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Short bio

My name is Carlos Ramisch (he/him). I am an assistant professor (maître de conférences, HDR) in computer science, specialised in computational linguistics/natural language processing. I am affiliated to Aix Marseille University in France, and member of the TALEP research group of LIS. I am a member of the gender equality commission of LIS and one of the organisers of les Cigales, a maths camp for highschool girls. I co-authored with Marion Cluzel the comic strip "La grande aventure du TAL". Beyond my work as a lecturer and researcher, I am involved in associations such as the theatre company Accidens and Chems Pause, among other things.

I obtained my PhD in 2012 from a "co-tutelle" between the University of Grenoble (France) and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), under the supervision of Christian Boitet and Aline Villavicencio. Before that, I had obtained a Bachelor's degree from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and a Master's degree from ENSIMAG at Grenoble INP. More recently, I defended my "HDR" at Aix Marseille University in 2023 (details below).

I am passionate about multiword expressions (MWEs) and I work on building and evaluating NLP systems that take MWEs into account. I am also interested in parsing, semantics, representations, annotation, low-resourced languages, unsupervised and semi-supervised methods, and (of course) language models. I am involved in the PARSEME community, especially in the organisation of annotation campaigns and shared tasks on MWE identification and paraphrasing, which took place in 2017, 2018, 2020, 2026 and 2027. In the past, I created a software called mwetoolkit (active for about 10 years but no longer maintained). At that time, I also wrote a book on MWEs based on the mwetoolkit, available on Springer Link. (errata).

I was co-chair of the 2010, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022 editions of the workshop on multiword expressions, as well as reviewer and area chair of several conferences, including many ARR cycles. I was the elected representative of the MWE Section of SIGLEX from 2020 to 2022. I am a member of the editorial board of LSP's series on Phraseology and Multiword Expressions. I also gave a course on MWEs at ESSLLI 2018, a tutorial on MWEs at LREC 2022. Together with Manon Scholivet, we created a course on scientific methodology 🐙 that was presented, among other venues, at ESSLLI 2024 and ALPS 2026.

Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR)

I defended my habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) in 2023 at Aix Marseille University, entitled Multiword expressions in computational linguistics:

Research projects

I am/was involved in the following funded projects and grants:

Contact

You can find my email address on the first page of most of my publications.
I also have a gmail address, with the same username.

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