Penny Labropoulou is a linguist specialised in Language Technology. She works as a Principal Applications Researcher at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing/ “Athena” R.C., mainly in the areas of Language Resources and Technologies Infrastructures, and metadata models.

She has participated in more than 40 European and national R&D projects (indicatively: European Language Grid, CLARIN-EL, OpenMinTeD, T4ME, SIMPLE, LE/PAROLE). She acts as deputy project manager for European projects, such as the European Language Data Space and the European Language Grid. She has also worked as a lexicographer and taught computational lexicography courses.

She is co-chairing the Linguistic Data for Language Technologies W3C community group, while, in the past, she has served as vice-president of the CLARIN Legal and Ethical Issues Committee (CLIC) and a member of the Board of the European Association for Terminology (EAFT).

Her research interests (with several publications) include metadata modeling, ontologies and semantic web technologies, licensing and ethical issues for language resources, the design and implementation of computational lexica and user dictionaries, automatic term extraction methodologies and the design and construction of corpora.

She holds an MSc in Machine Translation (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) and a BA in English Language and Linguistics (University of Athens).