I am a Senior Researcher at NCSR "Demokritos", and head of the Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory of the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications. My research interests lie in the areas of Language and Knowledge Engineering, as applied to information filtering and extraction, natural language generation, knowledge discovery, ontology engineering, personalization.

Education

I did my MSc thesis at the University of London (Queen Mary & Westfield College), where I examined the use of natural language processing methods and techniques for the development of a natural language interface to a geographic database. In my PhD thesis, at the University of Athens , I worked on knowledge acquisition and multilingual natural language generation. During my post-doc at NCSR "Demokritos", I worked on adaptive and multilingual information extraction. This work involved the exploitation of machine learning techniques for the customisation of information extraction technology to new domains, as well as the exploitation of user modeling techniques for the customisation of information according to the users' interests.

Current Activities

•  Chair of the Organising Committee of the 12 th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-2009), Athens , March 30 - April 3, 2009 (http://www.eacl2009.gr/)

•  Technical manager of the EC-funded project QUATRO Plus

•  Manager of the EC-funded project MedIEQ

•  Vice-chair of the Hellenic Association of Artificial Intelligence (EETN) for the years 2007-2008

•  Vice-chair of the Scientific and Advisory Council of the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, NCSR "Demokritos"