Dr Aggeliki Fotopoulou
Dr Fotopoulou has studied Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Athens. As a member of the French group of Eurotra (machine translation project) she completed her PhD at the Université Paris VIII – St Denis (February 1993) under Prof. M. Gross: Une classification des phrases à compléments figés en grec moderne – étude morphosyntaxique des phrases figées (lexical and syntactic analysis of fixed expressions/idioms). Her post-doctoral studies were conducted at the Institut National des Télécommunications (INT) in Paris (1994) : Analyse automatique des textes des spécialités : développement des thésaurus et des dictionnaires électroniques des termes des télécommunications (electronic dictionary and thesaurus of telecommunications terms). She joined the INT in 1993, where she was responsible for the Natural Language Processing module. She was coordinator of the French group for the POINTER Project (on terminology) and was also the person mainly responsible for a number of projects funded by the EU (LRE, MLAP, COPERNICUS). Dr Fotopoulou has collaborated in her capacity as researcher with the Spoken Language Processing Group at LIMSI – CNRS; the Laboratoire d’Automatique Documentaire et Linguistique (LADL) – University of Marne-la-Vallée (Université Paris 7); and the Institut d’électronique et d’informatique Gaspard Monge, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, of which she is still a member. She joined the ILSP/R.C. “Athena” as a research scientist in December 1999. Since 2015 she is Researcher A (Research Director). She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at various Universities (INT, Université Paris 7 and Paris 8 (France) and University of Athens (Greece)) and has published extensively in international journals and at conferences. There are already approximately 500 citations of her publications and work in general (a combination of Google Scholar results and proceedings of Linguistics Conferences at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). She has participated as Scientific Coordinator in 6 European Projects on ontologies and electronic dictionaries; she has approximately 65 publications in journals, books and peer-reviewed conference proceedings.
Dr Stavros Nousias
Stavros Nousias received the Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, the M.Sc. degree in Electronics and Information Processing and the PhD from the University of Patras in 2011, 2016 and 2022 respectively. He was with the Visualization and Virtual Reality group of the department of Electrical and Computer engineering of the University of Patras in the period 2015-2020. During 2019-2022 he assumed the position of research associate in Industrial Systems Institute of the Athena Research and Innovation Center. He has participated in five European Horizon 2020 projects and in two national research projects as research associate, research engineer and systems developer. In total, he authored or coauthored over 30 papers in referred journals and international conferences. His research interests include computational modelling, simulation, applications in deep learning, geometric deep learning and point cloud processing, geometry processing and low level signal processing.
Panagiota Kyriazi
Panagiota Kyriazi has studied Greek Literature, with specialisation in Linguistics (bachelor’s degree) (2016), in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and extended her academic research upon the area of Sociolinguistics and Conversation Analysis (CA) at the University of Essex in Colchester (master’s degree) (2021).
During her studies she conducted research on analysing everyday text corpora while conducting her undergraduate dissertation “Youth language: expression of identity via virtual communication” (2020), under the supervision of Prof. P. Bella, and political speeches with embodiments occurred within interviews & debates in her postgraduate dissertation “Evasiveness in Greek political interviews: a case study in Conversation Analysis” (2022) under the supervision of Prof. R. Clift.
She joined the ILSP/R.C. “Athena” as an intern researcher in September 2020 while conducting research analysis, collecting, editing, and enriching the existing corpus with updated data within the general project of classification and development of Multiword Expressions’ (MWEs) digital lexicon database.
Since 2020, she has been working voluntarily as an Assistant Researcher within the area of Computational Linguistics on the classification of MWEs, while participating in the 15th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, in the University of Belgrade (Serbia) (2022) with the project of Multi-word expressions of Greek Language: a case study of clitics without reference in MWEs along with the research director A. Fotopoulou. So far, she has composed two dissertations during her internship with ILSP under the titles “Multiword expressions: Verbal Compound expressions of contemporary everyday communication” & “MWEs with clitic pronoun” that contributed to the implementation of the aforementioned paper.