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• Forensic Linguistics
• Authorship Attribution
• Idiolect Analysis
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Krzysztof Kredens is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Forensic Linguistics at the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, part of the School of English, Languages and Applied Linguistics at Aston University. He holds a MA in English Studies (Lodz) and a PhD in English Linguistics (Lodz). As Director of the Aston Institute, he leads research in forensic linguistics with a focus on authorship analysis and communication barriers in justice systems. His research interests include individual language variation for forensic authorship analysis, theoretical and practical aspects of idiolect, and improving communication in policing contexts. He actively engages in casework as an expert witness and advises on interpreting practices in police interviews and courtrooms. Dr. Kredens' recent articles explore AI-generated text detection using Bi-LSTM networks, epistemic modality in Spanish, and occupational stress among forensic linguists. He has been recognized as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He teaches postgraduate courses like 'Language as Evidence' and 'Linguistics in Legal Contexts.' His professional activities include editorial roles for the 'Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito' journal and invited talks at international conferences.

• Natural Language Processing
• Computer Vision
• Artificial Intelligence
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Aditya Sharma is a researcher at the University of California Santa Barbara , focusing on Natural Language Processing , Computer Vision , and Artificial Intelligence . His work bridges vision-language models, medical AI evaluation, and knowledge graph reasoning. PhD : Advancing AI Understanding in Language & Vision (UCSB, 2024) Research Interests: • Vision-Language Models for geometric reasoning and mixed reality • Medical LLM evaluation and hallucination reduction • Temporal knowledge graph reasoning and multimodal systems Article Trends: Recent publications emphasize vision-language integration (e.g., GeoCoder, OCTO+), LLM reliability in medical contexts (MedHELM), and temporal reasoning (TwiRGCN). He explores applications in dark web security , healthcare diagnostics , and energy-efficient computing .

David Sanchez JimenezView profile

Associate Professor

• Spanish Applied Linguistics
• Academic Discourse Analysis
• Intercultural Rhetoric
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David Sanchez Jimenez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at City Tech CUNY, School of Arts & Sciences. He specializes in Spanish Applied Linguistics, focusing on academic discourse analysis, intercultural rhetoric, and Spanish language teaching. Ph.D., Universidad Antonio de Nebrija: Applied Linguistics (Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language) M.A., Universidad de Salamanca: Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language B.A., Universidad de Salamanca: Spanish Philology His research explores: Academic text composition by non-native Spanish postgraduate students Rhetorical functions of citations in academic writing Intercultural rhetoric and gender analysis Heritage language learners' written production Authorial voice construction and metadiscourse Politeness and persuasion in academic Spanish Recent publications analyze cross-linguistic citation patterns, metadiscourse in Spanish academic writing, and intercultural communication challenges. He teaches courses ranging from elementary Spanish to advanced academic communication for heritage speakers.

• Japanese Studies
• Theatre Studies
• Cultural Studies
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Regelsberger is a full Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the University of Trier since April 2014. He previously served as Junior Professor (2009-2012) and research assistant (2007-2009) at the same institution. His international experience includes a Visiting Professorship at Western Michigan University (2012-2013) and studies at the University of Tsukuba under a Mombushō scholarship (1999-2000). He coordinates academic exchanges through summer schools and contributes to intercultural theatre research. Ph.D. in Japanese Studies (University of Hamburg, 2003-2006) M.A. in Japanese Studies, Sinology, Modern German Literature (University of Hamburg, 1996-2003) His research centers on Japanese theatre , particularly Edo-period puppet theatre (Ningyô Jôruri), exploring aesthetic principles like jo-ha-kyū and kata . He analyzes voice-body dynamics, cultural memory in Nō/Kabuki, and modern adaptations of traditional forms. Collaborative projects examine intercultural influences (German-Italian) on Japanese performance and the evolution of audience roles in Meiji-era theatre. Recent publications focus on performance-related concepts and contemporary Japanese theatre trends. His 2024 entries in The Routledge Companion define structural aesthetics, while 2021's Okada Toshiki & Japanese Theatre investigates precarity in modern drama. Earlier works trace Edo-period mechanics (2010), intertextuality (2012), and word fetishism in Chikamatsu's plays (2012). Mombushō scholarship (1999-2000) for Japanese cultural studies Graduation scholarship at Tsukuba University (2003) Co-editor of three major theatre compendiums (2011, 2012, 2021)

