Ilias Zavitsanos

Ilias Zavitsanos


izavits@iit.demokritos.gr
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https://izavits.github.io

National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos
Patr. Gregoriou E & Neapoleos Str 27
15341 Agia Paraskevi
Athens, Greece

Ilias Zavitsanos has graduated from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Dpt. of Informatics and Telecommunications. He holds a Ph.D. on Ontology Learning and Evaluation from Texts, from the Dpt. of Information and Communication Systems Engineering at the University of the Aegean.

He is interested in machine learning, topic modeling, information retrieval, and deep learning. He has worked as a research fellow at the NCSR Demokritos and for the University of the Aegean. He has also worked in the industry, as a software engineer and data scientist.

Publications

2025

  1. Springer
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    Calibrating TabTransformer for financial misstatement detection
    Applied Intelligence, May 2025
  2. ACM
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    Machine Learning for Identifying Risk in Financial Statements: A Survey
    Elias ZavitsanosEirini Spyropoulou, George Giannakopoulos, and Georgios Paliouras
    ACM Comput. Surv., Mar 2025
    Just Accepted

2024

  1. ICAIF
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    Bankruptcy Prediction: Data Augmentation, LLMs and the Need for Auditor’s Opinion
    In Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance, Mar 2024
  2. Nature
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    Entrant: A large financial dataset for table understanding
    Scientific Data, Mar 2024
  3. LREC
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    Dice@ ml-esg-3: Esg impact level and duration inference using llms for augmentation and contrastive learning
    In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop of the 7th Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing, the 5th Knowledge Discovery from Unstructured Data in Financial Services, and the 4th Workshop on Economics and Natural Language Processing@ LREC-COLING 2024, Mar 2024

2023

  1. IEEE
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    Identifying going concern issues in auditor opinions: link to bankruptcy events
    In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), Mar 2023
  2. FNS
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    The Financial Narrative Summarisation Shared Task (FNS 2023)
    Elias Zavitsanos, Aris Kosmopoulos, George Giannakopoulos, Marina Litvak, Blanca Carbajo-Coronado, Antonio Moreno-Sandoval, and Mo El-Haj
    In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), Mar 2023

2021

  1. ICAIF
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    Financial misstatement detection: a realistic evaluation
    In Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on AI in Finance, Mar 2021