Natalia Kotsyba

PhD, senior researcher at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies „Artes Liberales”, Warsaw University, Poland

Scientific interests:
semantics, slavic linguistics, theoretical linguistics, theory of grammar, contrastive linguistics, cognitive studies, corpus linguistics, parallel corpora, electronic dictionaries, Ukrainian language, Polish language

Current and past projects:

• Ruled-based morphosyntactic disambiguation for Ukrainian
• PolUKR (Polish-Ukrainian Parallel Corpus)
• Polish-Ukrainian Electronic Dictionary (in cooperation with the Ukrainian Linguistic-Informational Centre, National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences)

PhD thesis, 2006 (in Polish):
Semantyczna kategoria określoności/nieokreśloności w językach angielskim i ukraińskim

Some presentations at conferences and seminars:

• Projekt nowoczesnego polsko <> ukraińskiego słownika elektronicznego (Project of a modern Polish <> Ukrainian electronic dictionary).
  Presentation at LXIII-th Meeting of the Polish Linguistic Association (LXIII Zjazd Polskiego Towarzystwa Językoznawczego), Warsaw, September 2005 (with Magdalena Turska).
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• Semantyczna kategoria określoności – teoria i badania wspomagane komputerowo (The semantic category of definiteness -- theory and computer-aided research).
  Two lectures delivered at LIPT (Lingwistyka informatyczna i przetwarzanie tekstów), January 2006, Warsaw University.
  lecture slides
• Semantyczne klasyfikacje czasowników dla potrzeb leksykograficznych (Semantic classifications of verbs for lexicographic needs).
  Lecture at a session dedicated to corpus linguistics (Lingwistyka korpusowa) within The East-Central European School in the Humanities (MSH - Międzynarodowa Szkoła Humanistyczna), Warsaw, 27 May - 02 June 2007.
  lecture slides and the handout
• Principles of organizing a common morphological tagset and a search engine for PolUKR (Polish-Ukrainian Parallel Corpus).
  Presentation at Regensburg-Warsaw Workshop within IPIPAN Natural Language Processing Seminar, 9 December 2007.
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• Комп’ютерна лінгвістика у Польщі. Огляд ресурсів. (Computational linguistics i Poland. Review of existing resources.
  Lecture at the session of the scientific council of Linguistic Information Foundation of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, 9 July 2008.
  lecture slides (in Ukrainian)
• Lingwistyka korpusowa i jej pomoc w tworzeniu słowników dwujęzycznych (Corpus linguistics and its assistance in creating bilingual dictionaries).
  Lecture at the Polish-Ukrainian Lexicographic Workshop (Warsztaty słownikowe ukraińsko-polskie) within The East-Central European School in the Humanities, Warsaw, 1 October - 30 November 2008.
  lecture slides (in Polish)
• PolUKR (Polsko-Ukraiński Korpus Równoległy) http://corpus.domeczek.pl
  Lecture at the seminar of the Institute of Slavic Studies PAS, 2 December 2008.
  presentation slides (in Polish)
• UGTag: morphological analyzer and tagger for Ukrainian language (with Andriy Mykulyak and Igor V. Shevchenko).
  Presentation at the international conference Practical Applications in Language and Computers (PALC 2009), Łódź, 6-8 April 2009.
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• Towards the creation of a Belarussian grammatical dictionary (with Igor V. Shevchenko and Kiryl Kurshuk).
  Presentation at the internatinal conference Practical Applications in Language and Computers (PALC 2009), Łódź, 6-8 April 2009.
  presentation slides
• Towards a Consistent Morphological Tagset for Slavic Languages: Extending MULTEXT-East for Polish, Ukrainian and Belarusian (with Ivan A. Derzhanski).
  Presentation at Metalanguage and Encoding Scheme Design for Digital Lexicography: MONDILEX Third Open Workshop, Bratislava, 15–16 April 2009.
  presentation slides
• General architecture and lexical entry structure of the Polish-Ukrainian electronic dictionary (with Igor V. Shevchenko), presentation at Metalanguage and Encoding Scheme Design for Digital Lexicography: MONDILEX Third Open Workshop, Bratislava, 15–16 April 2009. presentation slides
• Natalia Kotsyba, Adam Radziszewski and Ivan Derzhanski. Integrating the Polish language into the MULTEXT-East family: morphosyntactic specifications, converter, lexicon and corpus.
  Presentation at the Research Infrastructure for Digital Lexicography: MONDILEX Fifth Open Workshop, October 14, 2009, Ljubljana, Slovenia, within INFORMATION SOCIETY 2009 12th International multiconference. presentation slides
• The grammatical potential of Polish-Ukrainian Parallel Corpus (PolUKR).
  Lecture delivered at the Ukrainian-Polish Lexicographic Workshop for PhD students from Ukraine, scholarship holders of Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, 20 November 2009.
  lecture slides (in Ukrainian)
• Польсько-український електронний словник: соціолінгвістичний вимір (Polish-Ukrainian Electronic Dictionary: a sociolinguistic dimension).
  Presentation at ХVIII Міжнародний славістичний колоквіум Інституту славістики Львівського національного університету ім. Івана Франка (XVIIIth International Slavic Colloquium hosted by the Institute of Slavic Studies at Lviv National University (Ukraine), 14–15 May 2009.
  presentation slides (in Ukrainian)
• PolUKR: a Polish-Ukrainian Parallel Corpus as a testbed for parallel corpora toolbox.
  Presentation at the International conference "Slavicorp" hosted by Warsaw University, 22-24 November 2010.
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• Korpusy językowe – podstawowa terminologia i metody tworzenia.
  Lectures delivered at the seminar of the Laboratory of Corpus Linguistics, Institute of Southern and Western Slavic Studies of Warsaw University. 12 and 26 January 2011.
  lecture slides (in Polish)
• Overview of the Ukrainian language resources within the multilingual European MULTEXT-East project, v.4.
  Presentation at I Міжнародна наукова конференція «Людина. Комп’ютер. Комунікація», 28–30 травня 2013 року, кафедра прикладної лінгвістики Національного університету «Львівська Політехніка» (I International scientific conference “Human. Computer. Communication” held at the department of Applied Linguistics of the National University “Lviv Polytechnic” (Ukraine), May 28-30, 2013.
  presentation slides (in Ukrainian and English)

