Major science coordination roles

• IC1207 COST action PARSEME (PARSing and Multiword Expressions) - scientific network, over 200 researchers, 33 countries, 31 languages
  • chair of the Management Committee (with Adam Przepiórkowski)
  • chair of the Steering Committee
  • co-chair of the Program Committee (with Yannick Parmentier, Victoria Rosén, Michael Rosner, and Manfred Sailer)
  • co-chair of the Organizing Committees of 7 general meetings, 4 workshops, and 2 training schools
  • coordinator of the annotation campaign of the PARSEME multilingual corpus of verbal MWEs, editions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2
  • coordinator of the PARSEME shared task on automatic identification of verbal MWEs, editions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 (with Marie Candito, Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro, Ashwini Vaidya, Bruno Guillaume, Carlos Ramisch, Veronika Vincze, Jakub Waszczuk)
• Research federation Informatique Centre Val de Loire (ICVL) - co-founder, co-director since 2016 (with Mirian Halfeld)
• SIGLEX (Special Interest Group on the Lexicon) of the ACL (Association fo Computational Linguistics)
  • Board member (2016-2020), Advisory Board member (since 2020)
  • Elected representative of the Multiword Expressions section (2016-2020), Advisory Board member of the section (since 2020)
  • Chair of 4 international workshops on MWEs: MWE-WN@ACL 2019, LAW-MWE-CxG@COLING 2018, MWE@EACL 2017, MWE@ACL 2014
• Dagstuhl workshop on Universals of Linguistic Idiosyncrasy in Multilingual Computational Linguistics, 30--31 August 2021, Dagstuhl, Germany (online) - coordinator (with Tim Balwin, William Croft and Joakim Nivre)

Editorial and advisory boards

• [co-editor-in-chief]: Phraseology and Multiword Expressions book series at Language Science Press
• Language Science Press
• Journal of Language Modelling
• Infotheca

Reviewing

• Journals
• TAL: TAL 62(1); TAL 60(2) - Special Issue on Annotated Corpora (Corpus annotés); TAL 54(2) - Special Issue on Named Entities (Entités Nommées); TAL 52(3) - Special issue on open language resources (Ressources Linguistiques Libres)
• Other journals: ACM TSLP 10(2-3) - Special Issue on Multiword Expressions: from Theory to Practice and Use; SWJ - Special Issue on Latest Advancements in Linguistic Linked Data
• Conferences
• ACL: ACL 2022 (Dublin, Ireland, [senior area chair]); ACL-IJCNLP 2021 (Bangkok, Thailand); ACL 2020 (Seattle, USA, online, [tutorial chair]); ACL 2019 (Florence, Italy); ACL 2018 (Melbourne, Australia, [outstanding reviewer]); ACL 2017, Vancouver, Canada, [outstanding reviewer])
• NAACL: NAACL 2021 (Mexico City, Mexico); NAACL 2019 (Minneapolis, USA, [area chair, best paper committee])
• EACL: EACL 2021 (Kyiv, Ukraine, online, [outstanding reviewer])
• EMNLP: EMNLP 2018 (Brussels, Belgium)
• EUROPHRAS: EUROPHRAS 2021 (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, online); EUROPHRAS 2019 (Malaga, Spain); EUROPHRAS 2017 (London, UK); EUROPHRAS'15 (Málaga, Spain)
• Other conferences: LDK 2017 (Galway, Ireland); HrTAL'16 (Dubrovnik, Croatia); PolTAL'14 (Warsaw, Poland); CLIB'14 (Sofia, Bulgaria); *SEM'12 (Montreal, Canada); LREC 2012 (Istanbul, Turkey); CLA'11 (Jachranka, Poland)
• Workshops
• Workshop on Multiword Expressions: MWE 2021 (at ACL-IJCNLP 2021, Bangkok, Thailand, online); MWE-WN 2019 (at ACL 2019, Florence, Italy, [co-chair]); LAW-MWE-CxG 2018 (at COLING 2018, Santa Fe, USA, [co-chair]); MWE 2017 (at EACL 2017, Valencia, Spain, [co-chair]); MWE 2016 (at ACL'16, Berlin, Germany); MWE 2015 (at NAACL'15 Denver, USA); MWE 2014 (at ACL 2014, Baltimore, USA, [co-chair]); MWE 2013 (at NAACL'13, Atlanta, Georgia, USA); MWE 2011 (at ACL'11, Portland, USA)
• BSNLP: BSNLP 2021 (at EACL 2021, Kyiv, Ukraine, online); BSNLP 2017 (at EACL'17, Valencia, Spain); BSNLP 2015 (at RANLP'15, Hissar, Bulgaria); BSNLP 2013 (at ACL'13, Sofia, Bulgaria); BSNLP 2011 (at @TSD'11, Plzeň, Czech Republic)
• DOING: DOING 2021 (at ADBIS 2021, Tartu, Estonia, online); DOING 2020 (at ADBIS-TPDL-EDA 2020, Lyon, France)
• MUMTTT: MUMTTT 2019 (Malaga, Spain); MUMTTT 2017 (London, UK); MUMTTT'15 (Málaga, Spain)
• FigLang: FigLang 2020 (at ACL 2020, Seattle, USA); FigLang 2018 (at NAACL 2018, New Orleans, USA)
• Other workshops: PrepComp 2021 (Toulouse, France); CORBON 2016, (at NAACL'16, San Diego, California); TASLA'15 (Caen, France); LG-LP'14 (Dublin, Ireland)
• Summer schools
  • ESSLLI: ESSLLI 2021 (online)

