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Dr. Maria Shvedova

Maria Shvedova is a DAAD Fellow at the University of Potsdam, working on the research project “Case Choice in Ukrainian Vocative Expressions from a Typological Perspective.”

Education and academic qualifications

  • 1999–2004: Institute of Philology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
  • 2004–2007: PhD student at the Institute of Philology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
  • 2008: PhD in Philology

Professional assignments

  • 2023–present: Associate Professor at the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”
  • 2026: Associate Professor at the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (Part-Time)
  • 2026: Josef Dobrovský Fellowship, Czech Academy of Sciences. Visiting researcher at the Institute of Slavonic Studies in Prague
  • 2025–2027: PressMint: Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers. CLARIN Flagship Project. Ukrainian consortium lead, responsible for Ukrainian historical newspaper corpus development.
  • 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
  • 2022–2025: Lecturer and Course Developer, DAAD Educational Programs for Ukrainian Students, organised by Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • 2022–2025: Philipp Schwartz Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Visiting researcher at the University of Jena
  • 2022: Polish Academy of Sciences Fellowship. Visiting researcher at IPI PAN
  • 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

Publications

Publications for the last 5 years

  • Shvedova, M., & Lukashevskyi, A. (2026). PluG: A Corpus of 19th-and Early 20th-Century Ukrainian Texts. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 12: 77. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/johd.552
  • Dmytro Chaplynskyi, Ivan Kulynych, Maria Shvedova, and Lesia Ivashkevych. (2026). Semantic Fidelity Versus Literary Quality: A Construct Validity Study of Neural Machine Translation Metrics. In Proceedings of the Fifth Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Conference (UNLP 2026), pages 67–79, Lviv, Ukraine. Association for Computational Linguistics. aclanthology.org/2026.unlp-1.8/
  • Shvedova, M. (2026). General Regionally Annotated Corpus of Ukrainian: Recent developments and future plans. In P. Bański, D. Knight, M. Kupietz, A. Witt, & A. Wróblewska (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora (CMLC-12) @ LREC 2026 (pp. 66–70). European Language Resources Association. lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-ws-cmlc-09
  • Shvedova, M., & Lukashevskyi, A. (2026). Historical newspapers in the General Regionally Annotated Corpus of Ukrainian (GRAC): Current state and PressMint integration prospects. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers (PressMint 2026) @ LREC 2026  (pp. 21–26). European Language Resources Association. lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-ws-pressmint-05
  • Kanishcheva, O., & Shvedova, M. (2026). Quantifying code-switching in a Ukrainian parliamentary dataset 1990-2021. In Proceedings of ParlaCLARIN V Workshop on Interoperability, Multilinguality, and Multimodality in Parliamentary Corpora @ LREC 2026 (pp. 2–12). European Language Resources Association. lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-ws-parlaclarin-02
  • Olha Kanishcheva, Maria Shvedova, Liudmyla Dyka, Kristina Husenko. 2026. Study of Language Identification Task on the Token Level for Ukrainian-Russian Code-Switching Dataset. Northern European Journal of Language Technology. Vol. 12 No. 1 nejlt.ep.liu.se/article/view/5725
  • Hanna Sytar, Maria Shvedova, and Olha Kanishcheva. 2026. Ukrainian Multiword Expressions Corpus: Creation, Annotation, and Linguistic Analysis. In Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2026), pages 38–47, Rabat, Marocco. Association for Computational Linguistics. aclanthology.org/2026.mwe-1.4/
  • 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. aclanthology.org/2025.unlp-1.7/
  • Maria Shvedova, Arsenii 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
  • M. 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. korpus.cz/events/iclc11/abstracts/536
  • 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. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-97629-2_7 
  • Shvedova, M. (2025). Lexicographic Portals: Ukrainian. In M. L. Greenberg (ed.), Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online. Brill. doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_039916
  • 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. aclanthology.org/2024.unlp-1.3/
  • V. Benko, M. Shvedova. Araneum Ucrainicum: A New Ukrainian Web-Crawled Corpus. Лексикографічна парадигма ХХІ ст.: теорія і методологія. До 100-ліття від дня народження Леоніда Сидоровича Паламарчука: монографія / відп. ред. Є. А. Карпіловська; техн. ред. Ю. О. Цигвінцева. Київ: Інститут української мови НАН України, 2023. С. 540-557. URL: drive.google.com/file/d/1Z2Ry28VVZHWUCbK1LBQ9BwglsboD9y0F/view
  • 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. aclanthology.org/2023.unlp-1.10/
  • Olha Kanishcheva, Maria Shvedova. Linguistic Resources and Tools for Ukrainian: Grounds for Creating a K-center. CLARIN Annual Conference Proceedings, 2023. ISSN 2773-2177 (online). Eds. Krister Lindén, Jyrki Niemi, and Thalassia Kontino. Leuven, Belgium, 2023. P. 125-128. office.clarin.eu/v/CE-2023-2328_CLARIN2023_ConferenceProceedings.pdf
  • M. Shvedova, V. Starko, A. Rysin. Going Beyond Standard Ukrainian: How a Corpus Informs an E-Dictionary. // Medveď, M. & Měchura, M. & Tiberius, C., & Kosem, I. & Kallas, J. & Jakubíček, M. & Krek, S. (eds.) (2023). Electronic lexicography in the 21st century (eLex 2023): Invisible Lexicography. Book of abstracts. Brno, 27–29 June 2023. Brno: Lexical Computing CZ s.r.o. P. 121. elex.link/elex2023/book-of-abstracts/
  • 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. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10324255
  • L. Dyka, M. Shvedova. Synonymy in the Ukrainian Language and the Problems of Surzhyk (Case Study of Synonyms with the Meaning 'Probably') [Синонімія в українській мові і проблеми суржику (на прикладі синонімного ряду зі значенням 'мабуть').] Language: Classic - Modern - Postmodern. [Мова: класичне - модерне - постмодерне.] 2023. №9. S. 50-71. ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/server/api/core/bitstreams/5bd65ed1-25c2-4abf-9403-0776e4c6cea1/content
  • Liudmyla Dyka, Maria Shvedova. History and normative status of the preposition / prefix од- in the modern Ukrainian [Історія і нормативний статус прийменника / префікса од‑ в українській мові нового часу]. Slavia Orientalis, 2022, vol. LXXI, No 4, 797-818 journals.pan.pl/Content/125858/PDF/2022-04-SOR-06.pdf
  • 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. ceur-ws.org/Vol-3171/paper9.pdf
  • 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 ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/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 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9648834 
  • Shvedova M., von Waldenfels R. (2021). 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. pp. 32-45. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2870/paper4.pdf

