Curriculum vitae


EDUCATION

Stanford University
2006 - 2012
Ph.D. Program in Linguistics

2004 - 2006
Visiting researcher (NLP Group, working with Christopher D. Manning)

Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium
2000 - 2002
Advanced Studies in Applied Sciences, Computing Science.
Thesis: (Magna cum laude)
Modalités temporelles et aléthiques pour la traduction d'un fragment de la langue française
(Temporal and mandatory modalities for translating a subset of French).

1998 - 2000
"Licence" in classical Languages and Literatures.
Thesis: (Magna cum laude)
La création lexicale en latin. Tendances actuelles de la recherche
(Lexical word formation in Latin. Current research orientations).

1998 - 2000
Habilitation for teaching at the secondary school.

Facultés Notre-Dame de la Paix à Namur, Belgium
1996 - 1998
Bachelor's degree in classical Languages and Literatures.


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Since at OSU: see Teaching

Teaching assistant. 2008. Introduction to Cognitive and Information Sciences (Todd Davies), Linguistics Department, Stanford University.

Teaching assistant. 2007. Introduction to Computational Linguistics (Dan Jurafsky), Linguistics Department, Stanford University.

Teaching assistant. 2001-2004. Discrete mathematics, algorithmics and data structures, Computing Science Department, School of Engineering, UCL (Belgium).

Latin teacher. 2001. Collège Saint-Pierre Uccle, Belgium.


GUEST LECTURES AND INVITED TALKS

2015

"I think that's enough": Mental state verbs rarely report beliefs in child-directed speech. Buckeye Language Network symposium, The Ohio State University. March 13.

"Did it happen? The pragmatic complexity of veridicality assessment". Workshop on language, cognition, and computation, University of Chicago. February 6.

2014

"Modeling the lifespan of discourse entities with application to coreference resolution". Language Technology Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. December 5.

"Modeling the lifespan of discourse entities with application to coreference resolution". Computer Sciences, Pittsburgh University. November 14.

2013

"Aren't you tired of gradable adjectives? They are fascinating": Automatically deriving adjectival scales. Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University. December 4.

"Aren't you tired of gradable adjectives? They are fascinating": Automatically deriving adjectival scales. Computer Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. December 5.

2012

"What's that supposed to mean? Modeling the pragmatic meaning of utterances". Linguistics Department, The Ohio State University. March 5.

"Un modèle statistique de l'alternance dative chez l'enfant". Linguistics Department, Paris 7, Paris, France. January 27.

"What's that supposed to mean? Modeling the pragmatic meaning of utterances". Computer Science Department, University College London, England. January 26.

2011

"Monitoring distributional patterns in our input: probabilistic models for production and comprehension". Alpage, Inria - Paris 7, Paris, France. September 9.

"Computational models of utterance meaning". ISI, LA. April 29.

2008

"Finding contradictions in text". Yahoo!, Sunnyvale.

"Introduction to Computational Linguistics". Guest lecturer. Presentation for Introduction to Linguistics. Professors Penelope Eckert and Ivan Sag, Stanford University. November 10.

"Introduction to Computational Linguistics". Guest lecturer. Presentation for Introduction to Linguistics. Asya Pereltsvaig, Stanford University. June 4.


AWARDS

2015   NSF CRII award "What do you mean? Automatic identification of inferences drawn from text".

2013   Google Faculty Research Award

2013   NAACL Best short paper Award

2009   Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship

2004   Fellowship for Research in the U.S.A. Belgian American Educational Foundation

2004   Fulbright Scholarship. Commission For Educational Exchange


SERVICE

2015  OSU Linguistics Graduate Studies Committee
OSU Linguistics Laboratory and Computing Committee
OSU TIE Reviewing Committee
Co-organizer of the Named-Entity Recognition in Twitter shared task
(ACL Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text)
NSF Panelist (CISE directorate)
Reviewer, Treebanks and Linguistic Theories 14
Reviewer, EMNLP
Reviewer, TACL
Reviewer, DepLing
Reviewer, ACL
Reviewer, *SEM Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics
Reviewer, 11th Workshop on Multiword Expressions
Reviewer, Language Resources and Evaluation

2014  OSU Linguistics Graduate Studies Committee
OSU Linguistics Laboratory and Computing Committee
Reviewer, SIGDIAL
Reviewer, Computational Linguistics
Reviewer, CUNY
Reviewer, ACL
Reviewer, 10th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (EACL)
Reviewer, Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning
Reviewer, European Association for Computational Linguistics
Reviewer, International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling)

2013  OSU Linguistics Graduate Studies Committee
OSU Linguistics Laboratory and Computing Committee
Reviewer, International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
Reviewer, Language and Speech
Reviewer, ACL
Reviewer, EMNLP
Reviewer, Workshop on Annotation of Modal Meaning in Natural Language
Reviewer, *SEM Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics

2012   Reviewer, Linguisticae Investigationes
Reviewer, ACL
Reviewer, EMNLP
Reviewer, *SEM Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics
Reviewer, International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling)

2011   Stanford Linguistics Search Committee
Reviewer, ACL
Reviewer, EMNLP
Reviewer, TextInfer 2011 Workshop on Textual Inference (ACL)
Reviewer, Workshop on Crowdsourcing Technologies for
Reviewer, Language and Cognition Studies (LSA Summer Institute)

2010   Stanford Linguistics Graduate Curriculum Review
Reviewer, EMNLP

2009   Stanford Linguistics Graduate Curriculum Review
Child Language Language Forum (CLRF) 2009 Organizing Committee
Reviewer, EMNLP

2008   Stanford Linguistics Colloquium Committee
Reviewer, EMNLP

2007   Stanford Linguistics Colloquium Committee

2006   Stanford Linguistics Department Social Committee
Stanford Linguistics Department Annual QP Fest Organizing Committee


LANGUAGES

French
English
Dutch (Deelcertificaat Nederlands als Vreemde Taal)