Marie-Francine Moens

Professor
Department of Computer Science
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Celestijnenlaan 200A (Room 04.25)
B-3001 Heverlee
Belgium

Phone: +32 (0)16 32 53 83
Fax: +32 (0)16 32 79 96
email

Short biography

Marie-Francine (Sien) Moens is a professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. She holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from this university. She is head of the Language Intelligence and Information retrieval (LIIR) research group, and is a member of the Human Computer Interaction unit.

Her main interests are in the domain of automated content retrieval and extraction from text using a combination of statistical, machine learning and symbolic techniques, and exploiting insights from linguistic and cognitive theories. She investigates topics such as:

• Content recognition in text, information extraction, discourse understanding, text mining, knowledge acquisition, machine reading of text
• Processing of noisy text such as user generated content and speech transcripts
• Information retrieval and search models, text based question answering and reasoning
• Machine learning for natural language processing, especially learning with limited supervision
• Cross-media and cross-lingual alignment and summarization of content
• e-Forensics: content and email filtering.

In 2011 and 2012 she was appointed as chair of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) and was a member of the executive board of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) . She is a member of the Research Council of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

She is the author of many international publications and books including the publication of:

Moens, M.-F. (2000). Automatic Indexing and Abstracting of Document Texts (The Kluwer International Series on Information Retrieval 6). Kluwer Academic Publishers: Boston.

Moens, M.-F. (2006). Information Extraction: Algorithms and Prospects in a Retrieval Context (The Information Retrieval Series 21). New York: Springer.

Slides of inaugural lesson given on 8-2-2008

Curriculum vitae

Teaching

B-KUL-H02C8B - Text Based Information Retrieval

B-KUL-H02B1AE - Natural Language Processing

B-KUL-G0J98AE - Current Trends in Databases

B-KUL-G0N28A - Beginselen van programmeren

B-KUL-G0K34A - Geschiedenis van de informatica

Research projects

DISK	Discovery of Knowledge on Chinese Medicinal Plants in Biomedical Texts
MUMIA	MUltilingual and Multifaceted Interactive information Access
MUSE	Machine Understanding for interactive StorytElling
PARIS	Personalised AdveRtisements buIlt from web Sources
Radical	Radical Innovations
SAEL-RMR	A Synergetic Approach to Extraction, Learning and Reasoning for Machine Reading
SAM	Semantic Annotation and retrieval of Multimedia
TERENCE	An Adaptive Learning System for Reasoning about Stories with Poor Comprehenders and their Educators
TermWise	TermWise: Resources for Specialized Language Use
TOSCA-MP	Task-Oriented Search and Content Annotation for Media Production

A4MC3	Architectures for Mobile Community Content Creation
ACILA	Automatic Detection and Classification of Arguments in a Legal Case
Acknowledge	Accessible & Open Knowledge Infrastructure for Flanders
AMASS++	Advanced Multimedia Alignment and Structured Summarization
AntiPhish	Anticipatory Learning for Reliable Phishing Prevention
CADIAL	Computer Aided Document Indexing for Accessing Legislation
CLARIN	Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure
CLASS	Cognitive-Level Annotation using Latent Statistical Structure
CORNETTO	Combinatorial and Relational Network as Toolkit for Dutch Language Technology
DAISY	Dutch lAnguage Investigation of Summarization technologY
GIE	Generic Technology for Information Extraction from Texts
INFO-NS	Intelligent exploitation tools for nonstructured information for the Belgian federal police
ISIS	Indexing Structures and retrievability of Information Sources
LINDO	Large scale distributed INDexation of multimedia Objects
PuppyIR	An Open Source Environment to Construct Information Services for Children
Spraak2Taal	Extraction of Ideological Content from Political Speeches
TEXT MINING	Text Mining for the Dissemination of Statistical Information via the Internet
TIME	Advanced Time Based Text Mining
WebInsight	WebInsight: Towards Modeling Correlation and Evolution of Web Documents

Recent invited keynotes

Machine Understanding of Text: A Complex Puzzle to Unravel, 13th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, 16-3-2012, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India.

More than Just Words: Discovering the Semantics of Text with a Minimum of Supervision Fourteenth Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2009), 14-10-2009, University of Aveiro, Portugal.

