Oksana Dereza
Digital Library Developer at Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics
Connacht, Ireland
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Top SchoolOksana Dereza is a Digital Library Developer and NLP-focused researcher with a decade of experience building digital repositories, language technologies, and teaching materials. Based at the University of Galway and as a doctoral researcher at Insight, she develops tools for organising, preserving and exposing institutional research outputs while advancing NLP for minority and historical languages. Her work spans OCR correction, tokenisation, POS-tagging, NER and language modelling, with three first-author papers at top conferences and extensive public engagement. She combines computational linguistics training with deep Celtic studies expertise, enabling practical solutions for digitising and analysing historical Irish-language collections. Comfortable in both academic and applied settings, she has taught NLP courses, designed curricula and supported large cohorts of students. A detail often overlooked: she bridges humanities scholarship and production-grade library systems, turning collections-as-data into reusable research assets.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityMaster's degree, Computational Linguistics, A+, Master's degree, Computational Linguistics, A+ at Higher School of EconomicsDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at National University of Ireland, Galway
Russian, English, French, Irish, Danish
Github Skills (22)
digital-humanities10
sketchup10
underscore9
azerothcore9
nlp8
python8
acl7
phonetics7
computational-linguistics6
science5
natural-language-processing5
latin5
machine-learning4
nltk4
stanza3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ancatmara/learnpython2018
Sep 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:135 commits, 116 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
ancatmara/DL-SFL-2019
Jan 2019 - Jul 2021
Семинары по курсу «Цифровая грамотность» для 1 курса программы «Иностранные языки и межкультурная коммуникация» НИУ ВШЭ (2019)
Contributions:134 commits, 73 pushes in 2 years 6 months
underscoreplayersazerothcoresketchup
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