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Anna Koufakouمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Learning
• Text-Based Emotion Recognition
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Dr. Anna Koufakou is a Professor in the Department of Computing & Software Engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU), affiliated with the U.A. Whitaker College of Engineering. She joined FGCU in 2009 as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and has since advanced to full Professor. Her research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning, text-based emotion recognition, and abusive language detection. She has also contributed to interdisciplinary projects involving solar panel data modeling and law enforcement data analysis. Education: Dr. Koufakou holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida (2009), an M.S. in Computer Engineering (2000), and a B.S. in Informatics/Computer Science from Athens University of Economics and Business (1997). Research Interests: Natural Language Processing (NLP) Machine Learning and Deep Learning Emotion Recognition in Text Offensive/Abusive Language Detection Data Mining and Anomaly Detection Cloud Computing Education Her work spans diverse applications, from legal data analysis to cybersecurity. Notable contributions include the development of lexicon-enhanced models like HurtBERT for detecting abusive language. She has been recognized with a faculty research fellowship at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) and awards from CRA-W for advancing women in computing research. Teaching: She has designed and taught courses such as cloud computing and software engineering, emphasizing hands-on learning. Her educational initiatives include certification-guided cloud computing curricula and virtual reality-based programming education. Labs/Teams: While no specific lab names are mentioned, her research collaborations involve interdisciplinary teams addressing NLP and data-driven challenges.

Mirjam Schmuckمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Historical Linguistics
• Contrastive Linguistics
• Onomastics
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Mirjam Schmuck is a Professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in the Department of German Institute for Historical Linguistics of German, within the School of Philosophy and Philology. Her research focuses on Historical Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Onomastics, Language Change, and Grammaticalization. Professor Schmuck's work examines morphological and morphosyntactic change, historical pragmatics, name grammar, and sociolinguistic aspects of personal names. She has led significant projects including the German Surname Atlas and Digital Dictionary of German Surnames. Her publications demonstrate consistent focus on diachronic linguistics, particularly the evolution of naming practices, grammaticalization processes, and areal variation in German language features. Professor Schmuck has organized academic conferences on proper names and grammatical variation, and served as co-editor for Contributions to Name Research since 2016.

Nicole Conradمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Literacy Research
• Reading Acquisition
• Orthographic Knowledge
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Nicole Conrad is a Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department at Saint Mary’s University, with an adjunct appointment in Psychology & Neuroscience at Dalhousie University. She serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Reading Research , a Trustee for the SMUFU Health & Wellness Trust, and contributes to the Society of Scientific Study of Reading’s Executive Board. Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (Saint Mary’s University) PhD in Experimental Psychology (McMaster University) Dr. Conrad’s research examines literacy acquisition through cognitive and orthographic lenses, focusing on how children encode, store, and retrieve orthographic information to improve reading and spelling. Her work explores sub-lexical knowledge, graphotactic regularities, and the impact of spelling instruction on reading fluency, supported by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her recent publications span orthographic learning, literacy development, and digital literacy’s cognitive effects, reflecting interdisciplinary approaches to understanding reading mechanisms across languages and populations. These studies emphasize memory encoding, cross-modal transfer, and educational interventions.

Sophia Xenofontosمشاهده پروفایل

استاد مدعو

• Ancient Greek Literature
• Classical Philosophy
• History of Medicine
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Dr. Sophia Xenofontos is an Affiliate in Classics at the University of Glasgow, specializing in ancient Greek literature, classical philosophy, and the reception of Plutarch and Galen. Her research explores ethical education in Plutarch's writings, Byzantine intellectual culture, and the interplay between medicine and moral philosophy in antiquity. She has led major research projects, including a Wellcome Trust-funded study on Galen’s works and an AHRC-funded project on Aristotle’s reception in Byzantium. Her contributions include critical editions of ancient texts, such as George Pachymeres’ commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. Education and Academic Roles: While specific academic qualifications are not detailed, her extensive publications and leadership in international projects indicate advanced scholarly training. She teaches courses on ancient ethics, medicine, biography, and reception studies at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Research Interests: Central to her work are Plutarch’s ethical frameworks, Byzantine adaptations of classical texts, and Galen’s psychological theories. She examines themes like practical ethics, emotion regulation, and the cultural transmission of classical ideas across Byzantium and the Enlightenment. Publications and Grants: Over 40 peer-reviewed articles and books, including monographs on Plutarch’s moral education and Theodore Metochites’ works. Notable grants include a £248k Wellcome Trust Award and an AHRC grant for the George Pachymeres project. Advising and Networks: Supervises doctoral students in Byzantine history and ancient medicine. Collaborates with institutions like the Centre for the History of Medicine (Glasgow), the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy, and the University of Wisconsin’s Classical Tradition project. Labs/Teams: Active in interdisciplinary networks such as the Medical Humanities Group and the Leverhulme-funded Emotions through Time project. Organized key conferences on medical texts and psychotherapy history.

