Christina Flouda

Institute for Language and Speech Processing | ISLP

Thesauri have long been recognized as valuable structured resources aiding Information Retrieval systems. A thesaurus provides a precise and controlled vocabulary which serves to coordinate data indexing and retrieval. The paper presents a bilingual Greek and English specialized thesaurus that is being developed as the backbone of a platform aimed...

The paper gives an account of an infrastructure that will be integrated into a platform aimed at providing a multi-faceted experience to visitors of Northern Greece using mythology as a starting point. This infrastructure comprises a multi-lingual and multi-modal corpus (i.e., a corpus of textual data supplemented with images and video) that belong...

In the last decade, there has been a great debate over how ICT can best be harnessed to improve efficiency and effectiveness of education at all levels. Recently, the Greek Ministry of Education recommended the use of ICT in language learning in Vocational Secondary Education. In order to meet the particular needs of students attending vocational s...

Recent research has proven that most of the students attending technical and vocational secondary schools have learning gaps, particularly in language and mathematics. The aim of the paper is to present an e-learning platform that will be used during the two-hour supportive modern Greek lesson introduced in the official curriculum in 2011. Through...