Presentation on Predictive AI at IFA+ Summit, Berlin, Sept 2017

Cross Language Information RetrievalDistributional Semantics

• Manager research project on Personal Semantics• Adjunct director, Digital Society Institute• Steering Board, EU ETP New European Media• Won Taxonomy Induction Task at SemEval 2015https://www.lri.fr/~ggrefens/index.html

• Chief Science Officer, 2008-2011• Developed virtual Digital Media Asset offer• Liaison with business and scientific community, messaging, about semantic processing (papers, talks, presentations)• Provide scientific oversight and guidance to the R&D (35 research engineers) in European and national research programs, publications• Produce arguments for intellectual property protection during patent suits• Organize international workshop and conferences (USETIM’2009, RIAO’2010, WWW 2012 Industry track)

• Manage portfolio of research and engineering projects (10 projects with funding of $2m/yr) • Provide scientific oversight and guidance to the research team (18 researchers) • Manage team recruitment and development • Manage technology transfer and intellectual property protection • Organize international workshop and conferences (e.g. OntoImage’2006, RIAO’2007) • Numerous papers, publications • Head of LIC2M laboratory, 2005-2006• Lagardere Foundation Laureate, innovative ideas 2007-2008http://www.kalisteo.org/demo/semanticmap/

• Built and managed the Clairvoyance text mining team • Researched means for exploiting the web to solve a variety of natural language processing tasks. Results were transferred to, and used in commercial products by, JustSystems Corp • Co-ordinated Japanese-US research campaign in information retrieval (NTCIR-3, -4) • Organized international conferences (RIAO’2004) ; guest editor “Web as Corpus” Computational Linguistics journal • Patents, papers and publications

• led Multilingual Text Mining Team (5 Phds and engineers); organized new hires • created prototypes (text summarizer for blind, creating communities by monitoring work web browsing, document souls), leading to 16 of my granted US Xerox patents • coordinated information retrieval research between XRCE and Xerox PARC TREC 4,5,6) • served on Xerox Technical Advisory Panel reviewing merit of patent applications • oversaw transfer of research technology to commercial projects (language identifier to ScanSoft; natural language processing technology (NLP) to Inxight, Xerox XELDA NLP platform to Xerox MKMS [subsequently sold to TEMIS]) • help build advanced prototyping team for Document Souls; helped build business plan, documentation and presentations for Document Souls (including personal presentations to Xerox leadership Paul Allaire, Anne Mulcahy) • adapted Software Product Improvement methods to XRCE research

taught undergraduate computer science, research in natural language processing

taught master level computer science courses

integrated a natural language processing step into a commercial information retrieval system (MISTRAL), computer engineering, debugging, code maintenance, FORTRAN