Keynotes

• We thought the eyes of coreference were shut to multiword expressions and they mostly are - LIFT 2023 : journées scientifiques du GdR Linguistique Informatique, Formelle et de Terrain, 20-21 November 2023, LORIA, Nancy, France [slides]
• Annotation and automatic identification of light verb constructions in the PARSEME framework - Support-verb constructions in the corpora of Greek: between lexicon and grammar?, Clarendon Institute, University of Oxford, 5-6 September 2023 [slides, recording]
• Literal occurrences of multiword expressions: rare birds that cause a stir - EUROPHRAS 2021, University of Louvain, 9 September 2021 (online) [slides]

Major science coordination roles

• CA21167 COST action UniDive (Universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology, 2022-2026) - scientific network, over 80 researchers, 37 countries
  • main proposer
  • chair of the Management Committee and of the Extended Core Group (with Daniel Zeman)
  • chair of the Organizing Committee of the 1st general meeting at Paris-Saclay (16-17 March 2023)
• IC1207 COST action PARSEME (PARSing and Multiword Expressions, 2013-2017) - 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 (2016-2021) (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 Seminar on Universals of Linguistic Idiosyncrasy in Multilingual Computational Linguistics - coordinator (with Tim Balwin, William Croft and Joakim Nivre)
• Online workshop, 30-31 August 2021 [official page, wiki page, report]
• Onsite seminar, 8-12 May 2023, Dagstuhl, Germany [official page, wiki page, report]

Editorial and advisory boards

• Open access publisher: Language Science Press - Advisory Board member (2019-2023)
• Book series: Phraseology and Multiword Expressions at Language Science Press - co-editor-in-chief (2017-2022); Editorial Board member (since 2022)
• Journals: Journal of Language Modelling - Editorial Board member (since 2012); 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: NLE (one review in 2023); JHS (one review in 2022); 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
• Book series
• Phraseology and Multiword Expressions, at Language Science Press (since 2017)
• Studies in English Language, at Cambridge University Press (one review in 2023)
• Conferences
• ACL Rolling Review: reviewer since October 2021
• 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])
• COLING: LREC/COLING 2024 (Turin, Italy); COLING 2022 (Gyeongju, Republic of Corea, [area chair])
• 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)
• NAACL: NAACL 2021 (Mexico City, Mexico); NAACL 2019 (Minneapolis, USA, [area chair, best paper committee])
• Other conferences: NTCIR 2023 (Tokyo, Japan); Baltic HLT 2022 (Riga, Latvia); 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 2023 (at EACL 2023, Dubrovnik, Croatia); 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)
• SlavNLP: SlavNLP 2023 (at EACL 2023, Dubrovnik, Croatia);
• 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 2022 (at ADBIS 2022, Torino, Italy); 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: EURALI 2022 (at LREC'22, Marseille, France); 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 2022 (Galway, Ireland) ESSLLI 2021 (online)

Organizing committees

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

Special interest groups

• ACL SIGLEX - board member (2016-2020), member (since 2010)
• MWE section of SIGLEX - elected representative (2016-2020), advisory board member (since 2019)
• ACL SIGSLAV - member (since 2010)

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
• Louis Estève - PhD in computer science, Paris-Saclay University, France, since 2023
• 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
• Till Überrück-Fries - MSc in Computer Science, Université Paris-Saclay, France, 2023
• Claudel Pierre-Louis - MSc in Linguistics and COmmunication, Université d'Orléans, France, 2023
• Yağmur Öztürk - MSc in Natural Language Processing, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France, 2022
• 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

• Li Yixuan, PhD in Linguistics, January 2024, Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
• Shu Okabe, PhD in Computer Science, December 2023, Paris-Saclay University, France
• Nicolas Zampieri, PhD in Computer Science, December 2023, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France
• [reviewer]: Houssam Akhmouch, PhD in Computer Science, November 2022, Caen Normandie, France
• [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

Colloquium talks

• Automatic identification of multiword expressions - recent progress and perspectives - Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athena Research Center, Athens, Greece, January 2024 [slides - to appear]
• Uniwersalistyczna anotacja jednostek wielowyrazowych i wielojęzyczne studia korpusowe w projekcie PARSEME (Universality-oriented annotation of multiword expressions and multilingual corpus studies in the PARSEME project) - Posiedzenia Komisji Językoznawstwa Komputerowego, Komitet Językoznawstwa, Polska Akademia Nauk (Commission of Computational Linguistics, Committee of Linguistics, Polish Academy of Sciences), Warsaw, 11 December 2023 [slides in Polish]
• We thought the eyes of coreference were shut to multiword expressions and they mostly are - Natural Language Processing Seminar, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, May 25, 2023 [slides]
• 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] and 25 November 2022 [slides in French]
• Expressions polylexicales dans la linguistique computationnelle: on n’est pas sorti de l’auberge - Faculty of Romance Languages, University of Warsaw, 16 January 2019, 16 April 2020 and 18 May 2022 [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]