Prof. Sophia Ananiadou
Position: Director
Telephone: +44 161 306 3092
Email: sophia.nactem@gmail.com
Profile
Current Position
- Professor in Computer Science, University of Manchester
- Director of the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM)
- Deputy Director of the Institute for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
Education
- PhD Computational Linguistics, UMIST
- DEA, Linguistics, Paris VII, Jussieu, France
- DEA, Literature, Paris IV, Sorbonne, France
- BA, Language and Linguistics, University of Athens, Greece
- Diplome de Traducteur, Institut Francais d'Athenes
Employment history
- Research Associate, University of Geneva, Machine Translation (1983-1984)
- Research Assistant, Department of Computational Linguistics, UMIST (1985-1993)
- Research Fellow, Language and Engineering, UMIST (1999-2000)
- Senior Lecturer, Computing, Manchester Metropolitan University (1993-1999)
- Senior Lecturer, Computer Science, School of Computing Science and Engineering, University of Salford (2000-2005)
Featured News
- Talk at Generative AI Summit
- Talk at Open Data Science Conference (ODSC)
- BioLaySumm 2023 - Shared Task @ BioNLP 2023
- Prof. Ananiadou appointed as Senior Area Chair for ACL 2023
- Recent funding successes for Prof. Sophia Ananiadou
- Junichi Tsujii awarded Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon
Other News & Events
- Prof. Ananiadou gives talk as part of Women in AI speaker series
- New Knowledge Knowledge Transfer Partnership with 10BE5
- Keynote Talk at the Festival of AI
- New article on using neural architectures to aggregate sequence labels from multiple annnotators
- New article on improving biomedical extractive summarisation using domain knowledge