Maria Olshanetska

Maria Olshanetska

MSc student

Universitat de Barcelona

My work is driven by a strong interest in solving linguistic problems in practical and research-oriented contexts, especially where language, cognition, and technology meet.

I am particularly passionate about semantic representation, whether in gesture, multimodal communication, or more formal approaches to meaning. My interests also include multimodality, prosody, pragmatics, and the ways in which meaning is expressed across different channels and contexts.

Through my academic and professional experience, I aim to connect theoretical insights from linguistics with real-world applications, especially in areas involving natural language processing, large language models, speech, and human communication.

Current & Past Positions

  • Tècnic d'investigació - Laboratori de Fonètica
    Universitat de Barcelona , Barcelona, ES
    2025-12 – 2026-10
  • Master Student - Social Minds
    Artificial Intelligence Research Institute , Cerdanyola del Vallès, ES
    2025-12 – 2026-07
  • Computational Linguist - General Linguistics
    Universitat de Barcelona , Barcelona, ES
    2021-12 – 2025-12

Education

  • Cognitive Science and Language in Philosophy
    Universidad de Barcelona , Barcelona, ES
    2024 – 2026
  • Linguistics in Lingüística General
    Universitat de Barcelona , Barcelona, ES
    2018 – 2023

Publications

DiMa: Automatic Russian Discourse Marker Detector

Joan Castellví , Maria Olshanetska
2025 - 27th International Congress of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (CCIA 2025) Social Robotics Social Robotics Virtual Agents Virtual Agents

S4SE: Storytelling for Social Emergencies - A Semantic Representation for Constructing Knowledge Bases for Conversational Agents

Beniamino Di Martino , Jordi Sabater Mir , Luigi Colucci Cante , Maria Olshanetska , Mariangela Graziano
2025 - Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-96096-3_18 Social Robotics Social Robotics Virtual Agents Virtual Agents

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