About me
I am Full Professor in Computer Science at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse (France). I am member of the Artificial Intelligence Department of the IRIT laboratory. I’m co-head of MELODI (MEthodes et ingénierie des Langues, des Ontologies et du DIscours), a research group experts in NLP, Ontologies and Semantic Web technologies composed of 13 permanent and about 30 non permanent members.
Since September 2023, I joined CNRS@CREATE in Singapore (délégation CNRS). I’m also member of the CNRS International (French-Singaporean) Research Laboratory on Artificial Intelligence (IPAL) where I’m co-responsible of the NLP group.
News
- I'm hiring. 2 PhD positions are open.
- I’m co-editing a journal special issue on Abusive Language Detection == Deadline May 31th 2024.
Research interests
My research interests include Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Processing and Artificial Intelligence. I am particularly interested in the inteaction between semantics and pragmatics in the following contexts:
- Information extraction with a focus on relation extraction from texts and knowledge graphs validation
- Discourse processing: rhetorical relations identification, semantics of rhetorical relations
- Evaluative language processing:
- Opinion and sentiment analysis: lexical semantics and subjectivity lexicons, negation and hedging, discourse-based sentiment analysis, opinion and judgment aggregation
- Figurative language processing: irony and sarcasm
- Hate speech and stereotypes detection
- Intention detection : NLP approaches to crisis management, preference extraction from dialogues
- Arabic natural language processing (including dialects)
Teaching activities
My teaching mainly focuses on Artificial intelligence and Algorithmic and programming languages. Other themes include: Databases, Introduction to networks, computer architectures, and computer systems.