• Social Sciences
• Humanities
• Philology
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Assoc. Prof. Mevlüt Gülmez is a faculty member at Akdeniz University, Faculty of Education, Turkish and Social Sciences Education Department . He holds a Doctorate in New Turkish Language from Selçuk University (2013) and has been actively contributing to Turkish language education since 2000. 2007-2013: Doctorate in New Turkish Language, Selçuk University 2000-2004: Postgraduate in Turkish Language and Literature, Selçuk University 1996-2000: Undergraduate in Turkish Language and Literature, Selçuk University His research focuses on Language Pedagogy, Philology, and Turkish Language History , with significant work on: Textbook Analysis through Bloom's Taxonomy Augmented Reality Applications in Reading Comprehension Second Language Acquisition for Turkish Historical Linguistics of Turkish Disability-Inclusive Language Education Comparative Dialect Studies Recent publications include studies on 2024 AR-based Reading Comprehension , 2023 Derebucak Folk Healing Practices , and 2022 Argumentation Pedagogy . He has supervised 11 graduate theses and participated in 4 funded projects related to international student mobility and dialect documentation.

• Arabic Language
• Arabic Literature
• Arabic Rhetoric
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Zeynep ÖZKANLI is a Lecturer in the Department of Fundamental Islamic Sciences at the Faculty of Theology, Kastamonu University, Turkey. She has been serving as a full-time faculty member since 2023, and previously worked as a Research Assistant at the same institution since 2014. Her academic career is deeply rooted in Arabic language, literature, and rhetoric studies. Dr. ÖZKANLI earned her PhD in Arabic Language and Literature from Ankara University's Institute of Social Sciences in 2022. She completed her Master's Degree in Arabic Language Teaching at Gazi University's Institute of Educational Sciences in 2015, and her Bachelor's degree in Eastern Languages and Literatures from Ankara University's Faculty of Language, History and Geography in 2011. She also received Arabic language training at the International Language Center of Jordan University from September 2011 to May 2012. Her research focuses on Arabic linguistics, particularly phonetics, grammar, and rhetoric, with special attention to historical and contemporary applications. Dr. ÖZKANLI's work spans classical Arabic texts, modern standard Arabic, and the intersection of language with religious and literary traditions. Her expertise includes vowel systems, consonant assimilation, suprasegmental phonemes, and literary analysis of pre-Islamic and Abbasid poetry. Dr. ÖZKANLI has made significant contributions to academic discourse through numerous publications including journal articles, books, and book chapters. Her work demonstrates a strong commitment to advancing understanding of Arabic language structure and its applications in religious and literary contexts. She has also contributed to academic service as an editor for the Kastamonu University Faculty of Theology Journal since 2019 and as a reviewer for several international journals. Education Committee Member at Kastamonu University Faculty of Theology Bologna Coordinator at Kastamonu University Faculty of Theology Her research projects, primarily funded by TÜBİTAK, explore diverse topics such as Jordanian social and religious life through Musa Ibrahim Ebu Riyash's short story collection "Butterfly," Uyghur Turkish works in Arabic, translations of Ali's "al-Kasidatu'z-Zeynebiyya" into Turkish, and the impact of polysemous words on proper understanding of the Quran.

Nils WlömertView profile

Professor

• Quantitative Marketing
• Retail Analytics
• User-Generated Content
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Professor Nils Wlömert holds the Chair of Marketing at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, where he leads the Institute for Retailing & Marketing. His research examines how digital platforms, emerging technologies, and business model innovations reshape markets and consumer behavior, particularly in music and media industries. Key research areas: Quantitative Marketing, Platform Economics, User-Generated Content, Social Media, Content Distribution His work investigates the complex relationships between streaming services and music revenue, platform regulation effects, and social media's impact on content demand. Notable findings include the dual role of UGC platforms in stimulating or cannibalizing revenue, and the development of NADE (Natural Affect DEtection) for advanced emotion analysis from text using emojis. Scientific contributions include: Best Paper Award (2016) for empirical work on Spotify's market entry Published in top journals: Journal of Marketing, Marketing Science, International Journal of Research in Marketing Current projects explore social media boycotts, playlist curation effectiveness, and privacy regulation impacts on advertising. He collaborates with researchers across Europe and the U.S., employing quasi-experimental designs and big data analysis to address critical industry questions.

