Computational Linguistics Computational Criticism

Computational Linguistics & Computational Criticism

Dimitrios Papadakis Athens, Greece • M.A. Linguistics (University of Crete)

English C2 Greek L1 Python (NLP)

I am a linguistics graduate with research experience in Greek NLP resources and computational approaches to literature. My current direction focuses on how we can model and evaluate human creativity, as a cognitive capacity, through AI, especially in artistic language (poetry and narrative).

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I’m open to discussing research directions in digital humanities, computational modeling of literature, Greek NLP, computational psychology, and low-resource languages.

Research interests

I am particularly interested in projects that combine careful methodology (datasets + evaluation + reproducibility) with ambitious questions about meaning, creativity, and interpretation.

Core topics Modeling creativity as a cognitive capacity • controllable generation • evaluation protocols • computational criticism • narrative and poetic structure • interpretability for creative models.

Open directions Digital humanities • computational modeling of “states of literature” (novels/poetry) • Greek NLP • computational psychology • low-resource languages and dialects.

LLMs Expert evaluation Poetry & narrative Greek NLP Digital Humanities Low-resource

Publications

Selected publications and research outputs. I provide local PDFs and BibTeX entries for quick access.

Year	Reference
2025	Papadakis, Dimitrios. A Computational Criticism Analysis of Papadiamantis’ Work. PDF BibTeX @article{papadakis2025computational, title={A Computational Criticism Analysis of Papadiamantis’ Work}, author={Papadakis, Dimitrios}, year={2025} }
2022	Amanaki, E., Bernardy, J.-P., Chatzikyriakidis, S., Cooper, R., Dobnik, S., Karimi, A., Ek, A., Giannikouri, E. C., Katsouli, V., Kolokousis, I., Mamatzaki, E. C., Papadakis, D., Petrova, O., Psaltaki, E., Soupiona, C., Skoulataki, E., Stefanidou, C. Fine-grained Entailment: Resources for Greek NLI and Precise Entailment. Proceedings of the Workshop on Dataset Creation for Lower-Resourced Languages (LREC 2022). PDF ACL Anthology BibTeX @inproceedings{amanaki-etal-2022-fine, title = "Fine-grained Entailment: Resources for {G}reek {NLI} and Precise Entailment", author = "Amanaki, Eirini and Bernardy, Jean-Philippe and Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios and Cooper, Robin and Dobnik, Simon and Karimi, Aram and Ek, Adam and Giannikouri, Eirini Chrysovalantou and Katsouli, Vasiliki and Kolokousis, Ilias and Mamatzaki, Eirini Chrysovalantou and Papadakis, Dimitrios and Petrova, Olga and Psaltaki, Erofili and Soupiona, Charikleia and Skoulataki, Effrosyni and Stefanidou, Christina", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Dataset Creation for Lower-Resourced Languages", month = jun, year = "2022", address = "Marseille, France", publisher = "European Language Resources Association", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.dclrl-1.6/", pages = "44--52" }
2023	Chatzikyriakidis, S., Qwaider, C., Kolokousis, I., Koula, C., Papadakis, D., & Sakellariou, E. GRDD: A Dataset for Greek Dialectal NLP. arXiv:2308.00802. PDF arXiv BibTeX @article{chatzikyriakidis2023grdd, title={GRDD: A Dataset for Greek Dialectal NLP}, author={Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios and Qwaider, Chatrine and Kolokousis, Ilias and Koula, Christina and Papadakis, Dimitris and Sakellariou, Efthymia}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.00802}, year={2023} }
2024	Kogkalidis, K., Chatzikyriakidis, S., Giannikouri, E., Katsouli, V., Klironomou, C., Koula, C., Papadakis, D., Pasparaki, T., Psaltaki, E., Sakellariou, E., et al. OYXOY: A Modern NLP Test Suite for Modern Greek. Findings of ACL: EACL 2024, 311–322. PDF BibTeX @inproceedings{kogkalidis2024oyxoy, title={OYXOY: A Modern NLP Test Suite for Modern Greek}, author={Kogkalidis, Konstantinos and Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios and Giannikouri, Eirini and Katsouli, Vasiliki and Klironomou, Christina and Koula, Christina and Papadakis, Dimitris and Pasparaki, Thelka and Psaltaki, Erofili and Sakellariou, Efthymia and others}, booktitle={Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024}, pages={311--322}, year={2024} }
2025	Chatzikyriakidis, S., Papadakis, D., Papaioannou, S.-I., & Psaltaki, E. GRDD+: An Extended Greek Dialectal Dataset with Cross-Architecture Fine-tuning Evaluation. arXiv:2511.03772. PDF arXiv BibTeX @article{chatzikyriakidis2025grdd+, title={GRDD+: An Extended Greek Dialectal Dataset with Cross-Architecture Fine-tuning Evaluation}, author={Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios and Papadakis, Dimitris and Papaioannou, Sevasti-Ioanna and Psaltaki, Erofili}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.03772}, year={2025} }
2026	Chatzikyriakidis, S., Psaltaki, E., Papadakis, D., Henriksson, E. and Laippala, V. Perplexity as a Metric for Dialectal Distance: A Computational Study of Greek Varieties. Proceedings of VarDial 2026, EACL 2026. BibTeX @inproceedings{chatzikyriakidis2026perplexity, title={Perplexity as a Metric for Dialectal Distance: A Computational Study of Greek Varieties}, author={Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios and Psaltaki, Erofili and Papadakis, Dimitrios and Henriksson, E. and Laippala, Veronika}, booktitle={Proceedings of VarDial 2026}, year={2026}, note={EACL 2026} }

