Software Engineer and Linguist
My name is Elmira. I love programming languages and coding, and I also love linguistics and natural languages. I'm enrolled in an MS program in Natural Language Processing in Moscow, Russia. Currently, I'm an intern at Google.
Check out what I can do and how I spend my free time. Also have a look at my publications and conference list or read about my projects. Please, do not hesitate to contact me!
Graduated cum laude. Here are the main modules that I've studied:
October 2016 - February 2017
HeadHunter.ru
September 2016
Microsoft, Moscow
June 2015
NRU Higher School of Economics, Moscow
September 2014
NRU Higher School of Economics, Moscow
July 2014
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Institute for Jewish Studies, Brussels, Belgium
Summer 2017
Designed and implemented services inside Google monitoring platform.
National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
September 2016 - June 2017
Taught Python to ~200 students of 1st, 2nd and 3rd year with non-technical majors. My goal was to make them comfortable with programming in general and Python in particular.
Pythontutor
Autumn 2016
Helped a startup to develop a step by step Python tutorial with web-interpreter. Developed internal APIs and authentication for the project. www.pythontutor.ru
School of Linguistics, National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
November 2013 - June 2016
Courses: Programming in R, Programming in Python, Python for Linguists
Collected and assessed programming assignments and tests every week. Took small groups of students for additional consultations. Regularly analyzed students’ progress and major mistakes.
Linguistic Laboratory of Corpus Technologies, National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
February 2014 - December 2015
Developed a modern platform for two corpora at NRU HSE Corpus Lab. Designed and implemented the search engine and annotation system (used Python+Django framework), deployed the resources to production, regularly updated their content and provided technical support to the users of the corpora.
Kuzmenko, Elizaveta, Mustakimova, Elmira. Automatic Disambiguation in the Corpora of Modern Greek and Yiddish // In Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies. Papers from the Annual International Conference “Dialogue” (2015) (PDF)
April 21 – 22. XVII April International Conference NRU HSE (Moscow). Roundtable «The Russian Language in the perspective of linguistic interference: problems, models, tools». Talk: Russian Learner Corpus: data and main principle
October 14 – 16. 3rd Conference in General, Nordic and Slavic linguistics, GeNSLing 2015 (Moscow, Russia). Talk: Verbs of Falling in Typological Perspective
October 10 – 11. ConCorT Junior. Corpus Technologies and Computational Methods in Modern Humanities (Moscow, Russia). Talk: Database Visualization: Verbs of Animal Sounds
July 20 – 24. Corpus Linguistics 2015 (Lancaster, UK). Talk: Corpus of Russian Student Texts: goals, annotation, and perspectives
June 16 – 19. Pronouns: Syntax, Semantics, Processing (Moscow, Russia). Talk: Automatic Identification of Paradigm Gaps in Corpora
May 27 – 30. International Conference "Dialogue 2015": Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies (Moscow, Russia). Talk: Automatic Disambiguation in the Corpora of Modern Greek and Yiddish
April 24 – 27. International Conference of Young Philologists (Tartu, Estonia). Talk: Automatic Identification of Semantic Aureole of Meter
April 14. Student Conference of School of Linguistics NRU HSE and MCTTU (Moscow, Russia). Talks: Automatic Identification of Paradigm Gaps Based on the Corpus Data (Project Overview) and Corpus of Russian Student Texts
December 1 – 3. Seminar on Cognitive Semantics and Lexical Typology (Helsinki, Finland). Talk: A New Typological Project: Typology of Verbs of Falling
September 26 – 27. RES ET VERBA - 4 (Moscow, Russia). Talk: What Sounds Animals Make in the World’s Languages
August 29 – 30. 6-th International conference on Meaning-Text theory (Prague, Chech Republic). Talk: Syntactic Phraseme of the Type X-t’ ne pereX-t’
I love all sorts of paper art: origami, applique, paper sculptures, and also cardmaking.
Smashbooking is like having a visual diary where I put photos, small things like concert tickets and write notes about the day. This is such a fun way to keep visual, textual and tangible memories!
Both roller blades and quad skates are equally good for me. I'm not a professional but can do some cool-looking tricks=)
I enjoy drawing sketches and presenting ideas visually instead of merely writing them in plain text. It helps at lectures, conferences and when planning a new project!
Sew signatures from pieces of paper, glue flyleaves, design and make book-covers from cardstock and cloth.. et vois-la! I love the feeling when you hold a finished book after several evenings of work on it.
For a long time I've been fascinated by the Japanese language and culture. In my free time I try to learn another couple of kanji and new words, or write a couple of sentences.
