Bénédicte LE GRAND
I am a Full Professor at Universite Paris 1 Pantheon - Sorbonne. I am doing some research at Centre de Recherche en Informatique (CRI).
I used to be Associate Professor (HDR - Habilitée à Diriger des Recherches) at Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
Research Activities
Communities (of users or machines)
in spontaneous networks – New research direction
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Identify communities’ needs in terms of services.
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Adaptation of network architecture and mechanisms to
support communities.
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Study incentive mechanisms to stimulate users’
participation ; take into account behaviors and sociological criteria.
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Identify implicit
communities.
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Application to spontaneous networks (e.g. ad hoc or
P2P networks).
Projects : RNRT Airnet,
IST WIP, IST NoE Content.
Co-direction of a PhD on
communities in spontaneous networks
Semantic
Web - Knowledge Management – User profiles
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Contribution to semantic annotation standards,
allowing to exploit data more efficiently (e.g. to provide more relevant
information retrieval results). This research direction consists in describing
resources (without modifying them) with semantic annotation or metadata. The
Semantic Web initiative, conducted by Tim Berners-Lee, W3C, aims at promoting
such standards at various expressiveness levels.
In this context, I work on RDF and Topic Map standards. I am also interested in
the information and inference capabilities provided by ontologies. All these
standars make data integration easier, whatever their format or model is. The
goal of my research is to ease the –partial- automation of the semantic annotation
process, through concepts and relationships extraction techniques.
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Work on ontologies management and evolution.
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Definition of users profiles based on the analysis of
Web navigation traces.
Contribution to the
specification of XML Topic Maps (XTM), allowing to build a semantic graph above
data.
Project: IST craft HiTouch
(semantic search engine, dedicated to tourism).
Independant expert for the
European, for projects’ evaluation (FP6).
Publications in several book chapters (cf. publications).
Introduction to metadata and to Semantic Web
applications.
Data Analysis and Visualization
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Utilization of data analysis techniques, in particular
conceptual analysis and Galois lattices construction, for data interpretation
and for identification of implicit semantics.
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Definition and application of conceptual contexts for
information retrieval.
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Work on complex data visualization and navigation. Definition
of representation and navigation metaphors in order to propose intuitive
information retrieval in knowledge bases. These representations should allow a
transparent navigation both at resource and at semantics levels.
Co-organization of several workshops (Knowledge Visualization and
Extraction at EGC 2005 and EGC 2006 conferences)
Project: RNTL Eiffel
Publications in conferences,
reviews and book chapters (cf. publications).
Teaching
Activities
Since 2002 Associate Professor in
Computer Sciences at l’Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6).
Introduction to computer networks - L3
Responsible
of the New Generation Internet module - M1
Computer
networks architecture - M1
Advanced
computer networks
2005 « Semantic
Web : Standards and Applications » tutorial at STMicroelectronics,
2001/2002 Assistant Professor at Université Pierre et
Marie Curie (Paris 6).
Mobile networks –M2
Computer
networks – engineering school (IST)
XML –
engineering school (ENST)
Email
: Benedicte.Le-Grand@univ-paris1.fr