publications

2026

1. arXiv-2026

   Translationese as a Rational Response to Translation Task Difficulty

   Kunilovskaya, Maria

   2026

   arXiv
2. LREC-2026

   EPIC–EuroParl–UdS: Information-Theoretic Perspectives on Translation and Interpreting

   Kunilovskaya, Maria, and Pollkläsener, Christina

   In Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2026) 13–15 may 2026

   arXivBib

   @inproceedings{kunilovskaya2026perspectives,
     abbr = {LREC-2026},
     author = {Kunilovskaya, Maria and Pollkl\"asener, Christina},
     title = {{EPIC–EuroParl–UdS: Information-Theoretic Perspectives on Translation and Interpreting}},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2026)},
     publisher = {The European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
     editor = {},
     year = {2026},
     location = {Palma de Mallorca, Spain},
     month = {13--15 May},
     subject = {Computational Linguistics},
     eprint = {2603.09785},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {cs.CL},
     pages = {accepted},
     selected = {true},
     bibtex_show = {true}
   }

2025

1. KONVENS-2025

   Information Divergence in Translation and Interpreting: Findings from Same-Source Texts

   Kunilovskaya, Maria, Loáiciga, Sharid, and Lapshinova-Koltunski, Ekaterina

   In KONVENS: 21th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2025) ; Proceedings of the Conference. Volume 1: Long and Short Papers 10–13 september 2025

   Bib URL

   @inproceedings{kunilovskaya2025information,
     abbr = {KONVENS-2025},
     author = {Kunilovskaya, Maria and Lo{\'a}iciga, Sharid and Lapshinova-Koltunski, Ekaterina},
     title = {Information Divergence in Translation and Interpreting: Findings from Same-Source Texts},
     booktitle = {KONVENS: 21th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2025) ; Proceedings of the Conference. Volume 1: Long and Short Papers},
     editor = {Wartena, Christian and Heid, Ulrich},
     year = {2025},
     location = {Hilderheim, Germany},
     month = {10--13 September},
     subject = {K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz},
     language = {en},
     pages = {192--202},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.konvens-1.17.pdf},
     selected = {true},
     bibtex_show = {true}
   }

2. Interspeech-2025

   Euh...where do interpreters hesitate? An information-theoretic perspective on sentence-initial filler particles in simultaneous interpreting

   Pollkläsener, Christina, and Kunilovskaya, Maria

   In 12th edition of the Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech Workshop (DiSS 2025) Sep 2025

   Bib DOI

   @inproceedings{pollklaesener2025disfluency,
     abbr = {Interspeech-2025},
     author = {Pollkl\"asener, Christina and Kunilovskaya, Maria},
     title = {Euh...where do interpreters hesitate? An information-theoretic perspective on
     	sentence-initial filler particles in simultaneous interpreting},
     booktitle = {12th edition of the Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech Workshop (DiSS 2025)},
     year = {2025},
     location = {Lisbon, Portugal},
     month = sep,
     pages = {92--96},
     doi = {10.21437/DiSS.2025-19},
     selected = {true},
     bibtex_show = {true}
   }

3. NoDaLiDa-2025

   Predictability of Microsyntactic Units across Slavic Languages: A translation-based Study

   Kunilovskaya, Maria, Zaitova, Iuliia, Xue, Wei, Stenger, Irina, and Avgustinova, Tania

   In The Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies Mar 2025

   Bib URL

   @inproceedings{kunilovskaya2025predictability,
     abbr = {NoDaLiDa-2025},
     author = {Kunilovskaya, Maria and Zaitova, Iuliia and Xue, Wei and Stenger, Irina and Avgustinova, Tania},
     title = {{Predictability of Microsyntactic Units across Slavic Languages: A translation-based Study}},
     booktitle = {The Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies},
     year = {2025},
     month = mar,
     pages = {313--322},
     selected = {true},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.nodalida-1.34.pdf}
   }

4. UM Press

   Confuse and Normalise: Authoritarian Propaganda in a High-Choice Media Environment during Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

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

   In Russian Propaganda Today: Challenges, Effectiveness and Resistance Mar 2025

   Bib

   @inproceedings{Alyukov2025,
     abbr = {UM Press},
     author = {Alyukov, Maxim and Kunilovskaya, Maria and Semenov, Andrei},
     title = {{Confuse and Normalise: Authoritarian Propaganda in a High-Choice Media Environment during Russia's Invasion of Ukraine}},
     booktitle = {Russian Propaganda Today: Challenges, Effectiveness and Resistance},
     editor = {Goode, Paul},
     pages = {in print},
     publisher = {University of Michigan press, University of Manchester Press},
     year = {2025},
     selected = {true},
     bibtex_show = {true}
   }

