Josiane Mothe

Full professor at INSPE of the Academy of Toulouse (formerly ESPE and IUFM Midi-Pyrénées) since 2002. Responsible for the master program "Economie et Gestion : informatique et systèmes d'information" of the Master Métiers de l'Enseignement, de l'Education et de la Formation - Academy of Toulouse.
Responsible for IRIT for the European project AI4AGRI (2022-2025) Funding agreement Horizon Europe n°101079136, 3 partners, 1,412,360.00€.
Participation in the European project UNIVERSEH, 5 partners.
Responsible for the European project InnEO "Space_PhD" (2020-2023) Funding agreement H2020 n°101006275, 5 partners, 311,625.00€.
Co-Responsible for the Région Observatoire de la Terre et Territoires en transition challenge (2M€).
Editor-in-chief of the ACM SIGIR Forum since january 2020.
Responsible for IRIT for the European project PREVISION (2019-2021) Funding agreement H2020 n°833115, 28 partners, 9M€.
Responsible for the Toulouse FabSpace: this new type of Fablab is one of the results of the FabSpace 2.0 (open innovation network based on geo-data in particular from space in Universities 2.0, 2016-2019, Funding agreement H2020 n°693210, 15 partners, 3,5M€).
Speaker on several training courses related to Big Data at CNRS Formation Entreprises: Système de stockage NoSQL (Not only SQL), Toulouse, 06/17-19/2020.
Member of the steering committe of CLEF since september 2015. Organiser of the SimpleText task at the CLEF 2021 conference, ImageCLEFremote à CLEF 2017, and Tweet contextualization.
Member of the SIG team at IRIT since 1992. Data mining and machine learning for information retrieval, exploitation and visualisation are the main topics of my research and part of Big Data issues.
Head of SIG team at IRIT from september 2012 à to the end of 2015.
Editor-in-Chief of the Springer journal Information Retrieval for Europe and Africa from 2004 to December 2014. Member of the journal's committee since 2015.
Since 2002: member of the ARIA foresight chair.

*** 2023 ***

Program chair and committee

PC chair at ACM SIGIR2023 (Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval), July 2023, Taipei, Taiwan.
QPP++ workshop chair at ECIR2023 (European Conference on Information Retrieval), April 2023, Dublin, Ireland.

*** 2022 ***

Projects

Co-Responsible for the Région Observatoire de la Terre et Territoires en transition challenge (2M€).
Responsible for IRIT for the European project AI4AGRI (2022-2025) Funding agreement Horizon Europe n°101079136, 3 partners, 1,412,360.00€.

Theses

PhD thesis defense of Ms Nathalie Neptune, Monitoring deforestation from satellite images, [PhD supervisor].
PhD thesis defense of Mr Md Roni Siddiqur Rahman, Deep Learning for En-Route Aircraft Conflict Resolution - two complementary approaches, [PhD supervisor].

Key publications

J. Mothe, M. Z. Ullah.
Defining an Optimal Configuration Set for Selective Search Strategy-A Risk-Sensitive Approach.
Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, 1335-1345.

Program chair and committee

Senior PC chair at ACM CIKM2022 (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management), October 2022, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
PC chair at CLEF2022 (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum), September 2022, Bologna, Italy.
Chair of the CIRCLE2022 (Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe) conference, July 2022, Samatan, Gers, France.

Others

Member of the jury for the evaluation of the CIRAD laboratory.

*** 2021 ***

Organization

Co-organisation of the CLEF workshop (SimpleText), September 2021, Bucharest, Romania.

Projects

Participation in the European project UNIVERSEH, 5 partners.

Theses

PhD thesis defense of Ms Ismat Ara Reshma, Influence of class distribution and evaluation in deep learning - Application to cancer detection in histological images, [PhD supervisor].
PhD thesis defense of Mr Clement Lejeune, Multivariate Functional Data: Geometric Feature Extraction and Sparse Learning of Dynamics, [PhD supervisor].
PhD thesis defense of Ms Oihana Coustié, Anomaly detection in modern computer systems through structure inference and novelty detection in system logs, [PhD supervisor].

Key publications

N. Neptune, J. Mothe.
Automatic annotation of change detection images.
Sensors 21 (4), 1110.
L. Ermakova, P. Bellot, P. Braslavski, J. Kamps, J. Mothe, D. Nurbakova, I. Ovchinnikova, E. San-Juan.
Text simplification for scientific information access.
European Conference on Information Retrieval, 583-592.

