Education:
- PhD in Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
- MSc in Machine Translation, UMIST, Manchester, UK.
- BA in French Language and Linguistics, Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Current position:
- Postdoctoral researcher,
TiCC,
Tilburg University,
Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Project: HiTiME (Historical Timeline Mining and Extraction), funded by the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) within the context of the Continuous Access To Cultural Heritage (CATCH) research programme. HiTiME is a collaboration between Tilburg University and the International Institute of Social History.
Employment history:
- Visiting researcher, National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM),
School of Computer Science,
The University of Manchester,
Manchester, UK.
- Research associate,
Intelligent Systems Laboratory,
Technical University of Crete,
Chania, Greece:
I have mainly worked on the TOWL project (Time-determined ontology based information system for real time stock market analysis, IST-STREP FP6-026896), and in particular on the design and development of the information extraction and ontology components. Principal investigator for the Technical University of Crete was Euripides G.M. Petrakis. - Research associate,
Telecommunication Systems Institute (TSI-TUC),
Chania, Greece:
Worked on the MUSCLE (Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning, IST-NoE FP6-507752) and HIWIRE (Human Input that Works In Real Environments, IST-STREP FP6-507943) projects and in particular on term extraction, classification and clustering and on the design and testing of speech interfaces. Principal investigator for the Telecommunication Systems Institute was Alexandros Potamianos. - Research associate,
Department of Computation,
UMIST, Manchester, UK:
Worked on the PARMENIDES project (Ontology Driven Temporal Text Mining on Organisational Data for Extracting Temporal Valid Knowledge, IST-2001-39023) and in particular on the design, testing and evaluation of the information extraction and knowledge resources (ontology, IE rules) components. Principal investigators for UMIST were Babis Theodoulidis, John McNaught and Bill Black. - Research assistant,
Department of Computation,
UMIST, Manchester, UK:
Worked part-time on the CONCERTO project (CONCEptual indexing, querying and ReTrieval Of digital documents, FP4 ESPRIT-4-P29159) on the design and implementation of a dynamic web-based database interface for information extraction analysis results (in ASP), under the supervision of Bill Black. - Conference interpreter, Dalabira & Associates: Congress Consultants, Athens, Greece.
