Congratulations to Olessia Koltsova on the successful defense of her doctoral dissertation!

On April 23, 2024, the defense of the doctoral dissertation in philology by Olessia Koltsova, the head of the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics, took place.

The academic degree of Doctor of Sciences was unanimously conferred upon the candidate.

The dissertation, titled "Applying Automatic Language Processing To Investigate The Coverage Of Inter-Ethnic Relations And Other Socially Problematic Topics In Large Collections Of User-Generated Texts," explores the applicability of a wide range of new variations of machine learning algorithms to the interpretable analysis of these representations. The algorithms are divided into two groups: thematic modeling aimed at identifying implicit contexts of mentioning ethnic groups and relationships between them, and classification algorithms aimed at identifying predefined classes of attitudes toward ethnic groups.

The text of the work can be found at the following link.