R e s e a r c h

Research Interests:

Gaël Dias is interested in (1) Lexical Semantics, (2) Information Digestion and (3) Web Accessibility for Visually Impaired People. In (1), his main studies focus on word meaning representation, multiword expression extraction, semantic relation identification and construction of lexical taxonomies. In (2), he is particularly interested in topic segmentation, extractive summarization, sentence simplification and ephemeral clustering. In (3), he develops haptic and concurrent speech interfaces for text skimming. Recently, he started to work on applications for mental health diseases.

Funded projects:

• On-going | BPI TAG-THUNDER (Access to Web Documents by Spatialized Oral Feedback)
• On-going | FCT MOVES (Monitoring Virtual Crowds in Smart Cities)
• 2016 | ANR ART-ADN (Access to Digital Documents by Oral and Haptic Feedback)
• 2015 | CPER SEMCOMP (Semantic Resources to Access Web Documents for E-Learning)
• 2014 | ANR DOCSCOPE (Automatic Analysis of Digital Document Fraud Detection)
• 2012 | FCT PT-STAR (Speech Translation Advanced Research to and from Portuguese)
• 2012 | FCT VIPACCESS (Ubiquitous Web Access for Visually Impaired People)
• 2011 | FCT MEDON (Using Ontologies to Model Data and Medical Procedures)
• 2007 | FCT SUMO (Automatic Text Summarization for Mobile Technologies)
• 2007 | FCT SITE-O-MATIC (Web Automation and Adaptive Web)
• 2007 | CRUP LEILA II (Learning Lexical Associations towards Ontology Construction)
• 2005 | CRUP LEILA (Learning Lexical Associations)
• 2005 | GRICES MULTILEXI (Multilingual Term Extraction for Lexicographic Purposes)

Organisation of Events:

• 2017 | HISTOINFORMATICS | 4th Workshop on Computational History at CIKM
• 2015 | TALN | 22nd French Conference on Natural Language Processing
• 2015 | TEMA | 6th Workshop on Text Mining and Applications at EPIA
• 2014 | HISTOINFORMATICS | 2nd Workshop on Computational History at SocInfo
• 2013 | HISTOINFORMATICS | 1st Workshop on Computational History at SocInfo
• 2013 | TEMA | 5th Workshop on Text Mining and Applications at EPIA
• 2012 | TEXTGRAPH | 7th Workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing at ACL
• 2011 | TEMA | 4th Workshop on Text Mining and Applications at EPIA
• 2009 | TEMA | 3rd Workshop on Text Mining and Applications at EPIA
• 2007 | TEMA | 2nd Workshop on Text Mining and Applications at EPIA
• 2005 | ELECTRA | Workshop on Methodologies and Evaluation of Lexical Cohesion Techniques in Real-world Applications - Beyond Bag of Words- at SIGIR
• 2005 | EPIA | 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence
• 2005 | GAIW | Workshop on General Artificial Intelligence at EPIA
• 2004 | MEMURA | Workshop on Methodologies and Evaluation of Multiword Units in Real-world Applications at LREC

Selected Talks:

• 2013 | Temporal Web Information Retrieval: Text and Image | University of Kyoto (Japan)
• 2012 | Temporal Disambiguation of Timely Implicit Queries | International Worshop on Big Data Analytics for the Temporal Web (France)
• 2011 | Cross Domain Subjectivity Classification using Multi-View Learning | University of Southern California (USA)
• 2009 | Learning Natural Language | Bulgarian Academy of Science (Bulgaria)
• 2006 | Towards Web Browsing for Visually Impaired People | INESC-ID (Portugal)
• 2005 | Efficient Extraction of Multiword Units | University of Helsinki (Finland)
• 2005 | Sentence Compression for Text Summarization | University of Porto (Portugal)
• 2004 | Searching the Web by Discovering and Clustering Related Terms | Jozef Stefan Institute (Slovenia)
• 2004 | Topic Segmentation | 11th International Summer Conference on Probability and Statistics (Bulgaria)
• 2000 | Statistical Analysis of Texts | University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Scientific Expertise in Conferences and Journals (after 2011):

• 2019 | ACL EPIA TALN SWISSTEXT MWE-WN TEXT2STORY | TAL LINGUAMATICA
• 2018 | ACL COLING LREC DSAI PROPOR SWISSTEXT CNIA CAP LAW-MWE-CxG TEXTMINE TEXT2STORY | IPM TAL LINGUAMATICA
• 2017 | ACL EPIA IHCI MWE CAP TEXTMINE | NCA TAL LINGUAMATICA
• 2016 | NAACL-HLT LREC DSAI RFIA TALN CORIA | TAL LINGUAMATICA
• 2015 | NAACL-HLT EPIA TALN MWE | IPM TKDE TAL LINGUAMATICA
• 2014 | LREC PROPOR MWE | IPM IS IJWBC TAL LINGUAMATICA
• 2013 | MT MobileHCI IHCI EPIA DSAI WIMS MWE FDC | IPM ML CS CI TAL LINGUAMATICA
• 2012 | COLING *SEM LREC ADMA IHCI AIA DSAI WIMS ICAART PROPOR WTI OPHLT FDC | IPM TSLP DKE AIC TAL LINGUAMATICA
• 2011 | IJCAI EPIA ADMA SCA ICAART TEXTGRAPH MWE FDC | IPM DKE TAL LINGUAMATICA

Participation in HdR and PhD Jury:

• 2018 | Ophélie Fraisier (PhD France), Simon Moura (PhD France)
• 2017 | Georgios Balikas (PhD France)
• 2016 | Kumar Sikdar (PhD India)
• 2014 | Marc Spaniol (HdR France), Laurie Serrano (PhD France)
• 2013 | Mustapha Mojahid (HdR France), Sarra Ben Abbès (PhD France), Francisco Costa (PhD Portugal), Wei Wang (PhD France), Brett Drury (PhD Portugal), Gaël Lejeune (PhD France)
• 2012 | Tasadit Amghar (HdR France), Antoine Doucet (HdR France), Carlos Ramisch (PhD France), Mika Timonen (PhD Finland), Milagros Gavilanes (PhD Spain), Lei Zhang (PhD France)
• 2011 | Leila Amroussi (PhD France), Jean-Marc Lecarpentier (PhD France)
• 2010 | Mario Rodríguez (PhD Spain), José Sais (PhD Portugal)
• 2009 | Ana Leal (PhD Portugal)
• 2008 | Grzegorz Dziczkowski (PhD France)
• 2007 | Porfírio Filipe (PhD Portugal)
• 2005 | Antoine Doucet (PhD Finland)
• 2004 | Luisa Coheur (PhD Portugal)

Software and Resource:

• SENTA | Software for the N-ary Extraction of Textual Associations (Available on demand)
• TEMPOWORDNET | Lexical Knowledge Base for Temporal Analysis

Awards:

• 2007 | Best project award at Parkurbis Entrepreneurship Contest - VIPACCESS
• 2006 | Best project award at Microsoft Imagine Cup Contest - XSMOBILE
• 2005 | Best paper award paper at the 9th International Symposium on Social Communication