In my research, I want to help computers understand the meaning of words and utterances, and perform operations that we, humans, perform with language such as logical inference and translation.
I want to help them recognize that one cannot
run and
sleep at the same time; that
cats are
pets but so can be
iguanas; that a
great movie is one I would recommend to a friend, and this in different languages.
My main research fields are Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.
I am interested in theoretical and application-oriented aspects of natural language semantics, and in cognitive aspects of language learning.
I currently work as Senior Researcher in the
Language Technology lab at the University of Helsinki, Department of Digital Humanities, on leave from the French
CNRS where I hold a tenure position.
I am also adjunct faculty member in the
Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. I am an Associate Researcher in the
NLP group of the Department of Informatics at the Athens University of Economics and Business.
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