Program chair and committee

Senior PC and short paper chair at ECIR2021 (European Conference on Information Retrieval), March-April 2021, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.
PC Member at WSDM2021 (Web Search and Data Mining), March 2021, Jerusalem, Israel.
Senior PC at ACM SIGIR2021 (Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval), July 2021, online.
Senior PC at ACM CIKM2021 (Conference on Information and Knowledge Management), November 2021, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Editing

Editor of the special issue "Predictive Analytics and Illicit Activities", Information journal, May 2021.

*** 2020 ***

Organization

Organisation of a special session for KES: Session IS20 Preventing risks and analysing events through social media analysis.
Workshop on Machine Learning for Trend and Weak Signal Detection in Social Networks and Social Media, on 27 and 28 february of 2020 at Toulouse.

Projects

Responsible for the European project InnEO "Space_PhD" (2020-2023) Funding agreement H2020 n°101006275, 5 partners, 311,625.00€.

Contributions

Speaker on several training courses related to Big Data at CNRS Formation Entreprises: Système de stockage NoSQL (Not only SQL), Toulouse, 06/17-19/2020.

Theses

PhD thesis reviewer of Mr Andrei-Madalin Butnaru, Machine Learning applied in Natural Language Processing (Bucarest, Roumanie).
PhD thesis reviewer of Mr Dan Li, Effective collection construction for information retrieval evaluation and optimization (Amsterdam, Pays Bas).
PhD thesis defense of Mr Iarivony Ramiandrisoa, Text data mining: application to the detection of depression, anorexia and aggression in social networks, [PhD supervisor].

Key publications

B. Dousset, J. Mothe
Getting Insights from a Large Corpus of Scientific Papers on Specialisted Comprehensive Topics-the Case of COVID-19.
Procedia computer science 176, 2287-2296.
S. Déjean, R. T. Ionescu, J. Mothe, M. Z. Ullah.
Forward and backward feature selection for query performance prediction.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 690-697.
T. Yeshambel, J. Mothe, Y. Assabie.
2AIRTC: the amharic adhoc information retrieval test collection.
International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages, 55-66.
X. Baril, O. Coustié, J. Mothe, O. Teste.
Application performance anomaly detection with LSTM on temporal irregularities in logs.
Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, 1961-1964.

Program chair and committee

Chair of the CIRCLE2020 (Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe) conference, July 2020, Samatan, Gers, France.
Senior PC member at ACM SIGIR2020 (Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval), July 2020, Xi'an, China.
Senior PC member at ACM CIKM2020 (Conference on Information and Knowledge Management), October 2020, online.
PC member at ECIR2020 (European Conference on Information Retrieval), April 2020, online.
PC member at LREC2020 (Language Resources and Evaluation Conference), May 2020, Marseille, France.
PC member at KES2020 (International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems), September 2020, online.

Editing

Editor-in-chief of the ACM SIGIR Forum since january 2020.
Editing of the CEUR-WS vol.2606 proceedings for the TWSDetection workshop.
Editing of the CEUR-WS vol.2621 proceedings for the CIRCLE2020 conference.

Communication

Radio Coteaux: Guest on the Vu des coteaux program, September 2020.

*** 2019 ***

Projects

Responsible for IRIT for the European project PREVISION (2019-2021) Funding agreement H2020 n°833115, 28 partners, 9M€.
European patent (2019, publication n°EP3771996A1, Information Retrieval Device and Method Using a set of Search configurations pre-selected using efficiency and risk functions).

Contributions

Evaluator of Crédit Impôt Recherche projects, ANR (member of the CE Artificial intelligence selection committee).
Invitations abroad: PhD thesis reviewer (Suisse), Guest lecture (Arménie).
Speaker on Système de stockage NoSQL (Not only SQL), Toulouse, 19-21/06/2019 (CNRS Formation Entreprises).

Theses

PhD thesis defense of Ms Sonia Mejbri, Deep learning on multivariate medical data, [PhD supervisor].
Member of the Jury of the HDR of Ms. Nathalie Haemmerlé-Hernandez, The centrality of ontologies, from the semantic web of users to the semantic web of objects.

Key publications

L. Ermakova, J. V. Cossu, J. Mothe.
A survey on evaluation of summarization methods.
Information Processing & Management 56 (5), 1794-1814.
C. Lespagnol, J. Mothe, M. Z. Ullah.
Information nutritional label and word embedding to estimate information check-worthiness.
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 941-944.
S. Mejbri, C. Franchet, I. A. Reshma, J. Mothe, P. Brousset, E. Faure.
Deep analysis of cnn settings for new cancer whole-slide histological images segmentation: the case of small training sets.
6th International conference on BioImaging (BIOIMAGING 2019), 120-128.

