My main research interests include
- machine learning
- grammatical inference
- probabilistic models
- tree structured data
- dealing with noisy data
- information extraction
- boosting
Supervision of PhD student:
- Jean-Philippe Peyrache, co-supervised with Marc Sebban
- Emilie Morvant, co-supervised with Stéphane Ayache
- Laurent Boyer: Using background knowledge for learning similarities between structured data (beginning october 2007, co-supervised with Marc Sebban)
Research projects:
- Member of the PASCAL2 Network of excellence
- Lampada ANR Project (2009- 2013): Learning Algorithms, Models and sPArse representations for structured DAta
- VideoSense ANR Project (2010-2013): Rich concepts recognition in multilingual videos, throw pivot languages
- DECODA ANR PRoject (2009-2012): Speech Analytics in recorded call-center conversations
- SEQUOIA ANR Project (2009-2012): A large coverage probabilistic syntactic parser for French
- Marmota ANR Project (2006-2009): MAchine learning pRobabilistic MOdels Tree lAnguages
Some events:
- Summer school Pascal Bootcamp 2010
- Workshop Learning from Non-IID data: Theory, Algorithms and Practise at ECML-PKDD 2009, Bled, Slovenia.
- EPIT'08: 1st french machine learning spring school at Porquerolles in May 2008.
