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Senior lecturer in computer science and linguistics   Research unit: LIMICS (INSERM UMRS 1142) IUT de Bobigny Université Paris 13 Multimedia and Internet Technologies Department 1, rue de Chablis 93017 BOBIGNY CEDEX France Phone: +33 1 48 38 73 07 (or 73 27) E-mail:

Cerisy 2012 (colloque Documents, Textes, Œuvres).

Research in computer science, linguistics, et semiotics (see résumé).

Member of LIMICS
(“Laboratoire d'Informatique Médicale et d'Ingénierie des Connaissances pour la Santé”
= Medical Informatics and Knowledge Engineering in E-Health)
UMRS INSERM 1142 – Université Paris 13 – Université Paris 6.

Research topics (in no specific order):

• Text mining for information extraction in multilingual corpora
• Learning language parameters from text corpora
• Analyzing contact phenomena in hybrid productions: contact between languages
  (e.g. Creole and French) or semiotic modalities (e.g. image and text)
• Syntactic and semantic modelling of Creole languages and contact languages

Teaching at the IUT de Bobigny (Université Paris 13) in applied Bachelor curricula (DUT and Licence Professionnelle) :

• In the field of computer science: web (HTML, CSS, PHP, XML, DOM HTML and XML)
  and database technologies (information system analysis and modelling, SQL)

• in the field of language sciences: general semiotics and visual semiotics

Detailed list of teaching activities

• Wrote a book about the semiotics of iconic texts: Sémiotique des langages d'icônes.
• Resources available on the web (in French):
  • Glossaire de sémiotique (A Glossary of Semiotics):;
  • Guide « Points de départ pour la recherche d'information en sciences du langage ».
  • Lectures on semiotics:
    1. Fondements de la théorie sémiotique  (Foundations of Semiotic Theories)
    2. Lecture de l'image (Reading images)
    3. Intertextualité — Intersémiotique (Intertextuality across Semiotic Modalities)
    4. Sémiologie des pictogrammes (Semiotics of Pictograms)
• C Software library for indexing and information retrieval, for clustering texts and lexical units
  MOTS (Mining-Oriented Text Statistics).
• Publications

On sabbatical leave for research (CRCT) during the Spring Semester 2015 – 2016.