1998 Full professor in Computer science at Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
1995-98 Full professor in Computer science at the University of Reims
1989-95 Associate professor in computer science at the University of Paris 7
1986-89 Teacher in computer science at CNAM
1982-86 École normale supérieure (rue d'Ulm), mathematics

Research

Natural language processing, linguistic resources (construction of electronic dictionaries, lexicon-grammar), spelling-to-phonetics conversion, natural language parsing, spelling correction software, lexical disambiguation, transducers.

Laboratory

Leader of the Computational linguistics group  (5 permanent members, 10 PhD students) of this Laboratory since 1992.
The members of LADL have been integrated into IGM.
Ex Vice-Director of the Computer Research Laboratory at Gaspard-Monge Institute (IGM) (January 2006-January 2008).
Nominated member of the Laboratory Council. Elected member of the Council of IGM.

Research projects

1989-95 GENELEX (program Eureka, 5 partners)
1995-98 Creator and coordinator of GRAMLEX  (program Copernicus, European Union, 5 partners)
1999-2000 Creator of Finite Automata and Natural-Language Lexicons (Franco-Brazilian project, 2 partners)
2002- Creator of the ELAG project (French-Portuguese, 2 partners)
2002-2006 Coordinator of OUTILEX (national, RNTL platform, 10 partners)
2003-2004 Creator of CONCORLEX (French-Belgian, 2 partners)
2005-2007 Lexsynt
2006-2007 Inex (4 partners, financed by the Institute of French Linguistics)
2005-2008 Infom@gic (22 partners), within the Cap Digital business cluster; financed by Fonds unique interministériel; a paper in a magazine
2009- DoXa (12 partners), within the Cap Digital business cluster; financed by Fonds unique interministériel;
2010-2012 GramLab (6 partners), within the Cap Digital business cluster, financed by the European regional development fund and the Assembly of Seine-et-Marne

Achievements

Program of spelling-to-phonetics conversion of French words (1984). Phonetic dictionary of French (1986). Software of generation of oral messages, in collaboration (1986). Software of spelling correction, Philip Morris Scientific Award 1989. System for checking and applying spelling-to-phonetics conversion rules (1991; used for Spanish by Antonio Ríos; in the form of a bimachine, BiPho  system, 1997). System of resolution of lexical ambiguities, ELAG  (Elimination of lexical ambiguity through grammars), in collaboration (1997).

Referee

Conferences: of the European Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (EACL);  ACL Workshop on a Broader Perspective on Multiword Expressions (MWE); on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC); Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL); Traitement automatique des langues naturelles (TALN); on Finite State Methods in Natural Language Processing (FSMNLP); Language & Technology Conference (L&T'07); International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing (ICTAC); Lexis and Grammar Conference; Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language - Written and Spoken (PROPOR); World Congress of French Linguistics (CMLF) ; Encontro de Lingüística de Corpus ; Atala Workshop on "The Lexis/Grammar Interface and Syntactic-Semantic Lexicons"; on Linguistic Description for the Processing of French (DLTAF, in the framework of the ACFAS Conference) ; Text Mining Challenge (DEFT) ; Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS); Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA); Portugal for Natural Language Processing (PorTAL); Workshop on the Description of Portuguese (Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology, STIL).

Journals: TAL Journal; Machine Translation (MT), guest editor for volume 18 no. 3 ; Revue des Nouvelles technologies de l'information (RNTI); Computing Reviews; Lux Coreana (new French-Korean journal) ; Cahiers du CENTAL collection (Presses universitaires de Louvain) ; Revue québécoise de linguistique, University of Québec at Montréal; Arena Romanistica ; Linguistica communicatio, Faculty of literature, Fez, Morocco.

Agence nationale de la Recherche (ANR), in information technology and in linguistics.

Director of the Lingvisticae Investigationes journal since October 2002 (international scientific journal with editorial board, founded in 1977 by Maurice Gross, 2 volumes, 350 pages a year).

Organization of conferences

Final Conference of GRAMLEX, University of Salerne, Italy, 1998 ; Journées d'hommage à Maurice Gross, Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, Paris, June 2002 ; 21st International Conference on Lexis and Grammar, University of Bari, Italy, September 2002 ; EACL Workshop on Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing, Budapest, April 2003; LiPrAL 2012 (1º Colóquio de Linguística para o Processamento Automático de Linguagem Natural), Vitória, November 29-30, 2012, with Aucione Smarsaro and Oto Vale.