2024

1. EAMT-2024

   Mitigating Translationese with GPT-4: Strategies and Performance

   Kunilovskaya, Maria, Chowdhury, Koel Dutta, Przybyl, Heike, España i Bonet, Cristina, and Van Genabith, Josef

   In Proceedings of the 25th Annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation Jun 2024

   Bib URL

   @inproceedings{Kunilovskaya2024prompting,
     abbr = {EAMT-2024},
     author = {Kunilovskaya, Maria and Chowdhury, Koel Dutta and Przybyl, Heike and {Espa{\~{n}}a i Bonet}, Cristina and {Van Genabith}, Josef},
     title = {{Mitigating Translationese with GPT-4: Strategies and Performance}},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25th Annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation},
     month = jun,
     pages = {411--430},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     address = {Sheffield, UK},
     year = {2024},
     selected = {true},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.eamt-1.35.pdf}
   }

2023

1. TSAR-2023

   Cross-lingual Mediation: Readability Effects

   Kunilovskaya, Maria, Mitkov, Ruslan, and Wandl-Vogt, Eveline

   In Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2023) Sep 2023

   Bib URL

   @inproceedings{Kunilovskaya2023readability,
     abbr = {TSAR-2023},
     author = {Kunilovskaya, Maria and Mitkov, Ruslan and Wandl-Vogt, Eveline},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2023)},
     editor = {},
     month = sep,
     pages = {33--43},
     location = {Varna, Bulgaria},
     publisher = {INCOMA Ltd.},
     title = {{Cross-lingual Mediation: Readability Effects}},
     year = {2023},
     selected = {true},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.tsar-1.4.pdf}
   }

2. 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 Sep 2023

   Bib URL

   @inproceedings{Kunilovskaya2023parallel,
     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 = {},
     month = sep,
     location = {Varna, Bulgaria},
     pages = {608--618},
     publisher = {INCOMA Ltd.},
     title = {{Simultaneous Interpreting as a Noisy Channel: How Much Information Gets Through}},
     year = {2023},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.26615/978-954-452-092-2_066}
   }

3. 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

   Sep 2023

   Bib URL

   @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},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.latechclfl-1.17}
   }

4. PhD

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

   Kunilovskaya, Maria

   Mar 2023

   Bib URL

   @phdthesis{Kunilovskaya2023phd,
     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},
     month = mar,
     school = {University of Wolverhampton},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     url = {https://wlv.openrepository.com/handle/2436/625250}
   }

5. Target

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

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

   Target Mar 2023

   Bib URL

   @article{Kunilovskaya2023err,
     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 = {2023},
     selected = {true},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1075/target.20189.kun}
   }

2022

1. Computational Approaches to Register as a Factor in English-to-Spanish Translation

   Poltorak, Kateryna, and Kunilovskaya, Maria

   In Proceedings of the New Trends in Translation and Technology 4–6 july 2022
2. Neutralising Spanish Dialects: A Collocational Focus

   García Taboada, René A.,  Kunilovskaya, Maria, and Corpas Pastor, Gloria

   In Proceedings of the New Trends in Translation and Technology 4–6 july 2022

2021

1. Springer

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

   Kunilovskaya, Maria, and Corpas Pastor, Gloria

   4–6 july 2021

   Bib DOI

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

2. Springer LNCS

   Multilingual Embeddings for Clustering Cultural Events

   Kunilovskaya, Maria, and Kuzmenko, Elizaveta

   In Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts 4–6 july 2021

   Bib URL DOI

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

3. 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 4–6 july 2021

   Bib URL DOI

   @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}
   }

4. Fiction in Russian Translation: A Translationese Study

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

   In RANLP-2021 4–6 july 2021
5. Text Preprocessing and its Implications in a Digital Humanities Project

   Kunilovskaya, Maria, and Plum, Alistair

   In RANLP Resaerch Student Workshop 4–6 july 2021

2020

1. Taxonomy enrichment for Russian: Synset classification outperforms linear hyponym‑hypernym projections

   Kunilovskaya, Maria, Kutuzov, Andrey, and Plum, Alister

   In Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies: papers from the Annual conference “Dialogue” 4–6 july 2020