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Work experience (selected)

Selected professional roles across AI, education, operations, and administrative support.

Co-founder & Sales Manager — SimasiaAI Current • AI solutions with social impact and human-centered product development

Data Analyst & Back-Office Operator — ThinkVilla Bespoke Stays Apr 2024 – Sep 2024 • Rethymno, Greece

Erasmus+ Project Coordinator — European Education and Learning Institute Apr 2023 – Oct 2023 • Rethymno, Greece • Research programs and student mobility coordination

Administrative / Secretarial Support — Athens Water Supply and Sewerage Company (EYDAP) Jul 2025 – Aug 2025 • Customer Service Directorate • Athens, Greece

Library Cataloguer — Hellenic Parliament Library (School of Halki) Jun 2022 – Sep 2022 • Istanbul, Turkey

Paid part-time staff (M.A. Linguistics) — University of Crete Oct 2023 • Dept. of Philology, School of Philosophy, Rethymno, Greece • Awarded based on candidate evaluation criteria; support for the M.A. program in Linguistics

Research experience (all roles)

Research Assistant — University of Crete (ELKE) May 2023 – Jul 2023 • Project: Creation of datasets for Computational Processing of the Greek Language

Research Assistant — University of Crete (ELKE) May 2023 – Nov 2023 • Project: Field research for the collection of linguistic data from child speech and processing of the collected data

Research Assistant — University of Crete (ELKE) May 2024 – Jun 2024 • Project: Creation of datasets for Computational Processing of the Greek Language

Internships (all roles)

Internship Trainee — University of Crete Sep 2021 – Feb 2022 • Dept. of Philology — 1st High School of Atsipopoulo • Rethymno, Greece

Internship Trainee (Erasmus+) — School of Halki’s Library Mar 2022 – May 2022 • Istanbul, Turkey

Internship Trainee (Erasmus+) — LORIA (Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications) Feb 2025 – May 2025 • Nancy, France

Teaching experience

Teaching Assistant — University of Crete Sep 2022 – Feb 2023 • Undergraduate course GLOF142: Introduction to Computational Linguistics

Teaching Assistant — University of Crete Feb 2023 – Jun 2023 • Undergraduate course GLOF175: Levels of Grammar

Instructor — Creative Writing Seminar Oct 2024 – Jan 2025 • Cultural Center of EYDAP Employees, Athens, Greece

Instructor — Creative Writing Seminar Oct 2025 – Jan 2026 • Cultural Center of EYDAP Employees, Athens, Greece

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