Katerina T. Frantzi

Katerina T. Frantzi is a Professor of Informatics – Corpus Linguistics at the Department of Mediterranean Studies, School of Humanities, University of the Aegean. She directs the Laboratory of Informatics, the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Program on language analysis/teaching, and the "Chess in Primary Education" program at the Continuing Education Center.

• Educated via a Bachelor’s in Informatics & Telecommunications (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) and a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics (Manchester Metropolitan University, collaboration with University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology)

Her research spans digital language resources, corpus linguistics, political/legal discourse, and language teaching. She pioneered the C-value method for term recognition, applied globally with over 2000 citations. Recent publications focus on stylistic analysis, dialectology, and sociolinguistic applications of corpora.

Notable awards include the INFOTERM Certificate for outstanding research in terminology and a State Scholarship for foundational work at NCSR "Democritus". She has coordinated interdisciplinary projects like CLARIN:EL, Greece’s national language technology infrastructure.