• Spanish Linguistics
• Cognitive Linguistics
• Conceptualization Processes
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Dr. Carla Suhr serves as the Community Program Director and Professor of Spanish Linguistics at UCLA's Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She specializes in integrating culture, language, and cognition to enhance cross-cultural communication and inclusive teaching. Her academic journey includes a PhD from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2016), with research focused on emotive stereotypes and sociocultural cognitive linguistics. Education: PhD (2016): Intercultural Communication and Cognition, Universidad Complutense de Madrid M.A. (2008): Intercultural Communication and Cognition, Universidad Complutense de Madrid M.Ed. (2006): Teaching Spanish as a Second Language, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Research & Interests: Dr. Suhr’s work centers on conceptualization processes, sociolinguistic justice, and community-engaged learning. She explores how language shapes identity and cognition, particularly in second language acquisition. Her projects emphasize transformative community partnerships and inclusive pedagogy. Recognition: 2022 UCLA URW Faculty Mentor Award Multiple Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Awards (2018–2023) Andrew W. Mellon EPIC Grants (2017–2019) Teaching & Leadership: She directs UCLA’s Community-Engaged Learning Program and teaches courses like 'Spanish in the Community' and 'Language and Cognition.' Her 'Inclusive Gatherings' initiative promotes equity in education. She has developed curricula addressing translational neuroscience, bilingual storytelling, and pandemic-era pedagogy.

• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Translation Technology
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Ayla Rigouts Terryn is an Adjunct Professor at Université de Montréal's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Linguistics and Translation. She holds a Master's in Translation from the University of Antwerp and a PhD in Automatic Terminology Extraction from Ghent University. Her research focuses on improving language models through linguistically grounded approaches, emphasizing multilingual and specialized contexts. She leads the ACTER dataset project and co-leads research on lexical interactions between humans and machines. Research & Education PhD: Ghent University (D-Termine project) MSc: University of Antwerp (Translation) Mila (Quebec AI Institute) affiliation Research Interests : Automatic terminology extraction Computational linguistics Multilingual AI systems Bias analysis in large language models Specialized translation technologies Grants : FRQNT grant for translation bias research (2025-2028) FRQSC grant for lexical research team (2025-2030) Labs & Teams : LT3 Language and Translation Technology Team (Ghent University), Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte (OLST).

• Spanish Linguistics
• Historical Linguistics
• Spanish Dialectology
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Enrique Pato is a Full Professor in the Department of Literatures and World Languages at the Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Montreal, and also holds an affiliation with the Center for Medieval Studies. His academic career spans decades of research in Hispanic linguistics with a focus on grammatical variation across Spanish-speaking communities. Professor Pato maintains an active research program while teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Spanish linguistics and language. Professor Pato's research interests encompass Spanish dialectology, historical linguistics, language variation phenomena, Spanish grammar and syntax, Spanish as a Foreign Language (ELE), and language contact situations. His work examines linguistic structures across diverse Spanish-speaking regions including Montreal's Hispanic community, Central America, and the Caribbean. He has made significant contributions to understanding morphosyntactic variation in Hispanic linguistics through both theoretical frameworks and empirical corpus-based approaches. Analysis of his recent publications reveals consistent patterns in grammatical variation across Spanish dialects, with particular emphasis on Central American varieties. His research demonstrates systematic patterns in quantifier usage, possessive constructions, adverbial expressions, and morphosyntactic phenomena across different Spanish-speaking communities. This work contributes to broader linguistic understanding of how language evolves through contact, social factors, and historical development. Scientific Recognition: University of Montreal Teaching Excellence Award (2011) Professor Pato has supervised over 35 Master's and PhD students, guiding research on diverse topics including Spanish dialects in Montreal, Venezuela, Honduras, and various grammatical phenomena. His research is supported by multiple collaborative projects including COLEM (Corpus oral de la lengua española en Montreal), Dialectos del español (with HU-Berlin and Lausanne), and the Atlas Lingüístico de Puerto Rico. He has secured funding from multiple international sources to support his comparative dialectology work. He leads the COLEM project, which studies Spanish in Montreal through oral corpus collection, and collaborates on international projects examining Spanish dialects across the Hispanic world. His laboratory work focuses on corpus linguistics methodology, with particular attention to documenting endangered linguistic features and analyzing language contact phenomena in multilingual contexts like Montreal.