Miscellaneous

Member of the Management Committee of Atala (2006-2009). Member of the Advisory Committee of 'Onset-Centro de Estudos de Linguagem' (Onset-CEL) of the University of Lisbon, and formerly of the Laboratory of linguistic engineering (LabEL), at Instituto superior técnico, Lisbon.
Expert for the Europe Education Formation France Agency, Réseau national des technologies logicielles (RNTL),  National Association for Technical Research (ANRT - CIFRE PhD scholarships), Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), European Commission, UNESCO, Community of Mediterranean Universities (CUM). Hiring Committee for the University of Algarve (Portugal).
Standardisation activities: expert for Technolangue project Normalangue RNIL on "Morphosyntactic Annotation Framework" (MAF) and "Lexical Markup Framework" (LMF) of ISO (TC37 SC4).
Interview in magazine Tangente 102, 2005, pp. 10-12, "Traduction automatique".

Programming languages: C language, C++, Lisp, Prolog, Pascal, Fortran, XSLT. Unix.

Invited talks

1987 University of Salerno (Italy) 1990 Mannheim 1991 National University of Seoul 1991 Autonomous University of Barcelone 1991 University of Lisbonne 1992 Bari (Italy) 1992 Aristotle University of Thessalonique (Greece) 1992 University of Lisbonne 1993 University of Munich 1993 University of Poznan (Poland) 1993 Saint-Petersbourg (Russia) 1994 University of Poznan (Poland) 1994 Rank Xerox Research Center, Grenoble 1994 KAIST, Taejon (South Korea) 1995 University of Munich 1995 University of Saarbruck 1996 University of Faro (Portugal) 1997 University of Munich 1997 University of Hyderabad (India) 1998 University of Lisbonne 1998 University of Saarbruck 1999 University of Konstanz (Germany) 1999 University of Campinas, Unicamp (Brazil) 1999 University of São Paulo 2000 Aristotle University of Thessalonique (Greece) 2000 Federal University of Espirito Santo (Brazil) 2000 Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro 2001 University of Bologna 2002 City University of Hong-Kong 2002 University of Tours 2002 Federal University of Goiânia (Brazil)

2002 University of São Paulo, São Carlos (Brazil) 2002 Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) 2003 King's College, London 2004 Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro 2004 KAIST, Taejon (South Korea) 2004 National University of Seoul 2004 Korea Telecom, Seoul (South Korea) 2004 Federal University of Espirito Santo (Brazil) 2004 University of São Paulo 2004 Federal University of São Carlos (Brazil) 2005 University of Paris North 2005 University of Bergen 2005 University of Poznan (Pologne) 2005 Federal University of Goiânia (Brazil) 2005 Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (South Korea) 2006 National University of Seoul 2006 Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities 2007 Linguistic Society of Paris 2007 UNESP Araraquara (Brazil) 2008 University of Palermo 2009 Eul-ji University (South Korea) 2009 Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (South Korea) 2009 Sejong University (South Korea) 2009 Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea) 2009 University of Bergen (Norway) 2011 University of Tours 2011 National University of Córdoba (Argentina) 2011 Federal University of Brasília (Brazil) 2012 Maximilian University of Munich 2013 Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil)

Teaching

Natural language processing (master of computer engineering (ex-DESS), master of computer science), computer theory (bachelor and master), doctoral students.
Course at European summer school in Logic, Language and Information  in 1998.
Master Course at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio in 2000.
Master Course at University of São Paulo, São Carlos in 2004.
Master Course at Federal University of Espirito Santo in 2005.
Master Course at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 2005.
Responsible for Socrates-Erasmus interchanges with

the University of Alicante (classes taught in English),
the University of L'Aquila,
the University of Bari (guide),
the University of Bergen,
the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (guide,  DUO German courses, DUO German courses in Munich),
the University of Patras and
the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Direction of academic studies:
2008-2009 master in Computer science, second year
1998-2009 master in Computer engineering, second year (statistics about the employment in 2005 of the graduates of 2003, in 2006 of the graduates of 2004)
1998-2005 DESS in Computer science (graduate studies)
1998-2000 Computer and Network Studies (Ingénieurs 2000) and ESITCOM (telecommunication engineering school)
1995-98 Co-director of undergraduate studies in computer science
1992-93 DESS in Computer science (graduate studies)

Education

Dr. hab. from the University of Paris 7: Phonétique et transducteurs, 1993.
Ph.D. from the University of Paris 7 in computer science: Méthodes algorithmiques et lexicales de phonétisation de textes, 1988, jury: M.-P. Schützenberger, Maurice Gross  (supervisor), J.-S. Liénard, D. Perrin, M. Nivat.
École normale supérieure (rue d'Ulm), mathematics, 1982-1986.
DEA in computer science, spelling-to-phonetics conversion with the aid of transductions, 1984, Paris 7.
Master in computer theory, 1983, Paris 7.
B.S. in mathematics, 1983, Paris 7; B.A. in linguistics, 1983, Paris III.

Personal data

Single.
Languages: French (native). English, Portuguese, fluent. German, written.
Hobby: counter-tenor soloist.

Jean Laporte, the grandfather of my grandfather.