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Marie-Francine Moens

Contact

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Department of Computer Science
Informatics section
Celestijnenlaan 200A (Room 04.25)
B-3001 Heverlee
Belgium

Phone: +32 (0)16 32 53 83
Fax: +32 (0)16 32 79 96
email

Short biography

Marie-Francine (Sien) Moens is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. She holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from this university. She is head of the Language Intelligence and Information retrieval (LIIR) research team, and is a member of the HyperMedia and Databases unit.

Her main interests are in the domain of automated content retrieval from text using a combination of statistical, machine learning and symbolic techniques, and exploiting insights from linguistic and cognitive theories. She investigates topics such as:

• Content recognition in text and information extraction, text understanding
• Automatic indexing of text, topic tracking
• Processing of noisy texts such as spam mail, blogs
• Text mining and e-forensics
• Knowledge acquisition from text
• (Cross-media and cross-lingual) alignment, linking and summarization of content
• Information retrieval and search models
• Text based question answering and reasoning.

She is currently appointed as chair-elect of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) . She is the author of many international publications and books including the publication of:

Moens, M.-F. (2000). Automatic Indexing and Abstracting of Document Texts (The Kluwer International Series on Information Retrieval 6). Kluwer Academic Publishers: Boston.

Moens, M.-F. (2006). Information Extraction: Algorithms and Prospects in a Retrieval Context (The Information Retrieval Series 21). New York: Springer.

Slides of inaugural lesson given on 8-2-2008

Curriculum vitae

Teaching

B-KUL-H02C8A - Text Based Information Retrieval

B-KUL-H02C8A - Natural Language Processing

B-KUL-H02C8A - Current Trends in Databases

B-KUL-G0N28A - Beginselen van programmeren

B-KUL-G0K34A - Geschiedenis van de informatica

Research projects

ACILA	Automatic Detection and Classification of Arguments in a Legal Case
AMASS++	Advanced Multimedia Alignment and Structured Summarization
CLARIN	Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure
DAISY	Dutch lAnguage Investigation of Summarization technologY
ISIS	Indexing Structures and retrievability of Information Sources
LINDO	Large scale distributed INDexation of multimedia Objects
PuppyIR	An Open Source Environment to Construct Information Services for Children
TermWise	TermWise: Resources for Specialized Language Use
WebInsight	WebInsight: Towards Modeling Correlation and Evolution of Web Documents

A4MC3	Architectures for Mobile Community Content Creation
Acknowledge	Accessible & Open Knowledge Infrastructure for Flanders
AntiPhish	Anticipatory Learning for Reliable Phishing Prevention
CADIAL	Computer Aided Document Indexing for Accessing Legislation
CLASS	Cognitive-Level Annotation using Latent Statistical Structure
CORNETTO	Combinatorial and Relational Network as Toolkit for Dutch Language Technology
GIE	Generic Technology for Information Extraction from Texts
INFO-NS	Intelligent exploitation tools for nonstructured information for the Belgian federal police
TEXT MINING	Text Mining for the Dissemination of Statistical Information via the Internet
TIME	Advanced Time Based Text Mining

Recent invited keynotes

More than Just Words: Discovering the Semantics of Text with a Minimum of Supervision Fourteenth Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2009), 14-10-2009, University of Aveiro, Portugal.

Mining Opinions in Blogs: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 6ème Conférence en Recherche d'Information et Applications, 5-5-2009, VVF Presqu'île de Giens - VAR, France.

Recent invited tutorials

Information Extraction and Linking in a Retrieval Context, tutorial jointly with Djoerd Hiemstra at the 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval, 6-4-2009.

Aligning Content in Images and Text: What Can we Learn from Multilingual and Monolingual Text Processing, seminar at the University of Edinburgh, UK, School of Informatics, 24-4-2009.

Text Mining, Information and Fact Extraction, 2nd Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval, Taganrog, Russia, 1-9-2008 – 5-9-2008.