Katarzyna Anna KapitanView profile

Professor

• Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
• Digital Humanities
• Manuscript Studies
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Katarzyna Anna Kapitan is a manuscript scholar and digital humanist specializing in Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culture. She holds a Junior Professor Chair in Computational Analysis of Written Cultures in Western Space at École nationale des chartes – PSL University. Her work bridges traditional philology with computational approaches, focusing on manuscript transmission, digital editions, and quantifying textual loss. Fields of interest: Digital Humanities, Old Norse Studies, Manuscript Transmission, Textual Criticism Her research integrates network analysis, stemmatics, and multispectral imaging to study Nordic literary heritage. Recent publications explore saga adaptations, forgotten texts, and material-philological relationships in medieval manuscripts. She also contributes to interactive digital editions and open-access scholarly resources. Notable works examine the survival of Hrómundur’s saga across centuries, the role of prose summaries in antiquarian practices, and the intersection of print and manuscript culture on the North Atlantic fringe. Her methodological innovations include applying biodiversity models to cultural artifacts and redefining cladistic analysis for Old Norse texts.

• Discourse Analysis
• Interactional Sociolinguistics
• Pragmatics
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Kieran File is an Associate Professor and Reader in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick. His work bridges linguistic theory and practical application in high-performance sports contexts, with a focus on how language shapes team dynamics, leadership, media engagement, and identity. Research Interests: Kieran specializes in discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and professional communication, particularly in elite sports. His research explores team talk, media interviews, athlete-coach communication, and how language reflects and constructs power, identity, and inclusion. He has a strong interest in gendered communication in rugby and inclusive coaching practices. Publications and Research Trends: His recent publications reveal a consistent focus on identity construction, impression management, and linguistic strategies in sports media and team interactions. He frequently employs discourse analysis to examine real-world communication in rugby, football, and netball, with an emphasis on how language performs social functions under pressure. Impression management in sports media Leadership and identity in team discourse Racial and gendered language in sports Genre and register in professional communication Strategic use of humor and impoliteness Communication training for athletes and coaches Scientific Projects and Funding: KTP Project with the Rugby Football Union (2025–2027): Developing knowledge on how coaching language can create inclusive environments for women and girls in rugby. Funding from Innovate UK and RFU: Supporting research into language and social interaction in sport. Collaborations: Kieran has worked with top-tier organizations including Williams F1, Football Association of Wales, England Boxing, Warwickshire County Cricket Club, and professional rugby clubs in New Zealand. He also contributes to academic discourse through book chapters and editorial works on linguistic consultancy and language in the workplace. Education and Teaching: He delivers communication workshops and education programs for athletes, coaches, and performance staff, helping them develop strategic awareness of language use. His teaching integrates qualitative research methods and applied sociolinguistics.

Franziska KlemsteinView profile

Researcher

• Monument Preservation
• Digital Humanities
• GDR Architectural History
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Dr. Franziska Klemstein is an active researcher specializing in monument preservation and digital humanities, with significant contributions to understanding heritage practices in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) era. Her work critically bridges historical scholarship and computational methods, particularly through the development of specialized datasets for document analysis and image retrieval in cultural heritage contexts. Her research focuses on: Monument preservation systems under socialist regimes Ethical implementation of AI in heritage documentation Diversity and inclusion challenges in conservation practices Classification methodologies for historical inventories Digital reconstruction of contested heritage sites Gender dynamics in preservation professions Analysis of Klemstein's recent publications reveals a methodological evolution from historical analysis toward technical innovation, with increasing emphasis on dataset creation (DHMTIC, DHREAAL, TexBiG) and evaluation frameworks for heritage computing. Her work consistently addresses the tension between digital efficiency and critical heritage values, particularly regarding sustainable AI implementation and inclusive documentation practices. While specific awards remain undocumented in the provided materials, her editorial leadership in significant volumes like "On the Way to a Place of Remembrance" (2024) demonstrates recognized expertise. Klemstein's collaborative projects with researchers like Tschirschwitz and Schmidgen indicate active participation in interdisciplinary teams focused on digital heritage solutions, though institutional affiliations and grant details aren't specified in the current text.

