Papers by Katerina Alexandri
IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2001
Στο πλαίσιο της έρeυνας αυτής eξeτάζονται τα eίδη των λαθών που eμφανίζονται στο Σώμα Κeιμένων Ισ... more Στο πλαίσιο της έρeυνας αυτής eξeτάζονται τα eίδη των λαθών που eμφανίζονται στο Σώμα Κeιμένων Ισπανόφωνων Μαθητών της νέας eλληνικής ως δeύτeρης/ξένης γλώσσας. Δίνeται έμφαση στα eπαναλαμβανόμeνα λάθη που οφeίλονται σe αρνητική παρeμβολή της ισπανικής γλώσσας στην eλληνική και κατανέμονται σe όλα τα γλωσσικά eπίπeδα. Το θeωρητικό πλαίσιο που υιοθeτeίται eίναι σύμφωνο μe τις αρχές ανάλυσης της διαγλώσσας για τη μeλέτη και την eρμηνeία των λαθών, eνώ όσον αφορά τη μeθοδολογία, ακολουθούνται οι πρακτικές της υπολογιστικής ανάλυσης λαθών. Τα λάθη υπόκeινται σe ταξινόμηση μe βάση συγκeκριμένα κριτήρια, μe τeλικό στόχο τη διδακτική αξιοποίησή τους.
Φιλόλογος, τ. 169, 2017
Αντικείμενο της παρούσας εργασίας είναι ο σχεδιασμός ενός πρωτότυπου και πλήρους λεξικού χρωματικ... more Αντικείμενο της παρούσας εργασίας είναι ο σχεδιασμός ενός πρωτότυπου και πλήρους λεξικού χρωματικών όρων για την ελληνική γλώσσα, που αποσκοπεί στη συστηματική ταξινόμηση, οργάνωση και περιγραφή του ως τώρα συγκεντρωμένου υλικού (2.000 περίπου χρωματικών όρων), που έγινε στο πλαίσιο της διδακτορικής μου διατριβής, και τον εμπλουτισμό του με επιπλέον όρους, γλωσσικές και εξωγλωσσικές πληροφορίες. Επιπλέον, προτείνονται τρόποι για τη διδακτική αξιοποίησή του στη Δευτεροβάθμια Εκπαίδευση.
Discourses on Colour, pp. 153-186. Piotrkow Trybunalsky, 2018
In recent years, both subjects of metaphors and colours have received much attention and been wid... more In recent years, both subjects of metaphors and colours have received much attention and been widely researched. Metaphors, as an indispensable part of human life involving language, thought and action, transport the images, feelings, values, thought patterns, etc. that are deep-rooted in our cultures. This study investigates the metaphorical and metonymic uses of eight basic colour terms (black, white, red, green, yellow, blue, grey, and pink) in five languages: Modern Greek, English,
French, Portuguese, and Spanish. We study fixed expressions, lexical collocations of the structure AN (adjective+noun) and idioms. We verify the occurrences of these expressions, collected mostly from dictionaries and informants, through large comparable monolingual corpora, in order to study their frequencies and describe their behaviour in context, within-language variation and connotations. Findings show that the languages mostly share a range of phenomena, but there are also cross-linguistic differences. Applications of this study include descriptive and contrastive grammar, language teaching, lexicography and translation, among others. The originality of our project stems from the variety of colours and languages involved, including Modern Greek as the source language.
This paper aims at the investigation of the syntactic and semantic criteria that help us predict ... more This paper aims at the investigation of the syntactic and semantic criteria that help us predict the grammatical category to which a color term belongs. The research has been conducted in the framework of my PhD thesis entitled: "Grammar of names denoting color in Modern Greek. Theory and application in lexicography and teaching Modern Greek as a second/foreign language". At first, Ι study simple sentences (subject-verb-complement) and make a grouping of color terms based on the structures in which they appear, for example: Αυτό το χρώμα είναι το Χ χρώμα vs. Αυτό το χρώμα είναι Χ χρώμα ("This color is the color X" vs. "This color is the X color"). These structures allow us to clearly isolate two subcategories in the broader category of color denominations, general names and modifiers. First I study the two subclasses, highlighting their properties, and then I examine in details the subclass of general color names through structures that lead to further classifications, of both nouns and adjectives.
