Welcome
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.
Slides of inaugural lesson given on 8-2-2008
Teaching
B-KUL-H02C8A - Text Based Information Retrieval
B-KUL-H02C8A - Natural Language ProcessingB-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
Go back to the LIIR research group webpages.
