Anastassia Shaitarova, Dr.
- Postdoctoral researcher
- Digital Linguistics
I am a postdoctoral researcher working with Prof. Lena Jäger on the OpenEYE project. This short-term project, funded by swissuniversities, aims to promote Open Research Data principles within the eye-tracking community. My role has two main components: I contribute as a software engineer to the pymovements package, and I develop documentation and educational materials for eye-tracking students and the broader public. Alongside my involvement in OpenEYE, I also work on the ForATR project hosted at theDigital History Lab, where I facilitate data access in humanities research and support the adoption of Open Research Data practices and FAIR principles.
During my PhD I researched the impact of generative AI on English and German as part of theNCCR Evolving Language (project Digitisation, work package CompuLang). With no established research paradigm, I explored across multiple linguistics-adjacent disciplines to measure the impact of machine-translated and LLM-generated texts on natural language. In my thesis, I conceptualized generated text to be a locus of language contact, integrating insights and methods from corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, communication and translation studies.
Publications
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Publikationen
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Generated Text as a Locus of Language Contact: Exploring the Impact of Generative AI on English and German 2025, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.
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Beyond Flesch-Kincaid: Prompt-based Metrics Improve Difficulty Classification of Educational Texts In: The 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2024), Mexico City, Mexico, June 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics, 54-67.
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Tracing Linguistic Footprints of ChatGPT Across Tasks, Domains and Personas in English and German In: The 9th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference, Chur, Switzerland, 10 Juni 2024 - 11 Juni 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics, 102-112.
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Exploring the Latest Highlights in Medical Natural Language Processing across Multiple Languages: A Survey Yearbook of medical informatics, 32(01):230-243.
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Machine vs. Human: Exploring Syntax and Lexicon in German Translations, with a Spotlight on Anglicisms In: The 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa), Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, 23 May 2023 - 25 May 2023. University of Tartu Library, 215-227.
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Subword Evenness (SuE) as a Predictor of Cross-lingual Transfer to Low-resource Languages In: 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 7 December 2022 - 11 December 2022.
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Negation typology and general representation models for cross-lingual zero-shot negation scope resolution in Russian, French, and Spanish In: Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, Online, 6 June 2021 - 11 June 2021, ACL Anthology.
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The feasibility of a cross-lingual transfer-learning approach to negation scope resolution (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-280319
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Cross-lingual transfer-learning approach to negation scope resolution In: Swiss Text Analytics Conference & Conference on Natural Language Processing 2020, Zurich, 23 June 2020 - 25 June 2020, CEUR-WS.
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Geotagging a diachronic corpus of alpine texts: comparing distinct approaches to toponym recognition In: RANLP 2019, Workshop on Language technology for digital historical archives with a special focus on Central-, (South-)Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Varna, Bulgaria, 5 September 2019. RANLP, 11-18.
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Modelling Large Parallel Corpora: The Zurich Parallel Corpus Collection In: Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora (CMLC-7), Cardiff, Wales, 22 Juli 2019 - 22 Juli 2019.