Eleni Miltsakaki

Director of Robust Intelligence Program in USA National Science Foundation & Researcher of Speech Analysis & Artificial Intelligence in University of Pensylvania

EDUCATION

2003 PhD, University of Pennsylvania. Computational Linguistics.
Thesis Advisors: Prof. Ellen Prince & Prof. Aravind Joshi.

1991 MA, University of Essex, U.K. Applied Linguistics.
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Keith Johnson.

1988 BA, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.English Linguistics & Literature
Senior Research Advisro: Prof. Savas Patsalidis

POSITIONS HELD

2014 – CEO, Choosito! Inc

2013 – Adjunct Professor, GSE, University of Pennsylvania

2006 – 2012 Research Associate, CIS, University of Pennsylvania Lecturer, GSE, University of Pennsylvania

2005-2006 Lecturer, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

2003 – 2005 Postdoctoral Fellow, NLP, IRCS, University of Pennsylvania

1996 – 1997 Visiting Scholar, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania

1991-1996 Director of Studies, Ekpedeftiki Foreign Languages

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Kriz, R., J. Sedoc, M. Apidianaki, C. Zheng, Gaurav Kumar, E. Miltsakaki, and C. Callison-Burch (2019). Complexity-Weighted Loss and Diverse Reranking for Sentence Simplification. In Proceedings of 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2019).

2. Kriz, R., E. Miltsakaki, M. Apidianaki, and C. Callison-Burch (2018). Simplification Using Paraphrases and Context-based Lexical Substitution. In Proceedings of 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2018)

3. Francois, T. and E. Miltsakaki (2012). Do NLP and Machine Learning Improve Traditional Readability Formulas? In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Population, NAACL 2012, Montreal.

4. Cour, T., C. Jordan, E. Miltsakaki, and B. Taskar. (2008). Movie/Script: Alignment and Parsing of Video and Text Transcription. Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2008, Marseille.

5. Miltsakaki, E. and A. Troutt. Real Time Web Text Classification and Analysis of Reading Difficulty. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications at the 46th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Columbus, Ohio, 2008

6. Miltsakaki, E. & K. Kukich (2004). Evaluation of Text Coherence for Electronic Essay Scoring Systems. In Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 10(1).

7. Forbes, K., E. Miltsakaki R. Prasad, A. Sarkar, A. Joshi and B. Webber (2003). D-LTAG System – Discourse Parsing with a Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar. In Journal of Language, Logic and Information, 12(3): 261-279.

8. Miltsakaki, E. (2002). Towards an Aposynthesis of Topic Continuity and Intrasentential Anaphora. In Computational Linguistics, Vol. 28(3)