Publications (by July 2013):

1. O relacji semantycznej kategorii określoności i Aktionsart w języku ukraińskim (przypadek ingresywności/inchoatywności). In "Prezentacje prac słuchaczy studium doktoranckiego przy Instytucie Slawistyki PAN, kwiecień 2004". Warsaw, 2004.
2. Semantyczna kategoria określoności/nieokreśloności w ukraińskiej frazie nominalnej (aspekty kognitywne). In "Семантика мови і тексту. Збірник статей VIII міжнарожної конференції." ed. by V. I. Kononenko, (Proceedings of the VIIIth international conference "Semantics of language and text" held in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine in October 2004. Ivano-Frankivsk, 2005.
3. Niedopowiedzenie kwantyfikacji – podstawą absurdów, nieporozumień i gier językowych. In "Słowiańskie gry językowe", Acta Universitatis Micolai Copernici - Studia Slavica, 10, ed. by Viara Maldzhieva. Toruń, 2005.
4. About the use of articles in newspaper English (pragmatic and cognitive aspects). In "Etudes Cognitives", vol. VI, ed. by V. Koseska-Toszewa. Warsaw, 2005.
5. O relacji semantycznej kategorii określoności i Aktionsart w języku ukraińskim (przypadek ingresywności/inchoatywności). Accepted for publication in "Adeptus. Czasopismo młodych naukowców" ed. by Piotr Głogowski (in 2004).
6. Semantyczna kategoria określoności/ nieokreśloności w językach ukraińskim i angielskim - metodologia badań. In "Prezentacje prac słuchaczy studium doktoranckiego przy Instytucie Slawistyki PAN, kwiecień 2005". Warsaw, 2005.
7. Natalia Kotsyba and Magdalena Turska. Polsko-ukraińska leksykografia – współczesny stan i perspektywy. In "Semantyka i konfrontacja językowa", vol. 3, red. V. Koseska-Toszewa. SOW, Warsaw, 2006.
8. Magdalena Turska and Natalia Kotsyba. Polsko-Ukraiński korpus równoległy (PolUKR). In "Materiały LXIII Zjazdu Polskiego Towarzystwa Językoznawczego". Warsaw, 2006.
9. Funkcja semantyczna a badania kategorii określoności. In "Prezentacje prac słuchaczy studium doktoranckiego przy Instytucie Slawistyki PAN, kwiecień 2006". Warsaw, 2006.
10. Temporal Expressions in Petri Nets Representation. In "Etudes cognitives", vol. 7. SOW, Warsaw, 2006.
11. Natalia Kotsyba and Magdalena Turska. Polish-Ukrainian Parallel Corpus and its Possible Applications. In the Proceedings of the international conference "Practical Applications in Language and Computers" held in Łódź, 7-9 April 2005. Peter Lang GmbH, 2007.
12. Semantic function in rendering the category of definiteness in English and Ukrainian. In the Proceedings of the international conference "MegaLing'2006. Horizons of Applied Linguistics and Linguistic Technologies" held in Parthenit – Crimea, Ukraine, 20-27 September 2006. Kyiv 2007.
13. Violetta Koseska-Toszewa and Natalia Kotsyba. About imperceptivity in Bulgarian, Polish and Ukrainian. In the Proceedings of the international conference "MegaLing'2006. Horizons of Applied Linguistics and Linguistic Technologies" held in Parthenit – Crimea, Ukraine, 20-27 September 2006. Kyiv 2007.
14. Slavic Lexical Aspects in the Light of Modern Linguistic Theories. In the Proceedings of "New Trends in Mathematics and Informatics. Jubilee International Conference" held in Sofia, Bulgaria, 6-8 July 2007. Sofia, 2007.
15. Semantics of light verbs in lexicographical presentation. In the Proceedings of the international conference "Modern Problems of Lexicography" held in Grodno, Belarus, 19-21 October 2007. Grodno, 2007.
16. Natalia Kotsyba, Olha Shypnivska and Magdalena Turska. Linguistic principles of organizing a common morphological tagset for PolUKR (Polish-Ukrainian Parallel Corpus). In the Proceedings of the international conference "Intelligent Information Systems, 16-18 June 2008, Zakopane, Poland". Warsaw, 2008.
17. Violetta Koseska–Toszewa and Natalia Kotsyba. What is imperceptive modality? In "Etudes cognitives", vol. 8. SOW, Warsaw, 2008.
