Join us for a dynamic and insightful two-day training session designed to introduce participants to advanced techniques in text processing and analysis!

📅 Date: February 10-11, 2025
⏰ Time: 11.30-14.30 (Greek time)
📍 Location: University of Crete Research Center for the Humanities, the Social and Education Sciences (UCRC) & online.
The sessions will be recorded.

Description:
The upcoming two-day training session will provide a comprehensive introduction to text processing and analysis techniques, with a focus on both modern and ancient Greek texts. Participants will explore foundational concepts such as text extraction, preprocessing, and basic visualization using libraries like NLTK, Pandas, and SpaCy. The training will also delve into specialized tools like CLTK for tokenization, lemmatization, and dependency parsing in ancient Greek, as well as UGARIT for Greek-English alignment and named entity recognition. Finally, participants will gain hands-on experience in sentiment analysis algorithms to compare their applications and effectiveness.

Meet the Speaker: Dr. Dimitrios Bilianos
Dimitrios Bilianos is a lecturer at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Linguistics from the University of Patras and a PhD in Computational Linguistics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His doctoral dissertation titled “Automatic Sentiment Analysis in Multilingual Texts on Social Media” was fully funded by Greece and the European Union through a scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). He has research and teaching experience in Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities and has served as a research associate at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar.