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Employment

2006-2008
Research Fellow
Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
  • Projects: Open Content Initiative, Prolearn Network of Excellence
  • Technologies: FlashMeeting (videoconferencing), FlashVlog (videoblogging), Hexagon (ambient video awareness)
2003 – 2006
Research Team Member
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
  • EPSRC scholarship, ‘Television In Words’ project – graded outstanding
2002-2005
Assistant Lecturer
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
  • Lab demonstrations (for HTML, XML, Perl, Prolog), exam paper marking for Web Publishing and Language Engineering modules (degree courses in Computer Science) and Cognitive Processes (for the MSc in Computer Science)
2001
EFL teacher
Anglo European Study Tours, Canterbury, UK
  • Taught English to foreign students preparing for the ‘Trinity Examination’ (Cambridge University)
1999-2000
French Language Teacher
Stratigakis Language School, Athens, Greece
  • Taught French to students, age groups: 6-22 years old
1999
Translator

First Conference for the Olympic Games ’04, Olympia, Greece

  • Translated ministerial talks from Greek to English and French
1999-2000
Freelance Translator
Härtling Publishing House, Athens, Greece
  • Translated popularised medical texts, travel and leisure articles from English, French and German to Greek
1998
Translator - University placement
Alpha Publishing House, Athens, Greece
  • Translated articles on educational concepts, theories and systems from French to Greek

 

Education

2003 – 2006
PhD - Information Extraction 
 University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
 
  • Thesis: ‘Cross-Document Coreference between Different Types of Collateral Texts for Films’ (04/2006)
  • Research areas: information extraction, text mining, natural language processing, corpus linguistics, film indexing, semantics, narratology.
  • Contributions: a statistical analysis and a lexical comparison of the language included in different text genres narrating film content and the design, implementation and evaluation of computational solutions to the cross-document coreference task.
2002 – 2003
MPhil – Computing
 University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
 
  • Thesis: ‘Integrating Information in Collateral Media’
  • Modules: Research Methods, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Systems, Java, UML, Multimedia Information Systems
2000 – 2001
MA - Applied Linguistics: Computing

University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

 
  • Thesis: ‘On-line French Language Learning for Young English Speakers’: A computer-assisted foreign language learning method and software, based on natural language acquisition using multiple media and automatic marking and error correction (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
  • Modules: Software Evaluation, Software Design and Implementation, Computers and Corpora, Machine Translation, Semantics, Prolog, Lingo, HTML, Visual Basic
2000 – 2001
BA - French Language and Linguistics

University of Athens, Athens, Greece

 
  • Modules: Philology (Poetry, Theatre 16th-20th centuries), Translation, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (semantics, pragmatics, syntax, phonology and phonetics, morphology, didactics), French Culture and History (16th-20th centuries)

 

Languages

Greek Native speaker
English Certificate of Proficiency in English (Cambridge University, 1994)
French Diplôme d’ Etudes Françaises 2e degré (Université de Sorbonne, 1989)
German Mittelstufenprüfung Sprachdiplom (Göethe Institut, 1997)
Japanese 3rd Level Diploma (Japanese Cultural Association, 1998)

 

Presentations & Talks

Round table meetings
‘Cross-Document Coreference for Film Indexing’, University of Surrey, Guildford, 2005
‘Matching Information in Audio Description and Plot Summaries’, RNIB, London, 2004
‘Extracting Events from Collateral Texts’, BBC, London, 2004
‘Integrating Information in Films and Collateral Texts’, Softel, London, 2003
‘The Surrey Audio Description Corpus’, RNIB, London, 2003
‘Events and Change of State in Narrative’, ITFC, London, 2002
‘Narrative and Audio Description’, University of Surrey, Guildford, 2002

Conferences – Workshops
‘Computing Narrative in Multimedia Systems’, Grid Computing Conference, Surrey Research Park, 2002
‘Integrating Information in Collateral Media’, University of Surrey, PhD conference, 2003
‘Merging Information from Collateral Texts for Films’, University of Surrey, PhD conference, 2004
‘Matching Verb Attributes for Cross-Document Event Coreference’, University of Saarland - Saarbruecken, Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Identification and Representation of Verb Features and Verb Classes, 2005 
‘Cross-Document Coreference for Cross-Media Film Indexing’ LREC Workshop on Crossing Media for Improved Information Access, Genoa, 2006