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.
She is the author of many international publications and books including the publication of:
Slides of inaugural lesson given on 8-2-2008
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
| CLARIN | Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure |
| DAISY | Dutch lAnguage Investigation of Summarization technologY |
| MUMIA | MUltilingual and Multifaceted Interactive information Access |
| PARIS | PARIS – Personalised Advertisements buIlt fRom web Sources |
| PuppyIR | An Open Source Environment to Construct Information Services for Children |
| Radical | Radical Innovations |
| Spraak2Taal | Extraction of Ideological Content from Political Speeches |
| 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 |
| CLASS | Cognitive-Level Annotation using Latent Statistical Structure |
| CORNETTO | Combinatorial and Relational Network as Toolkit for Dutch Language 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 |
| 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
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.- GOMEZ, Juan Carlos & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2012) PCA Document Reconstruction for Email Classification. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 56 (3), 741-751.
- KORDJAMSHIDI, Parisa, VAN OTTERLO, Martijn, FRASCONI, Paolo, MOENS, Marie-Francine & Luc DE RAEDT (2012) Relational Learning for Spatial Relation Extraction from Natural Language. In Proceedings of Inductive Logic Programming (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence). Berlin:Springer.
- DE BELDER, Jan & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2012) A Dataset for the Evaluation of Lexical Simplification. In Proceedings of the CICLing Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Berlin: Springer.
- JANS, Bram, VULIC, Ivan, BETHARD, Steven & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2012) Skip N-grams and Ranking Functions for Predicting Script Events. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2012). ACL.
- VULIC, Ivan & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2012) Detecting Highly Confident Word Translations from Comparable Corpora without Any Prior Knowledge. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2012). ACL
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