Publications

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1. POULISSE, Gert-Jan and MOENS, Marie-Francine (2009) "Multimodal News Story Segmentation". In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHIC 2009) (pp. 95-101). New York: Springer. download
2. BERGHOLZ, A., DE BEER, J., GLAHN, S., MOENS, M.-F., PAASS, G. & STROBEL, S. (2009) New Filtering Approaches for Phishing Email. Journal of Computer Security, 30 p.
3. ARIAS, Javier, DESCHACHT, Koen & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2009) Content Extraction from Multilingual Web Pages. In Aly R., Hauff, C. Hiemstra, D., Huybers, T. & De Jong, F. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th Dutch-Belgium Information Retrieval Workshop. University of Twente. download
4. MOCHALES PALAU, Raquel and MOENS, Marie-Francine (2009) Argumentation Mining: The Detection, Classification and Structure of Arguments in Text. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law. New York: ACM. (Best Student's Paper Award)
5. MOENS, Marie-Francine & HIEMSTRA, Djoerd (2009) Information Extraction and Linking in a Retrieval Context. In Mohand BOUGHANEM, Catherine BERRUT, Josiane MOTHE, Chantal SOULE-DUPUY (Eds.). Advances in Information Retrieval. Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on IR Research (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5478). Berlin: Springer.
6. MIJIC, Jure, MOENS, Marie-Francine, DALBELO BASIC, Bojana (2009) CADIAL Search Engine at INEX. In Proceedings of INEX 2008 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Berlin: Springer.
7. BOIY, Erik & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2009) Feature Selection for Document Categorization. In Marko TADIC, Bojana DALBELO BASIC & Marie-Francine MOENS (Eds.). Technologies for Processing and Retrieval of Semi-Structured Documents (pp. 159-176). Zagreb: Croatian Language Technologies Society.
8. KOLOMIYETS, Oleksandr & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2009) Meeting TempEval-2: Shallow Approach for Temporal Tagging. In Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT Workshop on Semantic Evaluations: Recent Advances and Future Directions. Association for Computational Linguistics.
9. DE SMET, Wim & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2009) An Aspect Based Document Representation for Event Detection. In Proceedings of the 19th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands.
10. POULISSE, Gert-Jan, MOENS, Marie-Francine & DEKENS, Tomas (2009) News Story Segmentation In Multiple Modalities. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2009). IEEE Computer Society.
11. DESCHACHT, Koen & MOENS Marie-Francine (2009) The Latent Words Language Model. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning (Benelearn 09). download
12. De BELDER, Jan, DE SMET, Wim, MOCHALES PALAU, Raquel & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2009) Google Owns YouTube? Entity Relationship Extraction with Minimal Supervision. In Proceedings of SIM 2009 Joint Conference SRL ILP MLG.
13. MOENS, Marie-Francine (2009) Accessing Information in Semi-Structured Documents: Research Avenues. In Marko TADIC, Bojana DALBELO BASIC & Marie-Francine MOENS (Eds.). Technologies for Processing and Retrieval of Semi-Structured Documents (pp. 225-237). Zagreb: Croatian Language Technologies Society.
14. KOLOMIYETS, Oleksandr & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2009) Machine Learning Approaches for Temporal Information Extraction. In Fourth International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Technologies (AST'09).
15. DESCHACHT, Koen & MOENS Marie-Francine (2009) Using the Latent Words Language Model for Semi-Supervised Semantic Role Labeling. In Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2009). ACL. download
16. MOENS, M.-F., FERRARI, V., TUYTELAARS, T. & VAN GOOL (Eds.) (2009) Proceedings of IJCAI-09 Workshop on Cross-media Information Access and Mining (CIAM 2009). AAAI.
17. DIZIER, P. & MOENS, M.-F. (2009) Knowledge and Reasoning for Answering Questions. Workshop Proceedings (KRAQ 2009). Association for Computational Linguistics.
18. CHEN, H., DACIER, M., MOENS, M.-F., PAASS, G. & YANG, C.C. (Eds.) (2009) Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Cybersecurity and Intelligence Informatics (CSI-KDD), held in conjunction with SIGKDD’09.
19. DE Smet, W. & MOENS, M.-F. (2009) An Aspect Based Document Representation for Event Clustering. In Proceedings of CLIN 19 . University of Groningen.
20. LIOMA, C., BLANCO, R., AZZOPARDI, L. & MOENS, M.-F. (2009) A Logical Inference Approach to Query Expansion with Social Tags. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ). Berlin: Springer.
21. MIJIC, J., MOENS, M.-F. & DALBELO BASIC, B. (2009) CADIAL Search Engine at INEX. In M. Tadić, B. Dalbelo Bašić & M.-F. Moens (Eds.). Technologies for Processing and Retrieval of Semi-Structured Documents (pp. 213-224). Zagreb: Croatian Language Technologies Society.
22. SILIC, A., MOENS, M.-F., ZMAK, L. & DALBELO BASIC, B. (2009) Comparing Document Classification Schemes Using K-Means Clustering. In M. Tadić, B. Dalbelo Bašić & M.-F. Moens (Eds.). Technologies for Processing and Retrieval of Semi-Structured Documents (pp. 191-200). Zagreb: Croatian Language Technologies Society.
23. LIOMA, C., BLANCO, R., MOCHALES PALAU, R. & MOENS, M.-F. (2009) A Belief Network of Query Difficulty that Uses Subjective Logic. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Berlin: Springer.
24. M. TADIC, B. DALBELO BASIC & MOENS, M..-F. (2009) Computer-Aided Document Indexing Accessing Legislation: A Joint Venture of Flanders and Croatia. In M. Tadić, B. Dalbelo Bašić & M.-F. Moens (Eds.). Technologies for Processing and Retrieval of Semi-Structured Documents (pp. 3-13) . Zagreb: Croatian Language Technologies Society.
25. MOCHALES PALAU, Raquel & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2009) Argumentation Mining: The Detection, Classification and Structuring of Arguments in Text. In Proceedings of the 21st Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
26. DE SMET, Wim & MOENS, Marie-Francine (2009) Cross-Language Linking of News Stories on the Web Using Interlingual Topic Models. In Proceedings of the CIKM Workshop on Social Web Search and Mining ( SWSM 2009).
27. PHAM, Phi The, MOENS, Marie-Francine & TUYTELAARS, Tinne (2009) Cross-Media Alignment of Names and Faces, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (in press)
28. POULISSE, Gert-Jan, MOENS, Marie-Francine, DEKENS, Tomas & DESCHACHT, Koen (2009) News Story Segmentation in Multiple Modalities, Multimedia Tools and Applications (in press).
29. MOENS, Marie-Francine (2009) De slimme machine die kennis vergaart uit tekst. Karakter.

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