Ion Androutsopoulos

The following is a list of some indicative research projects I am or was involved in:

International projects

• "Studying toxicity classifers". Unrestricted research support project funded by Google (2022-23). Principal Investigator of AUEB.
• "ConvAI - Context-aware abusive language detection in online conversations". Unrestricted research support project funded by Google (2018-19). Principal Investigator of AUEB.
• "ML2P Filter - Machine learning to filter profanity". Google Digitial News Initiative (DNI) project (2016-18). Senior research advisor.
• "BioASQ - A challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering". European FP7 ICT project (2012-14). Principal Investigator of AUEB.
• "INDIGO - Interaction with personality and dialogue enabled robots". European FP6 IST project (2007-10). Principal Investigator of AUEB. Watch a video of an INDIGO robot in action.
• "M-PIRO - Multilingual generation of personalized exhibit descriptions in virtual museums". European FP5 IST project (2000-03, at NCSR "Demokritos"). See what the TRN magazine wrote about this project.

National projects

• "LLM Mediators - Exploring LLM-based Mediators in Online Discussions". Research project funded by the Research Unit "Archimedes" of the Research Center "Athena", Athens, Greece (2024-25). Co-Principal Investigator.
• "Deductive reasoning in natural language". Research project funded by the Research Unit "Archimedes" of the Research Center "Athena", Athens, Greece (2023-27). Principal Investigator.
• "Deep learning for multilingual cross-domain spoken dialog systems in call centers". Industrial PhDs program, funded by the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEB) and AUEB (2023-27). Principal Investigator.
• "Creation of AUEB's repository in the CLARIN:EL infrastructure". Subcontract of R.C. "Athena" in the project "National Infrastructure for the Digital Humanities and Arts and Language Research and Innovation" (2021). Principal Investigator of AUEB.
• "Design, development and validation of the natural language processing modules and training of the models and algorithms". Subcontract in the national Research-Create-Innovate (2nd cycle) project "IntelPact - Novel approach to the management and monitoring of contractual obligations" of the company Cognitiv+ (2020-22). Principal Investigator of AUEB.
• "Natural language interaction with Semantic Web ontologies". National Heracleitus-II project (2010-13). Project Coordinator.
• "Combined research in the areas of information retrieval, natural language processing, and user modeling aiming at the development of advanced search engines for document collections". National PENED project (2006-08).
• Xenios - User-robot interaction based on the perception of visual information, speech processing and natural language generation for use in robotic tour guide systems. National "Information Society" project (2006-07). Principal Investigator of AUEB. Watch a video showing how the project's natural language generation technology was also demonstrated in a virtual museum.

Other projects

• "BioQA - Biomedical Question Answering". AUEB Research Support Program (2014-15). Project Coordinator.
• "A linear programming approach to multi-document text summarization and natural language generation from ontologies". AUEB Basic Research Funding Program (2011-12). Project Coordinator.