This paper examines the phenomenon of morphological and semantic gradation of color adjectives in... more This paper examines the phenomenon of morphological and semantic gradation of color adjectives in Modern Greek (MG), in order to cover the gap in the research field of MG colors about whether colors accept gradation or not. We notice that while from an ontological perspective the color adjectives seem to be entities that indicate a range that allows the gradation, in their combination with expressions denoting gradation or intensification exactly the opposite is true, as only in very specific cases color adjectives accept expressions that indicate the degree.
This paper presents the design, compilation and editing of an online multilingual dictionary for ... more This paper presents the design, compilation and editing of an online multilingual dictionary for the encoding and classification of fixed, metaphorical and metonymic uses of eight basic color terms (black, white, red, green, yellow, blue, grey and pink) in Modern Greek, English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. A set of specifications concerning the macrostructure and microstructure of the dictionary is presented and emphasis is put on discussing the options regarding the encoding and presentation of the data (entry lemma, color, meaning, function, translations, etc.), and the friendliness of both the lexicographer's and the final user's interface environments.
Στο πλαίσιο της έρευνας αυτής εξετάζονται τα είδη των λαθών που εμφανίζονται στο Σώμα Κειμένων Ισ... more Στο πλαίσιο της έρευνας αυτής εξετάζονται τα είδη των λαθών που εμφανίζονται στο Σώμα Κειμένων Ισπανόφωνων Μαθητών της νέας ελληνικής ως δεύτερης/ξένης γλώσσας. Δίνεται έμφαση στα επαναλαμβανόμενα λάθη που οφείλονται σε αρνητική παρεμβολή της ισπανικής γλώσσας στην ελληνική και κατανέμονται σε όλα τα γλωσσικά επίπεδα. Το θεωρητικό πλαίσιο που υιοθετείται είναι σύμφωνο με τις αρχές ανάλυσης της διαγλώσσας για τη μελέτη και την ερμηνεία των λαθών, ενώ όσον αφορά τη μεθοδολογία, ακολουθούνται οι πρακτικές της υπολογιστικής ανάλυσης λαθών. Τα λάθη υπόκεινται σε ταξινόμηση με βάση συγκεκριμένα κριτήρια, με τελικό στόχο τη διδακτική αξιοποίησή τους. Λέξεις-κλειδιά: μαθητικά σώματα κειμένων, αρνητική παρεμβολή, υπολογιστική ανάλυση λαθών, διδασκαλία της ελληνικής ως δεύτερης/ξένης γλώσσας
Proceedings of the workshop on" …, 2001
Jean-Claude MARTIN LIMSI-CNRS, BP 133, 91403 Orsay cedex, FRANCE LINC, IUT de Montreuil, 140 rue ... more Jean-Claude MARTIN LIMSI-CNRS, BP 133, 91403 Orsay cedex, FRANCE LINC, IUT de Montreuil, 140 rue de la Nouvelle France, 93100 Montreuil, FRANCE +33.1.69.85.81.04 [email protected] ... Sarah GRIMARD LIMSI-CNRS, BP 133, 91403 Orsay cedex, FRANCE ...
With the success of multimedia and mobile devices, humancomputer interfaces combining several com... more With the success of multimedia and mobile devices, humancomputer interfaces combining several communication modalities such as speech and gesture may lead to more "natural" humancomputer interaction. Yet, developing multimodal interfaces requires an understanding (and thus the observation and analysis) of human multimodal behavior. In the field of annotation of multimodal corpus, there is no standardized coding scheme. In this paper, we describe a coding scheme we have developed. We give examples on how we applied it to a multimodal corpus by producing descriptions. We also provide details about the software we have developed for parsing such descriptions and for computing metrics measuring the cooperation between modalities. Although this paper is concerned with the input side (human towards machine) and thus deals with the annotation of human behavior observed in multimodal corpora, we also provide some ideas on how it might be of use for specifying cooperation between output modalities in multimodal agents.
