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Alexandros Tantos

Assistant Professor of Text and Computational Linguistics

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.

Interests

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Formal Semantics
  • Discourse Semantics and Pragmatics
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Data Science

Education

  • PhD in Computational Semantics, 2008

    University of Constance, Germany

  • MSc in Natural Language Processing, 2003

    University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, U.K.

  • BA in German Language and Philology, 2000

    Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece