Jean-Philippe Prost

In short -------- Jean-Philippe is an **Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences HC)** in Computing at Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), where he teaches at the Technology Institute (IUT), and does his research at [Laboratoire Parole et Langage](https://www.lpl-aix.fr/) (LPL) since 2018. Prior to this he was a **Senior Lecturer** at Université de Montpellier (2010 - 2018, IUT and [LIRMM](https://www2.lirmm.fr/)), a **post-doctoral researcher** at [Université d'Orléans](http://www.univ-orleans.fr/) (2008 - 2010, LIFO), and a **Natural Language Processing Specialist** at [numéro (Smart Analytics Ltd.)](http://www.thisisnumero.com/) (2008, Manchester, UK). He was awarded his **Cotutelle PhD** in Computer Science in 2008, by [Macquarie University](https://www.mq.edu.au/) and [Université de Provence.](http://www.univ-aix.fr/) His work was supervised by [Diego Mollá](http://web.science.mq.edu.au/%7Ediego/) and [Mark Dras](http://web.science.mq.edu.au/%7Emadras/) at Macquarie, and [Philippe Blache](https://www.lpl-aix.fr/contact/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](http://holinet.lpl-aix.fr/)** (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 ----------- ### PhDs - Mirzapour, Mehdi (2018). “Modelling Preferences for Interpreting Ambiguous Utterances”. PhD thesis (co-supervision with C. Retoré). ### Masters - Aurélie Akli (2022) "Amélioration et déploiement du graphe de connaissances HOLINET". Master 1. - 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) - AIMS Mathematics. AIMS press. 2023. - 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) - AIGC2023. International Conference on AI-generated Content. - 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, 2014, 2011, 2005 - 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)