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2, 4 module)Rus
Modern russian: sintax and discourse (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Natural Language Processing (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
Natural Language Processing (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus

Courses (2015/2016)

Computational Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Computational Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Evaluation of Linguistic Systems and Components (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1 module)Rus
Finno-Ugric Languages (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Information Search and Data Mining (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1 module)Rus
Natural Language Processing (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 2 module)Rus
Natural Language Processing (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Rus

Courses (2014/2015)

Computational Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Computational Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Computer Linguistics. Natural language Processing (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Computer Tools for Linguistic Research (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Computer Tools for Linguistic Research (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1 module)Rus
Engineering of Linguistic Resources and Systems (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Evaluation of Linguistic Systems and Components (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Natural Language Processing (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 2 module)Rus
Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Rus

Courses (2013/2014)

Computational Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Philology; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Computational Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Philology; 1 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Computer Tools for Linguistic Research (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Philology; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Engineering of Linguistic Resources and Systems (Master’s programme; Faculty of Philology; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Research Seminar “Methodology and Research Methods in Computational Linguistics” (Master’s programme; Faculty of Informatics, Mathematics, and Computer Science (HSE Nizhny Novgorod); 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus

Courses (2012/2013)

Computer Tools for Linguistic Research (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Philology; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Rus

Grants

Recent research projects

Natural Language Processing

2017-2019 "Models and methods of discourse and narrative parsing for text mining, text understanding and dialogue systems", RFBR research project 17-29-07033, under supervision of O. Lyshevskaya

Linguistics

2016-2019 "Four Grammars of Languages of Multilingual Russia", RSF 16-18-02081, under supervision of S.Tatevosov

Conferences

2018
Computational Methods for Endangered Language Documentation and Description (Париж). Presentation: The possible re-usage of fieldwork data for automated morphological parsing (the case of Moksha)
DGfS 2018: 40th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (Штутгарт). Presentation: Properties of definite declension in Moksha
The 18th International Morphology Meeting. Workshop 3. Morphological aspects of Uralic and Turkic languages (Budapest). Presentation: The split in nominal paradigms and the size of extended nominal projection in Moksha
3-й Колмогоровский семинар по компьютерной лингвистике и наукам о языке (Москва). Presentation: Extraction of multi-word ‘Cause-Effect’ connectives
51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (Таллинн). Presentation: Differential object marking, word order and verb adjacency in Komi
Linguistic diversity, minority languages and digital research infrastructures (Hamburg). Presentation: Towards semi-automated shallow syntax using FLEx data
Concort-2018 (Нижний Новгород). Presentation: Корпусное исследование оборотов с местоимением с предикативным антецедентом
Concort-2018 (Нижний Новгород). Presentation: Корпусное исследование порядка слов в северном диалекте селькупского языка
2017
XLVI Международная филологическая научная конференция (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Семантика глагола и выбор оформления прямого дополнения в мокшанском языке
Чтения памяти А. И. Кузнецовой (Москва). Presentation: Посессивный показатель в коми-зырянском языке как маркер пресуппозиции
Чтения памяти А. И. Кузнецовой (Москва). Presentation: Посессивный показатель в коми-зырянском языке как маркер пресуппозиции
Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: Диалог 2017 (Москва). Presentation: Порядок следования прилагательных разных семантических классов в русском языке в свете корпусных данных
Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: Диалог 2017 (Москва). Presentation: Coreferenсe resolution for Russian: the impact of semantic features
Conference on the Syntax Of Uralic Languages (Будапешт). Presentation: The NP/DP-structure in Moksha language
The 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (Цюрих). Presentation: Looking for a D-layer in Moksha
The 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (Цюрих). Presentation: The interaction of possessive and definite noun declensions in Moksha
Малые языки в большой лингвистике (Москва). Presentation: Possessive markers in Komi-Zyrian: topic, presupposition, or discourse markers
Малые языки в большой лингвистике (Москва). Presentation: Синтаксические, семантические и прагматические свойства посессивных рефлексивных местоимений (на материале финно-угорских и тунгусо-маньчжурских языков)
ConCort (Москва). Presentation: Выбор референциальных средств разграничения эпизодов на примере текстов корпуса Russian CliPS
INLG 2017, 6th Workshop on Recent Advances in RST and Related Formalisms (Santiago de Compostela). Presentation: Rhetorical relations markers in Russian RST Treebank
2016
The 17th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing-2016) (Konya). Presentation: Features for discourse-new referent detection in Russian
Рабочее совещание, посвящённое дифференцированному маркированию актантов (Москва). Presentation: Кодирование прямого дополнения в мокшанском языке: определенность vs. топикальность
6-я тематическая конференция серии «Типология морфосинтаксических параметров» (Москва). Presentation: Структурная позиция прямого дополнения и его коммуникативный статус
The 17th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing-2016) (Konya). Presentation: Features for discourse-new referent detection in Russian
Information structure and discourse in the minority languages of the Russian Federation (2016). Presentation: Topicality and Differential Object Marking in Moksha
Grammar and Corpora (Мангейм). Presentation: Multiple prenominal adjectives ordering in Russian: a corpus study
Компьютерная лингвистика и наука о языке (Москва). Presentation: Identification of singleton mentions in Russian
Компьютерная лингвистика и наука о языке (Москва). Presentation: Coreference in Russian oral movie retellings (the experience of coreference relations annotation in Russian CliPS corpora)
2015
Dialogue - 2015 (international conference for computational linguistics) (Москва). Presentation: Coreference Chains in Czech, English and Russian: Preliminary Findings.
Congressus Duodecimus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum. (Оулу). Presentation: Differential object marking in Moksha language
2014
CILC 2014 : 6th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (Лас Пальмас). Presentation: Coreference Corpus in Russian
CILC 2014 : 6th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (Лас Пальмас). Presentation: Corpora Acquisition for Machine Learning Web Query Intent Classification
Искусственный интеллект и естественный язык (AINL) (Сколково). Presentation: Форум по оценке методов автоматической обработки текстов: распознавание анафорических и кореферентных связей