Mining Opinions in Blogs: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 6ème Conférence en Recherche d'Information et Applications (CORIA 2009), 5-5-2009, VVF Presqu'île de Giens - VAR, France.

Recent invited tutorials

Question Answering, tutorial at the EU Erasmus Mundus Intensive Programme Information Foraging , Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 22-8-2011 - 5-9-2011.

Extraction d'information, tutorial at the Ecole d'Automne en Recherche d'Information et Applications, EARIA 2010, Saint-Germain-Au-Mont-d'Or, France, 8-11-2010 - 10-11-2010 .

Automatically Linking Content Across Languages and Media, tutorial at the 4th Chinese Semantic Web Symposium (CSSW 2010), Tsinghua University, China, 19-8-2010.

Linking Content in Unstructured Sources, tutorial at the 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2010), Raleigh, NC, 27-4-2010.

Information Extraction and Linking in a Retrieval Context, tutorial jointly with Djoerd Hiemstra at the 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval, Toulouse, France, 6-4-2009 .

Text Mining, Information and Fact Extraction, tutorial at the 2nd Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval, Taganrog, Russia, 1-9-2008 – 5-9-2008.

Publications

See LIRIAS database.

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1. VOSSEN, P., VAN DER VLIET, H., MAKS, I., SEGERS, R., MOENS, M.-F., HOFMANN K., SANG E.T.K. & DE RIJKE, M. (2013) Cornetto: A Combinatorial Lexical Semantic Database for Dutch. In P. Spyns (Ed.), Essential Speech and Language Technology for Dutch: Resources, Tools and Applications. Berlin: Springer.
2. DE BELDER, J., De KOK, D., VAN NOORD, G., NAUZE, F., VAN DER BEEK, L. & MOENS, M.-F. (2013) Question Answering of Informative Web Pages: How Summarization Technology Helps. In P. Spyns (Ed.), Essential Speech and Language Technology for Dutch: Resources, Tools and Applications. Berlin: Springer.
3. DE SMET, Wim & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2013) Representations for Multi-Document Event Clustering. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 26(3): 533-558.
4. VULIC, Ivan & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2013) A Unified Framework for Monolingual and Cross-Lingual Relevance Modeling Based on Probabilistic Topic Models. In Proceedings of the 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2012). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7814) (pp. 98-109). Berlin: Springer.
5. NURANI VENKITASUBRAMANIAN, Aparna & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2013) Selection of Search Facets. In Proceedings of CORIA 2013 - 10th French Information Retrieval Conference.
6. VULIC, Ivan & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2013) Cross-Lingual Semantic Similarity of Words as the Similarity of their Semantic Word Responses. In Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. ACL.
7. MOENS, Marie-Francine & VULIC, Ivan (2013) Monolingual and Cross-Lingual Probabilistic Topic Models and Their Applications in Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2013).(Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7814) (pp. 775-778). Berlin: Springer
8. NURANI VENTIKASUBRAMANIAN, Aparna & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2013) Estimating the Breadth of Search Queries. In Proceedings of the Open research Areas in Information Retrieval Conference (OAIR 2013) (10th International Conference in the RIAO series).
9. KOLOMIYETS, Oleksandr & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2013) MotionML: Motion Markup Language: Shallow Approach for Annotating Motions in Text. In Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics.
10. HAESEN, Mieke, MESKENS, Jan, PHAM, Phi T., POULISSE, Gert-Jan, BECKER,Jan H., CONINX, Karin, LUYTEN, Kris, TUYTELAARS, Tinne & MOENS, Marie-Franciine (2013) Finding a Needle in a Haystack: An Interactive Video Archive Explorer for Professional Video Searchers. Multimedia Media Tools and Applications, 63 (2), 331-356.
11. FARNADI, Golnoosh, ZOGHBI, Susana, MOENS, Marie-Francine & DE COCK Martine (2013) Recognising Personality Traits using Facebook Status Updates. In Proceedings of WCPR13, Workshop on Computational Personality Recognition at ICWSM13 (7th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media).
12. KORDJAMSHIDI, Parisa & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2013) Structured Machine Learning for Mapping Natural Language to Spatial Ontologies. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Advances in Regularization, Optimization, Kernel Methods and Support Vector Machines (ROKS 2013).
13. PROVOOST, Thomas & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2013) Detecting Relations in the Gene Regulation Network. In Proceedings of BioNLP 2013. ACL.

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