Publications and Documentation

COSMOROE - theory

Pastra K. (2010), "From Lexicon to PRAXICON: language-action-image semantic relations", in K. Potagas and I. Evdokimidis (eds), Conversations on Language and Action, Aiginiteion Series, pp. 143-172, Synapseis Publishers, ISBN:9789606723117 (in Greek).

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

COSMOROE - search engine

Pastra K., Balta E. (2009),  "A Text-based Search Interface for Multimedia Dialectics" in Proceedings of the System Demonstration Session of the 12th Conference of the European Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 53-56, Athens, Greece (ppt also available).

Pastra K. and E. Balta (2009), "COSMOROE Search Engine - Manual" internal technical documentation, v1.0, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, ATHENA Research Center.

COSMOROE - semantic annotation

Pastra K. (2009), "Metonymy and Metaphor in Cross-Media Semantic Interplay: the COSMOROE framework and annotated corpus", poster presentation in RaAM 2009 International Workshop on "Metaphor, Metonymy and Multimodality", University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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

COSMOROE - applications

Pastra K., Balta E., Dimitrakis P., Mpandavanou E. and Lada M. (2010), "Image-Language Dialectics in Greek Caricatures", Monograph,I. Latsis Foundation, Research Studies 2009.

Invited Talks

Pastra K. (18 June 2009), "Lithic tools and language references: exploring language-action associations for a...PRAXICON", University of Parma, FP6-NEST Hand2Mouth Project Meeting, Parma, Italy.

Pastra K. (7 May 2009), "From Lexicon to...PRAXICON: language-image-action associations", Institute of Archaeology, University College of London, London, U.K.

Pastra K. (19 December 2008), "PRAXICON: correlation of natural language, human body movements and images for artificial agents", Computer Vision Speech Communication and Signal Processing Group, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Pastra K. (13 December 2008), "From Lexicons to PRAXICONs: language-motion and images for artificial agents", Language and Motion talk series, Neuropsychology Unit, Aiginiteion Hospital, Athens, Greece (in Greek).

Katerina Pastra (02 April 2008), “The poetics of everyday life: grounding resources and mechanisms for artificial agents”, EU project presentations session, International Conference on Cognitive Systems, Karlsrόhe, Germany.

Katerina Pastra (15 February 2008), “The POETICON project”, Athena Research Centre, Athens, Greece.