Violeta Seretan

Contact information: ISSCO/TIM/FTI University of Geneva 40 bd. du Pont-d'Arve CH-1211 Geneva 4 Switzerland Tel: +41 22 379 8683 Office number: M6336

Senior Research Associate and Lecturer, Department of Translation Technology
MSc Al.I.Cuza 2000, computer science; PhD Geneva 2008, linguistics.

Research

Areas: computational linguistics, natural language processing, information extraction, computational lexicography, translation technology

Places: NLP Group @ Infoiasi, LATL, FX-PAL, ILCC, TIM/ISSCO (since 2011)

Projects

• ACCEPT – Automated Community Content Editing PorTal, European FP7-ICT project (288769)
• PARSEME – PARSing and Multi-word Expressions, European IC1207 COST Action
• An Integer Linear Programming approach to text-to-text generation, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Grant for Advanced Researchers (131512), ILCC, Edinburgh
• Multilingual Parsing (103999, 117944), Multilingual Translation (113864), SNSF projects related to LATL's parsing and machine translation systems
• Linguistic analysis and collocation extraction, RUIG-GIAN project (11)

Interests

Current machine translation translation aids and tools pre-editing and post-editing controlled natural languages text-to-text generation text simplification text readability	Persistent/Past syntactic parsing information extraction collocations, multi-word expressions, terminology lexical acquisition, association measures context-sensitive dictionaries corpus linguistics, Web as a corpus text alignment, parallel concordancing  textual entailment, nominalization discourse analysis, anaphora argumentative analysis linear programming approaches to NLP

Teaching

• XML et documents multilingues (XML and Multilingual Documents)
• Séminaire de recherche (Research Methodologies)
• Ecole doctorale virtuelle (Virtual Doctoral School) – pedagogical innovation project, first and second pilot phase
• Past courses: Natural Language Processing, Computer Science 2: UML and Databases

Publications

Professional Activities

Conference Organisation: MUMTTT 2015, MUMTTT 2013, ACL-SRW 2007, EACL-SRW 2006 (co-chair)

Reviewing

• Conferences and Workshops: RANLP 2015, EUROPHRAS2015, ACL-IJCNLP 2015, MWE 2015, EAMT 2014, HaCaT, MWE 2014, RANLP 2013, *SEM-2012, LREC 2012, ACL 2012, EACL 2012, CIJC 2012, ConsILR 2011, CLA'11, RANLP 2011, MWE 2011, ACL/HLT 2011, CLA'10, ConsILR 2010, MWE 2010, COLING 2010, ACL 2010, LREC 2010, PROMISE 2010, MWE 2009, ConsILR 2008, MWE 2008, ConsILR 2007, ACL07-MWE, EUROLAN 2007 Doctoral Consortium, RANLP-2007, AMML (W6@RANLP 2007), MWE 2006, ROMAND 2006


• Journals: Information Processing & Management (2015), Journal of Social Science (2015), Journal of Information Science (2014), International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems (2013), Revue de linguistique et de didactique des langues (2013), ACM TSLP Special Issue on MWEs (2012), Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2012), Natural Language Engineering (2011, 2008), ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (2010), Language Resources and Evaluation (2008), Computational Linguistics (December 2007, Vol. 33, No. 4)

Recognition

Keynote speaker at the RANLP 2013 conference (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Hissar, Bulgaria):

Collocation Extraction Based on Syntactic Criteria (PDF)

Invited talks: I have given invited talks in France, United Kingdom, Greece, Bulgaria, United States, and Switzerland. Selected titles:

• The analytics of word sociology, tutorial @ RANLP 2013 (PPT, PDF)
• On translating syntactically-flexible expressions, invited talk @ MUMTTT 2013
• Two computational linguistics applications and a bridge between them, invited talk at ICL 2013 (PDF)
• Le traitement automatique des collocations: modélisation, détection, utilisation
• L'environnement de traitement de collocations de LATL
• Collocation extraction with a multilingual parser: Demonstration for Greek
• Decoding the predicate-argument structure of nominalizations
• Natural language analysis at sentence level and beyond: Methods based on symbolic approaches

Plenary Talk Chair for the 2015 conference of the European Society of Phraseology

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Heid – Extracting linguistic knowledge about collocation from corpora (introduction)

University of Geneva 2010 Latsis Prize for my PhD thesis:

Collocation Extraction Based on Syntactic Parsing (PDF)

Best Paper Award at the TALN 2007 conference (Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, Toulouse, France) for my article with Eric Wehrli:

Collocation Translation Based on Sentence Alignment and Parsing (PDF)

EACL Student Board member, 2005–2007