Publications

2018³

Chapter Toldova S., Pisarevskaya D., Kobozeva M. Automatic Mining of Discourse Connectives for Russian, in: Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language, 7th International Conference, AINL 2018, St. Petersburg, Russia, October 17–19, 2018, Proceedings Issue 930. Switzerland : Springer, 2018. doi P. 79-87. doi
Chapter Toldova S., Ionov M. Features for Discourse-New Referent Detection in Russian, in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 17th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, CICLing 2016 / Отв. ред.: A. Gelbukh.; Ed. by A. Gelbukh.; Ed. by A. Gelbukh. Vol. 1. Issue 9623. Springer Publishing Company, 2018. doi P. 648-662. doi
Chapter Toldova S., Pisarevskaya D., Vasilyeva M., Kobozeva M. The cues for rhetorical relations in Russian: "Cause-Effect" relation in Russian Rhetorical Structure Treebank, in: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: По материалам ежегодной международной конференции «Диалог» (Москва, 30 мая — 2 июня 2018 г.) / Под общ. ред.: В. Селегей, И. М. Кобозева, Т. Е. Янко, И. Богуславский, Л. Л. Иомдин, М. А. Кронгауз, А. Ч. Пиперски. Вып. 17(24). М. : Издательский центр «Российский государственный гуманитарный университет», 2018. P. 747-761.

2017³

Chapter Toldova S., Maxim Ionov. Coreference resolution for Russian: the impact of semantic features, in: Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies. International Conference "Dialogue 2017" Proceedings / Ed. by В. Селегей. Vol. 1. Issue 16 (23). M. : -, 2017. P. 339-348.
Chapter Toldova S., Max Ionov. Identification of Singleton Mentions in Russian, in: CLLS 2016. Computational Linguistics and Language Science. Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Language Science. Moscow, Russia, April 26, 2016 / Ed. by E. L. Chernyak, D. Ilvovsky, D. Skorinkin, A. Vybornova. Vol. 1886. Aachen : CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2017. Ch. 5. P. 33-41.
Chapter Toldova S., Dina Pisarevskaya, Ananyeva M., Kobozeva M., Nasedkin A., Nikiforova S., Pavlova I., Shelepov A. Rhetorical relation markers in Russian RST Treebank, in: Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Recent Advances in RST and Related Formalisms. Stroudsburg, PA : Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017.

