Projects in which I have the role of scientific or technical manager are marked by "**".

** DELTIO (Multimedia Content Analysis, using Evolving Ontologies - Case Study TV News).
Objective: DELTIO aims to develop new methods to represent, analyse and extract semantic information for multimedia content management, emphasizing on TV news.
Participants: ATC SA, NCSR "Demokritos", CERTH-ITI, NTUA-ICCS, Athens News Agency.
Programme: Information Society, Greek Secretariat of Research and Technology.
Start: May 2006, End: January 2008.

SemVeillance (Semantic Analysis of Multimedia Information for Surveillance Applications).
Objective: SemVeillance will study the integration of semantic information in surveillance applications (semantic surveillance).
Participants: Zinon SA, NCSR "Demokritos", NTUA
Programme: Information Society, Greek Secretariat of Research and Technology.
Start: August 2006, End: March 2008.

OntoSum (Ontology Management and Use to Support Summarization).
Objective: OntoSum supports three doctoral theses for development of new methods in the area of ontology engineering, as well as the use of ontologies in innovative intelligent applications.
Participants: NCSR "Demokritos", Aegean University, Exodus SA.
Programme: PENED (Strategic Plan for Development), Greek Secretariat of Research and
Technology.
Start: November 2005, End: October 2008.

** PAVET-NE 04BEN100 (Advanced Sales Support System, using Customer Behaviour Analysis).
Objective: In this PAVET project a n innovative information system will be developed that will support the sales process, through the identification of consumer behavior patterns.
Participants: AGILTECH SA, Marinakis and Co. - PMCS, NCSR "Demokritos".
Programme: PAVET (Strategic Plan for Development), Greek Secretariat of Research and
Technology.
Start: June 2005, End: December 2006.

PA_CO_CLIR (Parallel, Content-based, Cross-lingual Information Retrieval).
Objective: PA_CO_CLIR studies methods and techniques for the development of parallel, content-based cross-language information retrieval systems.
Participants: TEI Athens, TEI Kavalas, NCSR "Demokritos".
Programme: ARCHIMIDES, Ministry of Education.
Start: February 2004, End: May 2006.

** Multi-Mine (Research and Training Network on Knowledge Discovery from Multimedia).
Objective: Multi-mine aimed to train professionals and graduate students in all of the technologies that are related to the discovery and management of knowledge, emphasizing on multimedia content.
Participants: CERTH-ITI , NCSR "Demokritos", Technical University of Crete, NTUA-ICCS, University of Thrace - CETI, University of Patras, SYSTEMA Technolgies SA, GNOMON Informatics SA.
Programme: Research Network (Strategic Plan for Development), Greek Secretariat of Research and Technology.
Start: June 2003, End: June 2005.

AUTONOMA (Automatic Acquisition of Named-Entity Recognition Grammars for Greek).
Objective: Use of grammar induction methods for the acquisition of Named-Entity grammars in Greek.
Participants: Inst. Informatics & Telecom. (NCSR "Demokritos")
Programme: EPET-II (Strategic Plan for Research and Technology), Greek Secretariat of Research and Technology.
Start: October 1999, End: September 2001.

MITOS (Information Retrieval and Extraction from Financial News Items in Greek).
Objective: Development of a prototype for the retrieval and extraction of information, related to the interests of particular users, from financial news items written in Greek.
Participants: Inst. Informatics & Telecom. (NCSR "Demokritos"), Athens University of Economics and Business, University of Peireas, University of Patras, Knowledge S.A., SENA, KAPA-TEL S.A.
Programme: EPET-II (Strategic Plan for Research and Technology), Greek Secretariat of Research and Technology.
Start: April 1999, End: May 2001.

KOINOTITES (Automatic Construction of User Communities in Digital Libraries)
Objective: Evaluation of Machine Learning methods on the construction of user communities in digital libraries.
Participants: Inst. Informatics & Telecom., Library, Inst. of Physical Chemistry.
Programme: DEMOEREYNA (RESEARCH-DEMOKRITOS '99), NCSR "Demokritos"
Start: April 1999, End: March 2001.