Research topics
Keywords:
- Information retrieval,
- Summarization,
- Aggregated search (information synthesis, relational aggregated search)
- Contextual information retrieval
- Information retrieval in data streams
I successfully defended my habilitation (« habilitation à diriger des recherches ») on July 13, 2018 : thesis, slides (pdf), slides (pps).
Supervision
Current supervision
- Hanane Djeddal, since may 2023. Keywords: response generation models, multi-faceted needs. In collaboration with Lynda Tamine-Lechani and Laure Soulier.
- Nihed Bendahman, since september 2022. Keywords: abstractive summarization, aggregation. In collaboration with Gilles Hubert
Past PhD students
- Alexis Dusart, October 2019 – December 2022.
S’informer sur les médias sociaux via l’élaboration d’information synthétique (In French) - Thibaut Thonet, September 2014 – November 2017.
Topic Models for Unsupervised Discovery of Viewpoints on the Web (In French) - Rafik Abbes, September 2012 – December 2015.
Filtering and aggregation of vital information for entities (In French) - Firas Damak, September 2010 – July 2014.
Relevance factors for information retrieval in microblogs (in French) - Cyril Laitang, September 2009 – July 2013.
Impact of the XML document structure on the matching process in semi-structured information retrieval (in French) - Arlind Kopliku, September 2008 – December 2011.
Approaches to implement and evaluate aggregated search (in English) - Mouna Torjmen, September 2006 – November 2009.
Multimedia retrieval in semi-structured documents: using textual and structural context to retrieve multimedia objects (in French) - Lobna Hlaoua, September 2004 – December 2007.
Query reformulation using relevance feedback in semi-structured documents (in French)
Projects
Past projects
- ANR COST Project (Modélisation de Tâches Complexes en Recherche d’Information)
https://www.irit.fr/COST
2018-2022 - ANR CAIR Project (Contextual Aggregated Information Retrieval)
https://www.irit.fr/CAIR
2015-2018 - Vizurbi Project Demonstration (not maintained)
Open source public transport visualisation project based on Open Data.
With Aurélien Garivier (IMT, Toulouse) - ACOVAS Project – outil Agile pour la COnception et VAlidation Système
2014-2017 - PEPS project RICA – https://www.irit.fr/RICA
2013-2014 - European project QUAERO- – http://www.quaero.org
2008-2013 - ANR AOC Project (Complex Objects Matching) – http://aoc.irit.fr
2009-2012
Committee
- Conference chair of the CLEF 2015 conference (with Jaap Kamps)
- Chair of the 8th RJCRI workshop (RJCRI 2013 – Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en Recherche d’information), Neuchâtel, Avril 2013
- Co-chair of GAOC Workshop ( GAOC 2011 – https://www.irit.fr/GAOC2011), Brest, France
Reviewer for the following journal/conferences:
- IS journal
- IR journal
- TOIS journal
- IPM journal
- AIRE journal
- CSI journal
- SIIM 2011, 2013 Symposium
- Poster session of the SIGIR (2005, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017) conference
- CIKM 2011, 2015 Conference
- CLEF 2016, 2017 Conference
- ECIR Conference (since 2014)
- CORIA Conference (since 2012)
Organizing committee:
- Organizer, with Haïfa Zargayouna (LIPN), of the 3rd ARIA/AFIA day.
- Organizer, with Ludovic Denoyer (LIP6) of the CORIA-CIFED Hackdays 2014 and 2016 (in French).
- “Semaine du Document Numérique et de la Recherche d’Information” (CORIA and CIFED Conferences), March 2016, Toulouse, France
- CLEF (Cross-Language Evaluation Forum) 2015 Conference, September 2015, Toulouse, France
- Conference “Extraction and Gestion des Connaissances”, January 2013, Toulouse, France
- Symposium SIIM (“Ingénierie de l’information médicale”), June 2011, Toulouse, France
- Conference “Base de Données Avancées”, October 2010, Toulouse, France
- INFORSID Conference, may 2009, Toulouse, France
- European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) , april 2009, Toulouse, France
- Autumn School in Information Retrieval and Applications (EARIA) , october 2008, Boussens, France
Others
Secretary of the French-speaking association ARIA . I was previously in charge of communication for the association (2015-2019).