Person
vasiliki.simakienglund.luse |
2023-01-16
Researcher
- English Studies
- Greek (Modern Greek)
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail vasiliki.simakienglund.luse
Room SOL:H331b
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
I am a researcher and senior lecturer in English Studies at the Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund University. I received my Ph.D. in Linguistics/Computational Linguistics from the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics at the University of Patras, Greece, in 2015. I hold a Bachelor in Greek Philology and Linguistics, from the Department of Philology, University of Patras, Greece and a Master of Research in Computational Linguistics from the Université de Strasbourg, France. My research interests include Corpus Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Sentiment & Stance Analysis, Social Media Text Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Analysis of Financial Texts. From January 2018 to August 2019 I worked as Innovation fellow in the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences (CASS) at the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK. Since 2018, I collaborate with the Modern Greek Section in SOL for research and teaching purposes.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
Editorships (1)
Articles (9)
- El-Haj, M., Rayson, P., Walker, M., Young, S. & Simaki, V. (accepted/in press). In Search of Meaning : Lessons, Resources and Next Steps for Computational Analysis of Financial Discourse. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Diagourtas, G., Kounetas, K. & Simaki, V. (2022). Consumer attitudes and sociodemographic profile in purchasing organic food products : Evidence of a Greek and Swedish survey. British Food Journal. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Simaki, V., Seitanidi, E. & Paradis, C. (2022). Evaluation of stance annotation of Twitter data. Research in Corpus Linguistics, 11, 53-53.
- Mporas, I., Simaki, V., Paradis, C., Kerren, A. & Paraskevas, M. (2020). Editorial. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 29. World Scientific Publishing.
- Simaki, V., Skeppstedt, M., Paradis, C., Kerren, A. & Sahlgren, M. (2020). Annotating speaker stance in discourse : The Brexit Blog Corpus. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 16, 215-248. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Simaki, V., Paradis, C. & Andreas, K. (2019). A two-step procedure to identify lexical elements of stance constructions in discourse from political blogs. Corpora, 14, 379-405. Edinburgh University Press.
- Simaki, V., Paradis, C. & Kerren, A. (2018). Evaluating stance-annotated sentences from the Brexit Blog Corpus: A quantitative linguistic analysis. ICAME Journal, 42, 133-165. De Gruyter Open.
- Simaki, V., Aravantinou, C., Mporas, I., Kondyli, M. & Megalooikonomou, V. (2017). Sociolinguistic Features for Author Gender Identification : From Qualitative Evidence to Quantitative Analysis. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 24, 65-84. Taylor & Francis.
- Simaki, V., Mporas, I. & Megalooikonomou, V. (2016). Evaluation and sociolinguistic analysis of text features for gender and age identification. American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 9, 868-876. Neuroscience Publications.
Conference contributions (25)
- Diagourtas, G., Kounetas, K. & Simaki, V. (accepted/in press). Consumer attitudes and socio-demographic factors in purchasing organic food products : Evidence from a Greek and Swedish survey.
- Haghighatkhah, P., El-Assady, M., Fekete, J. D., Mahyar, N., Paradis, C., Simaki, V. & Speckmann, B. (2022). Characterizing Uncertainty in the Visual Text Analysis Pipeline. Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 7th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities, VIS4DH 2022, 25-30. IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
- Kucher, K., Sultanum, N., Daza, A., Simaki, V., Skeppstedt, M., Plank, B., Fekete, J. D. & Mahyar, N. (2022). An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Evaluation and Experimental Design for Visual Text Analytics : Position Paper. Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 9th Workshop on Evaluation and Beyond - Methodological Approaches to Visualization, BELIV 2022, 28-37. IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
- Seitanidi, E., Simaki, V. & Paradis, C. (2021). ‘We Simply Organic! #WeLoveorganic #organicfood’ : Data compilation and contrastive analysis of consumer texts about organic food. In Busse, B., Dumrukcic, N. & Möhlig-Falke, R. (Eds.) Language and Linguistics in a Complex World : Data, Interdisciplinarity, Transfer, and the Next Generation The Next Generation (pp. 92-97). Kölner Universität Publications Server (KUPS).
- Seitanidi, E., Simaki, V. & Paradis, C. (2021). Stance-conveying hashtags in organic food tweets #betyourejealous.
- Rabbimov, I., Mporas, I., Simaki, V. & Kobilov, S. (2020). Investigating the Effect of Emoji in Opinion Classification of Uzbek Movie Review Comments. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Speech and Computer. SPECOM 2020, 12335, 435-445. Springer.
- Seitanidi, E., Simaki, V. & Paradis, C. (2020). ‘We Simply Organic! #WeLoveorganic #organicfood’ : Data compilation and contrastive analysis of consumer texts about organic food.
- Simaki, V. (2020). Getting into the influencer's head : Stance-taking in social media discourse.
- Simaki, V. & Paradis, C. (2019). Annotating stance in Twitter data : methodology, challenges and results.
- Simaki, V., Mporas, I. & Megalooikonomou, V. (2018). Age Identification of Twitter Users : Classification Methods and Sociolinguistic Analysis. In Gelbukh, A. (Ed.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing : 17th International Conference, CICLing 2016, Konya, Turkey, April 3–9, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (pp. 385-395), 9624. Springer.
- Simaki, V., Simakis, P., Paradis, C. & Kerren, A. (2018). Detection of Stance-Related Characteristics in Social Media Text. SETN '18 Proceedings of the 10th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
- Martins, R. M., Simaki, V., Kucher, K., Paradis, C. & Kerren, A. (2017). StanceXplore: Visualization for the Interactive Exploration of Stance in Social Media.