The purpose of this paper is to study the metaphorical expressions which contain words that indic... more The purpose of this paper is to study the metaphorical expressions which contain words that indicate color (nouns and adjectives), e.g. Έγινε κόκκινος από τη ντροπή 'He blushed from embarrassment'. Although these expressions belong to the basic vocabulary of languages, only minimum important research has been done in this direction for the Modern Greek language. In particular, this paper examines the factors that have to be taken into account in order to understand the metaphorical interpretation of these expressions and suggest ways of teaching them within the framework of teaching Modern Greek as a Foreign Language. The research is focused on students of the School of Modern Greek (level B2, adults), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), whilst the methodology is mainly based on the cognitive approach.
This paper focuses on the study of color neologisms in Modern Greek. More specifically, it examin... more This paper focuses on the study of color neologisms in Modern Greek. More specifically, it examines the color neologisms occurred in fashion, an area that is constantly evolving and updated. Initially, an attempt has been made for a large index of color terms to be formed from fashion catalogues for e-shopping. Subsequently, we explore the processes underlying the emergence of the neologism in the above context (e-shopping catalogues), while mentioning new color loans. Finally, we discuss a number of issues that revolve color neologisms such as a possible classification, a semantic approach and new color metaphors.
Σα ηειεπηαία ρξφληα, πνιινί είλαη νη εξεπλεηέο πνπ κειεηνχλ ην πεδίν ηεο νξνινγίαο ησλ ρξσκάησλ ζ... more Σα ηειεπηαία ρξφληα, πνιινί είλαη νη εξεπλεηέο πνπ κειεηνχλ ην πεδίν ηεο νξνινγίαο ησλ ρξσκάησλ ζε πνιιέο γιψζζεο. Ωζηφζν, γηα ηε Νέα Διιεληθή ειάρηζηεο είλαη νη έξεπλεο πνπ έρνπλ γίλεη γηα ην πεδίν απηφ. Η παξνχζα αλαθνίλσζε έρεη σο αληηθείκελν ηε κνξθνινγηθή πεξηγξαθή ησλ ρξσκαηηθψλ φξσλ ηεο Νέαο Διιεληθήο. Πην ζπγθεθξηκέλα, αληηθείκελν ηεο έξεπλαο απνηεινχλ νη ρξσκαηηθνί φξνη πνπ ρξεζηκνπνηνχληαη ζηηο εηθαζηηθέο ηέρλεο, ηδηαίηεξα ζην ρψξν ηεο δσγξαθηθήο. Οη φξνη πεξηγξάθνληαη κε βάζε ηα κνξθνινγηθά ραξαθηεξηζηηθά ηνπο θαη γίλεηαη κία απφπεηξα θαηεγνξηνπνίεζεο, κε ζηφρν ηε δεκηνπξγία εηδηθνχ ιεμηθνχ.
The present article aims at the synchronic study of the lexical field of colors in the area of le... more The present article aims at the synchronic study of the lexical field of colors in the area of lexicography. In the beginning, after an introduction in the dictionary of colors and its characteristics, a description of the methodology that was used and the restrictions into consideration take place. Afterwards, the nouns and adjectives that declare color -not only general colors but also the nuances-are studied, and the different types of their definitions that exist in the dictionaries are presented. Finally, we discuss the conclusions and the emerged reflections while proposing ways of enriching the chromatic definitions.
Books by Katerina Alexandri
The aim of the present thesis was to create a grammar of the nominal color terms in Modern Greek.... more The aim of the present thesis was to create a grammar of the nominal color terms in Modern Greek. This grammar includes information on their construction processes (prefixation, suffixation, composition, conversion), on the elements that participate in them, on the restrictions imposed by their application as well as on the deviations and peculiarities in their morphology, syntax, and semantics.
Furthermore, we applied our theoretical findings in the context of lexicography: we proposed a model of a dictionary of color terms and constructed an electronic dictionary of compound names that appear in specific semantic fields. Finally, we presented our teaching intervention within the context of teaching Greek as a second/foreign language, together with statistical conclusions regarding the effectiveness of our teaching and the extent of the participants’ acquisition.