Selected publications on Ukrainian grammar and variation

  • Rabus A., Shvedova M. (2021). Morphological Variation in Ukrainian Regional Varieties: a Corpus Study. SLAVIA: časopis pro slovanskou filologii 90(1):1–24. www.slu.cas.cz/4-slav-opc-211.pdf 
  • Shvedova M. (2021). Lexical Variation In the Language of the Ukrainian Press of the 1920s–1940s and the Development of a New Lexical Norm (a Corpus-Based Research) [Лексична варіантність в українській пресі 1920–1940-х років і формування нової лексичної норми]. Movoznavstvo 1:16–35.
  • Shvedova, M. O. (2020). Active participles in Ukrainian: A corpus analysis [Активні дієприкметники в українській мові: корпусний аналіз]. In Halaktyka Slova (pp. 339-352). Kyiv. rep.knlu.edu.ua/xmlui/bitstream/handle/787878787/1725
  • Shvedova, M. O. (2020). Grammatical adaptation of borrowed nouns ending in -o in Ukrainian: A corpus study [Граматичне освоєння запозичених іменників із кінцевим -о в українській мові: корпусне дослідження]. Ukrainska mova, 2, 13-30. iul-nasu.org.ua/pdf/ukrmova/2_20/4.pdf
  • Shvedova, M. O. (2019). General Regionally Annotated Corpus of Ukrainian (GRAC) as a tool for studying lexico-grammatical variation [Генеральний регіонально анотований корпус української мови (ГРАК) як інструмент дослідження лексико-граматичної варіативності]. In O. P. Levchenko (Ed.), Liudyna. Kompiuter. Komunikatsiia (pp. 145-148). Lviv Polytechnic Publishing House.
  • Shvedova, M. O. (2018). Dynamics of syntactic constructions denoting path with verbs of motion: A corpus study [Динаміка синтаксичних конструкцій на позначення шляху при дієсловах руху: корпусне дослідження]. Ukrainska mova, 3, 67-79. iul-nasu.org.ua/pdf/ukrmova/3_18/7.pdf
  • Shvedova, M. O. (2018). Dynamics of using variant forms of inanimate nouns in the accusative singular in literary texts of Ukrainian regions of the 19th-21st centuries [Динаміка вживання варіативних форм іменників-назв неістот у знахідному відмінку однини в літературних текстах регіонів України ХІХ-ХХІ ст.]. Scientific Bulletin of Kherson State University. Series "Linguistics", 31, 88-94.
  • Shvedova, M. O. (2018). Formation of the third-person plural possessive pronoun in the Ukrainian literary language [Становлення присвійного займенника третьої особи множини в українській літературній мові]. Movoznavstvo, 4, 40-53. rep.knlu.edu.ua/xmlui/handle/787878787/1723
  • Shvedova, M. O. (2018). Variation of noun forms in the accusative singular in Ukrainian (a corpus study) [Варіативність форм іменників у знахідному відмінку однини в українській мові (корпусне дослідження)]. Studia philologica, 10, 19-28. studiap.kubg.edu.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/259
  • Shvedova, M. O. (2017). Corpus methods for studying regional differences within one language (based on regional corpora of Ukrainian and Russian) [Корпусні методи дослідження регіональних відмінностей у межах однієї мови (на матеріалі регіональних корпусів української та російської мов)]. Visnyk of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series "Philology", 77, 33-38.
  • Shvedova, M. O. (2017). The problem of the literary norm of the Ukrainian language in view of its regional variants (according to the regionally annotated corpus of the Ukrainian language) [Проблема літературної норми української мови з огляду на її регіональні варіанти (за регіонально анотованим корпусом української мови)]. Linhvistyka, 2(37), 145-150.