18. Ivan Derzhanski and Natalia Kotsyba. The Category of Predicatives in the Light of Consistent Morphosyntactic Tagging. In "Lexicographic Tools and Techniques", Proceedings of MONDILEX First Open Workshop, Moscow, Russia, 3-4 October, 2008. Moscow 2008, p. 68-79.
19. Ingresywność i inchoatywność jako początkowe rodzaje czynności a kwantyfikacja predykatów w zdaniu (na przykładzie języka ukraińskiego). In "Semantyka i konfrontacja językowa", vol. 4, ed. by V. Koseska-Toszewa. SOW, Warsaw, 2008.
20. The Current State of Work on the Polish-Ukrainian Parallel Corpus (PolUKR). In "Problems of Slavic Lexicography", Proceedings of the international workshop within MONDILEX project, Kyiv, 2-4 February 2009. Kyiv, 2009.
21. Морфосинтаксичне тагування польсько-українського паралельного корпусу (PolUKR). In the Proceedings of the International Conference "MegaLing'2008. Horizons of Applied Linguistics and Linguistic Technologies" held in Parthenit – Crimea, Ukraine, 20-27 September 2008. Kyiv, 2009.
22. Ivan Derzhanski and Natalia Kotsyba. Towards a Consistent Morphological Tagset for Slavic Languages: Extending MULTEXT-East for Polish, Ukrainian and Belarusian. In the Proceedings of "Metalanguage and Encoding Scheme Design for Digital Lexicography: MONDILEX Third Open Workshop" held in Bratislava, Slovakia, 15–16 April 2009. Bratislava, 2009.
23. Natalia Kotsyba and Igor Shevchenko. General architecture and lexical entry structure of the Polish-Ukrainian electronic dictionary. In the Proceedings of "Metalanguage and Encoding Scheme Design for Digital Lexicography: MONDILEX Third Open Workshop" held in Bratislava, 15–16 April 2009. Bratislava, 2009.
24. Natalia Kotsyba, Adam Radziszewski and Ivan Derzhanski. Integrating the Polish language into the MULTEXT-East family: morphosyntactic specifications, converter, lexicon and corpus. In the Proceedings of Research Infrastructure for Digital Lexicography: MONDILEX Fifth Open Workshop, October 14, 2009, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Ljubljana, 2009.
25. Наталя Коциба. Польсько-український словник за редакцією Лукії Гумецької як основа для об’єктивної багатофункціональної лексикографічної бази даних.. In "Проблеми слов’янознавства 2010. Випуск 59", Proceedings of "ХVIII Міжнародний славістичний колоквіум" Інституту славістики Львівського національного університету ім. Івана Франка (the XVIIIth International Slavic Collloquium hosted by Institute of Slavic Studies at Lviv National University (Ukraine), 14–15 May 2009. Lviv 2010, p. 169-180.
26. Natalia Kotsyba, Andriy Mykulyak, Igor V. Shevchenko. UGTag: morphological analyzer and tagger for Ukrainian language. Proceedings of the international conference "Practical Applications in Language and Computers" (PALC 2009), Łódź, 6-8 April 2009. Published in "Explorations across Languages and Corpora", in the series “Łódź Studies in Language”, ed. by Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski, 2011.
27. Igor V. Shevchenko, Natalia Kotsyba, Kiryl Kurshuk. Towards the creation of a Belarussian grammatical dictionary. Proceedings of the international conference "Practical Applications in Language and Computers" (PALC 2009), Łódź, 6-8 April 2009. Published in "Explorations across Languages and Corpora", in the series “Łódź Studies in Language”, ed. by Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski, 2011.
28. PolUKR (a Polish-Ukrainian parallel corpus) as a testbed for a parallel corpora toolbox. Prace Filologiczne, tom LXIII, Warsaw 2012, pp. 181-196.
29. Overview of the Ukrainian language resources within the multilingual European MULTEXT-East project, v.4. Accepted for publication in "Informational Systems and Networks" at Lviv Polytechnical University («Інформаційні системи та мережі») in 2013.
30. Praktyczny przewodnik po korpusach języka ukraińskiego in "Praktyczny przewodnik po korpusach języków słowiańskich", ed. by Hebal-Jezierska M., Warsaw, 2013, (forthcoming).