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Jugement de grammaticalité Grammaires de Propriétés JeuxDeMots Natural language generation Grammaticalité Acceptabilité Model-Theoretic Syntax Analyse syntaxique probabiliste Way-finding systems Property Grammars Analyse syntaxique Micro-planning Gradience Syntaxe par modèles Constraints Semantics Grammaticality Acceptability Property Grammar Syntax
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Jean-Philippe Prost

In short

Jean-Philippe is a Senior Lecturer (Maître de Conférences) in Computing at Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), where he teaches at the Technology Institute (IUT), and does his research at Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL) since 2018. Prior to this he was a Senior Lecturer at Université de Montpellier (2010 - 2018, IUT and LIRMM), a post-doctoral researcher at Université d'Orléans (2008 - 2010, LIFO), and a Natural Language Processing Specialist at numéro (Smart Analytics Ltd.) (2008, Manchester, UK).

He was awarded his Cotutelle PhD in Computer Science in 2008, by Macquarie University and Université de Provence. His work was supervised by Diego Mollá and Mark Dras at Macquarie, and Philippe Blache at Provence.

Prior to being an academic, Jean-Philippe worked as a Research Programmer (2001 - 2003, Macquarie University, Sydney), as a COOL:Gen Consultant (2001, IPP Consultancy Services, Sydney), as a Software Engineer (1998 - 2001, Sopra, France), as a Research Programmer and a Math teacher (1997, CNRS and Institut Leschi, Marseille, France).

His field of interest is Natural Language Processing (NLP). His work is concerned with Natural Language Understanding (NLU), the computational modelling of the graded nature of grammaticality (i.e. gradience), Model-Theoretic Syntax, and the use of constraints and constraint satisfaction mechanisms for NLP. More recently, he has been focusing on Knowledge Graphs and their use in NLP applications.

Projects

  • HOLINET (2015 -. . .) : (PI) Knowledge Graph for French, which integragtes the lexical semantic network JeuxDeMots and a grammar layer derived from the French Treebank (FTB).
  • UMCSParser (2013 - 2017) : (PI) Constraint solving for robust syntactic parsing. Collaboration LIRMM-TEXTE, LIRMM-COCONUT and CRIL.

 

  • AREN (2016) : ARgumentation and Digital world (PI C. Retoré)
  • PEPS CoLAN (2013 - 2014) : Cognition and Natural Languate
  • Darryl (2012 - 2013) : Scientific advisor for a start-up.
  • ANR CroTAL (2008 - 2010) : CRF for NLP

Supervision

PhD theses

  • Mirzapour, Mehdi (2018). “Modelling Preferences for Interpreting Ambiguous Utterances”. PhD thesis (co-supervision with C. Retoré).

Masters theses

  • Jerry Franchet (2015). "Interprétation d’énoncés incomplets : préférences sémantiques en l’absence de déterminant". Masters thesis (co-supervision with C. Retoré).
  • Boris Jaulmes (2014). "Combining Stochastic and Knowledge-based Modeling for Natural Language Understanding". Masters thesis.
  • Samer Taalab (2009). "Annotation of an Oral Corpus through CRFs Combination". Masters thesis (co-supervision with I. Tellier and I. Eshkol).

Undergraduates

  • Ibrahim Boulahrouz (2020). "Web interface for a Game-With-A-Purpose (GWAP)". DUT, 3-month internship
  • Jérémy Pouzargues (2020). "Shortest path API for a knowledge graph". DUT, 3-month internship

Scientific animation

Editorial committees (journals)

  • TAL Journal. ATALA ed. 2016, 2021.
  • Honorary Volume for Manuel Hermenegildo. Springer. 2021
  • Travaux Interdisciplinaires sur la Parole et le Langage (TIPA). OpenEdition. 2018
  • Information Sciences. Elsevier. 2016
  • Journal of Logic, Language and Information (JLLI). Springer. 2015
  • Oxford University Press. Book. B. Aarts, Syntactic Gradience : the Nature of Grammatical Indeterminacy. 2007


Editorial committees (conferences)

