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About Me

Currently, from April 2013, I am a Software Engineer/Researcher at Institute for Language and Speech Processing where I have been involved in various research projects such as:

  • LDS: European Language Data Space
  • ELG: European Language Grid
  • Apollonis/CLARIN:EL: Apollonis - CLARIN:EL
  • ELRC: European Language Resource Coordination — supporting Multilingual Europe.
  • OpenMinTeD: Open Mining INfrastructure for TExt and Data (Completed 7/2018).
  • FutureTDM: that seeks to improve Text and Data Mining uptake in the EU (Completed 9/2017).
  • CLARIN-EL: Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (Completed 12/2015).
  • QTLaunchpad: A European Commission-funded project aiming to improve translation technology (Completed 06/2014).

Previously, from March 2012 to December 2012, I did my (compulsory) military service in Greek Army.

From June 2006 to February 2012, I worked as a Software Engineer/Researcher at the Natural Language Processing Group of the Department of Informatics in Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB); the projects in which I was involved are listed below.

  • "A linear programming approach to multi-document text summarization and natural language generation from ontologies". AUEB Basic Research Funding Program (BRFP) project (04/2011-08/2012).
  • Indigo: Interaction with mobile robots that have personalities and support multimodal dialogues. European FP6-IST project (02/2007-01/2010).
  • Xenios: Human-robot interaction using speech processing, natural language generation, and computer vision. National "Information Society" project (06/2006-12/2007).
Also, in parallel, from Nov. 2006 to Feb. 2012 I was doing my Ph.D. in the same department.

I hold

My research interests include Natural Language Generation, Semantic Web, Question Answering, Sentence Compression, Query-Focused Summarization and Sentiment Analysis.