Organizing committees

• [academic inclusion chair]: EACL 2021, Kiev, Ukraine, online (co-organizer of a language diversity panel and games)
• [publication chair]: MWE-LEX 2020, Barcelona, Spain
• [co-chair]: PARSEME shared task on semi-supervised identification of verbal multiword expressions (edition 1.2), at MWE-LEX 2020, Barcelona, Spain
• [co-chair]: MWE-WN 2019, Florence, Italy
• [co-chair]: LAW-MWE-CxG 2018, at COLING 2018, Santa Fe, USA
• [co-chair]: PARSEME shared task on automatic identification of verbal multiword expressions (edition 1.1), at LAW-MWE-CxG 2019, Sant Fe, USA
• [co-chair]: MWE-EACL 2017, Valencia, Spain
• [co-chair]: PARSEME shared task on automatic identification of verbal multiword expressions (edition 1.0), at MWE-EACL 2017, Valencia, Spain
• TALN 2017, Orléans, France
• [co-chair]: MWE-ACL 2014, Göteborg, Suède
• [co-chair]: CIAA/FSMNLP 2011

Special interest groups

• [2016-2020: board member, MWE section representative; since 2019: advisory board member]: ACL SIGLEX and its MWE section
• ACL SIGSLAV (member)

Science administration

• French National University Council (CNU), computer science section - nominated member in 2011-2015, reviewer of over 100 career advancement applications
• Head of International Relations, University Institute of Technology, Blois, France, 2003-2012

European expert

• reviewer (call FP7-SME-2012)
• evaluator (call FP7-SME-2013)

Supervision and mentoring

• PhD students
• Adam Lion-Bouton - PhD in computer science, University of Tours, France, since 2020
• Najet Hadj Mohamed - PhD in computer science, Sfax University, Tunisia, since 2020
• Caroline Pasquer - PhD in computer science, University of Tours, France, 2016-2019
• Jakub Waszczuk - PhD in computer science, University of Tours, France, 2013-2017
• Michaël Tran - PhD in computer science, University of Tours, France, 2003-2006
• Master students
• Anaëlle Pierredon - MSc in Natural Language Processing, INALCO, Paris, France, 2021
• Jianying Liu - MSc in Natural Language Processing, INALCO, Paris, France, 2021
• Alena Silvanovich - MSc in Language Tecnology, Université Grenoble Alpes, 2021
• Najet Hadj Mohamed - MSc in computer science, Sfax University, Tunisia, 2019
• Mouhamad Ndiankho Thiam - MSc in computer science, Saint Louis University, Senegal, 2015
• Lucie Dupin - MSc in Natural Language Processing, Bordeaux University, France, 2015

