Ludovic Moncla

Associate professor in computer science at the Industrial Engineering Department of INSA Lyon and Data Mining and Machine Learning research group at LIRIS laboratory (UMR 5205 CNRS).

• Co-leader of the Humanités Numériques Spatialisées working group of CNRS GdR MAGIS with C. Brando.
• Member of LabEx ASLAN and scientific manager of the Modeling and Digital Humanities Work Package.
• Member of Consortium-HN ARIANE (Analyses, Recherches, Intelligence Artificielle et Nouvelles Editions numériques)
• Member of SciDoLySE (Science des Données à Lyon et Saint-Etienne) research group.
• Member of the ObTIC team at Sorbonne University.

My research is oriented towards pluri-disciplinary aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Knowledge Graphs (KGs), Information Retrieval (IR), Digital Humanities (DH) and Geographical Information Science (GIS) (cf. list of publications).
I was previously (2016-2018) a postdoctoral researcher at the Naval Academy Research Institute (IRENav) in France, where I worked with Prof. C. Claramunt. I hold a PhD in computer science from the University of Pau (France) and University of Zaragoza (Spain) (supervised by Prof. M. Gaio, Prof. J. Nogueras-Iso and Dr. S. Mustière).

Research interest

• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Information Retrieval (IR) and Knowledge Graphs (KGs)
• Geographical Information Retrieval (GIR)
• Hybrid approaches for IR (machine learning and rule based methods)
• Digital humanities

Current Research Projects

See the full list of current and past research projects: here.

OLR-LLM (5k€) - IXXI / MSH LSE (2026-2027)

Segmentation de corpus lexicographiques numérisés à l’aide de LLMs : étude du Dictionnaire Universel François-Latin et de La Grande Encyclopédie
Project leaders: L. Moncla (LIRIS)
Consortium: LIRIS, ICAR

ECoDA (10 k€) - Fédération Informatique de Lyon (2025-2026)

This inter-laboratory project revolves around two research objectives: 1. Automatic identification of knowledge domains and analysis of their evolution. 2. Construction of a geo-historical knowledge graph (involving spatial and temporal dimensions). These objectives will be applied to a corpus of texts composed of several editions of the Dictionnaire Universel François-Latin de Trévoux (DUFLT) published between 1704 and 1771.
Project leaders: L. Moncla (LIRIS) and J. Velcin (ERIC)
Consortium: LIRIS, ERIC, ICAR

KOGIA - CIFRE (2023-2026)

Large Language Models, Knowledge Graphs and Dynamic Graph Neural Networks for competitive intelligence
Project leaders: L. Moncla (LIRIS) and P. Cleau (Auvalie Innovation)
Consortium: LIRIS, Auvalie Innovation

Teaching

See the full list of current and past courses: here.

Current

• Data Science
• Algorithms and data structures
• Python programming
• Databases and XML

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