Andrei Popescu-Belis | |
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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.
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Links
Publications by type | by topic | on Google Scholar | Resume (CV) | Personal homepage |
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Supervision
Najeh Hajlaoui (postdoc) | Majid Yazdani, Thomas Meyer, Maryam Habibi, Nikolaos Pappas, (PhD students) | Alexandre Nanchen (developer, part-time) |
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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. 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. | |
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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 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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Contact
Idiap Research Institute
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Room 107-1 |
Last modified: February 3, 2012 |
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