Andrei Popescu-Belis @ Idiap

I am a senior researcher at the Idiap Research Institute in Martigny. I work on projects involving language processing by computers, language and multimodal resources, and the evaluation of linguistic and interactive systems.

I was until end 2009 the head of IM2.DMA, one of the seven individual projects of the Swiss IM2 NCCR, and the head of AMIDA.WP6, the work package on Interfaces, Integration and Evaluation in the AMIDA European integrated project. In 2010, I am heading the COMTIS Swiss NSF Sinergia project, on Improving the Coherence of Machine Translation Output by Modeling Intersentential Relations, and I am the deputy head of the IM2 individual project on Human Centered Design and Evaluation.

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Bio
I graduated from the French Ecole Polytechnique in July 1995, with majors in maths and computer science, and I hold a Masters in AI from the University of Paris VI (DEA IARFA, 1996). I received my PhD in computer science / natural language processing from LIMSI-CNRS, University of Paris XI, in July 1999. After a one-year postdoc at the UCSD Department of Cognitive Science, I became a research assistant and then a senior research assistant at ISSCO, University of Geneva, before joining Idiap in October 2007. I have taught computer science courses at the Technology Institute in Orsay, at the University of Geneva, and at the International University in Geneva.

Research
My research focuses on language and discourse processing by computers, in particular reference and anaphora understanding, discourse markers, and dialogue acts; the evaluation of NLP and interactive systems, including machine translation systems and meeting browsers or assistants; and the use of XML-based technologies for language and multimodal data representation.

At Idiap, I contribute to the IM2 NCCR on interactive multimodal information management, heading the Data Management and Access module (IM2.DMA - see also MMM, the Multimodal Media File Server). My work is also related to the Human-Machine Interaction (IM2.HMI) and to the Multimodal Content Abstraction (IM2.MCA) modules. I also contribute to the AMIDA European integrated project, as head of Work Package 6, "Applications: Interfaces, Integration and Evaluation", coordinating more specifically the AMIDA Automatic Content Linking Device.

I have been an advisor for the CESTA international campaign for the evaluation of machine translation systems and I have been the head of a SNSF project on the same topic, developing the FEMTI guidelines. At ISSCO, I have created a graduate course on XML and structured documents, for the School of Translation and Interpretation (ETI).

As of May 2010, I have published sixteen book chapters and journal articles, six edited books and proceedings, and about fifty conference and workshop papers. I have been the Program Chair of MLMI 2007 and 2008 (the 4th and 5th Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction workshops), and I am serving as PC member or reviewer for about six conferences or workshops annually.

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Last modified: May 11, 2010