Areas of interest

• Generative Syntax
• Semantics
• Morphology
• Machine Learning

CV data

Marina Vassiliou (1972) has studied Greek Philology and Linguistics at the University of Athens. She holds a Master’s degree in Generative Syntax (University of Athens). Her MA thesis was titled “The Ancient Greek Infinitive under Control”. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Athens, studying “The Diachronic Evolution of the Ancient Greek Infinitival Structures” within the Generative Syntax framework.

She has taught various Linguistics courses at Independent Science & Technology Studies/University of Hertfordshire (IST/UH), while for a short period she has worked at the Natural Language Processing Lab of NTUA. In 2003 she translated Noam Chomsky’s 2000 book “New horizons in the study of language and mind” (Cambridge University Press). She has published in international journals and conferences.

As a member of the Machine Translation Department of ILSP / R.C. "Athena" she has contributed to various projects concerning statistical approaches to language, stylometry, pattern recognition-based morphological analysis, machine translation, ontologies, controlled languages, specifications for syntactic analysis.

Full CV

• Tambouratzis, G., Vassiliou, M. & Sofianopoulos, S (2016). Language-independent hybrid MT: Comparative evaluation of translation quality. Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation. Springer. [...] 
• Vassiliou, M., Georgaras, A., Prokopidis, P. & Papageorgiou, H. (2015). Co-referring or not co-referring? Answer the question!. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, pages 1155-1170. Berlin: Edition Romiosini/CeMoG. [...] 
• Tambouratzis, G., Vassiliou, M. & Sofianopoulos, S. (2014). PRESEMT: A hybrid machine translation system based on large monolingual corpora. In selected papers of the 11th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, pages pp. 1642-1654. Rhodes. [...] 
• Tambouratzis, G., Vassiliou, M. & Sofianopoulos, S. (2013). Hybrid Machine Translation EL-EN system based on large monolingual corpora. In Proceedings of ICGL-2013 Conference, pages 180. Rhodos, Greece. [...] 
• Tambouratzis, G., Sofianopoulos, S. & Vassiliou, M. (2013). Language-independent hybrid MT with PRESEMT. In Proceedings of HYTRA-2013 Workshop, held within the ACL-2013 Conference, pages 123-130. Sofia, Bulgaria. [...] 
• Tambouratzis, G., Vassiliou, M. & Sofianopoulos, S. (2013). A Review of the PRESEMT project.. In Sima'an, K., Forcada, M.L., Grasmick, D. et al (editors), Proceedings of the XIV Machine Translation Summit, pages 437. Nice, France. [...] 
• Vassiliou, M. (2012). Measuring the Greek Infinitive through time. In Z. Gavriilidou, A. Efthymiou, E. Thomadaki & P. Kambakis-Vougiouklis (editors), Selected papers of the 10th ICGL, pages 592-602. Komotini, Greece : Democritus University of Thrace. [...] 
• Tambouratzis, G., Vassiliou, M. & Sofianopoulos, S. (2012). PRESEMT: Pattern Recognition-based Statistically Enhanced MT. In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Exploiting Synergies between Information Retrieval and Machine Translation (ESIRMT) and Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation (HyTra) at EACL-2012, pages 65-68. Avignon, France. [...] 
• Tambouratzis, G., Troullinos, M., Vassiliou, M. & Sofianopoulos, S. (2012). Accurate phrase alignment in a bilingual corpus for EBMT systems. In Reinhard Rapp, Marko Tadić, Serge Sharoff & Pierre Zweigenbaum (editors), Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora at LREC 2012, pages 104-111. Istanbul, Turkey. [...] 
• Sofianopoulos, S., Vassiliou, M. & Tambouratzis, G. (2012). Implementing a language-independent MT Methodology. In Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Sujith Ravi, Xiaojun Wan & Hal Daume III (editors), Proceedings of the First Workshop on Multilingual Modeling (ACL 2012), pages 1-10. Jeju, Republic of Korea : Association for Computational Linguistics. [...] 
