Literature, Language and Computing: Russian Contribution from the LiLaC-2023

Polina Eismont is an associate professor at the Department of General Linguistics, St. Petersburg State University. Her research interests include language acquisition and psycholinguistics, text linguistics, cognitive linguistics, event structure, music semantics, and syntax of nulls. She obtained her Ph.D. from St. Petersburg State Univeррrsity in 2008. She is the author of more than 40 papers in domestic and international journals and volumes and the co-editor of two CCIS volumes “Language, Music, and Computing” (Springer Verlag, 2015, 2019) and a book “Language, Music and Gesture: Informational Crossroads (LMGIC 2021)” (Springer Singapore, 2021).

Maria Khokhlova is an associate professor at the Department of Mathematical Linguistics, St. Petersburg State University. Her research lies at the intersection of natural language processing, corpus linguistics, and machine learning and was supported by grants and scholarships awarded by Russian and international foundations (RSF, DAAD, Visegrad Fund, Erasmus). She holds a Ph.D. from St. Petersburg State University (2011) and was awarded the St. Petersburg Government Prize for Science and Teaching (2020, 2022). She is the author of more than 100 articles in domestic and international refereed journals and volumes.

Mikhail Koryshev is an associate professor at the Department of Comparative Studies of Languages and Cultures and the Dean of the Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University. His research interests focus on German language and culture, literary studies, as well as on Catholic hymnography and liturgiology. He obtained a Ph.D. in Philology from St. Petersburg State University in 2005. He was a visiting lecturer in Germany; his research was supported by Erasmus and DAAD-Stiftung. He is the author of more than 60 papers in Russian and international peer-reviewed journals and book series.