Shvedova Maria

Professional and academic experience

• • 2023–present – Associate Professor at the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”
  • 2025–2026 – Lecturer and Course Developer, Digital Humanities: Ensuring Ukrainian University Teaching in Times of Crisis (TFK, Ukraine programme 2024, Project No. 15/343/2024), organised by University of Helsinki
  • 2021–2023 – Associate Professor at the National University “Lviv Polytechnic”
  • 2018–2019 – Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Jena
  • 2013–2018, 2019–2022 – Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor at the Kyiv National Linguistic University

Education

• • 2008 – PhD at Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University.
  • 2004-2007 — Postgraduate studies at the Institute of Philology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
    
  • 1999-2004 — Institute of Philology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Advanced training and professional development

• • 2026 – Josef Dobrovský Scholarship from the Czech Academy of Sciences at the Slavic Institute (Prague)
  • 26.05.2025 – 9.06.2025 – advanced training under the programme ‘Extensive Course on AI in Education’ from the NGO ‘Progresilni’ with the support of the Ministry of Digital Transformation and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (45 hours, 1.5 ECTS credits).
    
  • 22.11.2024 – certificate for significant contribution to the series of projects ‘Ukraine digital: Ensuring academic success in times of crisis’ (2022–2024) at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena as a lecturer in computer lexicography and corpus linguistics.
    
  • 08.07.2024 – 12.07.2024 – successful completion of the week-long course ‘Training School with UniDive’ on language technologies within the European programme COST (European Cooperation in Science & Technology).
  • 2024 – UniDive training school. Technical University of Moldova, Chișinău, Moldova. 8-12 July.
  • 07.08.2023 – 25.08.2023 – participation in the 81st International Summer Course in German Language and Culture at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (60 hours, 2 ECTS credits).
  • 2022-2025 – Alexander von Humboldt Foundation scholarship at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (Germany)
  • 2022 – Scholarship of the Polish Academy of Sciences at IPI PAN (Warsaw).
  • 2017–2020 – Doctoral studies at Kyiv National Linguistic University.

Teaching disciplines

• • Corpus Linguistics (Bachelor level)
  • General Linguistics (Bachelor level)
  • Sociolinguistics (Master level)
  • Usage of Linguistic Corpora in Linguistic Research (Master level)

Scientific interests

• • Lexical and grammatical variation in Ukrainian and Slavic languages
  • Corpus linguistics and lexicography

Professional Achievements and Membership

• • COST Action CA21167: Universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology (UniDive)
  • Management Committee Member (since September 2022)
  • Working Group Member (since November 2022)
  • COST Action CA22115: A Multilingual Repository of Phraseme Constructions in Central and Eastern European Languages (PhraConRep)
  • Working Group Member (since October 2025)
  • Member of the program committee UNLP
  • Member of the editorial board of the journal “Linguistic and Conceptual Pictures of the World” (Kyiv)
  • Network of Ukrainian Studies Jena

