Employment

• 2018 – present : Associate Professor at INSA Lyon and LIRIS lab
• 2016 – 2018 : Teaching and research assistant (CER) at French Naval Academy Research Institute (IRENav)
• 2015 – 2016 : Teaching and research assistant (ATER) in the Computer Science University department (UPPA)
• 2013 – 2015 : Sessional lecturer in the Computer Science University department (UPPA)
• 2011-2012 : Software Engineer at Document Image Solutions (Bidart, France)

Supervision of students

PhD Students

Oct. 2024 - …

• Antoine Taroni, Interpretability of large language models: towards a hybrid neuro-symbolic approach for geographical discourse analysis. Co-supervised with Frédérique Laforest. INSA Lyon doctoral grant.

Dec. 2023 - …

• Yassir Lairgi, Detection of Weak Signals in Graph-oriented Data: An Approach using LLM and DGNN. Co-supervised with Khalid Bendabdeslem and Remy Cazabet. CIFRE.

Fev. 2021 - …

• Alice Brenon, Methods and Tools for the Diachronic Study of Geographic Discourse in French Encylopedia. GEODE project. Co-supervised with Frédérique Laforest and Denis Vigier. LabEx ASLAN.

Postdoctoral Students

2020

• Jacques Fize, Design of hybrid NLP and Data Mining methods for extracting geographical information. HextGEO project. IMPULSION IDEX LYON.

Research engineers

Sep. 2023 - Aou. 2024

• Antoine Taroni, Toponym Disambiguation, Entity Linking and Geographic Knowledge Graphs. GEODE project. LabEx ASLAN.

MSc Students

2024

• Hedi Zeghidi, IA hybride (neuro-symbolique) pour la recherche d’information géographique. Master International Machine Learning, Université Jean Monnet. LabEx ASLAN.
• Marc-Antoine Péguet, Classification automatique des domaines de connaissance d’entrées lexicographiques. Master LLCER Parcours TAL, Université de Franche-Comté. Co-encadrement avec Julien Velcin (ERIC). Financement LabEx ASLAN.
• Edina Adjaro Patoussi, Expérimentation et évaluation d’outils d’OLR/OCR. M1 Informatique, Univ. Lyon 2. Co-encadrement avec Julien Velcin (ERIC). Financement Univ. Lyon 2.

2023

• Anas Ouardini, Recherche et classification de sous-graphes dans un GNN pour la reconnaissance d’entités nommées imbriquées. Master DISS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Financement FIL (Fédération Informatique de Lyon).
• Matheus Saraiva, Analyse géographique et recherche d’information textuelle pour la cartographie de l’Encyclopédie de Diderot et d’Alembert. M1 Géographie Numérique, Université de Saint-Etienne. Financement LabEx ASLAN.

2022

• Tiphaine Bourgeois, Graph Neural Network pour l’annotation automatique d’entités nommées imbriquées. Master Technologie des langues, Université de Strasbourg. Financement LabEx ASLAN.

2021

• Khaled Chabane, Machine Learning et Word embeddings pour la classification et l’analyse d’articles encyclopédiques. M2 Informatique – Data Mining, Université Lumière Lyon 2. Financement LabEx ASLAN.

2020

• Hussam Ghanem, Word embeddings et Deep Learning pour la segmentation automatique de textes et l’extraction d’information géographique. M2 Informatique – Sciences des données et des systèmes complexes, Université de Strasbourg. (co-supervised with Prof. Thierry Joliveau). Financement LabEx IMU.

2019

• Christopher Gizard, Conception d’une méthode hybride d’extraction d’informations géographiques à partir de données textuelles. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (co-supervised with Prof. Thierry Joliveau). Financement LabEx IMU.
• Fabien le Chevanton, Extraction des connaissances relatives à la navigation maritime côtière à partir de données textuelles pour le peuplement d’ontologie. Université de Bretagne Occidentale (co-supervised with Prof. Eric Saux and Wissame Laddada). Financement Ecole navale.