PhD jurys

• [reviewer]: Yoann Dupont, PhD in Linguistics, November 2017, Paris Sorbonne, France
• Marie-Sophie Pausé, PhD in Linguistics, November 2017, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France
• [reviewer]: Siim Orasma, PhD in Computer Science, January 2017, University of Tartu, Estonia
• Marc Le Tallec, PhD in Computer Science, 2012, Université François Rabelais Tours, France
• Hyun Gue Huh, PhD in Computer Science, 2005, Université de Marne-la-Vallée, France

Keynotes

• Literal occurrences of multiword expressions: rare birds that cause a stir - EUROPHRAS 2021, University of Louvain, 9 September 2021 (online) [slides]

Colloquium talks

• Annotation and automatic identification of multiword expressions in a multilingual framework -- recent progress and challenges for NLP - ILES research group seminar, LIMSI, Université Paris-Sud, 16 March 2021 [slides]
• PARSEME corpora: Annotating verbal multiword expressions in a multilingual framework - Society for Language Resources and Technologies, Belgrade, Serbia, 4 February, 2021 [slides]
• Multiword expressions the Achilles’ heel of natural language processing - Faculty of the Humanities, University of Orléans, 14 December 2020 [slides]
• Expressions polylexicales dans la linguistique computationnelle: on n’est pas sorti de l’auberge - Faculty of Romance Languages, University of Warsaw, 16 January 2019 and 16 April 2020 [slides]
• Le doctorat ne suffit pas... Carrières dans la recherche publique - un crash course" - MIPTIS doctoral school, University of Tours, Blois, Mach 10, 2020 [slides]
• Without lexicons, multiword expression identification will never fly - Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique, Department of Linguistics, University of Geneva, 26 november 2019
• Expressions polylexicales dans la linguistique computationnelle: on n’est pas sorti de l’auberge - "Séminaire au vert", LIFAT, University of Tours, 4 July 2019 [slides]
• Literal occurrences of multiword expressions: quantitative and qualitative analyses - Natural Language Processing Seminar, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 14 January 2019
• La syntaxe des expressions polylexicales: codage lexical, annotation et flexibilité syntaxique - LingLunch, Department of Linguistics, Université Paris Diderot, 12 April 2018 [slides]
• Variabilité et figement d’expressions polylexicales: annotation multilingue, codage lexical et mesures de variabilité - ILES research group seminar, LIMSI, Université Paris-Sud, 27 March 2018 [slides]
• Towards a MWE-aware French metagrammar in XMG - TreeGraSP project meeting, Institute for Language and Information, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 21 February 2018
• Towards a MWE-aware French metagrammar in XMG - PARSEME-FR project meeting, TALEP group, LIS, Aix-Marseille Université, 15-16 January 2018
• PARSEME multilingual corpus of verbal multiword expressions - Seminar on Idioms and Collocations! (SIC!), ATILF, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, 2 November 2017 [slides]
• Multiword expressions in syntactic parsing with Tree Adjoining Grammars - Computerlinguistik Research Colloquium, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, November 17, 2016 [slides]
• Multiword expressions in syntactic parsing and in treebank post-annotation - LIF-TALEP seminar, Aix-Marseille Université, 24 June 2016 [slides]
• IC1207 COST Action PARSEME (PARSing and Multi-Word Expressions): Towards linguistic precision and computational efficiency in natural language processing - Linguistics Circle, University of Malta, 11 June 2013 [slides]
• Annotation d'entités nommées dans le Corpus National du Polonais - Séminaire d'informatique linguistique, LIGM, Université de Marne-la-Vallée, June 11, 2012 [slides]
• Recent Advances in MULTIFLEX, a Morphological Generator of Multi-Word Units - Natural Language Processing Seminar, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, November 17, 2008 [slides]
• Pierwsze eksperymenty w zakresie zastosowania formalizmu Multiflex do opisu polskich wieloczłonowych nazw własnych - Natural Language Processing Seminar, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, May 8, 2008 [slides]
• MULTIFLEX - a Formalism and a Tool for the Computational Morphology of Multi-Word Units - Natural Language Processing Seminar, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, January 5, 2007 [slides]
• Similarity and Correction of Strings and Trees : Towards a Correction of XML Documents - Natural Language Processing Seminar, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, April 24, 2006 [slides]
• Traitement automatique de la morphologie des unités polylexicales - séminaire TAL, CENTAL, University of Louvain-la-Neuve, 17 novembre 2003 [slides]