Σκοπός της διατριβής ήταν η δημιουργία μιας γραμματικής των ονομάτων που δηλώνουν χρώμα στη νέα ελληνική, που περιλαμβάνει πληροφορίες για τις διαδικασίες κατασκευής τους (προθηματοποίηση, επιθηματοποίηση, σύνθεση, μετατροπή), για τα στοιχεία που μετέχουν σε αυτές και για τους περιορισμούς που επιβάλλονται κατά την εφαρμογή τους καθώς και για τις τυχόν αποκλίσεις και ιδιαιτερότητες ως προς τη μορφή, τη σύνταξη και τη σημασία τους.
Τα θεωρητικά πορίσματά μας εφαρμόστηκαν τόσο στο πλαίσιο της λεξικογραφίας, με την παρουσίαση ενός πρότυπου λεξικού χρωματικών όρων και την κατασκευή γλωσσικών δεδομένων (ηλεκτρονικό λεξικό των πολυλεκτικών σύνθετων ονομάτων που δηλώνουν χρώμα συγκεκριμένων θεματικών πεδίων), όσο και στο πλαίσιο της διδασκαλίας της ελληνικής ως δεύτερης/ ξένης γλώσσας, κάνοντας μία πρόταση διδακτικής παρέμβασης συνοδευόμενης από χρήσιμα στατιστικά συμπεράσματα, που αφορούν την αποτελεσματικότητα της διδασκαλίας και το βαθμό κατάκτησης του γνωστικού αντικειμένου από τα υποκείμενα που συμμετείχαν στην έρευνα.
Notes et documents LIMSI; 200105 -Library of Rocquencourt (Call No. 134200105), http://opac.inria.fr/record=b1044398~S12, 2001
This study is about the annotation of multimedia corpora according to many of the already existin... more This study is about the annotation of multimedia corpora according to many of the already existing annotation schemes, in the perspective to find a flexible standard which could be adapted to different modalities (ISLE/IST European Project).
Conference Presentations by Katerina Alexandri
24th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Thessaloniki, 2020
In Spain and Latin America, there is a significant number of Greek language learners as in Greece... more In Spain and Latin America, there is a significant number of Greek language learners as in Greece, many Greek learners of Spanish. However, despite the two-way interest between these two languages, to our knowledge, there are few linguistic studies to examine the two languages together.
This paper explores the errors which appear in written productions by Spanish learners of Modern Greek. A dynamic monolingual learner corpus (SLGC) has been constructed for the aim of this research. The corpus consists of 314 all-levels written productions by Spanish candidates in the Greek language certification exams organized by the ‘Center for the Greek language’ in various exam centers in Spain and Latin America.
The theoretical framework adopted by the present research is congruent with the principles of the interlanguage analysis on the study and interpretation of errors.
As regards methodology, the corpus is being processed with the use of adequate tools, computational error analysis practices are followed, while tools are drawn from Corpus and Computational Linguistics. The computational processing and quality analysis of the learner corpus according to the theoretical framework adopted, extracts the errors, which are then categorized according to certain criteria to be didactically used.
More specifically, the steps followed during the coding process are a) the compilation and digitalization/transcription of texts, b) the categorization according to their level, exam center, and genre, c) the processing of the annotation scheme, d) the manual annotation of errors, and e) the statistical analysis.
For the annotation, we used the free software UAM Corpus Tool, which allows us to manually annotate multiple texts using the same annotation scheme, based on the error taxonomy we created to fulfill the needs of our research.
The SLGC project is useful to provide data on Spanish learners’ interlanguage and contribute to linguistic research and improvement in the curriculum design of teaching Greek as L2.
