Eleni Miltsakaki

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EDUCATION<o:p></o:p>

2003          PhD in Computational Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.<o:p></o:p>

1991          MA in Applied Linguistics, University of Essex, U.K. <o:p></o:p>

1988          BA in English and American Language and Literature, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.<o:p></o:p>

POSITIONS HELD<o:p></o:p>

2014-               Founder & CEO, Choosito.<o:p></o:p>

2013-               Adjunct Assistant Professor of Educational Technology, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania.<o:p></o:p>

2008-2013       Research Associate, Department of Computer & Information Science, University of Pennsylvania.<o:p></o:p>

2006-2013       Lecturer, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. <o:p></o:p>

2005-2006       Lecturer, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. <o:p></o:p>

2003-2006      Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Research in Cognitive Science, University of<o:p></o:p>

                        Pennsylvania. <o:p></o:p>

1998-2000     Summer fellow, Educational Testing Service, Princeton. <o:p></o:p>

1991-1994       Chief Learning Officer, Ekpedeftiki Inc, Athens, Greece.<o:p></o:p>

RESEARCH<o:p></o:p>

1.   AI for Workforce Upskilling<o:p></o:p>

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a.    AI empowered content selection for workforce upskilling. <o:p></o:p>

b.    Automatic concept decomposition to match the background of the trainee. <o:p></o:p>

c.    Personalized selection of content, including identifying appropriate free web resources. <o:p></o:p>

d.    Text simplification and rephrasing when appropriate. <o:p></o:p>

2.   AI to Fight Illiteracy<o:p></o:p>

a.    Ground-breaking AI solution that enables every child in the world to visit an online Children’s Library with a Virtual Librarian that speaks their language, knows their strengths and weaknesses, their abilities and their interests, and is always there for them. <o:p></o:p>

b.    Functional access to the almost limitless amount of useful and free materials available via the web. <o:p></o:p>

c.    Addressing illiteracy problem at scale for all the children at zero cost.<o:p></o:p>

d.    IBM Watson AI XPIZE runner-up Milestone Award (December 2018).<o:p></o:p>

e.    $120,000 sponsorship by Capital One. <o:p></o:p>

f.     Technical and pedagogical testing in refugee camps in a) Philadelphia, PA, b) Manchester, NH, c) Athens, Greece, and d) Daraja Academy, Kenya (Summer 2019).<o:p></o:p>

3.   Real-time Reading Level Analysis of Web Resources <o:p></o:p>

a.   Web search infrastructure and indexer. <o:p></o:p>

b.   Web text extraction and analysis.<o:p></o:p>

c.   Reading level and theme classification.<o:p></o:p>

d.   Personalized evaluation of reading level for K-12 learners.<o:p></o:p>

4.    Automatic Pronoun Resolution <o:p></o:p>

a.    Antelogue is a pronoun resolution system that uses natural language techniques to process dialogues and identify co-referring relations between pronouns and their antecedents in the dialogue. <o:p></o:p>

b.    High precision with computational efficiency. <o:p></o:p>

c.    The current version of Antelogue is specifically designed to process dialogues from a popular TV series. It achieves 93% accuracy for first, second and third person pronouns. Plural pronouns are not handled.<o:p></o:p>

5.    Penn Discourse Treebank & Discourse Parsing<o:p></o:p>

a.   Development of corpus annotation framework for discourse relations for modeling and automatically identifying semantic relations between sentences. <o:p></o:p>

b.    Funded by the National Science Foundation Grant, EIA 02-24417, PI: Prof. Aravind Joshi. <o:p></o:p>

c.   Discourse parser using a Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (L-TAG). <o:p></o:p>

6.    Automatic rating of coherence in student essays<o:p></o:p>

a.   Detecting incoherence topic discontinuities in essays for ETS’s e-rater. <o:p></o:p>

PRESS & MEDIA<o:p></o:p>

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1.     2019: Presentation of Choosito’s Virtual Librarian at the AI for Good World Summit in Geneva, 5/30/2019. Video. <o:p></o:p>

2.     2019: Machine Learning for Learning, panel discussion, 1/31/2019. Video. <o:p></o:p>

3.     2018: Carnegie Learning to Deliver Choosito Through Its EMC Platform. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20181002005141/en/Carnegie-Learning-Deliver-Choosito%21-EMC-School-Passport, retrieved 2019/01/22<o:p></o:p>

4.     2018: Conversations from LearnLaunch 2018. Radio talk show.<o:p></o:p>

5.     https://digipub.simplecast.fm/719bd3a1, retrieved 2019/01/22<o:p></o:p>

6.     2016: “15 Women Who Are Changing the Face of Tech in the Region”, Philadelphia Business Journal.<o:p></o:p>

7.     2016: “Choosito: A New Way to Search the Web”, TV feature, 4/16/2016. Video.<o:p></o:p>

8.     2016: Choosito! Supporting Kid Search, Discovery, and Literacy.  School Library Journal. <o:p></o:p>

9.     2016: Will Librarians Be the Overseers of the Information Age?<o:p></o:p>

10.  2015: “She’s Changing the Way Our Kids Surf the Web”, Huffington Post, 8/22/2015<o:p></o:p>