  • Shvedova, M. A. (2016). Foreign language influences in Russian speech of Ukraine (Lexis) [Иноязычные влияния в русской речи Украины (Лексика)]. Movoznavchyi visnyk, 21, 86-92.

    Corpora, datasets

  • Maslij (Kalashnyk), V., Shvedova, M., & Kulynych, I. (2026). ParaFarm: English-Ukrainian Multiple-Translation Corpus [Data set]. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20370169
  • Savary, Agata; et al. (2026). Annotated corpora and tools of the PARSEME Shared Task : Subtask 1, MWE Identification (edition 2.0), LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ digital library at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (ÚFAL), hdl.handle.net/11372/LRT-6123.
  • Lukashevskyi, A., Zakharov, K., & Shvedova, M. (2025). Rada_Trees: A Syntactically Annotated Corpus of Ukrainian Parliament Transcripts (1990-2024). Electronic resource: huggingface.co/datasets/uacorpus/Rada_Trees/tree/main
  • Kanishcheva, O., Shvedova, M., Dyka, L., & Husenko, K. (2025). ParlMix-UA-RU - Ukrainian Parliamentary Code-Mixing Dataset [Data set]. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14724542
  • Maria Shvedova, Arsenii Lukashevskyi (2024–): UD_Ukrainian-ParlaMint (corpus of Ukrainian parliamentary transcripts annotated in Universal Dependencies). Electronic resource: Kharkiv, Jena. github.com/UniversalDependencies/UD_Ukrainian-ParlaMint/blob/dev/README.md
  • Maria Shvedova, Arsenii Lukashevskyi (2024–): PluG: A Corpus of 19th-and Early 20th-Century Ukrainian Texts. Electronic resource: Kharkiv, Jena. github.com/Dandelliony/pluperfect_grac
  • Maria Shvedova, Arsenii Lukashevskyi. (2023–). ParaRook: Parallel corpora based on GRAC. Kharkiv, Jena. Available at uacorpus.org/Kyiv/en/pararook
  • Kieraś, W., Kobyliński, Ł., Komosińska, D., Rudolf, M., Shvedova, M., Zwierzchowska, A. (2023–). PAWUK: Polish Automatic Web Corpus of Ukrainian Language. Electronic resource: pawuk.ipipan.waw.pl/overview
  • Maria Shvedova, Ruprecht von Waldenfels, Sergiy Yarygin, Andriy Rysin, Vasyl Starko et al. (2017–): GRAC: General Regionally Annotated Corpus of Ukrainian. Electronic resource: Kyiv, Lviv, Jena. Available at uacorpus.org
  • Parallel Ukrainian-Russian and Russian-Ukrainian corpora in Russian National Corpus. (2010–2013). Available at ruscorpora.ru/new/search-para-uk.html