Areas of interest

• Greek Sign Language processing
• Natural Language Processing
• Computational Linguistics
• Supportive and educational applications

CV data

T. Goulas obtained his Degree in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Biomedical Engineering and informatics from the Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany. Theo Goulas by following a special course of study, obtained a qualification in radiation protection.

He has been associated with ILSP/ Athena RC since 2007, with participations to following EU research projects: VEMUS (www.vemus.org), DictaSign (www.DictaSign.eu).

He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece since 2005 and member of the German association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE – www.vde.de) since 2004.

• Efthimiou, E., Fotinea, S., Vacalopoulou, A., Goulas, T., Vasilaki, K. & Dimou, A. (2018). Sign Language technologies in view of Future Internet accessibility services. In Proceedings of the 11th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference, pages 495-501. [...] 
• Kakoulidis, P., Efthimiou, E. & Goulas, T. (2018). Terminology Enrichment through Crowd Sourcing at PYLES Platform. In Mayumi Bono , Eleni Efthimiou , Stavroula-Evita Fotinea , Thomas Hanke , Julie Hochgesang , Jette Kristoffersen et al (editors), Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). Paris, France : European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [...] 
• Goulas, T., Dimou, A. & Efthimiou, E. (2018). The POLYTROPON parallel corpus. In Mayumi Bono , Eleni Efthimiou , Stavroula-Evita Fotinea , Thomas Hanke , Julie Hochgesang , Jette Kristoffersen et al (editors), Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). Paris, France : European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [...] 
• Vacalopoulou, A., Efthimiou, E., Fotinea, S., Goulas, T. & Dimou, A. (2018). MAKING ONLINE EDUCATIONAL CONTENT ACCESSIBLE IN GREEK SIGN LANGUAGE. In, pages 7305-7310. [...] 
• Koumpouros, G., Alexandra Karavasili, Efthimiou, E., Fotinea, S., Goulas, T. & Vacalopoulou, A. (2017). User Evaluation of the MOBOT Rollator Type Robotic Mobility Assistive Device. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, pages 354-359. New York, NY, USA : ACM. [...] 
• Efthimiou, E., Fotinea, S., Panos Kakoulidis, Goulas, T., Athansia-Lida Dimou & Vacalopoulou, A. (2017). Sign Search and Sign Synthesis Made Easy to End User: The Paradigm of Building a SL Oriented Interface for Accessing and Managing Educational Content. In International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, pages 14-26. [...] 
• Koumpouros, G., Alexandra Karavasili, Efthimiou, E., Fotinea, S., Goulas, T. & Vacalopoulou, A. (2017). User Evaluation of the MOBOT rollator type robotic mobility assistive device. Technologies, 5(4), 73. [...] 
• Efthimiou, E., Fotinea, S., Dimou, A., Goulas, T. & Dimitris Kouremenos. (2016). From grammar-based MT to post-processed SL representations. Universal Access in the Information Society, 15(4), 499-511. [...] 
• Efthimiou, E., Fotinea, S., Goulas, T., Panos Kakoulidis, Dimou, A. & Vacalopoulou, A. (2016). A complete environment for deaf learner support in the context of mainstream education. In Proceedings of the Conference Universal Learning Design, pages 35-44. [...] 
• Fotinea, S., Efthimiou, E., Koutsombogera, M., Dimou, A., Goulas, T. & Vasilaki, K. (2016). Multimodal resources for human-robot communication modelling. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), pages 3455-3460. [...] 
• Efthimiou, E., Fotinea, S., Goulas, T., Dimou, A., Koutsombogera, M., Vassilis Pitsikalis et al. (2016). The mobot platform--Showcasing multimodality in human-assistive robot interaction. In International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, pages 382-391. [...] 
