Director of Robust Intelligence Program in USA National Science Foundation & Researcher of Speech Analysis & Artificial Intelligence in University of Pensylvania<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2003 PhD, University of Pennsylvania. Computational Linguistics. 1991 MA, University of Essex, U.K. Applied Linguistics. 1988 BA, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.English Linguistics & Literature <\/p>\n\n\n\n POSITIONS HELD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2014 \u2013 CEO, Choosito! Inc<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2013 \u2013 Adjunct Professor, GSE, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2006 \u2013 2012 Research Associate, CIS, University of Pennsylvania Lecturer, GSE, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2005-2006 Lecturer, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2003 \u2013 2005 Postdoctoral Fellow, NLP, IRCS, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1996 \u2013 1997 Visiting Scholar, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1991-1996 Director of Studies, Ekpedeftiki Foreign Languages<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n SELECTED PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 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<\/em> Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Human<\/em> Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2019)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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<\/em> of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. <\/em>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<\/em> Population, NAACL 2012, Montreal.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 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<\/em> of the Association for Computational Linguistics<\/em>, Columbus, Ohio, 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. Miltsakaki, E. & K. Kukich (2004). Evaluation of Text Coherence for Electronic Essay Scoring Systems. In Journal of Natural Language Engineering<\/em>, 10(1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 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<\/em> Information, 12(3): 261-279.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. Miltsakaki, E. (2002). Towards an Aposynthesis of Topic Continuity and Intrasentential Anaphora. In Computational Linguistics<\/em>, Vol. 28(3)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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…<\/span><\/p>\n
Thesis Advisors: Prof. Ellen Prince & Prof. Aravind Joshi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Keith Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senior Research Advisro: Prof. Savas Patsalidis<\/p>\n\n\n\n