
Agnieszka Ziora
PhD candidate
Personal website: agnieszkagegotek.eu
ORCID: 0009-0002-2184-2939
Email: agnieszka.ziora@us.edu.pl
Agnieszka Ziora is a Ph.D. student at the Doctoral School of University of Silesia in Katowice. The main aim of her Ph.D. dissertation is the analysis of sentiment and values in citizen science discourse online within the framework of appraisal theory and with the use of corpus linguistics. Additionally, for the purpose of the study, she is compiling a sizeable citizen science corpus and a tool for its analysis in cooperation with Dominik Gęgotek.
Professionally she is interested in:
- sentiment analysis,
- corpus linguistics,
- citizen science,
- science communication,
- language of values.
She is a member of the NEOlinguists research club and a member of the DIGESPEDI research team. She presented on several scientific conferences, including International Young Linguists’ Conference ATENA 2025, Oriental Meetings in Sosnowiec, and IX Konferencja Międzynarodowa Uczelni Lingwistyczno-Technicznej w Przasnyszu. She has given presentations on the language of values in free software discourse and corpus linguistics.
Publications
Ziora, A., & Gęgotek, D. (2025). Analysing Values and Emotions in the Face of Modern Changes – from Psychological Categorization Systems to Computational Linguistic Analysis. W E. Sternal, L. Kilewaja, J. Burzyńska-Sylwestrzak, & T. Fojt (Redaktorzy), Język wartości: wyzwania współczesnego świata (s. 102–124). Wydawnictwo Uczelni Lingwistyczno-Technicznej w Przasnyszu.
Conference presentations
Gęgotek D., & Ziora A. (2025, November 28-29). Nowoczesne narzędzia do analizy korpusowej – limitacje i możliwości [Modern tools for computational analysis – limitations and possibilities] [Conference presentation]. “Granice i przemiany: Inność, Doświadczenie, Innowacja w perspektywie humanistycznej,” Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź, Poland.
Gęgotek D., & Ziora, A. (2025, April 8). Values Presented in Mission Statements of Technological Companies Connected with Open Source Software [Conference presentation]. Atena 2025: Young Linguists’ Conference, Rzeszów, Poland.
Gęgotek D., & Ziora, A. (2025, March 24). Hedging in Multicultural Discourse Based on an Open Source Project – Zotero [Conference presentation]. OMIS – Oriental Meetings in Sosnowiec, Sosnowiec, Poland.
Ziora, A., & Gęgotek, D. (2024, December 7). Analysing values and emotions in the face of modern challenges – from psychological categorization systems to computational linguistic analysis [Conference presentation]. IX Konferencja Międzynarodowa Uczelni Lingwistyczno-Technicznej w Przasnyszu “Język wartości: wyzwania współczesnego świata,” Przasnysz, Poland.
Recent activities
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New article on computational analysis of values
We are pleased to announce that our members, Agnieszka Ziora and Dominik Gęgotek have just published a book…
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Conference presentation on modern computational tools
At the “Granice i przemiany: Inność, Doświadczenie, Innowacja w perspektywie humanistycznej” [Limits and transformation: Otherness, Experience, Innovation from…
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Atena 2025: Presentation on values in mission statements of open source companies
At the Atena 2025 online conference organised by University of Rzeszow, Dominik Gęgotek and Agnieszka Ziora presented a…
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OMIS 2025: Presentation on hedge phrases in open source projects
At the “Oriental meetings in Sosnowiec” conference in Sosnowiec, Poland, our members Agnieszka Ziora and Dominik Gęgotek presented…