Nikolaos Malandrakis

Education

• 2007: Graduate of the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering of Technical University of Crete, Chania
  Thesis: Error prediction for speech recognition using acoustic and linguistic cues
• 2008-2012: MSc. of the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering of Technical University of Crete, Chania
  Thesis: Affect extraction using aural,visual and linguistic features from multimedia documents
• 2012-present: PhD. of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Research Interests

• Emotion Detection
• Automatic Speech Recognition
• Multi-Modal Systems
• Natural Language Processing
• Spoken Dialogue Systems

Publications

2011

1. Nikos Malandrakis, Alexandros Potamianos, Giorgos Evangelopoulos, Athanasia Zlatintsi, A supervised approach to movie emotion tracking , in proceedings of ICASSP 2011
2. Nikos Malandrakis, Alexandros Potamianos, Elias Iosif, Shrikanth Narayanan, Kernel models for affective lexicon creation , in proceedings of Interspeech 2011
3. Nikos Malandrakis, Alexandros Potamianos, Elias Iosif, Shrikanth Narayanan, EmotiWord: Affective Lexicon Creation with Application to Interaction and Multimedia Data , in proceedings of MUSCLE Workshop 2011

2012

4. Nikos Malandrakis, Elias Iosif, Alexandros Potamianos, DeepPurple: Estimating Sentence Semantic Similarity using N-gram Regression Models and Web Snippets , in proceedings of SemEval 2012

2013

5. Nikolaos Malandrakis, Alexandros Potamianos, Shrikanth Narayanan, Continuous Models of Affect from Text using N-grams , in proceedings of ICASSP 2013
6. Nikolaos Malandrakis, Elias Iosif, Vassiliki Prokopi, Alexandros Potamianos, Shrikanth Narayanan, DeepPurple: Lexical, String and Affective Feature Fusion for Sentence-Level Semantic Similarity Estimation , in proceedings of *SEM 2013
7. Nikolaos Malandrakis, Abe Kazemzadeh, Alexandros Potamianos, Shrikanth Narayanan, SAIL: A hybrid approach to sentiment analysis , in proceedings of SemEval 2013
8. Nikolaos Malandrakis, Shiva Sundaram, Alexandros Potamianos, Affective Classification of Generic Audio Clips using Regression Models , in proceedings of Interspeech 2013
9. Nikolaos Malandrakis, Alexandros Potamianos, Elias Iosif, Shrikanth Naraynan, Distributional Semantic Models for Affective Text Analysis , in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing

2014

10. Nikolaos Malandrakis, Alexandros Potamianos, Kean J. Hsu, Kalina N. Babeva, Michelle C. Feng, Gerald C. Davison, Shrikanth Narayanan, Affective Language Model Adaptation via Corpus Selection , in proceedings of ICASSP 2014
11. Nikolaos Malandrakis, Michael Falcone, Colin Vaz, Jesse James Bisogni, Alexandros Potamianos, Shrikanth Narayanan, SAIL: Sentiment Analysis using Semantic Similarity and Contrast Features , in proceedings of SemEval 2014
12. Kalliopi Zervanou, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Shrikanth Narayanan, SAIL-GRS: Grammar Induction for Spoken Dialogue Systems using CF-IRF Rule Similarity , in proceedings of SemEval 2014
13. Rahul Gupta, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Bo Xiao, Tanaya Guha, Maarten Van Segbroeck, Matthew Black, Alexandos Potamianos, Shrikanth Narayanan, Multimodal prediction of affective dimensions and depression in human-computer interactions , in proceedings of AVEC 2014

2015

14. Jonathan Gratch, Gale Lucas, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Evan Szablowski, Eli Fessler, Jeffrey Nichols, To tweet or not to tweet: The question of emotion and excitement about sporting events , Proceedings of ISRE 2015
15. Nikolaos Malandrakis, Shrikanth Narayanan, Therapy Language Analysis using Automatically Generated Psycholinguistic Norms , in proceedings of Interspeech 2015
16. James Gibson, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Francisco Romero, David C. Atkins, Shrikanth Narayanan, Predicting Therapist Empathy in Motivational Interviews using Language Features Inspired by Psycholinguistic Norms , in proceedings of Interspeech 2015
17. Jonathan Gratch, Gale Lucas, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Evan Szablowski, Eli Fessler, Jeffrey Nichols, GOAALLL!: Using Sentiment in the World Cup to Explore Theories of Emotion , in proceedings of WASA 2015
18. Anil Ramakrishna, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Elizabeth Staruk, Shrikanth Narayanan, A quantitative analysis of gender differences In movies using psycholinguistic normatives , in proceedings of EMNLP 2015

2016

19. Manoj Kumar, Rahul Gupta, Daniel Bone, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Somer Bishop, Shrikanth Narayanan, Objective Language Feature Analysis in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders During Autism Assessment , in proceedings of Interspeech 2016
20. Elisavet Palogiannidi, Athanasia Kolovou, Fenia Christopoulou, Filippos Kokkinos, Iosif Elias, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Harris Papageorgiou, Tweester: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter using Semantic-Affective Model Adaptation , in proceedings of SemEval 2016
21. Jonathan Gratch, Gale Lucas, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Evan Szablowski, Eli Fessler, Jeffrey Nichols, GOAALLL!: Using Sentiment in the World Cup to Explore Theories of Emotion , in Image and Vision Computing

2017

22. Nikolaos Malandrakis, Ondrej Glembek, Shrikanth Narayanan, Extracting Situation Frames from non-English Speech: Evaluation Framework and Pilot Results , in proceedings of Interspeech 2017
23. Pavlos Papadopoulos, Ruchir Travadi, Colin Vaz, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Ulf Hermjakob, Nima Pourdamghani, Michael Pust, Boliang Zhang, Xiaoman Pan, Di Lu, Ying Lin, Ondrej Glembek, Murali Karthick B, Martin Karafiat, Lukas Burget, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Heng Ji, Jonathan May, Kevin Knight, Shrikanth Narayanan, Team ELISA System for DARPA LORELEI Speech Evaluation 2016 , in proceedings of Interspeech 2017
24. Anil Ramakrishna, Victor Martinez, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Karan Singla, Shrikanth Narayanan, Linguistic analysis of differences in portrayal of movie characters , in proceedings of ACL 2017
25. Nikolaos Malandrakis, Anil Ramakrishna, Victor Martinez, Tanner Sorensen, Dogan Can, Shrikanth Narayanan, The ELISA Situation Frame extraction for low resource languages pipeline for LoReHLT’2016 , in Machine Translation
26. Athanasia Kolovou, Filippos Kokkinos, Aris Fergadis, Pinelopi Papalampidi, Elias Iosif, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Elisavet Palogiannidi, Haris Papageorgiou, Shrikanth Narayanan, Alexandros Potamianos, Tweester at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Fusion of Semantic-Affective and pairwise classification models for sentiment analysis in Twitter, , in proceedings of SemEval 2017
27. Athanasia Zlatintsi, Petros Koutras, Georgios Evangelopoulos, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Niki Efthymiou, Katerina Pastra, Alexandros Potamianos, Petros Maragos, COGNIMUSE: a multimodal video database annotated with saliency, events, semantics and emotion with application to summarization, , in EURASIP journal on Image and Video Processing