1. Katerina Pastra (2005), "Vision-Language  Integration: a Double-Grounding Case" - PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, U.K. (available upon request)
    
2. Katerina Pastra (2000),"Basic semantic element extraction - The rule-writing experience" - MSc Dissertation, Department of Language Engineering, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), U.K.

 

1.     Katerina Pastra (forthcoming), “From Lexicon to PRAXICON: language-action-image semantic relations”, in Evdokimidis I. and K. Potagas (eds), Conversations on Language and Action, Aiginiteion Series, Synapseis (in Greek).

2.     Katerina Pastra (2008), “COSMOROE: A Cross-Media Relations Framework for Modelling Multimedia Dialectics”, Multimedia Systems, vol 14(5), pp. 299-323, Springer Verlag.

3.     Katerina Pastra and Stelios Piperidis (2006), “Video Search: New challenges in the Pervasive Digital Video Era”, Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting, vol. 3, number 11.

4.     Katerina Pastra, Horacio Saggion, Yorick Wilks (2003), "Intelligent Indexing of Crime-Scene Photographs", IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on "Advances In Natural Language Processing", vol. 18 (1), pp. 55-61.

5.     Katerina Pastra, Horacio Saggion, Yorick Wilks (2003), "Extracting relational facts for indexing and retrieval of crime-scene photographs", in Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 16 (5-6), pp.313-320, Elsevier Science.

1. Katerina Pastra and Eirini Mpalta (2009), "A Text-Based Search Interface for Multimedia Dialectics", in Proceedings of the System Demonstration Session of the 12^th Conference of the European  Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 53-56, Athens, Greece (ppt also available).
2. Katerina Pastra (2008), “PRAXICON: The Development of a Grounding Resource”, in Proceedings of the 4^th International  Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy (ppt also available)
3. Katerina Pastra (2006), "An alternative suggestion for vision-language integration in intelligent agents", in Proceedings of the 4th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN), Lecture notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 3955, pp. 588-591, Herakleion, Greece

4.     Katerina Pastra and Stelios Piperidis (2006), "Crossing media for video search: enabling usability beyond traditional broadcast and TV", in Proceedings of the 4th European Interactive TV confeence (EuroITV), Athens, Greece (ppt also available)
 

5. Katerina Pastra (2006), "Beyond multimedia integration: corpora and annotations for cross-media decision mechanisms", in Proceedings of the 5th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Genoa, Italy (ppt also available)
    
6. Katerina Pastra (2006), "Image-Language association: are we looking at the right features?" , in Proceedings of the OntoImage International Workshop on "Language resources for content-based image retrieval", Genoa, Italy (ppt also available)
    

7.     Katerina Pastra (2004), "Viewing Vision-Language Integration as a Double-Grounding Case", in Proceedings of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium on "Achieving Human-Level Intelligence through Integrated Systems and Research", pp. 62-67, Washington D.C., USA (ppt also available).

8.     Katerina Pastra and Yorick Wilks (2004), "Vision-Language Integration in AI: a reality check", in Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), pp. 937-941, Valencia, Spain (ppt also available).

9.     Katerina Pastra and Yorick Wilks (2004), "Image-language Multimodal Corpora: needs, lacunae and an AI synergy for annotation", in Proceedings of the 4th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), pp. 767-770, Lisbon, Portugal (ppt also available).
 

10. Katerina Pastra, Horacio Saggion (2003), "Colouring Summaries BLEU", in Proceedings of the Euoropean Association of Computational Linguistics workshop on "Evaluation initiatives in NLP: are evaluation methods, metrics and resources reusable?", EACL 2003, pp. 32-39, Hungary, Budapest (ppt also available).
     
11. Katerina Pastra, Horacio Saggion, Yorick Wilks (2003), "NLP for indexing and retrieval of captioned photographs", in Proceedings of EACL 2003, pp. 143--146, European Association of Computational Linguistics Conference (Research Notes), Budapest, Hungary.
     
12. Horacio Saggion, Katerina Pastra, Yorick Wilks (2003), "Using Natural Language Processing for Semantic Indexing of Scene-of-Crime Photographs", Proceedings of CICLing 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2588, pp. 526-536, Springer Verlag.
     
13. Katerina Pastra, Horacio Saggion and Yorick Wilks (2002),"Extracting relational facts for indexing and retrieval of crime-scene photographs", in Proceedings of the 22nd SGAI International Conference on Knowledge-Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence, "Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems X", BCS Conference Series, pp. 121-134, Springer Verlag. Selected as one of the best six papers of the application stream of the conference - (ppt also available).
     
14. Katerina Pastra, Diana Maynard, Oana Hamza, Hamish Cunningham and Yorick Wilks (2002), "How feasible is the reuse of grammars for Named Entity Recognition?", Proceedings of the 3rd LREC, pp. 1412--1418, Canary Islands, Spain (ppt also available).
     
15. Katerina Pastra and Horacio Saggion (2001), "The language at the scene of the crime - analysing crime scene reports", 5th Meeting of the International Association of Forensic Linguistics, Malta (ppt also available).
    
    

1. Katerina Pastra (2009), “Metonymy and Metaphor in Cross-Media Semantic Interplay: the COSMOROE framework and annotated corpus”, RaAM 2009 International Workshop on “Metaphor, Metonymy and Multimodality”, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Greece.

 

2. Katerina Pastra (2009), “COSMOROE Annotation Guide”, internal technical report, v.3.0, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, ATHENA Research Center, Greece.

 

3. Katerina Pastra, E. Balta (2009), “COSMOROE Search Engine – Help File”, internal technical report, v. 1.0,  Institute for Language and Speech Processing, ATHENA Research Center, Greece.

4.     Stelios Piperidis, Xaris Papageorgiou, Katerina Pastra & the REVEAL THIS consortium (2006), "Multimedia Content Processing and Retrieval in the REVEAL THIS setting", in Poster paper Proceedings of the first International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies, Athens, Greece (poster also available).                                  

5.     Katerina Pastra, Horacio Saggion and Yorick Wilks (2003), "SOCIS: Scene of Crime Information System - EPSRC IGR Review", Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield.
 

6. Katerina Pastra, Horacio Saggion and Yorick Wilks (2001), "SOCIS Technical Report: CS-01-19", Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield.
    
7. Katerina Pastra (2001), "The computational link between Images and Text", poster for the 2001 YUHA (Yorkshire Universities and Humperside Association) poster competition

Miscellaneous

***  Easy steps for recycling: I am interested in recycling practices and ways of introducing them in our everyday life. I have compiled some information on things that one could do in one’s working/home environment to actively engage into recycling; links in the document are localized for Greece (we have taken such steps in ILSP), but similar services are available in other countries too.