Work
Work delivered for clients, and research projects I took part in. Book 20 minutes to talk about yours.
Client work
A few of the things I have delivered.
Xanthi Public Library: online catalog & automatic sync
Over 40,000 books flow automatically from the library's internal software into the public catalog.
Municipality of Xanthi, Culture Directorate · 2019Websites for the Culture Directorate
The Directorate's site, the digital gallery and the library catalog: three sites for the city's cultural life.
Shipbuilding company, KavalaStaff management system
Staff records, contracts and attendance in one system, from hiring through to the accountant.
Research work
Six years in research environments, in Greece and Germany. These were team projects with many contributors, so I state my own role in each one.
LectureChat: a question answering assistant for university lectures
Research assistant. Design and development of the retrieval system and its supporting services.
An assistant that answers student questions from the lecture material itself, with a citation to where the answer came from.
Athena Research Centre, with the Ephorate of Antiquities of West Attica · 2020 - 2021myEleusis: virtual museum and digital repository
Development of the digital repository and of the virtual museum application.
A digital tour of the archaeological museum of Eleusis, and a repository for the material of the site.
Athena Research Centre / ILSP, Culture and Creative Industries Department · 2019 - 2021AtticPOT: a digital repository of Attic pottery
Requirements analysis and design, development of the repository and of the tools supporting the research team.
A digital repository for the study of Attic pottery in ancient Thrace, holding thousands of documented records.
Publications
- 2026 Dimitsas, M.; Leidner, J. L.. LectureChat: Hybrid RAG over Wikipedia and Multilingual Lecture Videos. European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026), σελ. 172-178. Conference paper
- 2023 Dimitsas, M.; Leidner, J. L.. Topic Segmentation of Educational Video Lectures Using Audio and Text. ECAI 2023 Workshops, σελ. 447-458. Conference paper
- 2022 Tsiafaki, D.; Μανακίδου, Ε.; Michailidou, N.; Karta, M.; Stavroglou, K.; Koutsoudis, A.; Evangelidis, V.; Ioannakis, G. A.; Arnaoutoglou, F.; Dimitsas, M.. Πανεπιστημιακή ανασκαφή στο Καραμπουρνάκι: οι ψηφιακές τεχνολογίες στην υπηρεσία της αρχαιολογικής έρευνας. Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στη Μακεδονία και στη Θράκη, 34η Επιστημονική Συνάντηση (2021). Presentation
- 2021 Michailidou, N.; Tsiafaki, D.; Stavroglou, K.; Mourthos, I.; Karta, M.; Dimitsas, M.. AtticPOT: a borderless approach for studying Attic painted pottery in ancient Thrace. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA 2021). Conference paper