- Simaki, V., Paradis, C. & Kerren, A. (2017). Stance Classification in Texts from Blogs on the 2016 British Referendum. Lectures in Artificial Intelligence, Speech and computer : 19th International Conference, SPECOM 2017, Hatfield, UK, September 12-16, 2017, Proceedings, 10458, 700-709.
- Simaki, V., Simakis, P., Paradis, C. & Andreas, K. (2017). Identifying the Authors’ National Variety of English in Social Media Texts. In Angelova, G., Bontcheva, K., Metkov, R., Nikolova, I. & Temnikova, I. (Eds.) Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing : Proceedings (pp. 671-678). Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Skeppstedt, M., Simaki, V., Paradis, C. & Kerren, A. (2017). Detection of stance and sentiment modifiers in political blogs. In Karpov, A., Potapova, R. & Mporas, I. (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Speech and computer : 19th International Conference, SPECOM 2017, Hatfield, UK, September 12-16, 2017, Proceedings (pp. 302-311), 10458. Springer International Publishing.
- Aravantinou, C., Simaki, V., Mporas, I. & Megalooikonomou, V. (2015). Gender Classification of Web Authors Using Feature Selection and Language Models. In Ronzhin, A., Potapova, R. & Fakotakis, N. (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Speech and Computer : 17th International Conference, SPECOM 2015, Athens, Greece, September 20-24, 2015, Proceedings (pp. 226-233), 9319. Springer.
- Simaki, V., Aravantinou, C., Mporas, I. & Megalooikonomou, V. (2015). Automatic Estimation of Web Bloggers’ Age Using Regression Models. In Ronzhin, A., Potapova, R. & Fakotakis, N. (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Speech and Computer : 17th International Conference, SPECOM 2015, Athens, Greece, September 20-24, 2015, Proceedings (pp. 113-120), 9319. Springer.
- Simaki, V., Aravantinou, C., Mporas, I. & Megalooikonomou, V. (2015). Using Sociolinguistic Inspired Features for Gender Classification of Web Authors. In Král, P. & Matoušek, V. (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Text, Speech, and Dialogue : 18th International Conference, TSD 2015, Pilsen,Czech Republic, September 14-17, 2015, Proceedings (pp. 587-594), 9302. Springer.
- Simaki, V., Mporas, I., Kondyli, M. & Megalooikonomou, V. (2015). Acoustic Differences between Standard Greek and Cypriot Greek. Proceeding of the 17th International Conference on Speech and Computer, 71-78. University of Patras.
- Simaki, V., Mporas, I., Koumpouri, A. & Megalooikonomou, V. (2015). Gender Identification of Blog Authors : Do Men and Women Prefer Different Character Unigrams?. Booklet of papers from the 17th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2015). University of Patras.
- Spyropoulou, M., Ntourou, D., Simaki, V., Malagkoniari, D., Koumpouri, A. & Sorra, M. (2013). Evaluating the Correspondence of Educational Software to Learning Theories. Proceedings of the 17th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, 250-257. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
- Koumpouri, A. & Simaki, V. (2012). Queries without clicks : Evaluating Retrieval Effectiveness Based on User Feedback. Proceedings of the 35th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval : Association for Computing Machinery, 1133-1134. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
- Simaki, V., Stamou, S. & Kirtsis, N. (2012). Empirical Text Mining for Genre Detection. In Krempels, K.-H. & Cordeiro, J. (Eds.) WEBIST, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (pp. 733-737), 1. SciTePress.
- Simaki, V., Xarcha, N., Sourmelis, G. & Christodoulakis, D. (2012). The Influence of the Governmental Economic Policy to the Business Activity : the Textual Information as a Motivation Tool. Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on e-Government, ECEG 2012, 665-670. Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited.
- Stylios, G., Katsis, C., Simaki, V., Stamou, S. & Christodoulakis, D. (2011). Towards Estimating Users’ Opinion Strength in Forum Texts Regarding Governmental Decisions. Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on e-Government, ECEG 2011, 547-552. Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited.
Working papers (2)
- Haghighatkhah, P., El-Assady, M., Fekete, J.-D., Mahyar, N., Paradis, C., Simaki, V. & Speckmann, B. (2022). Characterizing Uncertainty in the Visual Text Analysis Pipeline. arXiv.org.
- Kucher, K., Sultanum, N., Daza, A., Simaki, V., Skeppstedt, M., Plank, B., Fekete, J.-D. & Mahyar, N. (2022). An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Evaluation and Experimental Design for Visual Text Analytics : Position Paper. arXiv.org.
Teaching
- ENGA22, English: Level 2
- ENGB31, English: Linguistic Analysis
- ENGE26, English: Linguistic Analysis
- ENGE36, English Linguistics: Theory and Method
- ENGG20, English Linguistics
- ENGH14, English: Level 2 (46-60)
- ENGH15, English: Level 3 - B. A. Course (61-75)
- ENGK03, English: Level 3 - B. A. Course
- ENGK06, English: Level 3 - B. A. Course (76-90) Degree Project
- ENGM22, The History of English
- EUHA25, European Studies: Regions of Europe -The Mediterranean Countries in Focus
- NYGM16, Corpus Linguistics in Modern Greek
Researcher
- English Studies
- Greek (Modern Greek)
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail vasiliki.simakienglund.luse
Room SOL:H331b
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20