10o Διεθνές Συνέδριο Ελληνικής Γλωσσολογίας, 1-4 Σεπτεμβρίου 2011, Κομοτηνή, 2011
Η εργασία αυτή ερευνά το πώς μπορεί ένας δάσκαλος της Ελληνικής ως Ξένης, εκμεταλλευόμενος την ομ... more Η εργασία αυτή ερευνά το πώς μπορεί ένας δάσκαλος της Ελληνικής ως Ξένης, εκμεταλλευόμενος την ομαδοσυνεργατική μέθοδο μάθησης και ένα ιστολόγιο, να καλλιεργήσει στους σπουδαστές τις δεξιότητες της κατανόησης και της παραγωγής γραπτού (και προφορικού) λόγου. Η έρευνα λαμβάνει χώρα στο Σχολείο Νέας Ελληνικής Γλώσσας του Α.Π.Θ., σε επίπεδο σπουδαστών προχωρημένης ελληνομάθειας (Γ1), κατά το ακαδημαϊκό έτος 2010-2011.
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Papers by Katerina Alexandri
French, Portuguese, and Spanish. We study fixed expressions, lexical collocations of the structure AN (adjective+noun) and idioms. We verify the occurrences of these expressions, collected mostly from dictionaries and informants, through large comparable monolingual corpora, in order to study their frequencies and describe their behaviour in context, within-language variation and connotations. Findings show that the languages mostly share a range of phenomena, but there are also cross-linguistic differences. Applications of this study include descriptive and contrastive grammar, language teaching, lexicography and translation, among others. The originality of our project stems from the variety of colours and languages involved, including Modern Greek as the source language.
Books by Katerina Alexandri
Furthermore, we applied our theoretical findings in the context of lexicography: we proposed a model of a dictionary of color terms and constructed an electronic dictionary of compound names that appear in specific semantic fields. Finally, we presented our teaching intervention within the context of teaching Greek as a second/foreign language, together with statistical conclusions regarding the effectiveness of our teaching and the extent of the participants’ acquisition.
Σκοπός της διατριβής ήταν η δημιουργία μιας γραμματικής των ονομάτων που δηλώνουν χρώμα στη νέα ελληνική, που περιλαμβάνει πληροφορίες για τις διαδικασίες κατασκευής τους (προθηματοποίηση, επιθηματοποίηση, σύνθεση, μετατροπή), για τα στοιχεία που μετέχουν σε αυτές και για τους περιορισμούς που επιβάλλονται κατά την εφαρμογή τους καθώς και για τις τυχόν αποκλίσεις και ιδιαιτερότητες ως προς τη μορφή, τη σύνταξη και τη σημασία τους.
Τα θεωρητικά πορίσματά μας εφαρμόστηκαν τόσο στο πλαίσιο της λεξικογραφίας, με την παρουσίαση ενός πρότυπου λεξικού χρωματικών όρων και την κατασκευή γλωσσικών δεδομένων (ηλεκτρονικό λεξικό των πολυλεκτικών σύνθετων ονομάτων που δηλώνουν χρώμα συγκεκριμένων θεματικών πεδίων), όσο και στο πλαίσιο της διδασκαλίας της ελληνικής ως δεύτερης/ ξένης γλώσσας, κάνοντας μία πρόταση διδακτικής παρέμβασης συνοδευόμενης από χρήσιμα στατιστικά συμπεράσματα, που αφορούν την αποτελεσματικότητα της διδασκαλίας και το βαθμό κατάκτησης του γνωστικού αντικειμένου από τα υποκείμενα που συμμετείχαν στην έρευνα.
Conference Presentations by Katerina Alexandri
This paper explores the errors which appear in written productions by Spanish learners of Modern Greek. A dynamic monolingual learner corpus (SLGC) has been constructed for the aim of this research. The corpus consists of 314 all-levels written productions by Spanish candidates in the Greek language certification exams organized by the ‘Center for the Greek language’ in various exam centers in Spain and Latin America.
The theoretical framework adopted by the present research is congruent with the principles of the interlanguage analysis on the study and interpretation of errors.
As regards methodology, the corpus is being processed with the use of adequate tools, computational error analysis practices are followed, while tools are drawn from Corpus and Computational Linguistics. The computational processing and quality analysis of the learner corpus according to the theoretical framework adopted, extracts the errors, which are then categorized according to certain criteria to be didactically used.
More specifically, the steps followed during the coding process are a) the compilation and digitalization/transcription of texts, b) the categorization according to their level, exam center, and genre, c) the processing of the annotation scheme, d) the manual annotation of errors, and e) the statistical analysis.
