Alexandros

Tantos

Assistant Professor

School of Philology

2310997134

Alexandros Tantos has been working on a number of projects spanning from Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing to Corpus Linguistics. Recently, he started applying machine learning algorithms on language data for improving our understanding as to how a second language is processed and acquired.

Short CV Presentation

Alexandros Tantos is an Associate Professor of Text and Computational Linguistics at the Department of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). He completed his postgraduate studies in Natural Language Processing at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in 2003. From 2004 to 2008, Alexandros contributed as a research associate to the SFB 471 project, Variation and Development in the Lexicon, while completing his PhD at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Upon returning to Greece in 2008, he taught Computational Linguistics at the Universities of Crete, Aegean, Thrace, and AUTH. In 2010, he was appointed as a Lecturer in Text Linguistics at AUTH. Since then, he has led multiple research initiatives, including the development of two significant linguistic resources for Greek: ESKEIMATH and C58. Between 2020 and 2023, he served as the scientific director for the project Latent Aspects in L2 Acquisition, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.). Currently, his research centers on computational semantics and pragmatics, the application of Large Language Models for first and second language learning and teaching, as well as corpus linguistics, with a strong focus on the development, maintenance, and utilization of linguistic resources.

Studies
2004 - 2008

Universität Konstanz

Fachbereich SprachWissenschaft

Doctorate of Philosophy

2002 - 2003

University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (U.K.)

Master of Science in Natural Language Processing

1996 - 2000

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Department of German Language and Literature

Ptychion (~Diploma/Bachelor)

Publications
2024

Fine-tuning large language models with Greek learner corpus data: Towards enhanced grammatical error correction.

Tantos, A., & Tsiotskas, K.

Conferences

2023

Greek Learner Corpus II (GLCII): Design and development of an online corpus for L2 Greek

Tantos, A., Amvrazis, N., & Drakonaki, E.

Journal Papers

2023

Exploring grammatical gender agreement in Russian learners of Greek: An eye-tracking study.

Tantos, A., Amvrazis, N., Angelou, K., & Kosmidis, K.

Journal Papers

2023

From discourse relations to network edges: A network theory approach to discourse analysis.

Tantos, A. & Kosmidis,K.

Journal Papers

2023

Anaphora resolution in L1 Greek: A corpus-based study.

Charatzidis,A.,Georgopoulos,Th.,Papadopoulou,D.,&Tantos,A.

Book Chapters

Courses
2014 - 2021

Introduction to Linguistics II (Undergraduate)

2014 - 2024

Introduction to Computational Linguistics (Undergraduate)

2014 - 2024

Text Linguistics (Undergraduate)

2017 - 2024

Computational Data Analysis of Language Resources and Corpora (Postgraduate)

Projects
Latent Aspects in L2 Acquisition (LAL2A)

Use of machine learning algorithms and experimental methods for understanding L2 acquisition

Skills
Προγραμματισμός σε Python, R και Julia
Statistical Analysis
Corpus Compilation and Text Pre/Post-processing
Research Interests
Coherence & Cohesion Discourse Relations Second Language Learning Deep Learning Machine Learning
Interests
Computational Linguistics Natural Language Processing Formal Semantics Discourse Semantics and Pragmatics Corpus Linguistics Data Science