Carmen Sánchez Manzanaresمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• General Linguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Discourse Analysis
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Carmen Sánchez Manzanares is a Professor at the Department of Spanish Language and General Linguistics within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Universidad de Murcia. She holds a PhD in Spanish Linguistics from Universidad de Murcia (2006) with a thesis on Lingüística Creativa: La Renovación del Léxico del Español Actual por la Metonimia . Her research focuses on linguistic ideologies, metonymic and metaphoric processes in neology, critical discourse analysis in media, and the intersection of language with gender and health studies. Education: PhD in Spanish Linguistics (Universidad de Murcia, 2006) Her scholarly work spans semantic neologisms, terminological evolution in health and tourism, and the role of language columnists in shaping public linguistic ideologies. She has co-authored the NEOMA: Diccionario de Neologismos del Español Actual and contributed to studies on linguistic representation of gender violence in Spanish media. Research Trends: Recent articles analyze gendered terminology in reproductive health, evolutionary linguistic metaphors in columnar discourse, and ideological framing of social issues through lexical innovation.

• Translation Technologies
• Machine Translation
• Post-editing Evaluation
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Mihaela Vela is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Language Science and Technology at Saarland University. Her research focuses on machine translation evaluation, post-editing strategies, and translation technologies. Prior to her academic role, she worked as a researcher at the Language Technology Lab of DFKI (2007–2011), contributing to projects like ontology schema extraction from financial news. She holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics (2011) from Saarland University, supervised by Hans Uszkoreit and Thierry Declerck, and a Licentiate degree in Linguistics from West University of Timisoara. Her teaching portfolio includes courses such as Translation and Content Management , Applied Language Technologies , and Machine Translation , reflecting her expertise in integrating computational methods with translation practice. She has developed tools like TeLeMaCo (a collaborative teaching repository) and Catalog (a post-editing interface). Her work emphasizes improving translation workflows through better CAT tool design, metadata preservation, and cognitive load analysis in post-editing tasks. Key contributions include the SubCo corpus of learner translations and studies on post-editing effort in low-resource languages. Her research bridges theoretical linguistics with practical applications, addressing challenges in legal text classification, parliamentary discourse analysis, and neural post-editing systems.

Geoffrey Pullumمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Theoretical Linguistics
• English Grammar
• Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences
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Geoffrey Pullum is Professor Emeritus of General Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh's School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences. He previously held the position of Head of Linguistics and English Language at Edinburgh (2008–present) and was a Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz (1983–2007). His academic journey includes a B.A. (First Class Honours) in Language from the University of York (1968–1972) and a Ph.D. in General Linguistics from University College London (1974–1976). Research interests span theoretical linguistics, English grammar formalization, syntax, and the philosophy of cognitive sciences. He co-authored the seminal The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002) and wrote A Student's Introduction to English Grammar (2005). His work challenges prescriptive grammar myths and emphasizes empirical rigor in linguistic analysis. Awards include Fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003), Linguistic Society of America (2007), and British Academy (2009). He served as Associate Editor of Language (1983–1985) and held visiting positions at institutions like Stanford, Brown, and Harvard. Grants include NSF-funded research at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1990–1991) and leadership in the Jacob R. Javits Fellowship Program (1992–1993). Active in academic service, he chairs editorial boards for journals like Linguistic Analysis and the Oxford International Encyclopaedia of Linguistics .

