Benoît Sagot's homepage  —  team Alpage (INRIA / University Paris 7)

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Research fellow in NLP (Natural Language Processing) at INRIA in the Alpage project (INRIA Paris Rocquencourt and Université Paris 7)
Former engineer of the Corps des Télécommunications (X-ENST)

Research topics :

  • Development of lexical resources (morphological, syntactic, semantic), for French (syntactic lexicon Lefff, semantic lexicon WOLF) and other languages
  • Symbolic (LFG) and probabilistic (PCFG) parsing
  • Processing of raw corpora (named entity recognition and resolution, spelling correction…)
  • Formal Grammars (LCFRS, RCG)
  • Applications of NLP

Address :

INRIA Rocquencourt
Projet ATOLL - Bâtiment 8
Domaine de Voluceau - BP 105
78153 Le Chesnay Cedex
FRANCE
Tél.: +33 1 39 63 57 01
e-mail :

Activities :

  • PI of the EDyLex project, funded by the ANR (French National Research Agency) — 2010–2012
  • Member of the Board and Deputy Secretary of ATALA
  • Evaluator for the ANR (French National Research Agency) (non-thematic program 2009)
  • Organiser ofWoLeR 2011, an ESSLLI 2011 Workshop on Lexical Resources
  • Guest editor with Núria Bel for a Special Issue of the TAL journal on Language Resources
  • Member of the program comitee or reviewer for Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, TAL journal, the student session of LACL 2005, the TALN 2007 workshop on high-level linguistic formalisms, and the TALN 2008, IIS 2008, ALTW 2008, TALN 2009, ACL 2009, TALN 2010, SPMRL 2010, TALN 2011, SPMRL 2011 conferences
  • Secondary reviewer for IJCNLP 2005, EACL 2006, TALN 2007 and LREC 2008
  • Member of the recruiting committee for various permanent research and/or teaching positions (3 in 2010, 3 in 2011)
  • Formerly (2007–2010), Secretary of redaction for the TAL journal

Supervising:

  • Co-supervisor of the PhD dissertation of Valérie Hanoka ("CIFRE" PhD, Université Paris 7 — Verbatim Analysis, since January 2011)
  • Co-supervisor of the PhD dissertation of Pierre Magistry (Allocataire Moniteur Université Paris 7, since September 2010)
  • Co-supervisor of the PhD dissertation of Rosa Stern ("CIFRE" PhD, Université Paris 7 — Agence France-Presse, since September 2009)
  • Examiner of the PhD dissertation of Rania Voskaki (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, 2011)
  • Examiner of the PhD dissertation of Claire Mouton (Université Paris Sud, 2010)
  • Examiner of the PhD dissertation of Lionel Nicolas (Université de Nice, 2010)
  • Reviewer of the PhD dissertation of Juan Otero (University de Vigo, Spain, 2009)
  • Examiner of the PhD dissertation of Laurence Delort (University Paris 7, France, 2008)

Misc :

  • Translator (en->fr) of 3 chapters of the new edition of the Dragon Book (Aho, Lam, Sethi, Ullman)