Professional activities

Member of organization committees

2024

• 2nd International Workshop on Geographic Information Extraction from Texts (GeoExT 2024) at the ECIR 2024 conference
• IJGIS Special Issue on https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/extracting-analysing-geographic-information-natural-language-texts/

2023

• 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities 2023
• Workshop Humanités Numériques Spatialisées at the Journées MAGIS 2023.

2022

• 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities 2022
• Workshop TAL & Humanités Numériques at the TALN/RECTIAL 2022 conference
• 7th Workshop GAST 2022 at the EGC conference

2021

• 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities 2021
• Workshop Données et discours géographiques en France au 18e siècle. UChicago Center in Paris
• Workshop Humanités Numériques Spatialisées HNS 2021 at the SAGEO conference

2020

• 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities 2020
• 6th Workshop GAST 2020 at the EGC conference

2019

• 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities 2019
• 13th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval 2019
• 5th Workshop GAST 2019 at the EGC conference

Member of program committees and reviewer

2024

• 7th International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story’24) at ECIR2024
• 9th Workshop GAST 2024 at the EGC conference

2023

• 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval SIGIR 2023
• Conférence Spatial Analysis and GEOmatics SAGEO 2023
• 1st International Workshop on Geographic Information Extraction from Texts (GeoExT 2023) at ECIR2023
• 6th International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story’23) at ECIR2023
• 8th Workshop GAST 2023 at the EGC conference

2022

• 5th International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story’22) at ECIR2022
• 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Social Mining in the Post-pandemic Era (SocDM)

2021

• 43nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2021)
• 4th International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story’21) at ECIR2021

2020

• EPIA’20 Thematic Track on Geospatial Artificial Intelligence
• 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2020)
• 3rd International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story’20) at ECIR2020

2019

• Workshop Speaking of location 2019 at the Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT)
• INFORSID 2019

2018

• Workshop Corpus in GIScience: Going Beyond Butterfly Collecting at the GIScience 2018 conférence
• Workshop Extraction de Connaissances à partir de données Spatialisées (EXCES), SAGEO 2018
• 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities 2018
• Spatial Cognition 2018

2017

• GeoSpatial Science Conference 2017
• 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities 2017
• IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2017)
• ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017

2016

• Workshop Extraction de Connaissances à partir de données Spatialisées (EXCES), SAGEO 2016

Reviewer in international journals

• Journal of Spatial Information Science (JOSIS)
• International Journal of Geographical Information Sciences (IJGIS)
• Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS)
• Geo-spatial Information Science (TGSI)
• Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (JAG)
• Revue Internationale de Géomatique (RIG)
• ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI)
• International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (JDSA): special issue on Environmental and Geospatial Data Analytics
• Journal of Map & Geography Libraries: special issue on Semantic Historical Gazetteers

Other

• Member of the scientific committee of Consortium-HN ARIANE (Analyses, Recherches, Intelligence Artificielle et Nouvelles Editions numériques) - https://cst-ariane.huma-num.fr (2024-)
• Member (éxaminateur) of the PhD defense of Lucie Cadorel Localisation sur le territoire et prise en compte de l’incertitude lors de l’extraction des caractéristiques de biens immobiliers à partir d’annonces (24 January 2024)
• Member of the scientific committee of the RAPIDO project (Rendre Accessibles des Publications scientifiques Indexées et liées à des DOnnées certifiées) - https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/rapido/ (2023-)
• Member of the editorial board of the IJGIS journal (2022-)
• Elected member of the Industrial Engineering departement of INSA Lyon (2021-)
• Member of the steering committee of the “Journée Sciences Navales (JSN) 2018”
• Travel grant (Early carreer support): 10th RDA Plenary Meeting à Montréal, September 2017
• WG Member of the keystone COST Action IC1302
• Member of the scientific committee at Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (2014-2016)