Hi, I'm Igor, a PhD student at the Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, defending in October 2026.
- I am part of the Foundations of Language Processing research group and WASP-HS graduate school.
- My advisors are Johanna Björklund (Umeå University) and Carl Öhman (Uppsala University).
- In spring 2025 I was a visiting PhD student at the NLPNorth research group (IT University of Copenhagen), working with Christian Hardmeier.
- I have a Master's degree in Data Science (University of Gothenburg) and a Bachelor's degree in Business Informatics (Higher School of Economics).
News
- 📰 [10.04.2026] An opinion piece I co-wrote with my SULF-DCA colleagues on how Sweden’s new rules for foreign researchers offer little real relief published by The Local Sweden
- 📄 [23.11.2024] Our article, How ChatGPT changed the media’s narratives on AI: a semi-automated narrative analysis through frame semantics' published in Minds and Machines
Previous events
- 📉[23.07.2025] Presented a poster of our paper on AI news narratives at IC2S2 in Norrköping
- 📊 [11.04.2025] Presented my research at the weekly seminar at NLPNorth
- 🇩🇰 [15.03.2025 — 08.06.2025] Visited Christian Hardmeier at NLPNorth (IT University of Copenhagen)
- ⚙️🎤 [06.02.2025] Co-organised and co-hosted a doctoral student workshop 'Framing AI: Discourse and Politics of AI' at the WASP-HS Winter Conference in Stockholm with Emelie Carlsson and Johannes Geith
- 📊 [29.11.2024] Presented our paper on the AI narratives as a contributed talk at the Workshop on Computational Social Science & Language Technology (co-located with SLTC 2024, Linköping)
- 📊 [27.11.2024] Presented an upcoming paper on Perceived Agency in News Headlines at the Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC 2024), Linköping
- 📍📊 [02.09.2024] Held my Midterm PhD seminar. Commitee members: Tommaso Caselli (University of Groningen) and Kai-Florian Richter (Umeå University). Thank you for the feedback!
- 📃 [12.08.2024] The preprint of our new article with Carl Öhman and Johanna Björklund: 'How ChatGPT changed the media’s narratives on AI: a semi-automated narrative analysis through frame semantics' is available here
- 📝🇧🇪 [27.07.2024 — 11.08.2024] Attended ESSLLI 2024 in Leuven
- 📄📉 [19.03.2024] Presented my thesis proposal on Detecting Agency Attribution (online poster) at the EACL 2024 Student Research Workshop
- 📉 [07.02.2024] Presented the upcoming paper on AI narrative in news media (poster) at the WASP-HS Winter Conference in Umeå
- ⚙️ [16.01.2024 — 17.01.2024] Participated in (and co-organised) the WASP-HS workshop AI + Politics in Sigtuna
- 📄 [06.09.2023] Our paper with H Devinney, Anton Eklund and Jingwen Cai, Developing a Multilingual Corpus of Wikipedia Biographies is now published in proceedings of RANLP 2023
- 📄📊 [12.06.2023] Presented the first paper of my PhD (with Johanna Björklund), How Does the Language of ‘Threat’Vary Across News Domains? A Semi-Supervised Pipeline for Understanding Narrative Components in News Contexts at the 35th Annual Workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society
- 🇭🇷 [02.05.2023 — 06.05.2023] Attended EACL 2023 in Dubrovnik
- 🎤 [16.02.2023] Part of the student panel on AI and Media at the WASP-HS Winter Conference in Gothenburg
Publications
- Ryazanov, I., Öhman, C., & Björklund, J. (2025). How ChatGPT changed the media’s narratives on AI: a semi-automated narrative analysis through frame semantics. Minds and Machines, 35(1), 1-24. [link]
- Ryazanov, I., & Björklund, J. (2024). Thesis Proposal: Detecting Agency Attribution. In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop (pp. 208-214). [link]
- Devinney, H., Eklund, A., Ryazanov, I., & Cai, J. (2023). Developing a Multilingual Corpus of Wikipedia Biographies. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (pp. 285-294). [link]
- Ryazanov, I. & Björklund, J. (2023). How Does the Language of ‘Threat’ Vary Across News Domains? A Semi-Supervised Pipeline for Understanding Narrative Components in News Contexts. 35th Annual Workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society, 94-99. [link]
- Ryazanov, I., Nylund, A. T., Basu, D., Hassellöv, I. M., & Schliep, A. (2021). Deep learning for deep waters: an expert-in-the-loop machine learning framework for marine sciences. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 9(2), 169. [link]