Vasyl Starko

Education

• PhD (Kandydat Nauk) in Linguistics, Institute of Linguistics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Dissertation The Concept of HRA [GAME/PLAY] in the Context of Slavic and Germanic Cultures (Ukrainian, Russian, English, and German) (2004)

Work Experience

• Associate Professor (previously Senior Lecturer and Assistant) at the Applied Linguistics Department, Faculty of Romance-Germanic Philology, Lesya Ukrainka Eastern European National University (2002–2008)

Projects

• Co-author of the Large Electronic Dictionary of Ukrainian (VESUM) (https://r2u.org.ua/vesum/External link), a tool for checking spelling, grammar, and style in Ukrainian Pravopysnyk LanguageTool (https://languagetool.org/uk/External link; https://r2u.org.ua/checkExternal link).Leader of the BrUK corpus group(https://r2u.org.ua/corpusExternal link)
• Co-creator of dictionary websiteshttp://e2u.org.ua/External link and http://r2u.org.ua/External link.

Teaching

• Introduction to Computational Linguistics
• Corpus Linguistics
• Computational Linguistics I. Morphological Analysis
• Computational Linguistics II. Algorithms of Syntactic Analysis

Previously taught university courses

Computational Linguistics, Machine Translation, New Information Technology, Linguistic Automata, Linguistic Aspects of Expert Systems, Theory of Formal Languages, Conversational English, English Phonetics, English Grammar.