   Bib

   @inproceedings{Kunilovskaya2020wordnet,
     author = {Kunilovskaya, Maria and Kutuzov, Andrey and Plum, Alister},
     booktitle = {Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies: papers from the Annual conference ``Dialogue''},
     keywords = {distributional,hypernymy relations,projection learning,semantics,supervised machine,taxonomy enrichment,word embeddings},
     pages = {459--469},
     title = {{Taxonomy enrichment for Russian: Synset classification outperforms linear hyponym‑hypernym projections}},
     volume = {19(26)},
     year = {2020},
     bibtex_show = {true}
   }

2. LREC

   Lexicogrammatic Translationese across Two Targets and Competence Levels

   Kunilovskaya, Maria, and Lapshinova-Koltunski, Ekaterina

   In Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020) 4–6 july 2020

   Bib

   @inproceedings{Kunilovskaya2020vars,
     abbr = {LREC},
     author = {Kunilovskaya, Maria and Lapshinova-Koltunski, Ekaterina},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020)},
     editor = {Calzolari, Nicoletta and Bechet, Frederic and Blache, Philippe and Choukri, Khalid and Cieri, Christopher and Declerck, Thierry and Goggi, Sara and Isahara, Hitoshi and Maegaard, Bente and Mariani, Joseph and Others, And},
     keywords = {contrastive analysis,machine learning,multivariate analysis,parallel corpora,translation competence,translation norms,translation varieties,translationese},
     pages = {4102--4112},
     publisher = {The European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
     title = {{Lexicogrammatic Translationese across Two Targets and Competence Levels}},
     year = {2020},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     selected = {true}
   }

2019

1. Functional Text Representations for Building Cross-Linguistic Comparable Corpora in English and Russian

   Kunilovskaya, Maria, Taslimipoor, Shiva, and Ilyushchenya, Tatyana

   In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora at RANLP 2019, Varna, Bulgaria. 4–6 july 2019
2. Towards Functionally Similar Corpus Resources for Translation

   Kunilovskaya, Maria, and Sharoff, Serge

   In Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 4–6 july 2019
3. Translationese features as indicators of quality in English-Russian human translation

   Kunilovskaya, Maria, and Lapshinova-Koltunski, Ekaterina

   In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting Technology (HiT-IT 2019) 4–6 july 2019

   DOI

2018

1. Universal Dependencies-based syntactic features in detecting human translation varieties

   Kunilovskaya, Maria, and Kutuzov, Andrey

   In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT16) 4–6 july 2018
2. Solving Translation Problems with Aranea

   Kunilovskaya, Maria

   In Aranea 2018: Web Corpora as a Language Training Tool 4–6 july 2018
3. Learner vs. professional translations into Russian: Lexical profiles

   Kunilovskaya, Maria, Morgoun, Natalia, and Pariy, Alexey

   Translation and Interpreting 4–6 july 2018

   DOI
4. Size vs. structure in training corpora for word embedding models: Araneum Russicum maximum and Russian national corpus

   Kutuzov, Andrey, and Kunilovskaya, Maria

   In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 4–6 july 2018

   DOI

2017

1. Testing target text fluency: A machine learning approach to detecting syntactic translationese in English-Russian translation

   Kunilovskaya, Maria, and Kutuzov, Andrey

   In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 4–6 july 2017

   URL DOI
2. Sketch Engine: a toolbox for linguistic discovery

   Kunilovskaya, Maria, and Kovyazina, Marina

   Journal of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences 4–6 july 2017

   DOI
3. Linguistic tendencies in English to Russian translation: the case of connectives

   Kunilovskaya, Maria

   In Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies: Proceedings of the International Conference “Dialogue 2017” 4–6 july 2017

   URL

2016

1. Available corpora and error-annotated student translations in translator education

   Kunilovskaya, Maria, and Morgoun, Natalia

   In Proceedings of the 6th Conference The Future of Education 4–6 july 2016

2015

1. How far do we agree on the quality of translation?

   Kunilovskaya, Maria

   English Studies at NBU 4–6 july 2015

2014

1. Russian Learner Translator Corpus: Design, Research Potential and Applications

   Kutuzov, Andrey, and Kunilovskaya, Maria

   In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference Text, Speech and Dialogue, Vol. 8655 4–6 july 2014