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I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Cultural Informatics of the Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) of FORTH-ICS (Greece), working as principal investigator of the ReKnow project (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, ID: 890861). In parallel, I am a visiting lecturer at the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Hellenic Mediterranean University, teaching Algorithms and Data Structures, E-commerce, and Software Technology.
I obtained my Engineer's Diploma in 2009 from the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering of University of the Aegean, and my MSc and PhD in 2012 and 2016, respectively, from the Computer Science Department of University of Crete (Greece). My doctoral thesis focused on how Linked Data can be exploited in information retrieval for supporting effective exploratory search services (slides here). After my PhD studies, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher for 3 years at the L3S Research Center of Leibniz University of Hanover (Germany), before joining FORTH-ICS in June 2019.
My research interests fall in the areas of Information Retrieval, Semantic Web, Knowledge Representation, and Knowledge Engineering, with special focus on Cultural Informatics / Digital Humanities, Exploratory and Semantic Search, Semantic Data Management, and Linked Data. The results of my research have been published in more than 50 refereed research articles. I regularly participate to the programme committee of international conferences and workshops (including CIKM, ISWC and ESWC), and review papers for international journals (including the ACM Transactions on the Web, the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, and the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology).
You can find detailed information in my Curriculum Vitae (last update: March 2022) (ελληνική έκδοση - Μάρτιος 2022).
• October 2021: Our paper "Beyond Facts - a Survey and Conceptualisation of Claims in Online Discourse Analysis" has been accepted for publication at the Semantic Web Journal (IOS Press).
• June 2021: Our paper "Towards Semantic Interoperability in Historical Research: Documenting Research Data and Knowledge with Synthesis" has been accepted for publication at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021).
• June 2021: Our paper "Open Domain Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs using Keyword Search, Answer Type Prediction, SPARQL and Pre-trained Neural Models" has been accepted for publication at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021).
• April 2021: Our paper "FAST CAT: Collaborative Data Entry and Curation for Semantic Interoperability in Digital Humanities" has been accepted for publication at the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage.
• March 2021: Our paper "Exploiting stance hierarchies for cost-sensitive stance detection of Web documents" has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Springer).
• March 2021: Our demo paper "ClaimLinker: Linking Text to a Knowledge Graph of Fact-checked Claims" has been accepted for publication at The Web Conference 2021.
• Jan 2021: Our interdisciplinary article "Digitizing, Curating and Visualizing Archival Sources of Maritime History: the case of ship logbooks of the 19th and 20th centuries" was published at the Drassana open access journal.
• Aug 2020: Our paper "Keyword Search over RDF: Is a Single Perspective Enough?" has been accepted at the Big Data and Cognitive Computing open access journal.
• Aug 2020: Our paper "TweetsCOV19 - A Knowledge Base of Semantically Annotated Tweets about the COVID-19 Pandemic" was accepted at the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020).
• June 2020: I'm super excited to start working on the ReKnow project as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow (MSCA IF).
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The ReKnow project (Grant agreement ID: 890861) aims to provide models and tools for helping researchers in empirical and descriptive sciences (like History) in better documenting, analysing and investigating research processes and data. Emphasis is given in maintaining the provenance of data and on the usability of the developed tools. More information at: https://reknow.ics.forth.gr/.
Role: Principal investigator, fellowship holder
Project "SeaLiT – Seafaring Lives in Transition. Mediterranean Maritime Labour and Shipping during Globalization, 1850s-1920s", ERC Starting Grant (Νο. 714437). More information at: http://www.sealitproject.eu/
Role: Supervision and implementation of activities related to data management.
Project "RICONTRANS – Visual Culture, Piety and Propaganda: Transfer and Reception of Russian Religious Art in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean (16th to early 20th Century)", ERC Consolidator Grant (No. 818791). More information at: https://ricontrans-project.eu/
Role: Supervision and implementation of activities related to data management.
The Centre for the study and sustainable exploitation of Marine Biological Resources (CMBR) is an integrative large-scale Greek Research Infrastructure (RI) of the National Roadmap for RI’s, dedicated to the advancement of Blue Growth through the study and sustainable exploitation of marine biological resources in the Eastern Mediterranean. For more information visit: http://cmbr.hcmr.gr/.
Role: Research and implementation of methods and tools for data integration and exploration.