  • TALN (2010 - now). Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues, since 2010
  • RECITAL (2010 - now). Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (TALN Student session).
  • LACL. International Conference on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics
    • 2016, Nancy, France
    • 2014, Toulouse, France
    • 2011, Montpellier, France
    • 2005 (student session), Bordeaux, France
  • MIXEUR-1 (2013)."Modèles mixtes pour l'analyse syntaxique et sémantique du français". TALN workshop, Sables d’Olonne, France.
  • CSLP 2012. Constraints and Language Processing. Int'l workshop. Orléans, France.
  • CoLing/ACL Student session (2006). Sydney, Australia
  • ACL Student session (2005). Ann Arbor, USA

Activities in scholarly societies

  • Board member of ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) (2014 - 2017)
  • Jury member for the ATALA PhD Thesis award (2015 - 2021)

Conference organisation

  • LACL 2011. Local chair, Conf. on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics (Montpellier, France)
  • ALTSS/W 2004. Sponsorship co-chair. ALTA Summer School and Workshop (Sydney, Australia)

 

  • LACL 2014. Member, organisation committee ( Toulouse, France)
  • TALN 2011. Member, organisation committee (Montpellier, France)
  • CSLP-06. CoLing/ACL Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing (Sydney, Australia)
  • ESSLLI’97. (Aix, France)

Administration

Leaderships

  • Research team associate leader, LIRMM-TEXTE (2013-2018)

Memberships

  • Executive Board, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) (2020-current)
  • Restricted Executive Board,  AMU (2020-current)
  • Teaching Council (CFVU), Université de Montpellier (UM) (2014-2018)
  • Restricted Teaching Council, UM (2014-2018)
  • Academic Senate, UM (2014-2018)
  • Restricted Academic Senate, UM (2014-2018)
  • Executive Board, scholarly society ATALA (2014-2017)
  • Laboratory Council, LIRMM (2013-2016)

Journal articles3 documents

  • Isabelle Tellier, Iris Eshkol, Samer Taalab, Jean-Philippe Prost. POS-tagging for Oral Texts with CRF and Category Decomposition. Research in Computing Science, National Polytechnic Institute, 2010, 46, pp.79--90. ⟨hal-00467951⟩
  • Robert Dale, Sabine Geldof, Jean-Philippe Prost. Using Natural Language Generation in Automatic Route Description. Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, Australian Computer Society, 2005, 37 (1), pp.89-105. ⟨hal-03553032⟩
  • D. Bellot, C. Godefroid, P. Han, Jean-Philippe Prost, K. Schlechta, et al.. A semantical approach to the concept of screened revision. Theoria: A Swedish Journal of Philosophy, Wiley, 1997, 63 (1-2), pp.24-33. ⟨10.1111/j.1755-2567.1997.tb00738.x⟩. ⟨hal-03552859⟩