Gaeta Livioمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Contrastive linguistics
• Linguistic minorities
• German and Germanic linguistics
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Livio Gaeta is a Full Professor of German Language and Linguistics at the University of Turin, Italy. His academic career includes roles such as Associate Professor (2012–2016) and Visiting Professor at Humboldt-University of Berlin (2009–2010). He specializes in contrastive linguistics, theoretical morphology, and the study of linguistic minorities, particularly Walser German dialects. Gaeta holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Rome Three (1998). Educational Background: PhD in Linguistics, University of Rome Three (1998); Guest Researcher at the Center for General Linguistics, Berlin (1998–1999). His research focuses on morphological theory, language contact in Alpine regions, and the documentation of minority languages. Notable projects include CLiMAlp (PRIN 2020–2024) and ArchiWals (PRIN 2017–2020), which digitize and preserve Walser linguistic heritage. Gaeta has authored monographs like Lineamenti di grammatica tedesca (2017) and edited volumes on German linguistics. His awards include the Alexander von Humboldt Research Grant (2009) and Fellowship (2010), and he served as President of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (2025). Key research themes include grammaticalization, derivational paradigms, and the interplay between syntax and morphology.

Hansen Maj-Britt Mosegaardمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Pragmatics
• Semantics
• French Linguistics
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Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen is a Professor of Linguistics and Pragmics at The University of Manchester (since 2007), previously holding roles as Associate Professor (University of Copenhagen, 2000-2007) and Assistant Professor (1996-1999). She specializes in pragmatics, semantics, and historical linguistics with a focus on French and Romance languages. Her research explores discourse particles, grammaticalization, and diachronic semantic shifts. She earned her dr.phil. (higher doctorate) from the University of Copenhagen (2008) with a dissertation on particles at the semantics/pragmatics interface. Notable roles include Associate Dean for Research at Manchester's Faculty of Humanities (2018-2021) and Head of Linguistics and English Language (2014-2017). Her work bridges theoretical linguistics and empirical analysis, addressing topics like negation cycles, interactional pragmatics, and medieval French syntax. She is a Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (2013). Her publications include influential books such as The Structure of Modern Standard French (2016) and over 50 peer-reviewed articles on historical pragmatics and discourse analysis.

Dag Trygve Truslew Haugمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Linguistics
• Syntactic Theory
• Formal Semantics
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Dag Trygve Truslew Haug is a Professor of Linguistics and Greek/Latin at the University of Oslo , specializing in syntactic theory, formal semantics, and Indo-European studies. His career spans roles such as Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford and Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at Oslo and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Nikolaus Himmelmannمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Typology and universals
• Grammaticalization
• Language documentation
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Nikolaus Himmelmann is a Full Professor (W3) in General Linguistics at the University of Cologne since 2010. Previously, he held professorial positions at Westfälische Wilhelms University Münster (2007-2010), Ruhr-University Bochum (1999-2007), and has been actively involved in linguistic research through funded projects like the DoBeS framework (2004-2005) and SFB 1252 projects (2017-2020). He is a founding member and past president of the German Society for Endangered Languages, and serves on multiple editorial boards including Language Documentation & Conservation and Studies in Language . 2018 Honorary Member, Linguistic Society of America 2017 Leo Spitzer-Preis, University of Cologne 2014 Best Paper in Language Award His research spans typology, grammaticalization, language documentation, and prosody-syntax interfaces. He has secured significant grants from DFG, VW Foundation, and BMBF for collaborative projects on language documentation, articulation speed variation, and prosodic prominence. His administrative roles include chairing linguistics institutes at Münster and Cologne universities.

Van C. Gesselمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Japanese Literature
• Christianity in Japan
• Modern Japanese Fiction
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Van C. Gessel is a Professor of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University, specializing in modern Japanese literature with a focus on religious themes and cross-cultural narratives. His work examines Christian influences in Japanese literature, particularly through the lens of authors like Endō Shūsaku and Akutagawa Ryūnosuke. He has critically engaged with Martin Scorsese’s film adaptation of Endō’s Silence , providing literary consultation and delivering lectures on its cultural significance. His research spans from the Taishō period to contemporary works, analyzing theological challenges, identity, and existential dilemmas in Japanese fiction. Notable contributions include Handbook of Japanese Christian Writers (2023) and Hearing God in Silence (1999), which explore the intersection of faith and narrative. He received the Imperial Decoration from the Japanese Consulate in recognition of his scholarly contributions. Gessel has presented at institutions such as Texas Christian University and participated in NHK documentaries, furthering interdisciplinary dialogue between literature, film, and religion. Key research areas: Japanese Christian literature, post-WWII existentialism, film adaptation studies. Major awards: Imperial Decoration by Japanese Consulate. Professional activities: Lecture series, film introductions, academic collaborations on intercultural religious narratives.