Nancy ZlatintsiView profile

Researcher

• Music Information Retrieval (MIR)
• Audio Signal Processing
• Multimodal Signal Processing
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Nancy Zlatintsi is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in the Computational Vision and Signal Processing (CVSP) group at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She earned her Diploma in Media Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology (2006) and a Ph.D. in Audio and Multimedia Processing from NTUA (2013). Her research focuses on Music Information Retrieval (MIR) , audio signal processing , and multimodal interaction , with applications in human-robot interaction and movie summarization . Her work has been funded by the European Social Fund (Heracleitus II program) and she has contributed to European projects like iMuSciCA and e-Prevention . Her research spans multimodal saliency detection , audio event recognition , and computational models for emotion tracking . Key scientific contributions include publications in top venues such as IEEE ICASSP , CVPR , and EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing . She is also involved in assistive robotics and gerontechnology applications. Email: nzlat@cs.ntua.gr Office: 2.2.19, NTUA

Diptesh KanojiaView profile

Senior Lecturer

• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Learning
• Low-resource Languages
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Affiliations Senior Lecturer in People-Centred AI at the Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence (PAI) and School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Surrey. Visiting Faculty at IIIT Lucknow. Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Translation Studies (CTS), University of Surrey. Education PhD, IIT Bombay & Monash University (2021) - Dissertation on distributional similarity for cognate detection and computational phylogenetics. BTech in CSE, Uttar Pradesh Technical University (2013). Research Interests Focused on NLP and ML, particularly in low-resource languages, machine translation quality estimation, cognitive NLP, and multimodal information processing. Leads research in Human-Machine Interaction at PAI and the NLP subgroup in the Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering (NICE) group. Publications & Awards Over 30 publications in top conferences (ACL, EMNLP, EACL) including Best Paper Honourable Mention at EACL 2021. Awards include CISCO Fellowship (2016-2020) and Teaching Assistant of the Semester (2017, 2019). Teaching Leads NLP module for undergrad and postgrad students at Surrey. Co-teaches NLP at IIIT Lucknow. Integrates cutting-edge topics like multimodal processing into coursework.

• Variational Linguistics
• Dialectology
• Political Communication
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Heiko Girnth is an Adjunct Professor at the Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas (DSA) under the Department of German Studies and Arts at Philipps-University Marburg. His research spans multiple domains including Variational Linguistics , Dialectology , Political Communication , Grammaticalization , and Text Linguistics . Research Focus: Political discourse analysis, grammaticalization processes in German dialects, multimodal communication in political talk shows, and geolinguistic mapping of language variation. Key Publications: Authored and co-authored works on political rhetoric, dialectological studies, and text typology, including books on language in politics and edited volumes on political talk shows. Teaching: Offers courses like 'Sagen und Meinen' (Seminar) and 'Textlinguistik' (Lecture) at Philipps-University Marburg. Collaboration: Active in interdisciplinary projects, notably the Mittelrheinischer Sprachatlas (MRhSA), focusing on morphological and phonological dialect variation. Labs/Teams: Affiliated with the Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas , contributing to linguistic mapping and dialectological research.

Ylva SöderfeldtView profile

Senior Lecturer

• History of Science
• Medical Humanities
• Disability Studies
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Ylva Söderfeldt is a Senior Lecturer at Uppsala University's Department of History of Science and Ideas, where she also serves as Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities. Her research focuses on the intersection of medical expertise , disability studies , and patient agency , particularly examining how marginalized groups negotiate identity and knowledge production within medical frameworks. Her work includes studies on patient organizations , experiential knowledge , and historical discourses surrounding deafness and chronic illness. She leads an ERC Starting Grant project analyzing the evolution of patient advocacy and has published extensively on topics like gendered labor in health movements and bioethical debates over bodily integrity. Her methodological approach combines traditional historiography with computational text analysis of periodicals. Key collaborations include research with institutions in Sweden (Uppsala), Germany (RWTH Aachen), and international networks. She holds a PhD in History from Stuttgart University and has been affiliated with Uppsala University since 2016.

Maria Antónia CoutinhoView profile

Associate Professor

• Text and Discourse Linguistics
• Discourse Analysis
• Sociodiscursive Interactionism
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Maria Antónia Coutinho is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University Lisbon, affiliated with the Language Sciences Department. Her scholarly work centers on text and discourse linguistics, with a focus on inclusivity and sociocultural dimensions of language. Doctorate in Linguistics, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Her research spans foundational theories in text linguistics, discourse analysis, and sociodiscursive interactionism, addressing critical themes such as inclusive language, gender representation in discourse, and textual genre classification. She has contributed to debates on the integration of semantics and pragmatics in textual studies.