Marie-Francine Moens
Full professor
Department of Computer Science
KU 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
Biography
Marie-Francine (Sien) Moens is full professor at the Department of Computer Science at KU Leuven, Belgium. She holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from this university. She is the director of the Language Intelligence and Information Retrieval (LIIR) research lab, a member of the Human Computer Interaction group, and head of the Informatics section.
Her main direction of research is the development of novel methods for automated content recognition in text and multimedia using statistical machine learning and exploiting insights from linguistic and cognitive theories. She investigates topics such as:
- Machine learning for natural language understanding, especially learning with limited supervision.
- Machine learning for information retrieval, classification and aggregation.
- Deep learning and latent variable models.
- Information extraction, machine reading, semantic parsing, text mining, knowledge acquisition in the biomedical and legal domains.
- Web search and mining.
- Multimodal and multilingual processing, alignment and summarization of content.
- Information retrieval and search models, question answering and reasoning.
- Processing of noisy text such as user generated content and speech transcripts.
- e-Forensics: content and email filtering.
She is holder of the ERC Advanced Grant CALCULUS (2018-2023) granted by the European Research Council. From 2012 till 2016 she was the coordinator of the MUSE project financed by Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) - Open of the European Commission. She is currently associate editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) and was a member of the editorial board of the journal Foundations and Trends® in Information Retrieval from 2014 till 2018. 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 (ACL). From 2010 until 2014 she was a member of the Research Council of KU Leuven and from 2014 until 2018 she was a member of the Council of the Industrial Research Fund of KU Leuven. From 2014 till 2018 she was the scientific manager of the EU COST action iV&L Net (The European Network on Integrating Vision and Language).
Publications
See LIRIAS database and curriculum vitae.
See DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, including the publication of the following books:
Current teaching
B-KUL-H02B1AE - Natural Language Processing
B-KUL-H02C8B - Text Based Information Retrieval
B-KUL-G0L12B - Wetenschappelijke vorming (Scientific Education)Selection of recent keynotes and invited lectures
Deep Learning for Text Analytics and Text Generation in Law, 31st International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2018), Groningen, The Netherlands, 13-12-2018.
Human Language Understanding: Realizations and Bottlenecks, Copenhagen NLP Meet-up, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 7-12-2018.
The Discovery of Spatial Knowledge from Images and Language, 21st International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2018), Nancy, France, 16-11-2018.
Mining Clinical Reports, 8th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH 2018), Leuven, Belgium, 7-11-2018.
The Role of Argumentation Mining in Fact Verification, First Workshop on Fact Extraction and Verification (FEVER) at EMNLP 2018, Brussels, Belgium, 1-11-2018.
Selection of recent invited tutorials
Machine Learning for Natural Language Understanding, EARIA’2019: Recherche d’Information et Apprentissage Automatique, Campus de la Doua, Villeurbanne, France, 26-3-2019.
General Picture and Motivations for Human Language Understanding, CHIST-ERA HLU Master Class, Paris, France, 10-5-2018.
Integrating Language, Semantics, and Multimedia for IR, at the 10th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2015), Thessaloniki, Greece, 4-9-2015.