Daria Ryzhova

Research Fellow: Linguistic Convergence Laboratory
Associate Professor: Faculty of Humanities / School of Linguistics
Programme Academic Supervisor: Linguistic Theory and Language Description

Daria Ryzhova has been at HSE University since 2012.

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Education and Degrees

2018

Candidate of Sciences* (PhD)
HSE University

2014

Master's
HSE University

2012

Degree
Lomonosov Moscow State University

2012

Degree
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

Summer schools:

2016 The 28th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2016), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

2010 Summer school of French language “Cours de vacances”, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

2010 Summer school of Serbian language and culture “Međunarodni Skup Slavista”, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Professional Interests

grammatical semantics lexical semantics distributional semantics lexical typology computational linguistics

Awards and Accomplishments

Best Teacher — 2017
Winner of the HSE University Best Russian Research Paper Competition – 2021
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Lecturers under 30" (2017–2018)
Best Academic Supervisor in the category ‘Student Retention and Loyalty’ — 2023–2024
Best Academic Supervisor in the category ‘Student Satisfaction with Degree Programme Quality’ — 2024
Best Academic Supervisor in the category ‘Student Digital Skills’ — 2024

Courses (2024/2025)

Folklore of the peoples of Russia and neighbouring countries (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
Functional Approaches to Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1 module)Rus
Mentor's Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
Mentor's Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
Research Seminar "Computer Semantics" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Research Seminar "Text linguistics: semantics and syntax of language units" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Research and Design seminar "Research in Linguistics: Methodology and Hand-ons" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-3 module)Eng
Research and Design seminar "Research in Linguistics: Methodology and Hand-ons" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
Russian Semantics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1 module)Rus
Serbian (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Theory of Language at School (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Past Courses

Courses (2023/2024)

Folklore of the peoples of Russia and neighbouring countries (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
Functional Approaches to Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1 module)Rus
Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages (Mago-Lego; 3 module)Eng
Mentor's Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
Mentor's Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
Research Seminar "Computer Semantics" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Research and Design seminar "Linguistic projects" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
Russian Semantics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1 module)Rus
Serbian (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Theory of Language at School (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus

Courses (2022/2023)

Functional Approaches to Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1 module)Rus
Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3 module)Eng
Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages (Mago-Lego; 3 module)Eng
Mythology, Folklore and Traditional Art of the Peoples of Russia and Adjacent Regions (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
Research Seminar "Computer Semantics" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Research and Design seminar "Linguistic projects" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
Russian Semantics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 4 module)Rus
Serbian (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Theory of Language at School (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus

Courses (2021/2022)

Functional Approaches to Natural Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Lexical Typology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3 module)Eng
Research Seminar "Computer Semantics" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Research and Design seminar "Linguistic projects" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-3 module)Eng
Russian Semantics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 4 module)Rus
Serbian (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus

Courses (2020/2021)

Contemporary Russian Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 4 module)Rus
Mythology, folklore and folk art of the peoples of Russia and neighboring countries (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
Research Seminar "Computer Semantics" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Research and Design seminar "Linguistic projects" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-3 module)Eng
Research and Design seminar "Linguistic projects" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
Serbian (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus

Timetable for today

Full timetable

Grants

Date	Fund	Project	Form of participation
2017 - 2019	Russian Foundation for Basic Research	grant 17-06-00184 “Cross-linguistic research on the domain of FALLING and its adjacent concepts”	Participant (leader – Ekaterina Rakhilina)
2014 -2016	Russian Foundation for Basic Research	grant 14-06-00343 “Scientific Web Portal on Qualities: Adjectives for Physical Properties in the Languages of the World”	Participant (leader – Ekaterina Rakhilina)
2014 -2015	NRU HSE Academic Fund	“Typological Studies in Lexicon”	Participant (leader – Tatiana Reznikova)
2011 – 2013	Russian Foundation for Basic Research	grant 11-06-00385 “Typologically oriented database: lexical organization of qualitative features”	Participant (leader – Ekaterina Rakhilina)
2008 – 2010	Russian Foundation for Basic Research	grant 08-06-00197 “Database on Russian polysemous adjectives and adverbs for lexical disambiguation in Russian National Corpus”	Participant (leader – Ekaterina Rakhilina)

Conferences

2017
The 14th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Тарту). Presentation: Outstanding design, awful fatigue: qualitive words as sources for quasi-grammatical meanings
Neglected Aspects of Motion Event Descriptions (Париж). Presentation: Neglected aspects of falling
12th Slavic Linguistics Society Annual Meeting (Любляна). Presentation: Бурная история семантики одного русского прилагательного в свете типологических данных: славный

2015
16 апрельская международная научная конференция НИУ ВШЭ (Москва). Presentation: Distributional Semantic Models in Lexical Typology: Constructing a typological questionnaire
Воркшоп по лексической типологии с участием проф. А. Маджид (Неймеген, Нидерланды) (Москва). Presentation: Distributional Semantic Models in lexical typology

2012
Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Загреб). Presentation: Lexical typology: contribution of closely-related languages (on the base of Russian and Serbian adjectives)

Dissertation for a Candidate of Sciences degree

2018
D. Ryzhova Автоматизация лексико-типологических исследований: методы и инструменты

Employment history

from 10.2016 -- NRU Higher School of Economics, School of Linguistics, lecturer

01.2014 – 09.2014 -- NRU Higher School of Economics, Faculty of Philology, NRU HSE Indian Summer School in Linguistics, organizer

11.2012 – 03.2014 -- NRU Higher School of Economics, Faculty of Philology, computer operator

06.2008 – 08.2009 -- Russian National Corpus, research assistant

Jul

2019

HSE Researchers Receive Grants in Russian Science Foundation Competitions

The Russian Science Foundation announced the results of its 2019 competitions for support from the Presidential Research Project Programme. One competition was for grants in support of research initiatives by early career researchers, and another was in support of research conducted by research groups headed by early career scholars.

Dec

2014

Workshop on Lexical Typology at University of Helsinki

On December 1-3, 2014 a workshop on lexical typology was held at the University of Helsinki. The event was organized by students and lecturers from HSE Faculty of Humanities specializing in fundamental and computer linguistics.