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Dr. George Mikros

Professor

Email

gmikros@hbku.edu.qa

Phone

+974 44540920

Office location

C.01.030, First Floor, Minaretein Building

Dr. George Mikros

Professor

Educational Qualifications

Ph.D. in Linguistics, Dissertation: Sociolinguistic approach of Modern Greek phonological problems.

B.A. in Italian Language and Literature.

Entity

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Program

Master of Arts in Digital Humanities and Societies

Divison

Middle Eastern Studies Department (MESD)

Biography

George Mikros before assuming his Professor position at the MA Program of Digital Humanities at HBKU, he was Professor of Computational and Quantitative Linguistics at the University of Athens Greece. He is the director of the Computational Stylistics lab. He is also Adj. Professor at the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. He had the position of Research Associate at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing and he was part of research groups that have developed significant language resources and NLP tools for Modern Greek. Since 1999 holds the position of Teaching Associate at the Hellenic Open University and since 2016 he is the Director of the Undergraduate Program “Spanish Language and Culture”. Prof. Mikros has authored 5 monographs and more than 80 papers published in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and edited volumes. Since 2007 he has been elected as Member of the Council of the International Association of Quantitative Linguistics (IQLA). In 2018 he was elected its President. He is a keynote speaker and invited speaker in many international conferences, workshops and summer schools related to Digital Humanities and Quantitative Linguistics. His main research interests are computational stylistics, quantitative linguistics, computational linguistics, and forensic linguistics.

 

 

Ph.D. in Linguistics, Dissertation: Sociolinguistic approach of Modern Greek phonological problems.

Phonetic variation in nasal consonants, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

1992 - 1999

B.A. in Italian Language and Literature.

Department of Italian Language and Literature, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

1987 - 1991

  • Computational Stylistics
  • Quantitative Linguistics
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Forensic Linguistics

Core Editor of the International Journal of Digital Humanities published by Springer.

https://www.springer.com/journal/42803/updates/19892272

2021

Visiting Researcher

Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies (DiSLL) Università Degli Studi di Padova, Italy.

2018

Director of the Computational Stylistics Laboratory

Department of Italian Language and Literature, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

2017 - Present

Director of the Undergraduate Program “Spanish Language and Literature”

Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece.

2016 - 2019

Visiting Researcher

Exploring Variations in Language (EVL) Laboratory. Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.

2015

Visiting Professor

Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Boston, U.S.A.

2014

Adjunct Faculty

Department of Applied Linguistics, Master of Arts Online Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston, U.S.A.

2013 - Present

Teaching Associate

Coordinator of the Linguistics Module at the Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece.

2001 - 2019

Professor of Computational and Quantitative Linguistics

Department of Italian Language and Literature, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

