Partners

The consortium is made of two academic partners and one industrial partner.

Aix-Marseille University (AMU)

• URL: http://www.lif.univ-mrs.fr
• Description: The TALEP team of the LIF laboratory of AMU develops symbolic and statistical methods for the automatic processing of textual and speech data. LIF will bring to the project its expertise in the linguistic analysis of non-canonical language.
• Role in the project: Developing deep semantic analysis methods on chat data
• Involved scientists: Prof. Frédéric Béchet (coordinator; former coordinator of the ANR DECODA and ANR PERCOL - DEFI REPERE); Prof. Alexis Nasr, (research interests on automatic processing of written language and speech, with a focus on probabilistic syntactic models); Dr. Benoit Favre (research interests on speech and text summarization and understanding with a focus on machine learning methods).

Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT)

• URL: http://www.irit.fr
• Description: The MELODI team of IRIT is a subgroup of 14 permanent researchers focusing on natural language processing, and knowledge representation. The group has an internationally recognized expertise in formal semantics, formal pragmatics and discourse analysis.
• Role in the project: Development of discourse models
• Involved scientists Nicholas Asher (DR CNRS), Stergos Afantenos, and Philippe Muller (both University of Toulouse associate professors) for discourse parsing and summarization; Farah Benamara (associate-professor at the University of Toulouse) for opinion mining and sentiment analysis.

Orange Labs

• URL: http://www.orange.com
• Description: The Orange Labs network is the key contributor for the Orange Group’s innovation. The FAST team (Future Architecture and Textual Analysis) gathers researchers, developers and architects that provide Natural Language Processing solutions towards the Group.
• Role in the project: Development of solutions for the foreseen use-cases; Integration in existing CRM tools; Interface with operational units for providing corpora and gathering feedback on results.
• Involved scientists: Dr Géraldine Damnati (research interests in natural language understanding and data mining for CRM, involved in internal projects with operational units); Dr Delphine Charlet (research interests on language understanding with special attention paid to applicative constraints); Dr Aleksandra Guerraz (research interest in syntactic and semantic analysis with a focus on linguistic resource construction and maintenance).