Selected Publications

• Ukrainian Text Preprocessing in GRACExternal link // 2021 IEEE 16th International Conference on Computer Sciences and Information Technologies (CSIT). 22-25 Sept. 2021. LVIV, Ukraine. Vol. 2. pp. 101-104 (co-author)
• Handling of Nonstandard Spelling in GRACExternal link // 2021 IEEE 16th International Conference on Computer Sciences and Information Technologies (CSIT). 22-25 Sept. 2021. LVIV, Ukraine. Vol. 2. pp. 105-108 (co-author)
• Semantic Annotation for Ukrainian: Сategorization Scheme, Principles, and ToolsExternal link // Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Systems (COLINS 2020). Volume I: Main Conference, Lviv, Ukraine, April 23-24, 2020. — Pp. 239-248.
• Velykyi elektronnyi slovnyk ukrainskoi movy (VESUM) iak zasib NLP dlia ukrainskoi movy (Large Electronic Dictionary of Ukrainian (VESUM) as an NLP Tool for Ukrainian), in: Halaktyka Slova. Kyiv, 2020 (in Ukrainian)
• Rozviazannia kompiuternolinhvistychnykh zavdan zasobamy hurtu r2uExternal link (Solving Computational Linguistic Problems Using Tools Developed by the R2U Team), in: U poshukakh harmonii movy. Kyiv, 2020, pp. 367-373. (in Ukrainian)
• “Ukrainsko-anhliiskyi slovnyk” K. Andrusyshyna i Ya. Kreta: kanadskyi vnesok v ukrainsku leksykohrafiiuExternal link
  (Ukrainian-English Dictionary by C.H. Andrusyshen and J.N. Krett: A Canadian Contribution to Ukrainian Lexicography), in: Ukraina – Kanada: suchasni naukovi studii: u 3-kh kn., Vol. 2, Lutsk, 2018, pp. 111-119. (in Ukrainian)
• Kompiuterni linhvistychni proekty hurtu r2u: stan i zastosuvanniaExternal link (NLP projects of the r2u team: current state and applications, in: Ukrainska Mova, 2017, Is. 3, pp.86-100.(in Ukrainian)
• Categorization, Fast and SlowExternal link, in: East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2014, 4., Is. 1, pp. 205-212.
• Ukrainian Colour Concepts for BlueExternal link, in: Journal of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 2013, No. 54, pp. 150-163.
• Language and culture: a view from categorization studies, in:Language – Culture –Politics. International Journal, Chełm, 2016, 1, pp. 59-66.
• Entry Selection for a Bilingual Phraseological DictionaryExternal link, in: Proceedings XII EURALEX International Congress, Turin, Edizioni dell’Orso Alessandria, 2006, II,pp.1045-1054.
• Dani neironauk u doslidzhenni pryrodnomovnoi katehoryzatsiiExternal link (Neuroscientific data in the study of natural language categorization, in: Studia Ukrainica Posnaniensia, 2015, III, pp. 303-309.(in Ukrainian)
• Korpusni dani v doslidzhenni ukrainskykh koloratyvivExternal link (Corpus data in the study of Ukrainian color names), in: Ukrainska Mova, 2014, Is. 1, pp. 51-60. (in Ukrainian)
• Formuvannia Braunskoho korpusu ukrainskoi movyExternal link (Compiling the Ukrainian Brown Corpus), in: Movni I kontseptualni kartyny svitu, 2014, Is. 48, pp. 415-421.(in Ukrainian)
• Idioms and Proverbs in Corpora, in Seria Filologie, Ploieşti, Universităţii Petrol–Gaze din Ploieşti, 2007, Vol. LVIII, No.1, pp. 23-28.
• Paremiohrafiia v korpusnu dobu: z dosvidu ukladennia “Elektronnoho anhliisko-ukrainskoho slovnyka pryslivivExternal link (Paremiography in the corpus age: from the experience of compiling an electronic English-Ukrainian Dictionary of Proverbs), in: Ukrainska i slovianska tlumachna ta perekladnaleksykohrafiia. Leonidova Sydorovychu Palamarchukovi, Kyiv, KMM, 2012, pp. 291-297.(in Ukrainian)
• Parametryzatsiia korpusu yak sposib pidvyshchyty yoho reprezentatyvnist ta zbalansovanistExternal link (Parametrization of a corpus as a way to increase its representativeness and balance), in: Ukrainske movoznavstvo, Is. 43, 2013, pp. 87–94. (co-author)(in Ukrainian)
• Rekonstruktsiia referentsiinoi modeli koloronazvy synii za danymy onlainovoho “Korpusu ukrainskoi movy” (Reconstruction of the referential model of the color name synii based on the data of the online Ukrainian Corpus), in: Studia Ucrainica Varsoviensia, 2014, 2, pp. 165-177.(in Ukrainian)
• The Ukrainian Brown Corpus and Dependency Tree Modeling, in: Dosvid rozrobky ta zastosuvannia prylado-tekhnichnykh SAPR v mikroeletronitsi: Materialy XII Mizhnarodnoi naukovo-tekhnichnoi konferentsii CADSM 2013, Lviv, Lvivska Politekhnika, 2013, pp. 58–60 (co-author)
• Katehoryzatsiia koloru: mizh universalizmom ta reliatyvizmomExternal link (Categorization of color: Between universalism and relativism), in:Studia linguistica, Kyiv, 2013, Is. 7, pp. 295-301.(in Ukrainian)
• The Concept of HRA (The Concept of GAME/PLAY), Lutsk, 2007, 204 pp. (in Ukrainian)
• Aktyvni elementy v terminolohichnomu slovnyku (Active elements in a terminological dictionary), in: Visnyk: Problemy ukrainskoi terminolohii, Lviv, 2006, No. 559, pp. 70-77.(in Ukrainian)
• Hrinchenkiv “Slovar” u zbirtsi onlainovykh slovnykiv na r2u.org.uaExternal link (Borys Hrinchenko’sSlovar in the collection of online dictionaries at r2u.org.ua), in: Leksykohrafichnyi biuleten, Kyiv, 2013, Is. 22, pp. 30-36.(in Ukrainian)
• Frazeolohiia, leksykohrafiia i korpusExternal link (Phraseology, lexicography, and corpus), in: Leksykohrafichnyi biuleten, Kyiv, 2006, Is. 13, pp.43-47.(in Ukrainian)
• Transkryptsiina systema dlia anhliisko-ukrainskykh slovnykivExternal link (A transcription system for English-Ukrainian dictionaries), in: Leksykohrafichnyi biuleten, Kyiv, 2005, Is. 11, pp. 4-17.(in Ukrainian)
• Frazeologizmy igrovogo proiskhozhdeniya v angliyskom yazyke (kognitivnyi aspekt) (Phraseologisms originating from games in English (a cognitive aspect) in:Słowo. Tekst. Czas VI. Nowa frazeologia w nowej Europie, Szczecin, Greifswald, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego, 2002, pp. 435-439.(in Russian)