CURRICULUM VITAE(12/04/2008)

Personal Info:

Name: George Sigletos
Age: 33
City: Athens
Email: sigletos at di.uoa.gr , sigletos at textkernel.nl
URL: http://www.di.uoa.gr/~sigletos

Education:

2000-2005: PhD in Informatics - University of Athens, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications
(Thesis: Web mining for information extraction using voting and stacked generalization)
1994-1999: Diploma in Informatics - University of Patras, Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics
(Thesis: Structural and spatio-temporal information retrieval from XML documents)

Research Interests:

Machine Learning and Data Mining
Web Mining
Natural Language Processing
Information Extraction
Internet Technologies, E-commerce

Technical Skills:

Several programming languages (C, Java, Tcl/Tk, Perl, Python, etc), operating systems (windows, linux), database management systems (mysql, postgresql, DB2, etc), Web (html, xml, css, javascript, php, AJAX, etc)

Working Experience:

7/1997 - 7/1998: 1 year part-time experience in Computer Technology Institute (C.T.I.)
1/2000 - 2/2005: Research fellow at the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications in NCSR "Demokritos"
4/2007 - now : Working at Textkernel as a Web Mining engineer.

Research Projects involved:

CROSSMARC
MITOS
SCHEMATOPOIESIS

Commercial Projects involved

JOBFEED

Publications:

  1. G. Sigletos, et al., Combining Information Extraction systems Using Voting and Stacked Generalization, Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2005 (pdf).

  2. G. Sigletos, et al., Stacked Generalization for Information Extraction. 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Valencia, Spain, Aug. 2004, IOS Press (pdf).

  3. G. Sigletos, et al., Meta-learning beyond classification: A framework for information extraction from the Web . Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining, Cavtat-Dubrovnik (Croatia), September 2003 (pdf).

  4. G. Sigletos, et al., Mining web sites using wrapper induction, named entities and post-processing . 1st European Web Mining Forum, Cavtat-Dubrovnik (Croatia), September 2003 (pdf).

  5. A. Valarakos, G. Sigletos, et al., "A Methodology for Semantically Annotating a Corpus Using a Domain Ontology and Machine Learning", Proceedings of the the Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing International Conference (RANLP) , Borovets, Bulgaria, 2003.

  6. G. Sigletos, et al., Annotating Web pages for the needs of Web information extraction applications. Poster at Twelfth International WWW Conference, Budapest, Hungary, May, 2003 (pdf).

  7. G. Sigletos, et al., Role identification from free text using hidden Markov models. 2nd Conference of the Hellenic Association of Artificial Intelligence (SETN-02), April 11-12, Thessaloniki (pdf).

  8. D. Farmakiotou, V. Karkaletsis, I. Koutsias, G. Sigletos, et al., Ruled-based named entity recognition for greek financial texts, Én the Proceedings of the COMLEX 2000, Patra, 22-27 September 2000.