Section: Application Domains

TAO & Humanities

Several projects related to research for Humanities and/or research transfer have started in 2015:

• Personal semantics (Gregory Grefenstette). In the current digital world, individuals generate increasing amount of personal data. Our work involves discovering semantic axes for organizing and exploiting this data for personal use.

• Gregorius (Cécile Germain & Gregory Grefenstette). An application of semantic structuring and automatic enrichment of existing digital humanities archives.

• Cartolabe (Ph. Caillou, Gregory Grefenstette, Jean-Daniel Fekete - AVIZ, Michèle Sebag). The Cartolabe project applies machine learning techniques to determine comprehensible structures in unstructured data. The goal is to use raw textual data, and underspecified ontologies, to provide intuitive access to pertinent research activities in a large research organisation.

• AmiQap (Ph. Caillou, Michèle Sebag). The multivariate analysis of questionaire data relative to the quality of life at work, in relation with the socio-economical indicators of firms, aims at investigating the relationship between quality of life and economic performances (depending on the activity domain).

• Collaborative Hiring (Ph. Caillou, Michèle Sebag). Thomas Schmitt's PhD, started in 2014, aims at handling job offers and demands matching as a collaborative filtering problem.

• IODS (Wikidata for Science).

Significant challenges include some Big Data problems:

• learning interpretable clusters from bottom-up treatment of mixed text and numerical data

• aligning bottom-up clusters with existing manually created top-down structures

• building a unified system integrating the "dire d'experts".

Partners:

• Amiqap is funded by ISN, with Telecom SES, RITM and La Fabrique as partners.

• The collaborative hiring study is conducted in cooperation with J.P. Nadal from EHESS.