Conference papers14 documents

  • Jean-Philippe Prost. Integrating a Phrase Structure Corpus Grammar and a Lexical-Semantic Network: the HOLINET Knowledge Graph. Proceedings of LREC 2022 the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, European Language Resources Association, Jun 2022, Marseille, France. pp.613--622. ⟨hal-03655636⟩
  • Mehdi Mirzapour, Jean-Philippe Prost, Christian Retoré. Categorial Proof Nets and Dependency Locality: A New Metric for Linguistic Complexity. LACompLing: Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics, Aug 2018, Stockholm, Sweden. pp.73-86. ⟨lirmm-01916104⟩
  • Mehdi Mirzapour, Jean-Philippe Prost, Christian Retoré. Measuring Linguistic Complexity: Introducing a New Categorial Metric. Symposium on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics (LACompLing 2018), Aug 2018, Stockholm, Sweden. pp.95-123, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-30077-7_5⟩. ⟨hal-02146506⟩
  • Jean-Philippe Prost, Remi Coletta, Christophe Lecoutre. Compilation de grammaire de propriétés pour l'analyse syntaxique par optimisation de contraintes. TALN: Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, Jul 2016, Paris, France. ⟨lirmm-01473863⟩
  • Jean-Philippe Prost. Jugement exact de grammaticalité d'arbre syntaxique probable. TALN: Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, Jul 2014, Marseille, France. ⟨lirmm-01471804⟩
  • Jean-Philippe Prost, Mathieu Lafourcade. Pairing Model-Theoretic Syntax and Semantic Network for Writing Assistance. Workshop on Constraint and Language Processing, Sep 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany. pp. 56-68. ⟨hal-00655059⟩
  • Jean-Philippe Prost. Grammar Error Detection with Best Approximated Parse. 11th International Conference on Parsing Technology (IWPT'09), Oct 2009, Paris, France. pp.172--175. ⟨hal-00468007⟩
  • Jean-Philippe Prost. Analyse relâchée à base de contraintes. Actes de TALN'09 (session poster), Jun 2009, Senlis, France, France. pp.TALN_47. ⟨hal-00467983⟩
  • Denys Duchier, Jean-Philippe Prost, Thi-Bich-Hanh Dao. A model-theoretic framework for grammaticality judgements. Conference on Formal Grammar (FG2009), 2009, France. pp.1-14. ⟨hal-00458937⟩
  • Philippe Blache, Jean-Philippe Prost. A Quantification Model of Grammaticality. Fifth International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing (CSLP2008), Aug 2008, Hambourg, Germany. pp.5--19. ⟨hal-00468020⟩
  • Jean-Philippe Prost. Numbat: Abolishing Privileges when Licensing New Constituents in Constraint-Oriented Parsing. Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing (CSLP-06), Aug 2006, Sydney, Australia, Australia. pp.17-24. ⟨hal-00250283⟩
  • Robert Dale, Sabine Geldof, Jean-Philippe Prost. CORAL: Using Natural Language Generation for Navigational Assistance. Twenty-Sixth Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC2003), 2003, Melbourne, Australia. pp.35--44. ⟨hal-03553009⟩
  • Robert Dale, Sabine Geldof, Jean-Philippe Prost. Generating More Natural Route Descriptions. 2002 Australasian Natural Language Processing Workshop, 2002, Sydney, Australia. ⟨hal-03552973⟩
  • Jean-Philippe Prost. Temporal Knowledge and Musical Perception: Application to Auditive Illusions. Proceedings of CASYS'98 : Computing Anticipatory SYStems, 1998, Liège, Belgium. ⟨hal-03552989⟩

Book sections2 documents

  • Philippe Blache, Jean-Philippe Prost. Model-Theoretic Syntax: Property Grammar, Status and Directions. Philippe Blache; Henning Christiansen; Verónica Dahl; Denys Duchier; Jørgen Villadsen. Constraints and Language, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.37-56, 2014, 978-1-4438-6052-9. ⟨lirmm-01471759⟩
  • Philippe Blache, Jean-Philippe Prost. Gradience, Constructions and Constraint Systems. H. Christiansen, P. Rossen Skadhauge, J. Villadsen. Constraint Solving and Language Processing, Springer, pp.74-90, 2005. ⟨hal-00134201⟩

Directions of work or proceedings2 documents

  • Sylvain Pogodalla, Jean-Philippe Prost. Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics: 6th International Conference, LACL 2011, Montpellier, France, June 29 – July 1, 2011. Proceedings . Sylvain Pogodalla and Jean-Philippe Prost. France. 6736, Springer, pp.283, 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 978-3-642-22220-7. ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-22221-4⟩. ⟨inria-00607874⟩
  • Philippe Blache, Henning Christiansen, Veronica Dahl, Jean-Philippe Prost. Proceedings of CSLP-06, the 2006 Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp.61, 2006. ⟨hal-00468635⟩

Reports3 documents

  • Jean-Philippe Prost. Linking an Abstract Corpus Grammar to a Lexical Semantic Network. [Research Report] Laboratoire Parole et Langage – Université d’Aix-Marseille. 2021. ⟨hal-03552630⟩
  • Jean-Philippe Prost. Coupler syntaxe et sémantique dans une même base de connaissances linguistiques. [Rapport de recherche] Laboratoire Parole et Langage – Université d’Aix-Marseille. 2021. ⟨hal-03552622⟩
  • Jean-Philippe Prost. Exact Grammaticality Judgement of Likely Parse Tree. [Research Report] Lirmm, University of Montpellier. 2014. ⟨hal-03563629⟩

Theses1 document

  • Jean-Philippe Prost. Modelling Syntactic Gradience with Loose Constraint-based Parsing. Other [cs.OH]. Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille I; Macquarie University, 2008. English. ⟨tel-00352828⟩