CURRICULUM VITAE
Yulia Badryzlova
Research
Jan 2015current
Jul 2012Mar 2013
Masters project: Automatic Identification of Conceptual Metaphor in
Russian Texts (Computational Linguistics Dept., School of Linguistics, Higher
School of Economics)
Project leader
Project: Russian Metaphor Corpus (affiliated with the Urals State Pedagogical
University – Yekaterinburg, Russia)
Supported by the Russian Foundation for Humanities Research/RGNF (Grant No
12-34-01269)
Scientific supervision: developing corpus annotation protocol; selecting and
calibrating annotation software; training the team of annotators; providing the
statistical assessment of the annotation quality; writing research reports.
Administrative supervision: administering the inter-university team of
annotators and scientists; liaising with the Institute of the Russian Language
Institute, the Russian National Corpus and with the RGNF (Moscow); managing
the project's funding.
Education, Training
Sep 2013Jun 2015
(expected)
Jan 2013
Aug 2012
Jan2012
Nov 2011
Jun 2011
Aug 2005May 2006
Oct 2001Jun 2004
Sep 1995Jun 2000
Master's Programme: Computational Linguistics
The Higher School of Economics-National Research University, School of
Linguistics (Moscow)
Metaphor Identification and Analysis; the Next Level, Winter School; Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam, Metaphor Lab
6th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval (RuSSIR)
Yaroslavl State University (Yaroslavl, Russia)
Volunteer assistant to the Organizing Committee
Metaphor Identification and Analysis, Winter School
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Metaphor Lab
Autumn School on Computational Creativity
Helsinki University, Department of Computer Science
Summer School on Cognitive Research in Political Linguistics
(Yekaterinburg, Russia)
Graduate Student (Fulbright Program)
Communication Studies, Journalism
Graduate school, Marshall University (Huntington, WV, USA)
Postgraduate exams in Comparative and Contrastive Linguistics and
Typology, with focus on conceptual metaphor studies
(Urals State Pedagogical University)
Master (Russian: Graduate 'Diploma' degree) with Distinctions
Major: Linguistics (English, German) and Teaching English/German as a
Second Language
Minor: Translation (English/Russian)
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Urals State Pedagogical University, Institute of Foreign Languages
Professional Experience
Sep 2013current
Jan –
Jul 2014
Jan 2007May 2012
Aug 2005May 2006
Sep 2000Aug 2005
Lecturer of English and Academic Writing, Higher School of Economics,
Faculty of Philology
Coursera, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
Assistant to Prof. M.B. Bergelson in the course “Understanding Russians:
Contexts of Intercultural Communications” (in English)
 Supervising studio production of lecture videos: shooting, video and sound
post-editing;
 Production of lecture slides;
 Writing and programming course tests, assignments and letters;
 Maintaining the course materials on the Coursera platform;
 Moderating the course forum, responding students’ queries.
Regional Media Monitoring Journalist
British Broadcasting Corporation, Monitoring Service (BBCM)
Telecommuting for the Moscow Office of BBCM; monitoring Russian electronic
and print media, writing analytical reports in English:
● Analytical roundups of regional and federal Russian news (topics: politics,
economy, energy, technology, environment, human rights, military etc.);
● Summaries of regional Russian TV and radio news, agencies, newspapers,
websites;
● Daily digests of the federal Russian press.
Training and work experience at the offices of BBCM:
● Moscow (8 weeks, total);
● Kyiv, Ukraine (1 week);
● Caversham, UK (5 weeks).
Fulbright FLTA Teaching Assistant
Russian as a Second Language
Marshall University (WV, USA), Modern Languages Department
Full-time lecturer: Linguistics (Theoretical Grammar of English, English
Lexicology, Stylistics); Practical Course of English; Translation Practice
Urals State Pedagogical University, English Language Department
Awards, Recognition
Feb 2014Jun 2015
Feb 2014
Jun 2013
Scholarship for young leaders and researchers, Vladimir Potanin’s
Foundation (Russia)
Scholarship for Achievement in Research, Higher School of Economics
(Russia)
Travel grant from the Dynasty Foundation (Russia) for participation in the
2013 conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (Atlanta, GA, USA)
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Jan 2012Dec 2012
Jan 2012
Aug 2005May 2006
Jun 2000
Research grant of the Russian Foundation for Humanities Research/RGNF (No
12-34-01269) for the project Russian Metaphor Corpus (see "Research")
Student grant for participation in the Winter School on Metaphor Identification
and Analysis
International Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM)
Scholarship of the J.W. Fulbright Foundation
FLTA Program (Foreign Language Teaching Assistantship)
U.S. Department of State
Master (Russian: Graduate 'Diploma' degree) with Distinctions
Urals State Pedagogical University, Institute of Foreign Languages
Publications
Badryzlova, Yu. (2012). Corpora and databases of conceptual metaphor: An outline of
major projects. (In Russian). [Korpusa i bazy dannykh kontseptualnoy metaphory: zarubezhnyy opyt
sozdaniya] / In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Science (pp. 227228). Kaliningrad, Russia.
Badryzlova, Yu., Shekhtman N., Kerimov, R.. Main principles and methods of the
Russian-language corpus of conceptual metaphor: using BRAT annotation tool. (In Russian).
[Osnovnyye metody i printsipy sozdaniya russkoyazychnogo korpusa kontseptualnoy metaphory:
opyt razmetki s primeneniyem instrumenta BRAT] / In Vestnik Permskogo Universiteta, issue 3
(23) (pp. 82-92). – Perm, Russia.
Badryzlova, Yu., Shekhtman, N., Isaeva, E., Kerimov, R. (2013). Annotating a Russian
corpus of conceptual metaphor: a bottom-up approach. / In Proceedings of the First Workshop on
Metaphor in NLP, Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (pp. 21-30). Atlanta, GA.
Badryzlova, Yu., Shekhtman, N., Isayeva Ye., Kerimov, R.. Using the linguistic metaphor
identification procedure (MIPVU) on a Russian corpus: rules revised and extended. (In Russian).
[Pravila primeneniya protsedury linvisticheskoy identifikatsii metaphory (MIPVU) v
russkoyazychnom korpuse: lingvokognitivnyy opyt (utochneniya i dopolneniya)] / In Gumanitarnyy
Vektor, issue 4 (36) (pp. 19-29). – Kemerovo, Russia.
Yermakova, L., Badryzlova, Yu. (submitted). Inter-annotator agreement in the shallow
annotation of the Russian corpus of conceptual metaphor (annotated according to MIPVU
procedure).
Conference presentations
Badryzlova, Yu. (2013). Annotating the Russian metaphor corpus: The first experiences. /
VU Metaphor Lab Winter School 2013: The Next Level. Metaphor Identification and Analysis. –
VU University Amsterdam.
Badryzlova, Yu., Isayeva, Ye., Kerimov, R., Shekhtman, N. (2013). Annotating a
metaphor corpus: the principles and schemes / Dialogue-2013, International Conference on
Computational Linguistics. – Bekasovo, Russia.
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