Andrei Popescu-Belis

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

I am currently heading the COMTIS Swiss NSF Sinergia project (2010-2013): Improving the Coherence of Machine Translation Output by Modeling Intersentential Relations. I have been involved in the IM2 NCCR since 2003, working on dialogue processing, data management and HCI, and I am currently the deputy head of the IM2 module on Human Centered Design and Evaluation. I have contributed to the AMIDA European integrated project (2007-2010) as head of WP6 on interfaces and evaluation, and I am currently contributing to the InEvent European project (2011-2014).

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Najeh Hajlaoui (postdoc)  |  Majid Yazdani, Thomas Meyer, Maryam Habibi, Nikolaos Pappas (PhD students)

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. I received my PhD in computer science and 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 as a senior researcher 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.

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 am heading the COMTIS Swiss NSF Sinergia project (2010-2013), on Improving the Coherence of Machine Translation Output by Modeling Intersentential Relations, with two partner groups at the University of Geneva.

I contribute to the IM2 NCCR on interactive multimodal information management, as deputy head of the module on on Human Centered Design and Evaluation. In 2006-2009, I have been heading the Data Management and Access module (IM2.DMA - see also MMM, the Multimodal Media File Server), while contributing also to the Human-Machine Interaction (IM2.HMI) and to the Multimodal Content Abstraction (IM2.MCA) modules. I have taken part in the AMIDA European integrated project (2007-2010), as head of Work Package 6, "Applications: Interfaces, Integration and Evaluation", coordinating more specifically the AMIDA Automatic Content Linking Device. I am currently also contributing to the InEvent European project (2011-2014), working on semantic search in large databases of hyperlinked multimedia events.

I have been an advisor for the CESTA international campaign for the evaluation of machine translation systems (2002-2006) and I have been the head of a SNSF project on the same topic (2004-2008), 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 December 2011, I have published twenty-two book chapters and journal articles, seven edited books and proceedings, and about sixty conference and workshop papers. I am Area Chair in discourse and dialogue for ACL 2012. 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: February 3, 2012