Guillaume Cabanac   Position Associate professor, PhD in Computer Science Maître de conférences, Docteur en informatique   Team Generalized Information Systems   Contact cabanac@irit.fr   Address Toulouse 3 University IRIT Computer Science Laboratory France   Phone +33 (0)5 61 55 72 73   Publications Complete list  or   Partial list from DBLP

 

 

Academic Curriculum Vitæ

My Academic Curriculum Vitæ (in French) details both my research and teaching activities.

 

 

 

Research

 Research Topics

• Information Retrieval Evaluation
• Digital Documents Use
• Annotation: note taking, critical thinking ...
• Organization: filing, bookmarking, tagging ...
• Argumentation
• Decision making process with multidimensional databases

 

 Current Research Activities

• CORIA 2010: Tie-breaking Bias in IR Evaluation
• JASIST 2010: Social validation of collective annotations: Definition and experiment
• IEEE ACIS 2009: Challenges for Sentence Level Opinion Detection in Blogs
• [in French] Fédération et amélioration des activités documentaires par la pratique d'annotation collective
  PhD Thesis in Computer Science, defended on December 5^th, 2008.
• DEXA 2007: Usage-based inter-document metrics, enabling to build a unified view of corporate documents
• DaWaK 2007: Decisional annotations supporting decision making

 

 

 

Teaching

• Imperative Programming and Fundamental Algorithms
  • L1 IUT - Programming with the Compalgo IDE
• Object-Oriented Concepts and Programming   
  • L3 ISI - Advanced Java
• Relational Database Conception, Implementation, and Management
  • M1 STRI - SQL and PL/SQL for Oracle DBMS
  • L3 Info - UML, OCL, SQL and PL/SQL for Oracle DBMS
  • L3 SID - Merise, SQL and PL/SQL for Oracle DBMS
  • L3 TMM - Merise, MS Access DBMS with QBE
• Office Application Suite
  • L3 Staps - Advanced Spreadsheet with MS Excel
  • L1 - Basic Word Processor and Spreadsheet with the Open Office suite

 

 

Development

Some development projects for research or for fun, mostly in Java.

• Research and teaching projects
  • Multifacet Interface
    Building a Unified View of Corporate Documents

    

  • Social validation experiment
    Investigating human perception of consensus in argumentative discussions

    

  • TafAnnote Web annotation system

    

  • Compalgo: IDE for teaching programming

    

• Spare time projects
  • RegExpTester: Testing regular expressions

    

  • SynSem: Analyzing LL and LR formal grammars

    

  • Dico: A dictionnary of 403 computer science related expressions in French and English

    

  • Blaise: Learning to type quickly

    

  • Horizons: New Horizons generator (algorithm from LOGIN (107) magazine)

    

  • Snake: The famous mobile phone game

    

  • Cambridge: An applet showing the results of a Cambridge research

 

 

Miscellaneous

• Guidelines for Writing Scientific Papers
• Top 10 Tips for Writing a Paper , by Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts
• How to typeset scientific documents properly?
  • The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX
  • French LaTeX FAQ (Grappa Team, Lille University)
  • The must-have « Petites leçons de typographie » by Jacques André (in French)
  • Authoring a thesis: a few recommendations by Nicolas Meeùs (in French)
  • About accents on capitals in French: Académie française, what happens without accents
• My bookmarks on Connotea
• “Les amis de la mer” diving center, I'm a CMAS** scuba diver
• PhD Comics: a funny explanation of PhD students' daily work :)
• Local arts and crafts: Faïencerie Ribet & Bonnassies from my town, Martres-Tolosane