Publications
PhD Thesis
Stenger, Irina. 2019 . Zur Rolle der Orthographie in der slavischen Interkomprehension mit besonderem Fokus auf die kyrillische Schrift. Dissertation. Saarbrücken: universaar.
2025
Stenger, Irina, Inna Ganschow & Tania Avgustinova. 2025. Migrations- und Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung im digitalen Format. Day of Contemporary History in the Greater Region, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Kunilovskaya, Maria, Iuliia Zaitova, Wei Xue, Irina Stenger & Tania Avgustinova. 2025. Predictability of Microsyntactic Units across Slavic Languages: A Translation-based Study. Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025), University of Tartu Library, Tallinn, Estonia, 313–322.
2024
Zaitova, Iuliia, Irina Stenger, Wei Xue, Tania Avgustinova, Bernd Möbius, Dietrich Klakow. Cross-Linguistic Intelligibility of Non-Compositional Expressions in Spoken Context. 2024. Proceedings of Interspeech 2024, ISCA, 4189–4193.
Zaitova, Iuliia, Irina Stenger, Muhammad Umer Butt & Tania Avgustinova. 2024. Cross-Linguistic Processing of Non-Compositional Expressions in Slavic Languages. In: Michael Zock et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon @ LREC-COLING 2024, 86–97.
2023
Stenger, Irina & Tania Avgustinova. 2023. Web-based Experiments in Mediated Receptive Multilingualism. Papers of the Institute for Bulgarian Language “Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin”, Prof. Marin Drinov Publishing House of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Volume XXXVI: 7–28.
Zaitova, Iuliia, Irina Stenger & Tania Avgustinova. 2023. Microsyntactic Unit Detection using Word Embedding Models: Experiments on Slavic Languages. In: G. Angelova et al. (eds.), Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Languages Processing (RANLP 2023), 1251–1259.
Jacek Kudera, Irina Stenger, Philip Georgis, Bernd Möbius, Tania Avgustinova, Dietrich Klakow. 2023. Cross-linguistic intelligibility of idiomatic phrases in Polish-Russian translation tasks. In: Jean-Pierre Colson (ed.). Phraseology, constructions and translation: Corpus-based, computational and cultural aspects, Presses universitaires de Louvain, 237–249.
2022
Stenger, Irina, Philip Georgis, Tania Avgustinova, Bernd Möbius, Dietrich Klakow. 2022. Modeling the Impact of Syntactic Distance and Surprisal on Cross-Slavic Text Comprehension. LREC 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Proceedings, Marseille, 7368–7376.
Stenger, Irina, Jacek Kudera, Yu Chen & Tania Avgustinova. 2022. Multimediale Interkomprehensionsexperimente. Abstracts 14. Deutscher Slavistiktag, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, 125.
Kudera, Jacek, Irina Stenger, Bernd Möbius, Tania Avgustinova, Dietrich Klakow. 2022. Phonetic cues in auditory identification of Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, and Russian language of origin. Language and Speech.
2021
Stenger, Irina & Tania Avgustinova. 2021. Multilingual learnability and reaction time in online Slavic intercomprehension experiments. In: Svetla Koeva & Maksim Stamenov (eds.). Proceedings of the International Annual Conference of the Institute for Bulgarian Language (Sofia, 2021). Sofia: Marin Drinov Academic Publishers. Volume 2: 191–200.
Stenger, Irina & Tania Avgustinova. 2021. On Slavic cognate recognition in context. In: Vladimir P. Selegej et al. (eds.), Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies: Papers from the Annual International Conference ‘Dialogue’ (2021). Issue 20, 660–668.
Mosbach, Marius, Irina Stenger, Tania Avgustinova, Bernd Möbius, Dietrich Klakow. 2021. Incom.py 2.0 - Calculating Linguistic Distances and Asymmetries in Auditory Perception of Closely Related Languages. In: G. Angelova et al. (eds.), Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Languages Processing (RANLP 2021), 968–977.
2020
Stenger, Irina & Tania Avgustinova. 2020. How intelligible is spoken Bulgarian for Russian native speakers in an intercomprehension scenario? In: Vanya Micheva et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the International Annual Conference of the Institute for Bulgarian Language (Sofia 2020), Volume II: 142–151.
Stenger, Irina & Tania Avgustinova. 2020. Visual vs. auditory perception of Bulgarian stimuli by Russian native speakers. In: Vladimir P. Selegej et al. (eds.), Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies: Papers from the Annual International Conference ‘Dialogue’ (2020). Issue 19, 684–695.
Stenger, Irina, Klára Jágrová, Tania Avgustinova. 2020. The INCOMSLAV Platform: Experimental Website with Integrated Methods for Measuring Linguistic Distances and Asymmetries in Receptive Multilingualism. In James Fiumara, Christopher Cieri, Mark Liberman, Chris Callison-Burch (eds.), LREC 2020 Workshop Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 11-16 May 2020, Citizen Linguistics in Language Resource Development (CLLRD 2020), Proceedings, 40–48.
Stenger, Irina, Klára Jágrová, Andrea Fischer & Tania Avgustinova. 2020. “Reading Polish with Czech Eyes” or “How Russian Can a Bulgarian Text Be?”: Orthographic Differences as an Experimental Variable in Slavic Intercomprehension. In: Teodora Radeva-Bork & Peter Kosta (eds.), Current developments in Slavic Linguistics. Twenty years after (based on selected papers from FDSL 11). Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 483–500.
