Katerina T. Frantzi is a Professor of Informatics – Corpus Linguistics at the Department of Mediterranean Studies of the University of the Aegean and the Director of the Laboratory of Informatics of the same Department. She is also the Director of the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Program “Analysis and Teaching of First and Second/Foreign Language” of the Department of Mediterranean Studies and the Department of Primary Education, School of Humanities, University of the Aegean. Additionally, she serves as the Academic and Scientific Director of the Program “Chess in Primary Education” of the Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning Center (CE-LLC) of the University of the Aegean. She was the Head of the Department of Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean for four years, from September 2018 to August 2022.
She holds a four-year Bachelor’s Degree from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and received a State Scholarship for Research at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National Center for Scientific Research, N.C.S.R. “Democritus”. She earned her doctoral degree (Ph.D.) with a Scholarship from the Computing and Mathematics Department of Manchester Metropolitan University in collaboration with the Centre for Computational Linguistics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, UK. She served as a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Information Science, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. For her doctoral thesis, she received the “Certificate for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Research and Development in the Field of Terminology” from the International Information Centre for Terminology, INFOTERM.
She has worked as a part-time Lecturer and Research Scientist at the Computing and Mathematics Department of Manchester Metropolitan University, as a Research Scientist at the Centre for Computational Linguistics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK, and as a Visiting Research Scientist at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Communication Science Department, Research and Development, Yokosuka, Japan.
Her research interests include Digital Language Resources, Corpus Construction/Processing/Applications in Linguistics, Language Teaching, Philology, Political and Legal Discourse, Communication Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences in general. She has taught contemporary, interdisciplinary undergraduate and postgraduate courses, supervised innovative Postgraduate Diplomas, Doctoral Theses and Postdoctoral Research, authored scientific articles, and participated as a Scientific Coordinator for the University of the Aegean in Interdisciplinary Research Projects, including CLARIN:EL “National Infrastructure for Language Resources & Technologies” (Scientific Responsible, https://www.clarin.gr/en). She is the creator of the C-value method for automatic term and collocation recognition, which has been widely applied internationally in various research and language contexts (2000+ citations in Google Scholar). She has been a member of MENSA INTERNATIONAL since 1988 (score: 152/160).