Papers, Technical Reports, and Theses

  1. Maria Gavriilidou, Stelios Piperidis, Dimitrios Galanis, Juli Bakagianni, Penny Labropoulou, Athanasia Kolovou, Dimitris Gkoumas, Miltos Deligiannis, Kanella Pouli, Iro Tsiouli, Leon Voukoutis and Katerina Gkirtzou. Proceedings of the CLARIN Annual Conference, 2023. [PDF]
  2. Ian Roberts, Andres Garcia Silva, Cristian Berrìo Aroca, Jose Manuel Gómez-Pérez, Miroslav Jánoší, Dimitrios Galanis, Rémi Calizzano, Andis Lagzdiņš, Milan Straka, Ulrich Germann, “Language Technology Tools and Services”. In Editor G. Rehm. European Language Grid. Pages 13-36, Springer, 2023. [PDF]
  3. Ian Roberts, Penny Labropoulou, Dimitrios Galanis, Rémi Calizzano, Athanasia Kolovou, Dimitris Gkoumas, Andis Lagzdiņš, Stelios Piperidis, “Using the European Language Grid as a Consumer”. In Editor G. Rehm. European Language Grid. Pages 13-36, Springer, 2023. [PDF]
  4. Stelios Piperidis, Penny Labropoulou, Dimitrios Galanis, Miltos Deligiannis, Georg Rehm, “The European Language Grid Platform: Basic Concepts”. In Editor G. Rehm. European Language Grid. Pages 13-36, Springer, 2023. [PDF]
  5. Dimitrios Galanis, Penny Labropoulou, Ian Roberts, Miltos Deligiannis, Leon Voukoutis, Katerina Gkirtzou, Rémi Calizzano, Athanasia Kolovou, Dimitris Gkoumas, Stelios Piperidis, “Contributing to the European Language Grid as a Provider”. In Editor G. Rehm. European Language Grid. Pages 67-93, Springer, 2023. [PDF]
  6. Julian Moreno-Schneider, Remi Calizzano, Florian Kintzel, Georg Rehm, Dimitrios Galanis, Ian Roberts. "Towards Practical Semantic Interoperability in NLP Platforms" In Proceedings of the 18th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation within LREC, 2022 [PDF]
  7. Georg Rehm, Stelios Piperidis, Kalina Bontcheva, Jan Hajic, Victoria Arranz, Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Gerhard Backfried, José Manuel Gómez-Pérez, Ulrich Germann, Rémi Calizzano, Nils Feldhus, Stefanie Hegele, Florian Kintzel, Katrin Marheinecke, Julian Moreno Schneider, Dimitrios Galanis, Penny Labropoulou, Miltos Deligiannis, Katerina Gkirtzou, Athanasia Kolovou, Dimitris Gkoumas, Leon Voukoutis, Ian Roberts, Jana Hamrlová, Dusan Varis, Lukáš Kačena, Khalid Choukri, Valérie Mapelli, Mickaël Rigault, Jūlija Meļņika, Miro Janosik, Katja Prinz, Andres Garcia-Silva, Cristian Berrio, Ondřej Klejch, Steve Renals. "European Language Grid: A Joint Platform for the European Language Technology Community" In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, 2021. [PDF]
  8. Rehm, G., Berger, M., Elsholz, E., Hegele, S., Kintzel, F., Marheinecke, K., Piperidis, S., Deligiannis, M., Galanis, D., Gkirtzou, K., Labropoulou, P., Bontcheva, K., Jones, D., Roberts, I., Hajic, J., Hamrlova, J., Kacena, L., Choukri, K., Arranz, V., Vasil¸jevs, A., Anvari, O., Lagzdin¸s, A., Mel¸n¸ika, J., Backfried, G., Dikici, E., Janosik, M., Prinz, K., Prinz, C., Stampler, S., Thomas-Aniola, D., Perez, J. M. G., Silva, A. G., Berrıo, C., Germann, U., Renals, S., and Klejch, O. "European Language Grid: An Overview." In Nicoletta Calzolari, et al., editors, Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020), Marseille, France, 5. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020. [PDF]
  9. Rehm, G., Galanis, D., Labropoulou, P., Piperidis, S., Welß, M., Usbeck, R., Kohler, J., Deligiannis, M., Gkirtzou, K., Fischer, J., Chiarcos, C., Feldhus, N., Moreno-Schneider, J., Kintzel, F., Montiel, E., Doncel, V. R., McCrae, J. P., Laqua, D., Theile, I. P., Dittmar, C., Bontcheva, K., Roberts, I., Vasiljevs, A., and Lagzdins, A. (2020). "Towards an Interoperable Ecosystem of AI and LT Platforms: A Roadmap for the Implementation of DifferentLevels of Interoperability." In Georg Rehm, et al., editors,Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Language Technology Platforms (IWLTP 2020, co-located with LREC 2020), 2020. [PDF]
  10. Labropoulou, P., Gkirtzou, K., Gavriilidou, M., Deligiannis, M., Galanis, D., Piperidis, S., Rehm, G., Berger, M., Mapelli, V., Rigault, M., Arranz, V., Choukri, K., Backfried, G., Pérez, J. M. G., and Garcia-Silva, A. Making Metadata Fit for Next Generation Language Technology Platforms: The Metadata Schema of the European Language Grid. In Nicoletta Calzolari, et al., editors, Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020), Marseille, France, May. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020. [PDF]
  11. P. Labropoulou, D. Galanis, A. Lempesis, M. Greenwood, P. Knoth, R. Eckart de Castilho, S. Sachtouris, B. Georgantopoulos, S. Martziou, L. Anastasiou, K. Gkirtzou, N. Manola and S. Piperidis. "OpenMinTeD: A Platform Facilitating Text Mining of Scholarly Content." Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop On Mining Scientific Publications (LREC 2018), 2018. [PDF]
  12. M. Pontiki, D. Galanis, H. Papageorgiou, I. Androutsopoulos, S. Manandhar, M. AL-Smadi, M. Al-Ayyoub, Y. Zhao, B. Qin, O. De Clercq, V. Hoste, M. Apidianaki, X. Tannier, N. Loukachevitch, E. Kotelnikov, N. Bel, S. M. Jiménez-Zafra, G. Gülşen Eryiğit, "SemEval-2016 Task 5: Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis". Proceedings of 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval), 2016. [PDF]