• Tambouratzis, G., Sofianopoulos, S. & Vassiliou, M. (2012). Evaluating the translation accuracy of a novel language-independent MT methodology. In Martin Kay & Christian Boitet (editors), Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), pages 2569-2584. Mumbai, India : The COLING 2012 Organizing Committee. [...] 
• Tambouratzis, G., Sofianopoulos, S., Vassiliou, M., Simistira, F. & Tsimboukakis, N. (2011). A resource-light phrase scheme for language-portable MT. In M.L. Forcada, H. Depraetere & V. Vadeghinste (editors), Proceedings of the 15th International Conferecne of the European Association for Machine Translation, pages 185-192. Leuven, Belgium. [...] 
• Markantonatou, S., Sofianopoulos, S., Yannoutsou, O. & Vassiliou, M (2009). Hybrid Machine Translation for Low- and Middle- Density Languages. In S. Nirenburg (editor), Language Engineering for Lesser-studied Languages, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series - D: Information and Communication Security 21. [...] 
• Schmidt, P., Vandeghinste, V., Dirix, P., Schuurman, I., Markantonatou, S., Sofianopoulos, S. et al. (2008). Evaluation of a Machine Translation System for Low Resource Languages: METIS-II. In Calzolari N., Choukri K., Maegaard B., Mariani J., Odjik J., Piperidis S. et al (editors), Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), pages 449-456. Marrakech, Morocco. [...] 
• Carl, M., Melero, M., Badia, T., Vandeghinste, V., Dirix, P., Schuurman, I. et al. (2008). METIS-II: low resource machine translation. Machine Translation, 22(1-2), 67-99. [...] 
• Tambouratzis, G. & Vassiliou, M. (2007). Automated Morphological Processing of Ancient Greek Texts.. In Proceedings of the 8th ICGL Conference, pages 447-460. Ioannina, Greece. [...] 
• Markantonatou, S., Sofianopoulos, S., Spilioti, V., Tambouratzis, G., Vassiliou, M. & Yannoutsou, O. (2007). An MT System Embedding Pattern Knowledge. In Van Eynde F., V, Eghinste V. & Schuurman I. (editors), Proceedings of the 'New Approaches to Machine Translation' workshop held in conjunction with the 17th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 2007), pages 11-18. Leuven, Belgium. [...] 
• Sofianopoulos, S., Spilioti, V., Vassiliou, M., Yannoutsou, O. & Markantonatou, S. (2007). Demonstration of the Greek to English METIS-II MT System. In Way A. & Gawronska B. (editors), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI-07), pages 199-205. Skovde, Sweden,. [...] 
• Tambouratzis, G. & Vassiliou, M. (2007). Employing Thematic Variables for Enhancing Classification Accuracy Within Author Discrimination Experiments. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 22(2), 207-224. [...] 
• Markantonatou, S., Sofianopoulos, S., Spilioti, V., Tambouratzis, G., Vassiliou, M. & Yannoutsou, O. (2006). Using Patterns for Machine Translation (MT). In George Potamias, Lonning J.T. & Oepen S. (editors), Proceedings of EAMT 11th Annual Conference, pages 239-246. Oslo, Norway. [...] 
• Tambouratzis, G., Sofianopoulos, S., Spilioti, V., Vassiliou, M., Yannoutsou, O. & Markantonatou, S. (2006). Pattern Matching-Based System for Machine Translation (MT). In G. Antoniou, G. Potamias, C. Spyropoulos & D. Plexousakis (editors), Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 4th Hellenic Conference on AI, pages 345-355. Heraklion, Greece : Springer-Verlag. [...] 
• Markantonatou, S., Vassiliou, M. & Yannoutsou, O. (2005). Ontologies and Thesauri. In Proceedings of HERCMA 2005. Athens, Greece. [...] 
• Markantonatou, S., Sofianopoulos, S., Spilioti, V., Tambouratzis, G., Vassiliou, M., Yannoutsou, O. et al. (2005). Monolingual Corpus-based MT using Chunks. In Proceedings of the Workshop on EBMT, held within the MT Summit X, pages 91-98. Phuket, Thailand,. [...] 
• Vassiliou, M., Yannoutsou, O., Ιωάννου, Ν. & Markantonatou, S. (2005). Terminology management fοr the development of business ontologies [in Greek]. In Proceedings of the 5th Conference "Greek Language and Terminology", pages 235-242. Λευκωσία, Κύπρος. [...] 