2000 - 2019

  • Language and Text: Data, Models, Information, Applications. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (ISBN 9789027210104), 275 pp.
  • Development and Validation of a Corpus of Written Parliamentary Questions in the Hellenic Parliament. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 7: 18, pp. 1–14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.45
  • A Modern Greek Readability Tool: Development of Evaluation Methods. In Pawłowski, A., Mačutek, J., Embleton, S. & Mikros, G., (eds). Language and Text: Data, Models, Information, Applications, (pp. 163-176). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • The terms “immigrant”, “refugee” and “illegal immigrant” in the Questions Corpus of the Hellenic Parliament. In the Proceedings of the 13th Conference «Hellenic Language and Terminology», November 11-13, 2021, Athens, Greece.
  • Authorship Detection and Gender Identification in ‘fake’ proclamations using Stylometry. The case of the ‘orphan’ proclamations of the Greek Revolutionary Organization 17N. In the 15th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists, Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics (IAFL), Aston University, Birmingham, UK, September 13-16, 2021.
  • Does the Century matter? Machine learning methods to attribute historical periods in an Italian literary corpus. In QUALICO 2021 (postponed QUALICO 2020), Tokyo, Japan, September 9-12, 2021.
  • Big-Five personality author prediction in Modern Greek essays using stylometric features. In QUALICO 2021 (postponed QUALICO 2020), Tokyo, Japan, September 9-12, 2021.
  • Emotion and ideology in terrorist language: A case of four violent Greek groups. In 3rd ILLA Focus Conference on Forensic Linguistics, University of Alicante, September 6, 2021.
  • Exploring the development of written syntactic complexity in L2 Greek: The case of Spanish and Catalan L1 learners. In 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2021), August 30 – September 3,2021 http://sle2021.eu/downloads/SLE%202021%20List%20of%20accepted%20papers.pdf
  • “#εμβόλιο. A quantitative analysis of the vaccination discourse in Greek Twitter”. In DH goes Viral Digital Workshop, April 26, 2021, https://apollonis-infrastructure.gr/2021/04/08/dh-goes-viral-digital-workshop-26-04-2021/
  • XtraLingua: An open-source tool for extracting quantitative text profiles. In Digital Humanities 2020, July 20 - 25, 2020, Ottawa, Canada. https://aseees.hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:31757
  • #κορονοιος: analyzing tweets containing the greek coronavirus hashtag in the first month of the COVID19 pandemics. In Twitter Conference #DHgoesVIRAL (April 2, 2020) https://twitter.com/gmikros/status/1245695951764885504
  • Improving machine translation output of German compound and multiword financial terms: comparison with cross-linguistic data. Human-Intelligent Systems Integration, 2(1), 29-34. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42454-020-00014-y
  • Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 70: 61-70. doi:10.1002/asi.24073
  • Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2018.1458395
  • In A. Tuzzi & M. Cortelazzo (Eds.), Drawing Elena Ferrante's Profile. Workshop Proceedings,Padova, 7 September 2017 (pp. 85-95). Padova: Padova University
  • Towards a Blended Authorship Attribution Methodology. Paper presented at the 14th International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data (JADT 18), 15 June 2018, Rome, Italy.
  • In Iezzi, D., Celardo, L. and Misuraca, M. (Eds.), JADT 2018: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data, (pp.165-173), Rome: UniversItalia.
  • Word length distribution and text length: two important factors influencing the properties of word length motifs. In H. Liu & J. Liang (Eds.), Motifs in Language and Text (pp. 151-164). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
  • Cross-Linguistic Correlations in Lexical Complexity: An Approach to Cross-Linguistic Authorship Attribution.
  • Personality prediction in Facebook status updates using multilevel Ngram profiles (MNP) and word features. Paper presented at QUALICO 2016, 24-28 August 2016, Trier, Germany.
  • Paper presented in the Digital Humanities 2016, 11-16 July, Kraków, Poland. Available at: http://dh2016.adho.org/abstracts/158.
  • Sentiment Analysis of Hotel Reviews in Greek: A Comparison of Unigram Features. In V. Katsoni (Ed.), Cultural Tourism in a Digital Era (pp. 373-383). New York: Springer.
  • Athens: Hellenic Academic Libraries Link. Available Online at http://hdl.handle.net/11419/4860
  • Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. (ISBN: 978-3-11-036287-9
  • In Mikros George & J. Mačutek (Eds.), Sequences in Language and Text (pp. 125-132). Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • In A. Tuzzi, M. Benešová & J. Macutek (Eds.), Recent Contributions to Quantitative Linguistics (Vol. 70, pp. 75-88). Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • A constructional approach to polysemy and the grammar of challenge. Cognitive Linguistics, 25(4), 655-699. doi: 10.1515/cog-2014-0060
  • Theoretical and methodological approaches [in Greek]. Athens: Metexmio. (ISBN: 978-960-455-524-6), 408 pp.
  • “Basic quantitative characteristics of the Modern Greek language using the Hellenic National Corpus”. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 12, pp. 167-184.
  • Athens: LIBRIS-TECH (ISBN: 960-8319-29-3), 150 pp.
  • “Word length, word frequencies, and Zipf’s law in the Greek language”. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 8, pp. 175-185.
  • Textbook for the Program of Studies “Spanish Language and Culture”, Patras: Hellenic Open University, 220 pp.

  • 2017 Unmasking Elena Ferrante’s real identity using multiple author profiling methods during the International Workshop “Drawing Elena Ferrante’s Profile” organized by the FISPPA Department at the University of Padua, 7th September 2017. 
  • 2017 Teaching award for excellence in lecturing at IQLA-GIAT Summer School in Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data from the University of Padua, Italy, 2017.
  • 2015, 2016 Teaching distinction (merit award) due to the “dedicated and creative contribution in teaching, research, and service activities” in the Online Master of Applied Linguistics of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. 2015, 2016)
  • 2011 2nd position (out of 13 participating research teams) in the international competition of authorship attribution task organized by the 5th International Workshop on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse PAN'11 (Official results available at http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/webis/research/events/pan-11/pan11-talks/pan11-results.pdf)