The ALEXANDRIA project (ERC Nr. 339233) aims to develop models, tools and techniques necessary to explore and analyze Web archives in a meaningful way. ALEXANDRIA will significantly advance semantic and time-based indexing for Web archives using human-compiled knowledge available on the Web, to efficiently index, retrieve and explore information about entities and events from the past. For more information visit: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/339233.
Role: Postdoctoral researcher; Research on methods for the semantic and entity-based exploration of Web Archives.
European initiative funded under the H2020 framework to further develop and exploit the iMarine e-Infrastructure data services for an ecosystem approach to fisheries. For more information visit: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/675680.
Role: I extended the system X-Search for enabling the stochastic re-ranking of search results based on extracted entities. Moreover, I participated in the study of methods for quantifying the connectivity and evolution of a semantic warehouse.
iMarine (Data e-Infrastructure Initiative for Fisheries Management and Conservation of Marine Living Resources) is a European Commission funded project that kicked-off on 1st Nov 2011. It is an open and collaborative initiative that will establish a data infrastructure to support the Ecosystem Approach to fisheries management and conservation of marine living resources. For more information visit: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/283644.
Role: I designed and developed the system X-Search for the semantic exploration of search results, as well as the system X-Link for the extraction of entities and their further enrichment by exploiting Linked Data. Moreover, I participated in the development of the top-level ontology "MarineTLO" which allows describing and integrating marine data.
Multilingual and Multifaceted Interactive Information Access (MUMIA), COST Action IC1002. The main objective of the Action is to coordinate and support the interaction and harmonization of high quality research at a European level in the field of multilingual and multifaceted interactive information access with a view to contribute to the development of next-generation search systems. For more information visit: https://www.cost.eu/actions/IC1002/.
Role: Member of the action, participation to working groups and management committee meetings, involved in WG4 (Semantic Search, Faceted Search and Visualization).
Centre for Cultural Informatics / Information Systems Laboratory (ISL),
Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH),
Heraklion, Greece.
Information Systems Laboratory (ISL),
Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH),
Heraklion, Greece.
Department of Management Science and Technology, Hellenic Mediterranean University (Crete, Greece).
Courses:
- Algorithms and Data Structures (MST304)
- Software Technology (MST602)
- e-Commerce and Internet Applications (MST604)
Department of Management Science and Technology, Hellenic Mediterranean University (Crete, Greece).
Courses:
- Algorithms and Data Structures (MST304)
- Software Technology (MST602)
- e-Commerce and Internet Applications (MST604)
Department of Management Science and Technology, Hellenic Mediterranean University (Crete, Greece).
Courses:
- Software Technology (MST602)
- e-Commerce and Internet Applications (MST604)
Department of Knowledge-Based Systems, Distributed Systems Institute, Leibniz University of Hanover (Hannover, Germany).
Academic year 2018-2019, Summer semester.
Computer Science Department, University of Crete (Heraklion, Greece).
Duties: lecturing, supervising, student counseling, preparing exercises and projects, marking.
Courses: Programming (CS-150), Object-Oriented Programming (CS-252), Information System Analysis and Design (CS-351), Web Programming (CS-359), Information Retrieval Systems (CS-463), Web Data Management (CS-561)
Computer Science Department, University of Crete, Greece
Thesis title: Exploiting Linked Data in Exploratory Search [pdf, slides]
Thesis Supervisor: Yannis Tzitzikas
Computer Science Department, University of Crete, Greece
Thesis title: Indexes and Algorithms for Scalable and Flexible Instant Overview Search [pdf, slides]
Thesis Supervisor: Yannis Tzitzikas
Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, School of Engineering, University of the Aegean, Greece
Thesis title: Meta-Seeker: a Retroactive Algorithm for Personalizing Information from Multiple Web Search Services [pdf]
Thesis Supervisor: Ioannis Anagnostopoulos
I was born in Chios, a beautiful island at the east of Greece, just five miles off the Asia Minor coast. In September 2003, I moved a few miles souther to Samos island where I lived five very beautiful years studying Information and Communication Systems Engineering. In November 2008 I joined the Greek Army Forces for one year to accomplish my military service. In February 2010 I started my graduate studies (MSc, PhD) in Crete island (Heraklion). In June 2016 I moved to Hannover (Lower Saxony, Germany) as a postdoctoral researcer, and in June 2019 I returned to Heraklion where I live until now.
In my free time, I like spending time with friends, watching and playing sports, traveling around, watching movies, reading books, and taking photos (you can find some here).
Email: fafalios@ics.forth.gr Gmail: fafalios.pavlos@gmail.com Skype: pavlos098 LinkedIn
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