Published works

Papers

• • Shvedova, M. (2025). Lexicographic Portals: Ukrainian. In M. L. Greenberg (ed.), Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_039916
  • Kieraś, W., Kobyliński, Ł., Komosińska, D., Rudolf, M., Shvedova, M., Zwierzchowska, A. (2025). PAWUK: Extensive Annotated Web Corpus of Ukrainian. In: Lees, M.H., et al. Computational Science – ICCS 2025. ICCS 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15904. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-97629-2_7
  • Maria Shvedova, Arsenii Lukashevskyi, and Andriy Rysin. 2025. Developing a Universal Dependencies Treebank for Ukrainian Parliamentary Speech. In Proceedings of the Fourth Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP 2025), pages 55–63, Vienna, Austria (online). Association for Computational Linguistics. 
  • Shvedova, O. Kanishcheva (2025). Case variation in Ukrainian direct addresses in a bilingual context. The 11th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference, 17–19 September 2025, Charles University, Prague. 
  • Shvedova, A. Lukashevskyi (2025). Case Choice in Ukrainian Vocative Expressions: A Study of Parliamentary Transcripts (1990-2024) Annotated with Universal Dependencies. Grammar and Corpora. 10th international conference. 26–28 June 2025. Book of abstracts. Riga: University of Latvia Press, 2025 P. 106-108. GGC-10-ba.pdf
  • Maria Shvedova and Arsenii Lukashevskyi. 2024. Creating Parallel Corpora for Ukrainian: A German-Ukrainian Parallel Corpus (ParaRook||DE-UK). In Proceedings of the Third Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP) @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 14–22, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.unlp-1.3
  • Olha Kanishcheva, Tetiana Kovalova, Maria Shvedova, and Ruprecht von Waldenfels. 2023. The Parliamentary Code-Switching Corpus: Bilingualism in the Ukrainian Parliament in the 1990s-2020s. In Proceedings of the Second Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP), pages 79–90, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  • Yurii Chemerys, Olesia Nakhlik, Andriy Rysin, Maria Shvedova. Normalization of a Historic Western Ukrainian orthographic system Zhelekhivka in the Ukrainian Language Reference Corpus (GRAC). In Proceedings of the IEEE 18th International Conference on Computer Sciences and Information Technologies (CSIT). 20 Oct. 2023. LVIV, Ukraine. DOI: 10.1109/CSIT61576.2023.10324255.
  • Maria Shvedova, Nataliia Prydvorova, and Ilona Skibina. Normalization of Early Modern Ukrainian in GRAC: the Case of Lesia Ukrainka’s Works. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Systems (COLINS 2022). Volume I: Main Conference. Gliwice, Poland, May 12-13, 2022. P. 71-80.
  • Rabus A., Shvedova M. Morphological Variation in Ukrainian Regional Varieties: a Corpus Study. SLAVIA: časopis pro slovanskou filologii, ročník 90, 2021, sešit 1. S. 1-24.
  • Shvedova M., von Waldenfels R. Regional Annotation within GRAC, a Large Reference Corpus of Ukrainian: Issues and Challenges. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Systems (COLINS 2021). Volume I: Main Conference. Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 22-23, 2021. p. 32-45.
  • Vasyl Starko, Andriy Rysin, Maria Shvedova (2021). Ukrainian Text Preprocessing in GRAC. 2021 IEEE 16th International Conference on Computer Sciences and Information Technologies (CSIT). 22-25 Sept. 2021. LVIV, Ukraine. Vol. 2. P. 101-104. DOI: 10.1109/CSIT52700.2021.9648705.
  • Maria Shvedova, Andriy Rysin, Vasyl Starko (2021). Handling of Nonstandard Spelling in GRAC. 2021 IEEE 16th International Conference on Computer Sciences and Information Technologies (CSIT). 22-25 Sept. 2021. LVIV, Ukraine. Vol. 2. P. 105-108. DOI: 10.1109/CSIT52700.2021.9648834.

Corpora, datasets

• • Maria Shvedova, Ruprecht von Waldenfels, Sergiy Yarygin, Andriy Rysin, Vasyl Starko et al. (2017–2025): GRAC: General Regionally Annotated Corpus of Ukrainian.
  • Kieraś, W., Kobyliński, Ł., Komosińska, D., Rudolf, M., Shvedova, M., Zwierzchowska, A. (2023). PAWUK: Polish Automatic Web Corpus of Ukrainian Language.
  • Shvedova, M., Lukashevskyi, A. (2024-2025). UD_Ukrainian_ParlaMint. 
  • Shvedova, M., Lukashevskyi, A., et al. (2024-2025). ParaRook: паралельні корпуси на основі ГРАКу. 
  • Shvedova, M., Lukashevskyi, A. (2024). PluG: Corpus of Old Ukrainian Texts. 
  • Lukashevskyi, A., Zakharov, K., & Shvedova, M. (2025). Rada_Trees: A Syntactically Annotated Corpus of Ukrainian Parliament Transcripts (1990-2024). 
  • Kanishcheva, O., Shvedova, M., Dyka, L., & Husenko, K. (2025). ParlMix-UA-RU – Ukrainian Parliamentary Code-Mixing Dataset [Data set]. Zenodo. 
  • Kalashnyk, V., & Shvedova, M. (2025). ParaFarm: English-Ukrainian Multiple-Translation Corpus (1.1) [Data set]. Zenodo.