• Tambouratzis, G., Markantonatou, S., Hairetakis, N., Vassiliou, M., Tambouratzis, D. & Carayannis, G. (2004). Discriminating the registers and styles in the Modern Greek language– Part 2: Extending the Feature Vector to Optimise Author Discrimination. Literary and Linguistic Computing, Jun 2004:19(Jun 2004:1), 221 – 242. [...] 
• Tambouratzis, G., Markantonatou, S., Hairetakis, N., Vassiliou, M., Tambouratzis, D. & Carayannis, G. (2004). Discriminating the registers and styles in the Modern Greek language – Part 1: Diglossia in Stylistic Analysis ,. Literary and Linguistic Computing, Jun 2004:19, 197 - 220. [...] 
• Tambouratzis, G., Markantonatou, S., Hairetakis, N., Vassiliou, M., Carayannis, G. & Tambouratzis, D. (2004). Discriminating the Registers and Styles in the Modern Greek Language-Part 2: Extending the Feature Vector to Optimize Author Discrimination. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 19(2), 221-242. [...] 
• Tambouratzis, G., Markantonatou, S., Hairetakis, Ν., Vassiliou, M., Carayannis, G. & Tambouratzis, D. (2004). Discriminating the Registers and Styles in the Modern Greek Language-Part 1: Diglossia in Stylistic Analysis. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 19(2), 197-220. [...] 
• Vassiliou, M. & Markantonatou, S. (2003). Developing a multilingual thesaurus respecting international standards. In Greek Language and Terminology. Proceedings of the 4th Meeting, pages 263-270. Athens. [...] 
• Tambouratzis, G., Markantonatou, S., Vassiliou, M. & Tambouratzis, D. (2003). Employing Statistical Methods for Obtaining Discriminant Style Markers within a Specific Register. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Processing for Modern Greek: From Symbolic to Statistical Approaches (held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference of Greek Linguistics), pages 1-10. Rethymno, Greece. [...] 
• Markantonatou, S., Tambouratzis, G., Hairetakis, N., Carayannis, G., Vassiliou, M. & Tambouratzis, D. (2003). Discriminating the Registers and Styles in the Modern Greek Language. Recherches en Linguistique Grecque. In Clairis & C. (editors), Actes du 5e Colloque International de linguistique grecque,, pages 87-90. Sorbonne, France. [...] 
• Vassiliou, M., Markantonatou, S., Maistros, Y. & Karkaletsis, V. (2003). Evaluating Specifications for Controlled Greek. In Proceedings of The Joint Conference of the 8th International Workshop of the European Association for Machine Translation and the 4th Controlled Language Applications Workshop, pages 185-193. Dublin, Ireland. [...] 
• Vassiliou, M. & Markantonatou, S. (2003). Development of a multilingual thesaurus based on international standards [in Greek]. In Proceedings of the 4th Conference "Greek Language and Terminology", pages 263-270. Αθήνα. [...] 
• Maistros, Y., Vassiliou, M. & Markantonatou, S. (2001). QUICKLEM: How you find the lemma without a morphological lexicon. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference in Greek Linguistics. Paris. [...] 
• Efthimiou, E. & Vassiliou, M. (2001). Αυτόµατη αναγνώριση φραστικών όρων σε περιβάλλον ελεγχόµενης υπογλώσσας: Η διαχείριση της ορολογίας στο έργο "Σχηµατοποίηση". In Πρακτικά της 22ης Ετήσιας Συνάντησης Εργασίας Τοµέα Γλωσσολογίας, Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης, pages 32-41. Θεσσαλονίκη. [...] 
• Vassiliou, M., Markantonatou, S., Maistros, Y. & Karkaletsis, V. (2001). Controlled Greek: Design & Implementation. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, pages 323-325. Paris. [...] 
• Tambouratzis, G., Markantonatou, S., Hairetakis, N., Vassiliou, M., Tambouratzis, D. & Carayannis, G. (2000). Discriminating the Registers and Styles in the Modern Greek Language. In Kilgarriff, A., & Sardinha & T.B. (editors), Proceedings of the Workshop on Comparing Corpora (held in conjunction with the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics), pages 35-42. Hong Kong, China. [...]