Maria Kunilovskaya

Saarbrücken, Germany

Postdoc Researcher

I am currently a postdoc with University of Saaland (Germany) working on modelling mediated language to explore the memory-surprisal trade-off hypothesis from information theory. My PhD (completed March 2023, supervisor: Prof. Mitkov, RGCL, UK) was on human translation quality estimation.

Before that I held an Associate Professor position at a Translation Studies department, lecturing in Translation Studies, Theoretical Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics. I have a PhD (Candidate of Science) in Contrastive Linguistics (completed 2004, adviser: Prof. Brodovich, Saint Petersburg University).

A lot of my efforts were invested in building learner parallel and comparable corpora, as well as other language resources. I have extensive experience in setting up manual annotation experiments.

My research interests have shifted from corpus- and feature-based approaches to ML, modelling and representation learning. In the past few years, I was involved in several computational humanities projects.

Keywords:

language modelling, information theory
Python, machine learning, DL, distributional semantics
computational humanities, data collection and analysis
translation quality estimation, data annotation
languages varieties, register studies, text complexity

Download curriculum vitae 2017-2023 publications

recent news

Apr 16, 2024	– gave an invited talk “Application of Information Theory in Translation(ese) Studies” (slides) for participants of the Information Theory Course.
Feb 23, 2024	– talked about linguistic neighbours of Luxembourgish in the looking-glass world of NMT at the 1st Roundtable on NLP for Luxembourg(ish), organised by Institute of Luxembourgish Language and Literature and the Culture & Computation Lab at the University of Luxembourg (slides).
Feb 6, 2024	– together with Marie Escribe delivered a 2-day training on conference setup and management via START for over 20 people

selected publications

RANLP

Simultaneous Interpreting as a Noisy Channel: How Much Information Gets Through

Kunilovskaya, Maria, Przybyl, Heike, Teich, Elke, and Lapshinova-Koltunski, Ekaterina

In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2023

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  abbr = {RANLP},
  author = {Kunilovskaya, Maria and Przybyl, Heike and Teich, Elke and Lapshinova-Koltunski, Ekaterina},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing},
  editor = {},
  location = {Varna, Bulgaria},
  pages = {608--618},
  publisher = {INCOMA Ltd.},
  title = {{Simultaneous Interpreting as a Noisy Channel: How Much Information Gets Through}},
  year = {2023},
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  html = {https://doi.org/10.26615/978-954-452-092-2_066}
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EACL

Wartime Media Monitor (WarMM-2022): A Study of Information Manipulation on Russian Social Media during the Russia-Ukraine War

Alyukov, Maxim, Kunilovskaya, Maria, and Semenov, Andrei

2023

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@article{Alyukov2023warmm,
  abbr = {EACL},
  author = {Alyukov, Maxim and Kunilovskaya, Maria and Semenov, Andrei},
  title = {{Wartime Media Monitor (WarMM-2022): A Study of Information Manipulation on Russian Social Media during the Russia-Ukraine War}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature},
  pages = {152--161},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year = {2023},
  selected = {true},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  html = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.latechclfl-1.17}
}

PhD

Translationese indicators for human translation quality estimation (based on English-to-Russian translation of mass-media texts)

Kunilovskaya, Maria

2023

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  abbr = {PhD},
  author = {Kunilovskaya, Maria},
  title = {{Translationese indicators for human translation quality estimation (based on English-to-Russian translation of mass-media texts)}},
  year = {2023},
  school = {University of Wolverhampton},
  selected = {true},
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  html = {https://wlv.openrepository.com/handle/2436/625250}
}

Target

Source language difficulties in learner translation: Evidence from an error-annotated corpus

Kunilovskaya, Maria, Ilyushchenya, Tatyana, Morgoun, Natalia, and Mitkov, Ruslan

Target 2022

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@article{Kunilovskaya2021triggers,
  abbr = {Target},
  author = {Kunilovskaya, Maria and Ilyushchenya, Tatyana and Morgoun, Natalia and Mitkov, Ruslan},
  journal = {Target},
  title = {{Source language difficulties in learner translation: Evidence from an error-annotated corpus}},
  year = {2022},
  selected = {true},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  html = {https://doi.org/10.1075/target.20189.kun}
}

Springer

Translationese and register variation in English-to-Russian professional translation

Kunilovskaya, Maria, and Corpas Pastor, Gloria

2021

Bib

@article{Kunilovskaya2021regs,
  abbr = {Springer},
  author = {Kunilovskaya, Maria and Corpas Pastor, Gloria},
  booktitle = {New Frontiers in Translation Studies},
  doi = {10.1007/978-981-16-4918-9_6},
  url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355203667_Translationese_and_Register_Variation_in_English-To-Russian_Professional_Translation},
  editor = {Wang, Vincent X. and Li, Defeng and Lim, Lily},
  isbn = {978-981-16-4917-2},
  issn = {21978697},
  pages = {133--180},
  publisher = {Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd},
  title = {{Translationese and register variation in English-to-Russian professional translation}},
  year = {2021},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  selected = {true}
}

Springer LNCS

Multilingual Embeddings for Clustering Cultural Events

Kunilovskaya, Maria, and Kuzmenko, Elizaveta

In Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts 2021

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@inproceedings{Kunilovskaya2021cult,
  abbr = {Springer LNCS},
  author = {Kunilovskaya, Maria and Kuzmenko, Elizaveta},
  booktitle = {Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts},
  pages = {1--10},
  publisher = {Springer LNCS},
  title = {{Multilingual Embeddings for Clustering Cultural Events}},
  volume = {13217},
  year = {2021},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  selected = {true},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2023.latechclfl-1.17},
  html = {https://aclanthology.org/2021.latechclfl-1.12.pdf}
}

EMNLP

Translationese in Russian Literary Texts

Kunilovskaya, Maria, Lapshinova-koltunski, Ekaterina, and Mitkov, Ruslan

In Proceddings of the 5th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature 2021

Bib

@inproceedings{Kunilovskaya2021lit,
  abbr = {EMNLP},
  author = {Kunilovskaya, Maria and Lapshinova-koltunski, Ekaterina and Mitkov, Ruslan},
  booktitle = {Proceddings of the 5th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature},
  title = {{Translationese in Russian Literary Texts}},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2021.latechclfl-1.12},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2021.latechclfl-1.12.pdf},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  year = {2021},
  selected = {true}
}