Education and degrees
2014 MA (cum laude) in Computational Linguistics, NRU Higher School of Economics
Thesis: Verification of the Frame Approach to Lexical Typology with Distributional Semantic Models
2012 Specialist (MA equivalent) in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Moscow State University
Thesis: Typology of Semantic Shifts in Adjectives Meaning ‘Sharp’ and ‘Blunt’
Research interests
- Sign Linguistics: Russian Sign Language, Australian Sign Language, sign language lexicon, size and shape specifiers
- Semantics: lexical typology (adjectives, locative predication, verbs of motion)
- Computational: distributional semantic models, databases, corpus studies
- Field linguistics: Circassian languages
Language proficiency
Russian – native
English – fluent
French – almost fluent
Serbian – almost fluent
Russian Sign Language – intermediate
Australian Sign Language – pre-intermediate
Python – some working knowledge