--- title: "Irina Nikishina · Universität Hamburg — author profile and papers" description: "Irina Nikishina, Universität Hamburg: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/irina-nikishina/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/irina-nikishina/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Irina Nikishina # Irina Nikishina Irina Nikishina has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Viktor Moskvoretskii](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/viktor-moskvoretskii/), [Alexander Panchenko](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-panchenko/), [Artem Shelmanov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/artem-shelmanov/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5068246994) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4910-8568) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5068246994) · [62 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5068246994) · [126 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5068246994&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/irina-nikishina/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 32 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/irina-nikishina/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10226](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/103/#star-10226) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Irina+Nikishina) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Irina+Nikishina) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Irina+Nikishina) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Irina+Nikishina) ## Affiliations [🎓**Universität Hamburg** Hamburg · Germany 2022–2026 · 28 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universitat-hamburg/) · [🎓**Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology** Skolkovo · Russia 2019–2022 · 15 papersEducation since 2019 · PhD, Computational and Data Science and Engineering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/skolkovo-institute-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**National Research University Higher School of Economics** Moscow · Russia 2017–2024 · 5 papersEducation 2017–2019 · master, Computational linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-research-university-higher-school-of-economics/) · [🔬**Institute for System Programming** Moscow · Russia 2018–2019 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/017ef8252) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 9 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Cognitive Neuroscience · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/cognitive-neuroscience/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Neuroscience · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/) · [Philosophy · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/philosophy/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/irina-nikishina/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/irina-nikishina/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Adaptive Retrieval Without Self-Knowledge? Bringing Uncertainty Back Home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/moskvoretskii-2025-adaptive-retrieval-without-self-knowledge/)** *(2025 · 21 citations)* Adaptive retrieval lets an LLM decide for each question whether it needs external documents. The goal is to keep the accuracy benefits of RAG without paying for retrieval that is unnecessary or even misleading. Recent pipelines for this task are usually judged on answer quality and retrieval counts. They rarely… 2. **[Argument-Based Comparative Question Answering Evaluation Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nikishina-2026-argument-based-comparative-question-answering/)** *(2026)* Large language models can produce fluent answers to comparative questions such as "Simpsons or Family Guy?". ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Adaptive Retrieval Without Self-Knowledge? Bringing Uncertainty Back Home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/moskvoretskii-2025-adaptive-retrieval-without-self-knowledge/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Viktor Moskvoretskii, Maria Marina, Mikhail Salnikov, et al.*2025 · 21 citations* 2. **[Are Large Language Models Good at Lexical Semantics? A Case of Taxonomy Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.133/) Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · no summary yet**Viktor Moskvoretskii, Alexander Panchenko, Irina Nikishina*2024 · 12 citations* 3. **[A Study on Manual and Automatic Evaluation for Text Style Transfer: The Case of Detoxification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.humeval-1.8/) Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems (HumEval) · no summary yet**Varvara Logacheva et al.*2022 · 10 citations* 4. **[Argument-Based Comparative Question Answering Evaluation Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nikishina-2026-argument-based-comparative-question-answering/) [Workshop on Argument Mining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/argmining/)**Irina Nikishina, Saba Anwar, Nikolay Dolgov, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Viktor Moskvoretskii](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/viktor-moskvoretskii/) ×2 - [Alexander Panchenko](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-panchenko/) - [Artem Shelmanov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/artem-shelmanov/) - [Chris Biemann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-biemann/) - [Daria Galimzianova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daria-galimzianova/) - [Maria Marina](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maria-marina/) - [Mikhail Salnikov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mikhail-salnikov/) - [Nikolay Ivanov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolay-ivanov/) - [Sergey Pletenev](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sergey-pletenev/) - [Vasily Konovalov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vasily-konovalov/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) - [Workshop on Argument Mining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/argmining/): [Workshop on Argument Mining 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/argmining/2026/) - Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) - Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems (HumEval) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 32 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [7 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/irina-nikishina/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026