Panagiotis Gakis studied Philology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He holds a postgraduate specialization in the pedagogical utilization of computational and network technologies in Secondary Education from the same university. He earned a PhD in Computational Linguistics from the University of Patras, with a dissertation titled: "Design, Development, and Evaluation of the Greek Grammar Checker."

He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Philology at the University of the Peloponnese, with a research project titled: "Development of Infrastructure for a Conversational Robot (Chatbot) Aimed at Teaching Language Courses through Gamification."

He has co-authored, along with Prof. Christos Panagiotakopoulos, Dr. Christos Tsalidis, and Dr. Theodoros Kokkinos, the academic textbook "Computational Linguistics: From Programming to Teaching Practice."

He has participated in projects focusing on natural language processing, text information retrieval, and the development of electronic dictionaries. He is specialized in Greek Language textbooks used in Junior High School and Senior High School.

Natural Language Processing, Electronic Lexicography, Chatbot Development

Gakis, P., Panagiotakopoulos, Ch., Sgarbas, K. & Tsalidis, Ch. (2012). Design and implementation of an electronic lexicon for Modern Greek. Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol. 27 (No.2), 155-169.

Gakis, P., Panagiotakopoulos, Ch., Sgarbas, K., Tsalidis, Ch., Verykios, V. (2015). Construction of a modern Greek grammar checker through Mnemosyne formalism. In A. Ronzhin, R. Potapova, N. Fakotakis (Ed.), Speech and Computer. 17th International Conference, SPECOM 2015, Athens, Greece, September 20-24, 2015, Proceedings (pp. 170-177).

Gakis, P., Panagiotakopoulos, Ch., Sgarbas, K., Τsalidis, Ch., Verykios, V. (2016). Design and construction of the Greek grammar checker. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Vol.32, 1-22.

Gakis, P., Panagiotakopoulos, Ch., Sgarbas, K., Tsalidis, Ch., Verykios, V. (2017). Σχεδιασμός και υλοποίηση του ελληνικού γραμματικού διορθωτή. In M. Chondrogianni, S. Courtenage, G. Horrocks, A. Arvaniti & I. Tsimpli (Ed.), Proceeding of the 13th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL13) (p. 88). London: University of Westminster.

Kokkinos, Th., Gakis, P. & Iordanidou, A. (2017). Exploring the role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in language teaching: the case of the Greek Grammar Checker. In Katsillis, I. (Ed.), International Conference on Educational Research, Confronting Contemporary Educational Challenges Through Research, Patras, 30 June – 02 July 2017, University of Patras, Proceedings (pp. 264-273). Patras: University of Patras.

Κokkinos, Th., Gakis, P. (2020). Student teachers’ differentiated teaching practices for high-achieving students. Journal of Further and Higher Education, Vol 45 (2), 916-931.

Gakis, P., Kokkinos, Th. & Tsalidis, Ch. (2020). Towards the development of a grammar checker and its utilization in the teaching of Modern Greek as mother tongue. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Vol 36 (Issue 1), 87-100.

Kokkinos, Th., Gakis, P., Iordanidou, A. & Tsalidis, Ch. (2020). Utilising grammar checking software within the framework of differentiated language teaching. In M. Della Ventura (Ed.), Proceedings of 2020 9th International Conference on Educational and Information Technology, Oxford, UK, February 11-13, 2020 (pp. 234-240). New York: ACM.

Gakis, P., & Fragκaki, G. (2023). Chatbots "speak" Greek: Design and specifications of a Greek Chatbot. SILF 2023, 44th International Conference on Functional Linguistics, Kalamata.