Sergei Sikorskii
CONFERENCES & MEDIA

Research in academic and public conversations.

Conference papers
CILC 2026 — 17th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid · 10–12 June 2026
Sergei Sikorskii and María Luisa Carrió-Pastor

Designing a Hybrid Human-in-the-Loop Pipeline for Gold-Standard Annotation in Large Social Media Corpora

Presented Corpus-based computational linguistics · A workflow combining stratified sampling, LLM-assisted pre-annotation and expert human validation.
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AESLA 2026 — 43rd International Congress of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics
Universidad de Granada, Granada · 15–17 April 2026
Sergei Sikorskii

Judging Femininity in Ritual Media Discourse: An Appraisal-Theoretic Analysis of Campanadas 2024 on X

Presented A study of gendered evaluation in X discourse surrounding Spain’s Campanadas 2024 broadcast.
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AESLA 2026 — 43rd International Congress of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics
Universidad de Granada, Granada · 15–17 April 2026
Sergei Sikorskii

A Sociocultural Perspective on AI-Mediated Procedural Writing and Revision for B1 EFL University Students

Presented A classroom-oriented investigation of AI-mediated writing and revision among B1-level university EFL students.
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CILiDi 2025 — 3rd International Conference on Digital Linguistics
Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Valencia · 26–27 June 2025
Sergei Sikorskii

Towards a Context-Driven Framework for LLM Appraisal Analysis

Presented A framework for incorporating contextual interpretation and human validation into LLM-assisted analysis of evaluative language.
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Media & public scholarship
laSexta Noticias Television 8 March 2026
Las redes sociales, un foco de machismo: el 25% de los mensajes sobre género que se comparten es desinformación
Research led by Sergei Sikorskii · co-authored with María Luisa Carrió-Pastor
A national television report examining digital misogyny and gendered disinformation, incorporating findings on infantilisation, irony, personal delegitimation and recurring attacks against women in public life.
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Cadena SER · A Vivir Comunitat Valenciana Radio interview 8 March 2026
Estudios de la UPV evidencian patrones comunes de violencia machista en redes contra las mujeres políticas
Research led by Sergei Sikorskii · co-authored with María Luisa Carrió-Pastor
An 11-minute interview with María Luisa Carrió-Pastor discussing research led by Sergei Sikorskii on recurring patterns of gendered hostility against women politicians.
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À Punt Notícies Television and online news 7 March 2026
Un estudi de la UPV alerta de l’assetjament masclista que patixen les dones polítiques en xarxes socials
Research led by Sergei Sikorskii · co-authored with María Luisa Carrió-Pastor
A television report on research identifying infantilisation, sexualisation and apparently humorous insults as recurrent strategies used to delegitimise women politicians.
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ABC National press 7 March 2026
«Has llegado aquí por agradar a los hombres»: analizan ataques machistas en X a Ayuso, Meloni y Montero
Research led by Sergei Sikorskii · co-authored with María Luisa Carrió-Pastor
National coverage of studies examining how sexualisation, infantilisation, moral judgement and humour are used to undermine women politicians on X.
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elDiario.es · Comunitat Valenciana National digital press 7 March 2026
La violencia machista en redes silencia a las mujeres en política y sigue patrones comunes en distintos países
Research led by Sergei Sikorskii · co-authored with María Luisa Carrió-Pastor
Coverage of cross-national research into gendered hostility, political delegitimation and the chilling effect that sustained online attacks can have on women’s public participation.
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Europa Press News agency 7 March 2026
La violencia machista en redes silencia a las mujeres en política y sigue patrones comunes, según la UPV
Research led by Sergei Sikorskii · co-authored with María Luisa Carrió-Pastor
The national news-agency report through which the findings were subsequently circulated across numerous regional and specialist outlets.
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Universitat Politècnica de València University news 7 March 2026
La violencia machista en redes silencia a las mujeres en política
Research led by Sergei Sikorskii · co-authored with María Luisa Carrió-Pastor
The original institutional feature presenting the studies, their findings and their implications for political participation, digital education and democratic debate.
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Valencia Plaza Regional press 7 March 2026
La violencia machista en redes silencia a las mujeres en política y sigue patrones comunes, según la UPV
Research led by Sergei Sikorskii · co-authored with María Luisa Carrió-Pastor
Regional coverage of the recurring linguistic and evaluative patterns through which women politicians are personally discredited online.
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València Diari Regional press 7 March 2026
La UPV constata que la violència masclista en xarxes silencia a dones en política i repetix patrons
Research led by Sergei Sikorskii · co-authored with María Luisa Carrió-Pastor
Valencian-language coverage of how repeated online attacks displace political disagreement with personal delegitimation and reinforce gendered expectations of leadership.
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The Conversation Public scholarship 26 February 2026 · Catalan
Un insult disfressat d’humor: violència masclista contra dones líders a les xarxes
María Luisa Carrió-Pastor and Sergei Sikorskii
An accessible account of how apparently ordinary criticism, irony and memes can accumulate into gendered attacks on competence, morality, authenticity and political legitimacy.
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I am available for interviews and expert commentary on digital hostility, gendered political communication, multimodal discourse, corpus-based research and the use of artificial intelligence in linguistic analysis. I can contribute in English, Spanish and Russian.

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Sergei Sikorskii
Applied linguist · Valencia, Spain