• Fotinea, S., Efthimiou, E., Goulas, T., Dimou, A., Tzafestas, C. & Vassilis Pitsikalis. (2016). The mobot human-robot interaction: Showcasing assistive hri. In Proceedings of the 20th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics, pages 73. [...] 
• Fotinea, S., Efthimiou, E., Koutsombogera, M., Dimou, A., Goulas, T. & Vasilaki, K. (2016). Multimodal Resources for Human-Robot Communication Modelling. In N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, T. Declerck, S. Goggi, M. Grobelnik, B. Maegaard et al (editors), Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), pages 3455-3460. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [...] 
• Efthimiou, E., Fotinea, S., Goulas, T. & Panos Kakoulidis. (2015). User friendly interfaces for sign retrieval and sign synthesis. In International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, pages 351-361. [...] 
• Fotinea, S., Efthimiou, E., Koutsombogera, M., Dimou, A., Goulas, T., Petros Maragos et al. (2015). The MOBOT human-robot communication model. In 2015 6th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), pages 201 - 206. IEEE. [...] 
• Fotinea, S., Efthimiou, E., Goulas, T., Pissaris, M. & Dimou, A. (2014). SiS-Builder: A tool to support sign synthesis and sign language resources maintenance - The end user perspective. In. York, UK. [...] 
• Dimou, A., Goulas, T., Efthimiou, E., Fotinea, S., Karioris, P., M Pissaris et al. (2014). Creation of a multipurpose sign language lexical resource: The GSL lexicon database. In Proceedings of Sixth Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Beyond the Manual Channel, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), pages 37-42. [...] 
• Fotinea, S., Dimou, A., Efthimiou, E. & Goulas, T. (2014). The Annotation Scheme of the MOBOT Dataset: Towards defining a multimodal HRI model. In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE CogInfoCom 2014 Conference, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, pages 5-7. [...] 
• Fotinea, S., Efthimiou, E., Dimou, A., Goulas, T., Karioris, P., Angelika Peer et al. (2014). Data acquisition towards defining a multimodal interaction model for human--assistive robot communication. In International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, pages 613-624. [...] 
• Dimou, A., Pitsikalis, V., Goulas, T., Theodorakis, S., Karioris, P., Pissaris, M. et al. (2012). A GSL Continuous Phrase Corpus: Design and Acquisition. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon (LREC), pages 23-26. Istanbul, Turkey. [...] 
• Dimou, A., Pitsikalis, V., Goulas, T., Theodorakis, S., Karioris, P., Pissaris, M. et al. (2012). A machine learning dedicated GSL phrases corpus: Creation, acquisition and implementation. In Proc. of the 5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon. Satellite Workshop to the eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2012), pages 23-26. Istanbul, Turkey. [...] 
• Dimou, A., Goulas, T. & Efthimiou, E. (2011). Grammar/Prosody Modelling in Greek Sign Language: Towards the Definition of Built-in Sign Synthesis Rules_1. In E. Efthimiou & G. Kouroupetroglou (editors), Proc. of the 9th International Gesture Workshop, pages 88-91. Athens, Greece. [...] 
• Dimou, A., Goulas, T., Fotinea, S. & Efthimiou, E. (2011). Exploiting the Dicta-Sign corpus data: teaching material for the Greek Sign Language. In 2nd Symposium in Applied Sign Linguistics. Bristol , UK. [...] 
• Goulas, T., Fotinea, S. & Efthimiou, E. (2010). SiS-Builder: A Sign Synthesis Support Tool.. In Proc. of the 4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies (CSLT 2010), 2010, Satellite workshop of the LREC-2010 Conference, pages 102-105. Valetta, Malta. [...] 
• Goulas, T. (2002). Alternative communications architecture for the OUZO Project (Computer-basierte Unterstutzung zur Therapie-Optimierung - Computer based support for the optimazation of the therapy). Master Thesis. [...] 
• Wolf, U. & Goulas, T (1998). Herstellung und Verifikation von Kompensatoren fuer konformierende Bestrahlungen. [...]