December 12, 2014 Matthieu Constant Associate professor in Computer Science at the Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France. Automatic linguistic analysis faces two major problems inherent in natural languages: ambiguity and multiword expressions (MWE). Whereas the literature abounds in analyzers trying to deal with the case of ambiguity, few studies tackled the integration of MWE recognition. As [...]
Matthieu Constant gave a talk on December 12 on the integration of Multiword Expression recognition in statistical syntactic parser, focusing on the description of various integration strategies (attached presentation). He worked with Dr Aggeliki Fotopoulou on the lexical and semantic classification of multiword expressions, focusing on the detection of the continuum between almost free expressions [...]
Pirros Tsiakoulis received the Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 2003. He currently pursues his PhD studies at the National Technical University of Athens in the area of speech synthesis coadvised by Prof. George Carayannis (NTUA) and Assoc. Prof. Alexandros Potamianos (Technical University of Crete). [...]
Ion Androutsopoulos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), head of AUEB’sNatural Language Processing Group, and Adjunct Researcher of the Institute for the Management of Information Systems (Digital Curation Unit) and the Institue for Language and Speech Processing of the Research Centre “Athena”. Before joining AUEB, he worked at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommnications of NCSR [...]
Alexandros Potamianos received the Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1990. He received the M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA in 1991 and 1995, respectively. He received the M.B.A. degree from Stern School of Business, NYU in 2002. From [...]
Ioannis Karydis was born in Athens, Greece in 1979. He received a BEng in Engineering Science & Technology from Brunel University, UK in 2000, an MSc in Advanced Methods in Computer Science from Queen Mary University, UK in 2001 and a PhD in Mining and Retrieval Methods for Acoustic and Symbolic Music Data from the [...]