Olena Yaskorska-Shah

My research lies in the notion of communication and dialogue. I am focusing on discourse analysis and data annotation in order to capture dialogical and argumentative structures of conversations in different communicative contexts. My philosophical research on the structure of the dialogue aims to find it’s application in AI and computational linguistics.

  Academic degrees:

 

 

2017: Ph.D

Ph.D dissertation: “Structures of Dialogue in Debate and Financial Discourse: Modelling an 'Ore' for Argument Mining”, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academia of Sciences.

Supervisor: dr K. Budzynska.

2012: MA

MA thesis: „Dialog jako gra. Metodologiczne podstawy formalnych ujęć dialogu na przykładzie systemów Lorenzena i Hamblina” (Dialogue as a game. The methodological foundations of formal accounts of a dialogue for Lorenzen's and Hamblin's systems), Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw.

Supervisor: Professor R. Piłat.

Co-supervisor: dr K. Budzynska.

2010: BA

BA degree: in Philosophy, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw.

 

Academic positions:

2021 – present:

Post-doc researcher at the Institute of Anrgumentation, Linuisitic and Semiotics, Università della Swizzera italiana. Position supported by the NSF project "Mining argumentative patterns in context. A large-scale corpus study of Earnings Conference Calls of listed companies" and by the PhD Program in Applied Linguistics "Managing languages, arguments and narratives in the datafied society".

2019 – 2021:

Assistant professor, Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences, Warsaw University of Technology (WUT).

 

Participation in research projects:

01.12.2021-

present

Mining argumentative patterns in context. A large scale corpus study of Earnings Conference Calls of listed companies, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, PI: prof. Andrea Rocci

01.10.2013-01.10.2014

CoRDA: Natural Language Corpus Resources for Studying Dialogical Arguments, funded by Scientific Exchange Programme NMS-CH (Sciex-NMSch); in collaboration with prof. Budzynska and prof. Rocci (IALTS, Lugano), position: research fellow.

08.2012-07.2015

Exploring Rhetorical Strategies in a Dialogue, Funded by Polish National Sciences Centre OPUS2; PI: prof. Katarzyna Budzynska.

 

Funding for the project of the Ph.D dissertation:

01.09.2014-30.09.2015

Structures of Dialogue in Debate and Financial Discourse: Modelling an 'Ore' for Argument Mining, project was funded by the Polish National Science Centre in the concurs ETIUDA2.

International fellowships:

01.02.2015-30.06.2015

School of Computing, University of Dundee, (UK); collaboration with prof. C. Reed and his group ARG-tech; funded by Polish National Science Centre during the project realisation “Structures of Dialogue in Debate and Financial Discourse: Modelling an 'Ore' for Argument Mining”.

01.10.2013-30.09.2014

Institute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics (IALS); Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland); collaboration with prof. A. Rocci and IALS institute; funded by Scientific Exchange Programme NMS-CH (Sciex-NMSch).

15.07.2013-20.07.1013

School of Computing, University of Dundee (UK); collaboration with prof.  C. Reed and his group ARG-tech; fellowship was funded by Polish National Science centre in the project „Rhetorical strategies in the dialogue”.

01.12.2012-13.12.2012

School of Computing, University of Dundee (UK); collaboration with prof. C. Reed and his research group ARG-tech; fellowship was funded by Polish National Science Centre and by School of Computing.

Publications:

 

International journal papers:

·            O. Yaskorska-Shah, (2021), Managing the complexity of dialogues in context: A data-driven discovery method for dialectical reply structures, Argumentation.

·            O. Yaskorska-Shah (2020), Data-driven dialogue models. Applying formal and computational tools to the study of financial and moral dialogues, Studies in Logic Grammar and Rhetoric, 63(1): 185–208.

·            M. Kacprzak, O. Yaskorska (2014) Dialogue protocols for formal fallacies, Argumentation, Springer, vol.3, 28(3): 349–369.