  13. P. Malakasiotis, E. Archontakis, I. Androutsopoulos, D. Galanis, H. Papageorgiou, "Biomedical question-focused multi-document summarization: ILSP and AUEB at BioASQ3". Working Notes for the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF), 2015. [PDF]
  14. S. Piperidis, D. Galanis, J. Bakagianni, S. Sofianopoulos, "A Data Sharing and Annotation Service Infrastructure". Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP), 2015. [PDF]
  15. M. Pontiki, D. Galanis, H. Papageorgiou, S. Manandhar, I. Androutsopoulos, "Semeval-2015 Task 12: Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis". Proceedings of 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval), 2015. [PDF]
  16. S. Piperidis, D. Galanis, J. Bakagianni, S. Sofianopoulos. "Combining and Extending Data Infrastructures with Linguistic Annotation Services". Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Worldwide Language Service Infrastructure (WLSI), 2015. [PDF]
  17. M. Pontiki, D. Galanis, J. Pavlopoulos, H. Papageorgiou, I. Androutsopoulos, S. Manandhar, "Semeval-2014 Task 4: Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis". Proceedings of 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval), 2014. [PDF]
  18. D. Galanis, S. Karabetsos, M. Koutsombogera, H. Papageorgiou, A. Esposito, M.T. Riviello, "Classification of Emotional Speech Units in Call Centre Interactions". Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2013. [PDF]
  19. I. Androutsopoulos, G. Lampouras and D. Galanis, "Generating Natural Language Descriptions from OWL Ontologies: the NaturalOWL System". Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 48:671-715, 2013. [PDF]
  20. I. Androutsopoulos, G. Lampouras and D. Galanis, Generating Natural Language Descriptions from OWL Ontologies: A Detailed Presentation of the NaturalOWL System. Technical Report, Natural Language Processing Group, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, 2012. [PDF]
  21. D. Galanis, G. Lampouras and I. Androutsopoulos, "Extractive Multi-Document Summarization with Integer Linear Programming and Support Vector Regression". Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), Mumbai, India, 2012. [PDF]
  22. D. Galanis, "Automatic generation of natural language summaries", PhD thesis, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, 2012. [PDF]
  23. D. Galanis and I. Androutsopoulos, "A New Sentence Compression Dataset and Its Use in an Abstractive Generate-and-Rank Sentence Compressor". Proceedings of the Language Generation and Evaluation Workshop (UCNLG+Eval), at the Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2011), Edinburgh, UK. [PDF]
  24. D. Galanis and I. Androutsopoulos, "An Extractive Supervised Two-Stage Method for Sentence Compression". Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL 2010), Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2010. [PDF]
  25. D. Galanis, G. Karakatsiotis, G. Lampouras and I. Androutsopoulos, "An Open-Source Natural Language Generator for OWL Ontologies and its Use in Protege and Second Life". System demonstration, 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2009), Athens, Greece, 2009. [PDF]
  26. D. Galanis and P. Malakasiotis, "AUEB at TAC 2008". Text Analysis Conference (TAC 2008), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, 2008. [PDF]
  27. G. Karakatsiotis, D. Galanis, G. Lampouras and I. Androutsopoulos, "NaturalOWL: Generating Texts from OWL Ontologies in Protege and in Second Life". System demonstration, 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Patras, Greece, 2008. [PDF]
  28. D. Vogiatzis, D. Galanis, V. Karkaletsis, I. Androutsopoulos and C.D. Spyropoulos, "A Conversant Robotic Guide to Art Collections". Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morocco, 2008 [PDF]
  29. D. Galanis and I. Androutsopoulos, "Generating Multilingual Descriptions from Linguistically Annotated OWL Ontologies: the NaturalOWL System". Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2007), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 2007. [PDF]
  30. D. Galanis, "Development of a natural language generation engine for OWL ontologies", M.Sc dissertation, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, 2006.(in Greek) [PDF]
  31. I. Androutsopoulos and D. Galanis, "A Practically Unsupervised Learning Method to Identify Single-Snippet Answers to Definition Questions on the Web". Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT-EMNLP 2005), Vancouver, Canada, pp. 323-330, 2005. [PDF]
  32. D. Galanis, "Automatic construction of training examples to handle definition questions in question answering systems that use machine learning", B.Sc thesis, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, 2004.(in Greek) [PDF]

Software

  • NaturalOWL: a natural language generator for OWL ontologies that supports English and Greek; it can be used within Protege. [Download]
  • Sentence compression software: the software of our HLT-NAACL 2010 paper. [Download]
  • Acropolis Rock: a personalized tour guide app. It was developed by George Karakatsiotis and Vangos Pterneas.

Contact me

You can contact me by sending an e-mail at:
galanisd AT gmail DOT com or galanisd AT ilsp DOT gr

This page was last updated on March 13, 2024