Biography

Maria Gritz was born on December 13, 1989, in Leningrad, USSR (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). After five years of studies at Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University, she graduated as a specialist in Linguistics and Intercultural Communication with honors and with the Best Graduate of the Faculty of Humanities Award. Her graduate thesis won the Best Graduate Research Award (II level); the text of the research work was published in 2012. From then onwards, she has launched a successful career as a researcher in the field of forensic linguistics and in the field of computational linguistics.

Since 2010 she has been working as a forensic linguist for the K&T Appraisal Ltd. located in Saint Petersburg. She has been conducting investigations of speech acts performed by accused people (legal cases of bribery, an offense to human dignity, hate crime, libel, blackmailing offense, and threat); critical revisions of contracts for legal cases of misinterpretation; reconstructions of correct spellings of foreign names. Overall, more than 100 legal cases were resolved owing to her research.

She was awarded as an Expert of the Year in the category Telecommunication and Information Technology by the journal Expert. North-West for her research devoted to computational modeling of sentence semantics and lexical meanings.

Between 2012 and 2014 she held a position of Assistant Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages at Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University and worked as a coordinator of two annual scientific conferences Current Issues of Linguistics (CIL 2013 and CIL 2014) and as an editor of proceedings of both conferences.

Since 2010 Maria Gritz has participated in 12 conferences and has published 19 research works (see the list of publications below).

Publications

1. Gritz, M. (2018). Lexical Meaning Formal Representations Enhancing Lexicons and Associated Ontologies. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI 2018) co-located with 17th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2018), ISSN 1613-0073, Basile P., Basile V., Croce D., Dell’Orletta F., Guerini M. (eds.), Trento, Italy, November 22 – 23, 2018, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 2244, pp. 102 – 115.

2. Gritz, M. (2018). Towards Lexical Meaning Formal Representation by virtue of the NL-DL Definition Transformation Method. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria, ISSN 2367-5675, Sofia, Bulgaria, May 28 – 29, 2018, published by the Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, pp. 23 – 33.

3. Gritz, M. (2017). An Ontology as a Medium of Lexical Meaning Formal Representation. Foreign Languages in Tertiary Education, ISSN 2072-7607, published by the Ryazan State University, Ryazan, Russia, vol. 2(41), pp. 60 – 71.

4. Gritz, M. (2016). Domain Ontology as a Form of Knowledge Representation. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Biannual Conference Applied Linguistics in Science and Education. ALPAC REPORT – 50 years after defeat, ISBN 978-5-94777-406-1, Saint Petersburg, Russia, November 24 – 26, 2016, published by the Book House Ltd., Saint Petersburg, Russia, pp. 40 – 45.

5. Gritz, M. (2014). The Linear Nature of Generative Models Developed within the Framework of the Government and Binding Theory as a Methodological Problem. Mapping Methods: Approaches to Language Studies (MaMe-2014), Conference on Methods in Linguistics in Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, May 8 – 10, 2014,http://mappingmethods.eki.ee/images/docs/Gritz%20Maria_abstract_MaMe_2014.pdf

6. Gritz, M. (2014). The Notion of Presupposition as a Premise for Development of the Cognitive Attitude in Text Linguistics. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Scientific Conference Culture in a Mirror of Language and Literature, ISBN 978-5-00078-003-9, Ushkova N. V. (ed.), Tambov, Russia, April 17 – 18, 2014, published by the Publishing Office of the Tambov State University named after G. R. Derzhavin, Tambov, Russia, pp. 41 – 48.

7. Gritz, M. (2014). Towards a Coherent Text Grammar: the Approach Developed by T. A. van Dijk. In: Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Conference Current Issues of Linguistics (CIL), Gritz M. (ed), Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 15 – 16, 2014, published by the Publishing Office of Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, pp. 110 – 112.

8. Gritz, M. (2014). Linguistic Investigation of Credit Contracts as a Way to Reduce Financial Risks. Electronic journal Riskovik, ISSN 2226-9398, vol. 11, 01/01/2014, published by the Risk Consult Ltd., http://www.riskovik.com/journal/stat/n11/lingvist-jekspertiza/

9. Gritz, M. (2013). Explication of Communicative Goals of Interlocutors through Pragmalinguistic Dialog Analysis. In: International Collection of Research Papers Reality, Language and Mind, ISBN 978-5-4343-0412-2, Ushkova N. V., Kuzmina E. A. (eds.), published by the Publishing Office of the Tambov State University named after G. R. Derzhavin, Tambov, Russia, vol. 6, 2013, pp. 250 – 256.

10. Gritz, M. (2013). A Spoken Word Takes its Flight. Journal Expert. North-West, vol. 42 (639), October 21 – 27, 2013, pp. 72 – 73.

11. Gritz, M. (2013). Primary Objectives of Professional Education in the Field of Forensic Linguistics. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Scientific and Methodological Conference Contemporary Education: Content, Technologies and Quality, ISBN 978-5-7629-1324-9, Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 24, 2013, published by the Publishing Office of Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, vol. 2, pp. 182 – 184.

12. Gritz, M., Slobodenuk, R. (2013). Computational Modelling of a Definition. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Conference Current Issues of Linguistics (CIL), Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 16 – 17, 2013, published by the Publishing Office of the Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, pp. 17 – 19.

13. Gritz, M. (2013). Development of a Terminology for Description of a Three-dimensional Model of a Proposition. In: Proceedings of the 66th Science and Technology Conference of Academic Staff of Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University: a Collection of Papers Submitted by Students and Young Scientists, Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 1 – 8, 2013, published by the Publishing Office of Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, pp. 294 – 298.

14. Gritz, M. (2013). A Shift from Open Systems to Closed Systems in Pursuit of a Knowledge Representation Technology. In: Proceedings of the 10th Scientific Conference Information, Communication, Society, Saint Petersburg, Russia, January 24 – 25, 2013, published by the Publishing Office of Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, pp. 47 – 49.

15. Gritz, M. (2012). A Technology of Semantic Analysis of a Sentence Based on the Three-dimensional Model of a Proposition. Graduate Thesis. Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2012, 76 p.

16. Gritz, M. (2012). The Three-dimensional Model of a Proposition. In: Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference Current Issues of Linguistics (CIL), Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 17 – 18, 2012, published by the Publishing Office of Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, pp. 11 – 12.

17. Gritz, M. (2011). A Technique of Forensic Investigation Conducted for the Purpose of Text Understandability Evaluation. Technical Report, 2nd ed., Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2011, 90 p.

18. Gritz, M. (2011). Implementation of Semantic Triangle for Interpretation of a Simple Sentence. In: A Collection of Contributions to the 14th International Scientific Conference of Students in Philology, Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 3 – 4, 2011, published by the Faculty of Philology, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, vol. 3, pp. 57 – 58.

19. Gritz, M. (2010). A Technique of Forensic Investigation Conducted for the Purpose of Text Understandability Evaluation. Technical Report, 1st ed., Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2010, 22 p.