Avgustinova, Tania & Irina Stenger. 2020. Russian–Bulgarian mutual intelligibility in light of linguistic and statistical models of Slavic receptive multilingualism. [Russko-bolgarskaja vzaimoponjatnost’ v svete lingvističeskich i statističeskich modelej slavjanskoj receptivnoj mnogojazyčnocsti.] In: Roland Marti, Patrice Pognan & Mojca Schlamberger Brezar (eds.) Intercomprehensio Slavica, Ljubljana: University Press, Faculty of Arts, 85–99.
Jágrová, Klára, Irina Stenger & Magdalena Telus. 2019/2020. Slavische Interkomprehension im 5-Sprachen-Kurs – Dokumentation eines Semesters. Polnisch in Deutschland. Zeitschrift der Bundesvereinigung der Polnischlehrkräfte. Sondernummer: Emil Krebs und die Mehrsprachigkeit in Europa, 122–133.
2019
Stenger, Irina, Tania Avgustinova, Konstantin I. Belousov, Dmitrij A. Baranov & Elena V. Erofeeva. 2019. Interaction of linguistic and socio-cognitive factors in receptive multilingualism. [Vzaimodejstvie lingvističeskich i sociokognitivnych parametrov pri receptivnom mul’tilingvisme.] In: Vladimir P. Selegej et al. (eds.), Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies: Papers from the Annual International Conference ‘Dialogue’ (2019). Issue 18. Supplementary volume, 211–226.
Mosbach, Marius, Irina Stenger, Tania Avgustinova & Dietrich Klakow. 2019. incom.py - A Toolbox for Calculating Linguistic Distances and Asymmetries between Related Languages. In: Galia Angelova, Ruslan Mitkov, Ivelina Nikolova, Irina Temnikova (eds.), Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Languages Processing, RANLP 2019, Varna, Bulgaria, 2-4 September 2019, 811–819.
Andreeva, Bistra, Nina Gütterová, Klárá Jágrová, Marco Klüh, Roland Marti, Petja Moll, Irina Stenger, Magdalena Telus & Gabriela Vojdova. 2019. Karl Marx im Wunderland des real existierenden Sozialismus. In: Sikander Singh (Hg.), Kommentare, Kämpfe, Kontroversen. Literatur- und geschichtswissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Karl Marx. Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 94–135.
2018
Jágrová, Klára, Tania Avgustinova, Irina Stenger & Andrea Fischer. 2018. Language Models, Surprisal and Fantasy in Slavic Intercomprehension. In: Roger K. Moore, Pascale Fung & Shrikanth Narayanan (eds.), Computer Speech and Language, vol. 53, 242–275.
2017
Stenger, Irina, Tania Avgustinova & Roland Marti. 2017. Levenshtein distance and word adaptation surprisal as methods of measuring mutual intelligibility in reading comprehension of Slavic languages. In: Vladimir P. Selegej (ed.), Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies: International Conference ‘Dialogue 2017’ Proceedings. Issue 16 (23), vol. 1, 304–317.
Stenger, Irina, Klára Jágrová, Andrea Fischer, Tania Avgustinova, Dietrich Klakow & Roland Marti. 2017. Modeling the Impact of Orthographic Coding on Czech-Polish and Bulgarian-Russian Reading Intercomprehension. Nordic Journal of Linguistic 40(2), 175–199.
Jágrová, Klára, Irina Stenger, Roland Marti & Tania Avgustinova. 2017. Lexical and orthographic distances between Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, and Russian: A comparative analysis of the most frequent nouns. In: Joseph Emonds & Markéta Janebová (eds.), Language Use and Linguistic Structure. Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2016. Olomouc: Palacký University, 401–416.
Jágrová, Klára, Irina Stenger & Tania Avgustinova. 2017. Polski nadal nieskomplikowany? Interkomprehesionsexperimente mit Nominalphrasen. Polnisch in Deutschland. Zeitschrift der Bundesvereinigung der Polnischlehrkräfte. Vol. 5/2017, 20–37.
2016
Stenger, Irina. 2016. How Reading Intercomprehension Works among Slavic Languages with Cyrillic Script. In: Marisa Köllner & Ramon Ziai (eds.), Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2016, 30–42.
Jágrová, Klára, Irina Stenger, Tania Avgustinova & Roland Marti. 2016. Polski to język nieskomplikowany? Theoretische und praktische Interkomprehension der 100 häufigsten polnische Substantive. Polnisch in Deutschland. Zeitschrift der Bundesvereinigung der Polnischlehrkräfte. Vol. 4 / 2016, 5–19.
Tania Avgustinova, Irina Stenger, Klára Jágrová & Roland Marti. 2016. Formal Aspects of Mutual Intelligibility between Slavic Languages: Output Analysis of Czech-to-Polish and Bulgarian-to-Russian Orthography Transformation Experiments. Филологическият проект - кризи и перспективи. Сборник доклади от международна научна конференция, 24-26 април 2015. Й.Тишева et al. (Eds) В.Търново: Фабер, Изд. на СУ “Св. Климент Охридски”. Фак. по слав. филологии.
Fischer, Andrea, Klára Jágrová, Irina Stenger, Tania Avgustinova, Dietrich Klakow & Roland Marti. 2016. Orthographic and Morphological Correspondences between Related Slavic Languages as a Base for Modeling of Mutual Intelligibility. Proceedings LREC, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 23-28 May 2016, Portorož, 4202–4209.
2015
Fischer, Andrea, Klára Jágrová, Irina Stenger, Tania Avgustinova, Dietrich Klakow & Roland Marti. 2015. An orthography transformation experiment with Czech–Polish and Bulgarian–Russian parallel word sets. In: Bernadette Sharp, Wiesław Lubaszewski & Rodolfo Delmonte (eds.), Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science 2015 Proceedings. Venezia: Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, 115–126.