For the annotation, we used the free software UAM Corpus Tool, which allows us to manually annotate multiple texts using the same annotation scheme, based on the error taxonomy we created to fulfill the needs of our research.
The SLGC project is useful to provide data on Spanish learners’ interlanguage and contribute to linguistic research and improvement in the curriculum design of teaching Greek as L2.
French, Portuguese, and Spanish. We study fixed expressions, lexical collocations of the structure AN (adjective+noun) and idioms. We verify the occurrences of these expressions, collected mostly from dictionaries and informants, through large comparable monolingual corpora, in order to study their frequencies and describe their behaviour in context, within-language variation and connotations. Findings show that the languages mostly share a range of phenomena, but there are also cross-linguistic differences. Applications of this study include descriptive and contrastive grammar, language teaching, lexicography and translation, among others. The originality of our project stems from the variety of colours and languages involved, including Modern Greek as the source language.
Furthermore, we applied our theoretical findings in the context of lexicography: we proposed a model of a dictionary of color terms and constructed an electronic dictionary of compound names that appear in specific semantic fields. Finally, we presented our teaching intervention within the context of teaching Greek as a second/foreign language, together with statistical conclusions regarding the effectiveness of our teaching and the extent of the participants’ acquisition.
Σκοπός της διατριβής ήταν η δημιουργία μιας γραμματικής των ονομάτων που δηλώνουν χρώμα στη νέα ελληνική, που περιλαμβάνει πληροφορίες για τις διαδικασίες κατασκευής τους (προθηματοποίηση, επιθηματοποίηση, σύνθεση, μετατροπή), για τα στοιχεία που μετέχουν σε αυτές και για τους περιορισμούς που επιβάλλονται κατά την εφαρμογή τους καθώς και για τις τυχόν αποκλίσεις και ιδιαιτερότητες ως προς τη μορφή, τη σύνταξη και τη σημασία τους.
Τα θεωρητικά πορίσματά μας εφαρμόστηκαν τόσο στο πλαίσιο της λεξικογραφίας, με την παρουσίαση ενός πρότυπου λεξικού χρωματικών όρων και την κατασκευή γλωσσικών δεδομένων (ηλεκτρονικό λεξικό των πολυλεκτικών σύνθετων ονομάτων που δηλώνουν χρώμα συγκεκριμένων θεματικών πεδίων), όσο και στο πλαίσιο της διδασκαλίας της ελληνικής ως δεύτερης/ ξένης γλώσσας, κάνοντας μία πρόταση διδακτικής παρέμβασης συνοδευόμενης από χρήσιμα στατιστικά συμπεράσματα, που αφορούν την αποτελεσματικότητα της διδασκαλίας και το βαθμό κατάκτησης του γνωστικού αντικειμένου από τα υποκείμενα που συμμετείχαν στην έρευνα.
This paper explores the errors which appear in written productions by Spanish learners of Modern Greek. A dynamic monolingual learner corpus (SLGC) has been constructed for the aim of this research. The corpus consists of 314 all-levels written productions by Spanish candidates in the Greek language certification exams organized by the ‘Center for the Greek language’ in various exam centers in Spain and Latin America.
The theoretical framework adopted by the present research is congruent with the principles of the interlanguage analysis on the study and interpretation of errors.
As regards methodology, the corpus is being processed with the use of adequate tools, computational error analysis practices are followed, while tools are drawn from Corpus and Computational Linguistics. The computational processing and quality analysis of the learner corpus according to the theoretical framework adopted, extracts the errors, which are then categorized according to certain criteria to be didactically used.
More specifically, the steps followed during the coding process are a) the compilation and digitalization/transcription of texts, b) the categorization according to their level, exam center, and genre, c) the processing of the annotation scheme, d) the manual annotation of errors, and e) the statistical analysis.
For the annotation, we used the free software UAM Corpus Tool, which allows us to manually annotate multiple texts using the same annotation scheme, based on the error taxonomy we created to fulfill the needs of our research.
The SLGC project is useful to provide data on Spanish learners’ interlanguage and contribute to linguistic research and improvement in the curriculum design of teaching Greek as L2.