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Expertise

• Linked Data and the Semantic Web: Member of the francophone working group of the Canadian Linked Data Initiative. Dec. 2016-.
• Research Data Management: Member of the Expert committee of the Portage Network concerning the Canadian Association of Research Libraries initiative for research data management: expert group on strategy (Research Intelligence Expert Group (RIEG)). Sept. 2016-.
• Linked Data and the Semantic Web: Member of the Semantic Web Expert Group of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Jan. 2016-.
• Expert witness in a Canadian parliamentary committee: " Study on the Government's Open Data Practices". Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates. Ottawa, 10 April 2014. - see Report: "OPEN DATA: THE WAY OF THE FUTURE".

Conferences

Organzing committees

• Within ACFAS's 85th conference, a workshop on the analysis of digital libraries was held on Monday May 8th and Tuesday May 9th, 2017, at McGill University. This workshop was coorganized by myself and Pascal Cuxac (INIST-CNRS, France). See the web page for the workshop (in French only).
• Within ACFAS's 84th conference, a workshop on the coupling between documents and resources to process them was held on Monday May 9th and Tuesday May 10th, 2016, at UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal). This workshop was coorganized by Patrick Drouin, of OLST (Observatoire de linguistique sens-texte) and by myself.
• Within the activities of the CITÉ research center, one-day seminar on the various facets of Digital Libraries. Thursday Feb. 26th at the Carrefour des arts et des sciences (room C-3061). See program (in French only). Free and open to all.
• Workshop Étude de lexiques à vocation particulière : approches théoriques, méthodologiques, pédagogiques et multidisciplinaires [Lexicons for Special Purposes].
  In the context of the 82nd conference of ACFAS, 14-15 May 2014.
• Workshop: Bibliothèques numériques : au carrefour des disciplines et des institutions. [Digital libraries: where disciplines and institutions meet]
  In the context of the 80th conference of ACFAS, Montréal, 8-10 May 2012.
• DEFT 2010, Montréal, 23 July 2010.
• TALN 2010, Montréal, 19-23 July 2010.
• Approches sémiotiques au design (Semiotic approaches to design) (French only), 78th annual conference of ACFAS, Université de Montréal, Montréal, 10-11 May 2010.

Collaborations

Research

• Member of the OLST (Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte), at the Department of Linguistics and Translation (Département de linguistique et de traduction) of the Université de Montréal.
• Member of the GRDS (Groupe départemental de recherche en documents structurés), led by Yves Marcoux from the EBSI.
• Member of CITÉ (Centre de recherches en technologies émergentes), Université de Montréal.

External committees

Program committees

• Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Member.
  • 2017: Edmonton, Alberta, 16-19 May.
  • 2016: University of Victoria, B.C., 31 May-3 June.
  • 2015: Halifax, 2-5 June.
  • 2014: Montréal, 6-9 May.
  • 2012: York University, Toronto, 28-30 May.
  • 2011: St-John's (Newfoundland and Labrador), 25-27 May.
  • 2010:Ottawa, 31 May-2 June.
  • 2009: Kelowna, B.C., 20-25 May.
  • 2008: Windsor University, 28-30 May.
• Congrès TOTh (Terminologie & Ontologie : Théories et applications). Member.
  • 2017: 8-9 June 2017 Chambéry (France)
  • 2016: 9-10 June 2016 Chambéry (France)
• Colloque international sur le document numérique (CiDE). Member.
  • 2016: Greece, 24-26 Nov
  • 2014: Fès, Morocco, 19-20 Nov
  • 2012: Tunis, Tunisai, 1-3 Nov.
  • 2011: Rabat, Morocco, 7-8 Dec
• Colloque international « Formation, recherche, appui au développement : les sciences et métiers de l’information documentaire face au défi d’ «émergence» de l’Afrique ». Membre du comité de programme. École supérieure des sciences et techniques de l’information et de la communication
  • Un. de Yaoundé II-SOA, Cameroun, 3-4 déc 2015.
• North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). Member.
  • 2013, Atlanta, Georgia, 9-14 June 2013.
• Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science – Association canadienne des sciences de l’information (CAIS/ACSI). Member.
  • 2017: Ryerson University, Toronto, 31 May-2 June
  • 2016: University of Calgary,28 May-3 June
  • 2015: University of Ottawa, 3-5 June
  • 2014: Brock University, 28-30 May
  • 2013: University of Victoria (B.C.), 1-8 June
• Conférence Terminologie et intelligence artificielle. Member.
  • 2011: INALCO, Paris, 8-10 Nov
  • 2009: Toulouse, France, 18-20 Nov.
• Conférence sur le Traitement automatique des langues naturelles (TALN’10). Member.
  • Montréal, 19-23 July 2010.
• Computational Linguistics in the North East (CLiNE'05). Member.
  • Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau (Québec), 26 Aug 2005.
• I-Know 06, Special Track on Knowledge Visualisation and Knowledge Discovery (KVD). Member.
  • Graz, Austria, 6 Sep 2006.

Other committees

• Member of the scientific committee for the Montreal-based private firm Onscope.
• Reviews for the Digiteo (Île-de-France, France) grant program. Apr 2009
• Reviews for the Canadian Journal for Information and Library Science. May 2009.

Associations

• Member of ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)
• Member of ASTED (Association pour l'avancement des sciences et des techniques de la documentation)
• Member of ASIS&T (American Society for Information Science & Technology)
• Member of SIG-DL (ASIS&T special interest group on digital libraries)
  • "Membership Officer" of ASIS&T's Digital Libraries interest group (2013-2014)
• Member of ACFAS (Association pour l'avancement des sciences)
• Member of ICOM (Internation Council of Museums)
• Member of ICOM's CIDOC interest group (International Committee for Documentation)

Previous activities

• Project leader and computational linguist at Les Logiciels Machina Sapiens Inc. (Montréal), from May 1996 to December 1999. Project leader for CorText (grammar checker for English).
• Member of the organizing committee for COLING-ACL '98, led by Pierre Isabelle and Elliott Macklovitch, then of RALI, Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle de l'Université de Montréal, 10-14 Aug 1998.
• Main organizer for CLIM (Colloque étudiant de Linguistique Informatique à Montréal [Student conference in Computational Linguistics]), Université de Montréal and UQAM, 8-10 Jun 1996.