·            K. Budzyńska, M. Araszkiewicz, B. Bogołębska, P. Cap, T. Ciecierski, K. Dębowska-Kozłowska, B. Dunin-Kęplicz, M. Dziubiński, M. Federowicz, A. Gomolińska, A. Grabowski. Ł. Jochemczyk, M. Kacprzak, P. Kawalec, M. Kielar, A. Kisielewicz, M. Koszowy, R. Kublikowski, P. Kulicki, A. Kuzio, P. Lewiński, J.Z. Lichański, J. Malinowski, W. Marciszewski, E. Nieznański, J. Pietrzak, J. Pogonowski, T.A. Puczyłowski, J. Rytel, A. Sawicka, M. Selinger, A. Skowron, J. Skulska, M. Smolak, M. Sokół, A. Sowińska, P. Stalmaszczyk, T. Stawecki, J. Stepaniuk, A. Strachocka, K. Szymanek, J. Tomczyk, R. Trypuz, K. Trzęsicki, M. Urbański, E. Wasilewska-Kamińska, K.A. Wieczorek, M. Witek, U. Wybraniec-Skardowska, O. Yaskorska, M. Załęska, K. Zdanowski, T. Żurek (2014) The Polish School of Argumentation: A Manifesto, Argumentation, Springer, vol.3, 28(3): 267-282.

·            O. Yaskorska, K. Budzyńska, M. Kacprzak (2013) Proving Propositional Tautologies in a Natural Dialogue, Fundamenta Informaticae, 128(1-2): 239-253.

Polish-language Journal Papers:

·            O. Yaskorska, K. Budzyńska (2014) Akty komunikacyjne w dialogach formalnych (Communication Acts in Formal Dialogues), Filozofia Nauki, 3(87), R. XXII, s. 43-66.

·            O. Yaskorska, K. Budzyńska, M. Koszowy (2014) Różnorodność dialogowych procesów poznawczych (Diversity of cognitive processes in a dialogue), Studia Semiotyczne, XXVIII-XXIX, s.195-228. (published in English (2016): The Diversity of Cognitive Processes in a Dialogue, Studia Semiotyczne - English Supplement, vol. XXVIII, 57-94)

·            M. Koszowy, K. Budzyńska, O. Yaskorska (2013) Kryteria poprawności technik komunikacyjno-poznawczych (Criteria of correctness for the communicative and cognitive techniques), Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa 2(196): 145-172.

Peer-reviewed conference & workshop papers:

·            O. Yaskorska-Shah, A. Rocci, C. Reed (2022) Conversation shaping questions: a taxonomy used for mapping argumentative dialogues in financial discourse, Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA 22)

·            A. Rocci, O. Yaskorska (2022) Explaining the failure of explainable AI. Trust recovery arguments after the demise of the iBuying algorithm., 4th European Conference on Argumentation – ECA 2022, The cognitive dimension of social argumentation

·            O. Yaskorska-Shah, A. Rocci, G. D’Agostino, C. Lucchini (2022) Argumentative patterns initiated by closed-list questions in accountability dialogues. A corpus study of financial conference calls., 4th European Conference on Argumentation – ECA 2022, The cognitive dimension of social argumentation

·            M. Janier, O. Yaskorska (2016) Applying Inference Anchoring Theory for the analysis of dialogue structure in debate, Studies in Logic and Argumentation, Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Argumentation (ECA 2015), King's College Publications.

·            K. Budzyńska, M. Janier, B. Konat, J. Kang, C. Reed, P. Saint-Dizier, M. Stede, O. Yaskorska (2016) Automatically identifying transitions between locutions in dialogue, Studies in Logic and Argumentation, Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Argumentation (ECA 2015), King's College Publications.

·            K. Budzyńska, M. Janier, C. Reed, P. Saint-Dizier, M. Stede, O. Yakorska (2014) A Model for Processing Illocutionary Structures and Argumentation in Debates, Proc. of the 9th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), s. 917-924.

·            O. Yaskorska (2014) Recognising Argumentation In Dialogical Context.  In B. Garssen, D. Godden, G. Mitchell & A. F. Snoeck Henkemans (Eds.), The Eighth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA). Amsterdam: SicSat.

·            K. Budzyńska, A. Rocci, O. Yaskorska (2014) Financial Dialogue Games: A Protocol for Earnings Conference Calls, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2014), IOS Press, (266): 19-30.

·            K. Budzyńska, M. Janier, J. Kang, C Reed, P. Saint-Dizier, M. Stede, O. Yaskorska (2014) Towards Argument Mining from Dialogue, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2014), IOS Press, (266): 185-196.

·            O. Yaskorska, M. Kacprzak, K. Budzyńska (2012) Rules for Formal and Natural Dialogues in Agent Communication, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Concurrency, Specification and Programming CSP2012 s. 416-427. Berlin: Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin.

·            O. Yaskorska (2013) Speech acts, fallacies and dialogue systems, D. Mohammed & M. Lewiński (red.), Virtues of Argumentation. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA).

·            O. Yaskorska, K. Budzyńska, M. Kacprzak (2012) A logic for strategies in persuasion dialogue games, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications: Advances in Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, s. 98-107. IOS Press.