Areas of interest

• Natural language processing
• Spontaneous Speech recognition
• Emotional Speech recognition
• Speech Enhancement
• Language Modeling

CV data

Dr Theologos Athanaselis received the Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Democritus University of Thrace in September 1999. He holds an Ms’c in Engineering and Physical Sciences in Medicine from the Centre for Biological & Medical Systems of Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. He received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. of NTUA in 2007. The title of PhD dissertation is “Algorithms for application of N-grams in Automatic Spontaneous speech recognition and text processing”. His research interests include statistical methods for language processing, spontaneous speech recognition, and speech enhancement techniques. Since 2001, he is working as a Researcher in Voice and Sound Technology Department of Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP/ R.C “ATHENA”). Also, he has worked at ILSP / R.C. "Athena" on several projects as a researcher (IST-ERMIS, IST-HEARCOM, IST-AGENT_DYSL, IST-SOPRANO, ΕΗΓ-Aythormito, ΕΗΓ-SUB4ALL).

Full CV

• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S., Dologlou, I., Evmorfia N Argyriou & Antonis Symvonis. (2014). Making assistive reading tools user friendly: a new platform for Greek dyslexic students empowered by automatic speech recognition. Multimedia tools and applications, 68(3), 681-699. [...] 
• Fotinea, S., Dologlou, I., Bakamidis, S. & Athanaselis, T. (2012). Decimative Spectral Estimation with Unconstrained Model Order. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, 2012. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I (2011). Performance Evaluation of a novel technique for word order errors correction applied to non native English speakers' corpus. Lecture Notes in Computer Science series edited by Springer (CICLing 2011). [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Mamouras, K., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2011). A Corpus Based Technique For Repairing Ill-Formed Sentences With Word Order Errors Using Co-Occurences Of N-Grams. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S., Dologlou, I. & Fotinea, S. (2010). Enhancing Speech Recognition performance in the presence of MRI scanner noise. International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering (IJSISE), 3(3), 179-187. [...] 
• Guimaraes, R., Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S., Dologlou, I. & Fotinea, S. (2010). A vocal user Interface Plug-in for jMRUI. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Imaging systems and techniques (IST 2010), pages 384-388. thessaloniki, Greece. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2009). Reducing the cocktail party effect prior to Automatic Speech recognition. In Proceedings of the 13-th International Conference Speech and Computer (SPECOM), pages 360-363. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S., Dologlou, I. & Fotinea, S. (2009). Impact of MRI scanner noise on Speech Recognition confidence score. In Proceedings of the 4rd Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Mamouras, K., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I (2008). Sentence-level Evaluation Using Co-occurences of N-grams. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin/Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S., Giannopoulos, G., Dologlou, I. & Fotinea, S. (2008). Robust Speech Recognition in the presence of noise using medical data. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Imaging systems and techniques (IST), pages 349-353. Chania, Greece. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Mamouras, K., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2007). User Evaluation of a novel technique for word-order error correction. In Proceedings of the 3rd Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics. Poznan, Poland. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2007). Evaluating ASR confidence score performance in different noisy conditions. In Proceedings of the 12-th International Conference Speech and Computer (SPECOM), pages 207-211. Moscow. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2007). A novel technique for words reordering based on n-grams. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications in conjunction with the International Conference on Information Sciences, Signal Processing and its Applications. Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). [...] 
• Athanaselis, T. (2007). Αλγόριθμοι εφαρμογής των N-grams στην αναγνώριση συναισθηματικού λόγου και στην διόρθωση κειμένων. Phd Thesis, Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο (Ε.Μ.Π). [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2006). Recognising verbal content of emotionally coloured speech. In Proceedings of the 14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). Florence, Italy. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2006). Words Reordering based on Statistical Language Model. In Proceedings of the Transactions on Engineering, Computing and Technology, pages 270-273. Vienna, Austria. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2006). Recognising Verbal Content of Emotionally Coloured Speech. In Proceedings of the Transactions on Engineering, Computing and Technology, pages 274-277. Vienna, Austria. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2006). Impact of the cocktail party effect on the confidence accuracy of emotional speech recogniser. In Proceedings of the 18th BeNeLux Conference on Artificial Intelligence , (BNAIC). Namour, Belgium. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2006). An automatic method for revising ill-formed sentences based on N-grams. In Proceedings of the 3rd International conference on Speech Prosody, pages 370-373. Dresden, Germany. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2006). A Statistical Method for Correcting Word Order Errors in Greek Texts. In Proceedings of the 2nd international conference of IASTED on Computational Intelligence (CI), pages 502-506. San Francisco. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2006). A New Approach for Words Reordering Based On Statistical Language Model. In. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S., Dologlou, I. & Mamouras, K. (2006). N-grams: A Tool for Repairing Word Order Errors in ill-formed Texts. International Journal of Signal Processing, 3(2), 123-128. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2006). A comparative study of ASR performance in different emotional states. In Proceedings of the XXVIII-th International Congress of Audiology, pages 98-102. Innsbruck, Austria. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I (2006). A Fast Algorithm for Words Reordering Based on Language Model. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2005). Improving speech recognition performance in noisy environments. In Proceedings of the 7th Hellenic-European Conference on Computer Mathematics and its Applications (HERCMA'2005). Athens, Greece. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S., Dologlou, I., Cowie, R., Douglas-Cowie, E. & Cox, C. (2005). ASR for emotional speech: clarifying the issues and enhancing performance. Neural Networks Elsevier Publications, 18(4), 437- 444. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S., Fotinea, S. & Dologlou, I. (2004). Impact of Speech Enhancement on ASR time stamping. In Proceedings of the Fourth European Symposium on Intelligent Technologies, Hybrid Systems and their implementation on Smart Adaptive Systems, EUNITE-2004, pages 452-457. Aachen, Germany. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S., Fotinea, S., Dologlou, I., Fragapanagos, N. & Taylor, J. (2003). Impact of Speech Enhancement on ASR Confidence Score. In. [...] 
• Fragapanagos, N., Taylor, J., Cowie, R., Douglas-Cowie, E., Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. et al. (2003). Detecting Moving Emotion. In Proceedings of EUNITE 2003, pages 542 – 547. Oulu, Finland. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T., Fotinea, S., Bakamidis, S., Dologlou, I. & Giannopoulos, G (2003). Signal Enhancement for Continuous Speech Recognition. In O. Kaynak et al. (editor), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Berlin Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag. [...] 
• Fotinea, S., Bakamidis, S., Athanaselis, T., Dologlou, I., Vacalopoulou, A., Cowie, R. et al (2003). Emotion in Speech: towards an integration of linguistic, paralinguistic and psychological analysis. In O. Kaynak et al. (editor), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Berlin Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag. [...] 
• Giannopoulos, G., Chalamandaris, A., Fotinea, S., Athanaselis, T. & Carayannis, G. (2003). Analysis and modelling of the Carrier Declination for the Greek language. In Proc. of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences - ICPhS03. Barcelona, Spain. [...] 
• Athanaselis, T. (2000). A new paradigm for finding shapes using the scale-space theory. Master Thesis, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. [...]