Maria Boritchev

Professional Experience

Dec. 2021 – Present day: Assistant professor at the Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IMPAN), in Warsaw, Poland

Development and study of hybrid models for natural reasoning, combining formal logic methods with deep learning ones.

Sep. 2020 – Aug. 2021: Temporary Research Lecturer (ATER) at the Institute of Digital sciences, Management & Cognition (IDMC), University of Lorraine, Nancy, France

Full-time teaching position; students from first year of Bachelor’s degree to last year of Master’s
Subjects: Algorithmics, Programming, Natural Language Processing, Logic, Formal Concept Analysis, Research Methodology, taught in French and English
Continuing research work on Ph.D. subject in S ́emagramme team, LORIA, Inria Nancy Grand-Est

Sep 2017 – Nov. 2021: PhD Student at the Loria – Inria Nancy Grand Est, France in the SÉMAGRAMME team.

Title: Modeling dialogues in a dynamic theory of types
Advisors: Maxime Amblard, Philippe de Groote
Elaboration of a logical, compositional and dynamic model of dialogue, in particular for the articulation of questions and answers in oral dialogue
Construction of a corpus (DinG – Dialogues in Games, in French) of real-life data composed of transcriptions of recordings of people playing the board game Catan
Teaching and creation of material for lectures and exercise sessions

Feb. 2017 – Jun. 2017: Research intern at the Loria – Inria Nancy Grand Est, France in the SÉMAGRAMME team.

Title: Approaching dialogue modeling in a dynamic framework
Advisor: Maxime Amblard
Elaboration of a dynamic model of dialogue in a narrowed down theoretical framework
Tested on data from SLAM – Schizophrenia and Language, Analysis and Modelling corpus (in French)
Report
Presentation slides (in French)

Jun. – Aug. 2016: Research intern at the University of Dundee, Scotland, at the Center for Argumentation Technology

Title: Social embedding of political argumentation
Advisor: Chris Reed
Automatic mining of intertextual correspondences between political argumentation and social media reactions to it. Analysed intertextual correspondences between arguments mined from American primaries debates and arguments mined from comments on the Reddit social media.
Report

Jun. – Jul. 2015: Research intern at the Toulouse Institute of Computer Science Research (IRIT), France.

Title: Contribution à la détection de systèmes de valeurs et de catégories de consommateurs en analyse d’opinion
Advisor: Patrick St. Dizier
Contribution to the detection of value systems and of consumers categories in opinion analysis. Analysed opinion, argumentation and consumers categories using data provided by IMDb (Internet Movie Database) and successfully developed a modified version of TextCoop (tool for discourse analysis developed by Patrick St. Dizier et al.).
Rapport de stage

Education

Sep 2016 – Jun 2017: Second year of Master of Science at the Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.

Majors: natural language processing, computer science.

Sep 2014 – May 2016: Bachelor and first year of Master of Science at the École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France.

Leading institution of higher education and research, entrance to which is based on a competitive selection.
Major: computer science.

Sep 2011 – Jul 2014: Intensive course preparing for the entrance exam to French “Grandes Ecoles” at Thiers High School, Marseille, France.

Majors: mathematics, physics and computer science.

Languages

Native: French, Russian
Professional proficiency: English
Elementary: German, Polish

Computer Skills

Intermediate knowledge: OCaml, Python
Basic knowledge: Java, bash, Perl, C, Prolog, Coq, SQL, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Lex&Yacc
Operating systems: Mac OS, Linux (Ubuntu)
Tools: Git, LaTeX, Beamer