ABOUT ME
I’m a PhD student at the University of Passau under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Hautli-Janisz working in the DeLab project (VolkswagenStiftung). In my research, I favour an interdisciplinary approach with a primary focus on linguistics and computer science (AI, in particular). My research interests lie primarily in argument mining and discourse processing, where I explore the argumentative role of different question types in a debate setting. I'm also interested in exploring and understanding the phenomenon of framing and persuasiveness. I prefer to work with natural language data which involves multiple speakers such as political debates and social media conversations.
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Education
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2019-2021: Master of Arts in Speech and Language Processing from the University of Konstanz (Germany)
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2014-2018: Bachelor of Arts in Translation studies from the Kyiv National Linguistic University (Ukraine)
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Work experience
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Jan 2022-Present: Scientific staff at the University of Passau (Germany)
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Aug 2021-Dec 2021: Scientific staff at the University of Konstanz (Germany)
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Oct 2019-Jul 2021: Research assistant at the University of Konstanz (Germany)
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Associate membership
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2022-Present: Centre for Argument Technology (University of Dundee, Scotland, UK)
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Awards
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2021 University of Konstanz’s Alumni Association (VEUK) prize for outstanding academic accomplishments
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Publications
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Question Type Prediction in Natural Debate
Zlata Kikteva, Alexander Trautsch, Steffen Herbold, Annette Hautli-Janisz
In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), 2024. PAPER -
Large Language Models Can Impersonate Politicians and Other Public Figures
Steffen Herbold, Alexander Trautsch, Zlata Kikteva, Annette Hautli-Janisz
arXiv preprint, 2024. PAPER -
On the Impact of Reconstruction and Context for Argument Prediction in Natural Debate
Zlata Kikteva, Alexander Trautsch, Patrick Katzer, Mirko Oest, Steffen Herbold, Annette Hautli-Janisz
In Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Argument Mining, at ENMLP 2023, 2023. PAPER -
A Large-scale Comparison of Human-written versus ChatGPT-generated Essays
Steffen Herbold, Annette Hautli-Janisz, Ute Heuer, Zlata Kikteva, and Alexander Trautsch
Scientific Reports 13, 2023. PAPER -
The Keystone Role Played by Questions in Debate
Zlata Kikteva, Kamila Gorska, Wassiliki Siskou, Annette Hautli-Janisz, and Chris Reed
In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse, at COLING 2022, 2022. PAPER -
QT30: A Corpus of Argument and Conflict in Broadcast Debate
Annette Hautli-Janisz, Zlata Kikteva, Wassiliki Siskou, Kamila Gorska, Ray Becker, and Chris Reed
In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022), European Language Resources Association, 2022. PAPER
Conference talks
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Dimensions of Inequality in Broadcast Political Debate
Zlata Kikteva, and Annette Hautli-Janisz
In_equality Conference 2024, Konstanz, Germany. PRESENTATION -
The Dynamics of Framing in Dialogue
Zlata Kikteva, Annette Hautli-Janisz, Chris Reed, Steve Oswald, Christopher Klamm, Wassiliki Siskou, Meghdut Sengupta, Manfred Stede, and Henning Wachsmuth
DGfS Annual Meeting 2024, Bochum, Germany. PRESENTATION -
Incorporating Cognitive Evidence in a Computational Model for Persuasiveness
Zlata Kikteva, Jennifer Schumann, Annette Hautli-Janisz, and Steve Oswald
56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2023), Athens, Greece. PRESENTATION -
Strategies for Disagreeing on Reddit
Zlata Kikteva, and Annette Hautli-Janisz
4th European Conference on Argumentation (ECA 2022), Rome, Italy. PRESENTATION -
Types of Disagreement on Reddit
Zlata Kikteva, and Annette Hautli-Janisz
4th European Conference on Argumentation (ECA 2022), Rome, Italy. PRESENTATION
Teaching activities
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Natural Language Processing for Social Media Analysis
Lecture and tutorial at the Computer Science and Mathematics Faculty, University of Passau
Winter semester 2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025 -
LLMs for Linguistic Research: Opportunities and Pitfalls
Tutorial at the DGfS Annual Meeting 2024
27th February, 2024 -
Analysing Arguments in Political Debate
Block proseminar at the English Department, University of Fribourg
September 2023 -
Statistics
Tutorial at the Linguistics Department, University of Konstanz
Summer semester 2020, Winter semester 2020-2021 -
Machine Language Processing
Tutorial at the Linguistics Department, University of Konstanz
Winter semester 2020-2021