Welcome!!! :-)
Welcome to my site. My name is George "Erevodifwntas" Karakatsiotis (-Karnesis). I have a B.Sc. degree from the AUEB department of Informatics in Computer Science (2001-2005, grade: 7.47/10 - top 10.07%). I also am an alumni of the M.Sc. in Computer Science from the aforementioned University (2005-2007, grade: 8,25/10). I am software engineer at Atypon. Previously, I was employed as a Research Associate at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing and member of CSRI. I am also a member of the Natural Language Processing group of AUEB. Here you can find my complete CV.
I
really like programming (and generally designing
algorithms) and especially when it has to include
graphics (2d/3d). Most of my programs are in Java,
but I prefer to code in C#. I had also used Visual
Basic a few years ago, (mainly .NET), but I don't
enjoy it anymore (o tempora o mores...). At first,
I thought that VB was a programming language that
everybody should imitate... Thankfully, there are
a lot more who believe the same thing and they created
C# ;-). Despite my love for C# my favorite programming
language is C++, but I use it only for very difficult
and demanding projects.
From time to time
I have worked on different things, such as, computer
graphics, programming for smart phones (Symbian
OS C++, J2ME and .NET, WP7), distributed systems,
databases (SQL Server) and dynamic sites (ASP.NET),
but what I really like to work on is Artificial
Intelligence. My
B.Sc. Thesis was to develop a system that it
would be able to handle person definition questions
("Who is Papoulias? He is the President of
Greek Democracy"). As corpus we used the results
of a search engine of a Greek newspaper. I hope
that very soon this search engine will be part of
this site (there is already a M.Sc. thesis that
will use my work to create an extended search engine
that will be able to answer different types of questions).
For now, there is only a beta version of my
system
(unfortunately very often the server is off-line).
As you can imagine my M.Sc. Thesis was also about A.I. I had to extend a Natural Language Generation Engine (NaturalOWL -it generates description of entities from an OWL file), so that it could be able to generate comparisons among the entities ("Whereas all the previous ...", "Like the amphora on your right..."). This engine is the core of Touring Machine, the platform that won the 1st place at the world finals of Imagine Cup 2011.
Some of my projects can be found in this site ( and I hope that I will upload more in the near future).
As for my other interests they include cinema (I am fan of the Star Trek universe and of course of Star Wars), computer games (that is why I become a programmer in the first place), paintings (mostly looking at), music (Katsimiha, Delivorias rul3 -Greek musicians) and playing PnP RPG and CCG with my friends.
Publications & Awards
- 1st place in the World finals of the Imagine Cup 2011 in the category "interoperability", for developing Touring Machine, a platform that generates personalized tours that can be used for educational purposes. It is available in four versions: web edition, mobile edition (WP7 and feature phones), a version for Second Life and an augmented reality version.
- 1st place in the Greek finals of the Imagine Cup 2010, for developing Touring Machine, a platform that generates personalized tours that can be used for educational purposes. It is available in two versions: web edition and Windows Phone edition.
- G. Karakatsiotis, D. Galanis, G. Lampouras and I. Androutsopoulos, "NaturalOWL: Generating Texts from OWL Ontologies in Protege and in Second Life". System demonstration, 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence , Patras, Greece, 2008. The NaturalOWL system is freely available.
- J. Oberlander, G. Karakatsiotis, A. Isard and I. Androutsopoulos, "Building an Adaptive Museum Gallery in Second Life" (pre-print). Proceedings of Museums and the Web , Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2008. You can also see the video that accompanies this article.
Site's Contents and Contact
The applications on this site are free to use (unless otherwise noted, are licensed under a Creative Commons license). I really look forward hearing for your comments at george[at]gkarak.eu
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