Véronique MALAISÉ
I am a Postdoc at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and I am working on the NWO funded CHOICE@CATCH project.

Contact information
Business Informatics Section
Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Sciences
Vrije Universiteit (Route to the VU)
De Boelelaan 1081A,
1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Room: R 2.61 (Exact Sciences building)
Tel.: (+31/0) 20 59 87 449
Fax: (+31/0) 20 59 87 728 (section)
or 598 7653 (faculty)
E-mail: vmalaise at few.vu.nl


List of publications
Lectures I am involved in, at the Vrije Universiteit: ISO (year 2006 and 2007), Web-based Knowledge Representation (year 2007), Information Retrieval (years 2007 and 2008).
I reviewed papers for the conferences: 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC06), 1st Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2006), 18e Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des Connaissances(IC'07),
the Workshop: Mastering the Gap From Information Extraction to Semantic Representation (ISWC 2007 workshop),
and the journals: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (special issue on Semantic Image and Video Indexing in Broad Domains), Journal of Web Semantics (Special Issue on "Semantic Multimedia"), Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal
Invited speaker at the DELOS-Multimatch Workshop on Ontology-Driven Interoperability for Cultural Heritage Digital Objects, Pisa, 2006 (the slides are on the CHOICE Wiki).


Research Interests
My topics of interest focus on Natural Language Processing, in their interaction with ontology or terminology modelling. I'm also interested in the use of NLP techniques (associated with structured terminological resources or ontologies) for helping the indexing process of documents in a digital environment, and particularly for helping the indexing of audiovisual documents in such a context.
I started the research in this area during my masters' internship at the French National Audiovisual Institute (the National Archives for public broadcasted television and radio, in France), followed by a PhD in collaboration with this Institute. My PhD thesis is written in French, but it is publicly available.
Publications
CHOICE related publications (The papers -and more- are available on the CHOICE Wiki, in the "Publications" section)
Véronique Malaisé, Antoine Isaac, Luit Gazendam and Hennie Brugman.(2007). Anchoring Dutch Cultural Heritage Thesauri to WordNet: two case studies. LATECH'07, ACL 2007 Workshop, Prague, June 28th 2007.
Véronique Malaisé, Luit Gazendam and Hennie Brugman.(2007). Disambiguating automatic semantic annotation based on a thesaurus structure. TALN'07, Toulouse, June 2007.
Véronique Malaisé, Lora Aroyo, Hennie Brugman, Luit Gazendam, Annemieke de Jong, Christain Negru and Guus Schreiber.(2006). Evaluating a thesaurus browser for an audio-visual archive. EKAW'06, Prague, October 2006.
Mark van Assem, Veronique Malaisé, Alistair Miles and Guus Schreiber.(2006). A method to convert thesauri to SKOS. In Proc. Third European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'06), Budvar, Montenegro, June 2006.
Luit Gazendam, Véronique Malaisé, Guus Schreiber and Hennie Brugman. (2006). Deriving Semantic Annotations of an audiovisual program from contextual texts. To appear in Proceedings of First International workshop on Semantic Web Annotations for Multimedia (SWAMM 2006). 23 May 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Hennie Brugman, Véronique Malaisé, Luit Gazendam. (2006). A Web Based General Thesaurus Browser to Support Indexing of Television and Radio Programs. In Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006). 24-26 May 2006, Genoa, Italy.
NLP related publications Papers in Refereed Journals
V. Malaisé, P. Zweigenbaum, B. Bachimont, Mining defining contexts to help structuring differential ontologies, Terminology vol. 11:1(2005), pp. 21–53.
Papers at Refereed Conferences
A. Baneyx, V. Malaisé, J. Charlet, P. Zweigenbaum, B. Bachimont, Synergie entre analyse distributionnelle et patrons lexico-syntaxiques pour la construction d'ontologies différentielles, Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle (TIA'2005), Rouen, France, 4-5 avril 2005.
Synergy between distributional analysis and lexico-syntactic patterns for the building of differential ontologies
V. Malaisé, P. Zweigenbaum, B. Bachimont, Repérage et exploitation d'énoncés définitoires en corpus pour l'aide à la construction d'ontologies, in the 11ème édition de la conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2004)}, Fes 19-21 avril 2004.
Mining and exploiting natural language definitions from corpus to help the ontology modelling task
V. Malaisé, P. Zweigenbaum, B. Bachimont, Vers une combinaison de méthodologies pour la structuration de termes en corpus - Premier pas vers des ontologies dédiées à l'indexation de documents audiovisuels, to appear in 4ème congres ISKO-France (ISKO 2003), Grenoble 3-4 juillet 2003.
Towards a combination of NLP methodologies to structure terms from a corpus - first step towards ontologies dedicated to the indexing of audiovisual documents
L. Chamming's, V. Malaisé, C. Berthaut, La description de l'audiovisuel et l'apport du numérique, Colloque Compréhension et Hypermédia, Albi 10-11 octobre 2002, pp. 55-64.
Audiovisual documents description in the new context of numeric documents
Papers at Refereed Workshops
V. Malaisé, P. Zweigenbaum, B. Bachimont, Detecting Semantic Relations between Terms in Definitions, in the 3rd edition of CompuTerm Workshop (CompuTerm'2004) at Coling'2004, Geneva, Switzerland, 29th August 2004, pp. 55-62.
A. Isaac, P. Courounet, D. Genest, V. Malaisé, J. Nanard, M. Nanard, Un système d'annotation multiforme et communautaire de documents audiovisuels : OPALES, in Modèles Documentaires de l'audiovisuel, workshop at the Semaine du Document Numérique Conference, La Rochelle, France, 21-25 juin 2004.
A community oriented, plain text, forms or conceptual graphs annotation system for audiovisual documents: OPALES.
V. Malaisé, P. Zweigenbaum, B. Bachimont, Extraction d'informations sémantiques pour l'aide à la construction d'ontologies différentielles, Journée d'étude Terminologie Ontologie Représentation des Connaissances, Lyon 22-23rd january 2004.
Semantic informations extraction to help a modeller in building differential ontologies
R. Troncy, A. Isaac, V. Malaisé, Using XSLT for Interoperability: DOE and The Travelling Domain Experiment, to appear in 2nd International Workshop Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON 2003), Sanibel Island, Florida, 20th october 2003.
Posters at Refereed Conferences
N. Grabar, V. Malaisé, A. Marcus, A. Krul, Repérage de relations terminologiques transversales en corpus, to appear in the 11ème édition de la conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2004), Fes 19-21st april 2004.
Mining of transversal relations between terms in corpora
Education
2000-2001 DESS (Postgraduate Degree) in Multilingual Engineering
INaLCO (National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations), France
Majors: 
Corpus Linguistics
Information and Communication Technologies
Natural Language Processing
Projects:
Construction of an aligned corpus in Japanese and French
Construction of a bilingual (French and English) terminology in bio-ethics
Construction of a domain ontology in the field of anthropology
Contrastive linguistic analysis of revisionist and their opponants Web sites
1999-2000 Maîtrise (U.S. equivalent: first year of Master's degree) in Japanese language and culture
INaLCO (National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations), France
Mémoire:
The mountain and the death in ancient Japan

Languages : French
English
Japanese
German
Dutch 		native speaker
written and spoken
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