Program chair and committee

PC chair at KSE 2019 (Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering), October 2019, Da Nang, Vietnam.
PC chair at CBMI2019 (International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing), September 2019, Dublin, Ireland.
PC chair at CLEF2019 (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forums), September 2019, Lugano, Switzerland.
Senior PC and sponsor chair at ACM SIGIR 2019 (Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval), July 2019, Paris, France.
PC chair at WWW2019 (The Web Conference), May 2019, San Francisco, California, U.S.
PC chair at ECIR2019 (European Conference on Information Retrieval), April 2020, Cologne, Germany.

Projects

Responsible for the Toulouse FabSpace: this new type of Fablab is one of the results of the FabSpace 2.0 (open innovation network based on geo-data in particular from space in Universities 2.0, 2016-2019, Funding agreement H2020 n°693210, 15 partners, 3,5M€).

Contributions

Invitations abroad: guest lecture (Suisse, Allemagne, Arménie, Russie), PhD thesis reviewer (Inde, Irlande).
Speaker on Système de stockage NoSQL (Not only SQL), Toulouse, 07-09/06/2017 (CNRS Formation Entreprises).
DATA 2017 (24-26/07/2019, Madrid, Spain), DATA 2016 (24-26/07/2016, Lisbon, Portugal).
KDIR 2017 (01-03/11/2017, Funchal, Portugal), KDIR 2016 (09-11/11/2016, Porto, Portugal).
CORIA 2016 (09-11/03/2016, Toulouse, France).
CIKM 2016 (24-28/10/2016, Indianapolis, U.S.).

Key publications

R. Deveaud, J. Mothe, M. Z. Ullah, J.-Y. Nie.
Learning to Adaptively Rank Document Retrieval System Configurations.
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 37 (1), 1-41.
T. B. N. Hoang, J. Mothe.
Predicting information diffusion on Twitter–Analysis of predictive features.
Journal of computational science 28, 257-264.
A. G. Chifu, J. Mothe.
Query performance prediction focused on summarized letor features.
The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, 1177-1180.
R. T. Ionescu, A. L. Ionescu, J. Mothe, D. Popescu.
Patch Autocorrelation Features: a translation and rotation invariant approach for image classification.
Artificial Intelligence Review 49 (4), 549-580.
A.-G. Chifu, S. Déjean, S. Mizzaro, J. Mothe.
Human-Based Query Difficulty Prediction.
European Conference on Information Retrieval, 343-356.
R. Deveaud, J.-Y. Nie, J. Mothe.
Learning to Rank System Configurations.
Proceedings of the 25th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2001-2004.
P. Bellot, V. Moriceau, J. Mothe, E. San Juan, X. Tannier.
INEX Tweet Contextualization Task: Evaluation, Results and Lesson Learned.
Information Processing & Management 52 (5), 801-819.
L. Ermakova, J. Mothe, E. Nikitina.
Proximity Relevance Model for Query Expansion.
Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 1054-1059.
L. Laporte, R. Flamary, S. Canu, S. Déjean, J. Mothe.
Nonconvex Regularizations for Feature Selection in Ranking with Sparse SVM.
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 25 (6), 1118-1130.

Program chair and committee

CORIA 2018 (14-18/05/2018, Rennes, France: PC chair), CORIA 2017 (29-31/03/2017, Marseille, France: PC member).
CLEF 2018 (10-14/09/2018, Avignon, France: editor of the proceedings, PC chair), CLEF 2016 (05-06/09/2016, Evora, Portugal: editor of the proceedings).
SIGIR 2017 (07-11/08/2017, Tokyo, Japon: area chair, meta-reviewer, workshop PC, tutorial chair), SIGIR 2016 (17-21/07/2016, Pise, Italy: meta-reviewer, workshop reviewer).
ECIR 2017 (09-13/04/2017, Aberdeen, Scotland, United-Kingdom: PC chair), ECIR 2016 (20-23/03/2016, Padoue, Italy: short paper chair, PC member).
ICTIR 2017 (01-04/10/2017, Amsterdam, Netherlands: tutorial chair).
Member of the steering committe of CLEF since september 2015. Organiser of the SimpleText task at the CLEF 2021 conference, ImageCLEFremote à CLEF 2017, and Tweet contextualization.
Since 2002: member of the ARIA foresight chair.

Organization

Organisation of the GET 2017 conference (30-21/01/2017, Toulouse, France).
Organisation of the seminar "A Test Collection for Research on Depression and Language Use" on 7 November 2016 on assessment collections from social networks, involving Fabio Crestani, (Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, Switzerland).

Editing

Editor-in-Chief of the Springer journal Information Retrieval for Europe and Africa from 2004 to December 2014. Member of the journal's committee since 2015.