RESEARCH INTERESTS

His research interests are centered around computational linguistics and dialectology, particularly emphasizing the computational analysis and quantification of linguistic (dis)similarities among Greek dialects that have developed in contact with typologically diverse languages, including Italo-Romance and Turkish.

SHORT BIO

Stavros Bompolas obtained his PhD from the Philology Department (Linguistics Section) at the University of Patras in 2023, specializing in Computational Dialectology. He received the “Andreas Mentzelopoulos Scholarships for Postgraduate Studies at the University of Patras” (2020-2022) for his doctoral research. He holds a BA Honours (Rank: 5th out of 298) and a Master’s degree (Rank: 1st out of 28) from the same Department. Since 2014, he has been a research member at the Laboratory of Modern Greek Dialects (University of Patras), contributing to four research projects. His research has been disseminated through presentations at conferences and publications in proceedings, scientific volumes, and journals. Notably, a part of his postgraduate dissertation, titled “Lexical Self-Organization in the Acquisition and Processing of Modern Greek Conjugation: An Artificial Neural Network Approach”, was awarded the “Distinguished Young Paper Award” at the “3rd Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics” (CLiC-it 2016).