2016⁷

Preprint Svetlana Yu. Toldova, Mira B. Bergelson, Elizaveta I. Ivtushok, Kira M. Shulgina, Mariya V. Khudyakova. Coreference annotation in the Russian clinical Pear Stories Corpus: annotation features and preliminary results / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2016. No. 50.
Chapter Toldova S. Yu., Bergelson M. B., Khudyakova M. V. Coreference in Russian Oral Movie Retellings (the Experience of Coreference Relations Annotation in “Russian CliPS ” corpus), in: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: По материалам ежегодной международной конференции «Диалог» (Москва,1–4 июля 2016 г.) / Под общ. ред.: В. Селегей. Вып. 15. М. : Изд-во РГГУ, 2016. P. 769-781.
Chapter Anna Roytberg, Toldova S., Alina Ladygina, Azerkovich I., Vasilyeva M. D. Error analysis for anaphora resolution in Russian: new challenging issues for anaphora resolution task in a morphologically rich language, in: Proceedings of the Workshop on Coreference Resolution Beyond OntoNotes (CORBON 2016), co-located with NAACL 2016, San Diego, California, June 16, 2016. Stroudsburg, PA : Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016. P. 74-83.
Chapter Starostin A. S., Bocharov V. V., Alexeeva S. V., Bodrova A. A., Chuchunkov A. S., Dzhumaev S. S., Efimenko I. V., Granovsky D. V., Khoroshevsky V. F., Krylova I. V., Nikolaeva M. A., Smurov I. M., Toldova S. Y. FactRuEval 2016: Evaluation of Named Entity Recognition and Fact Extraction Systems for Russian, in: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: По материалам ежегодной международной конференции «Диалог» (Москва,1–4 июля 2016 г.) / Под общ. ред.: В. Селегей. Вып. 15. М. : Изд-во РГГУ, 2016. P. 688-705.
Article Toldova S., Ionov M. Mention Detection for Improving Coreference Resolution in Russian Texts: A Machine Learning Approach // Computacion y Sistemas. 2016. Vol. 20. No. 4. P. 681-696.
Chapter Khudyakova M., Bergelson M., Akinina Y., Iskra E., Toldova S., Dragoy O. Russian CliPS: a Corpus of Narratives by Brain-Damaged Individuals, in: Proceedings of the Tenth conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), Portoroz, Slovenia : ELRA, 2016.. , 2016. P. 22-26.
Chapter Toldova S., Ladygina A., Azerkovich I., Grishina J., Galina Sim, Maria Vasilyeva. Russian Coreference Corpus, in: Input a Word, Analyze the World. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. Ch. 7. P. 107-125.

2015³

Chapter Toldova S., Nedoluzhko А., Novák M. Coreference Chains in Czech, English and Russian: Preliminary Findings., in: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии. По материалам ежегодной Международной конференции "Диалог" (2015) / Отв. ред.: В. Селегей. М. : Изд-во РГГУ, 2015. P. 474-486.
Chapter Toldova S., Lyashevskaya O., Bonch-Osmolovskaya A. A., Ionov M. Evaluation for morphologically rich language: Russian NLP, in: Proceedings on the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI) Vol. 1. Las Vegas : CSREA Press, 2015. P. 300-306.
Preprint Toldova S., Azerkovich I., Гришина Ю., Ладыгина А., Lyashevskaya O., Ройтберг А. М., Сим Г., Васильева М. Pre-experiments on Annotation of Russian Coreference Corpus / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2015.

2014¹

Chapter Toldova S.Ju., Roytberg A., Nedoluzhko А., Kurzukov M., Ladygina A., Vasilyeva M., Azerkovich I., Grishina Y., Sim G., Ivanova A., Gorshkov D. Evaluating Anaphora and Coreference Resolution for Russian, in: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: По материалам ежегодной Международной конференции «Диалог» (Бекасово, 4 — 8 июня 2014 г.) / Под общ. ред.: В. Селегей. Вып. 13(20). М. : Изд-во РГГУ, 2014. P. 681-695.

2013³

Chapter Brykina M., Toldova S., Faynveyts A. V. Dictionary-based ambiguity resolution in Russian named-entities recognition. A case study, in: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: По материалам ежегодной Международной конференции «Диалог» (Бекасово, 29 мая - 2 июня 2013 г.). В 2-х т. Т. 1: Основная программа конференции. Вып. 12 (19). М. : РГГУ, 2013. P. 163-177.
Chapter Toldova S., Bonch-Osmolovskaya A. A., Lyashevskaya O. Learning Computational Linguistics through NLP Evaluation Events: the experience of Russian evaluation initiative, in: 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Teaching Natural Language Processing. Stroudsburg, PA : Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013. P. 61-65.
Chapter Toldova S. Y., Akinina Y. S., Kuznetsov I. O. The impact of syntactic structure on verb-noun collocation extraction, in: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: По материалам ежегодной Международной конференции «Диалог» (Бекасово, 29 мая - 2 июня 2013 г.). В 2-х т. Т. 1: Основная программа конференции. Вып. 12 (19). М. : РГГУ, 2013. P. 2-17.

2012¹

Chapter Gareyshina A., Ionov M., Lyashevskaya O., Privoznov D., Sokolova E., Toldova S. RU-EVAL-2012: Evaluating dependency parsers for Russian, in: Proceedings of COLING 2012: Posters. Mumbai : The COLING 2012 Organizing Committee, 2012. P. 349-360.

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Results of Competition for Research and Teaching Laboratories Announced

This year, HSE has supported the founding of 10 new Research and Teaching Laboratories (RTLs) in various fields, from cognitive psychology and computer modeling, to international justice and economics of sports.