Personnel
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Research Program
Application Domains
Highlights of the Year
New Software and Platforms
New Results
Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry
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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

NiceCampus Research Lab

Participant : Nhan Le Thanh.

NiceCampus Research Lab (from training to/and through research to a Joint International Laboratory) is a framework for cooperation for research training. This framework is proposed by the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis to support the 911 Vietnamese research training program that aims to support the development of Vietnamese universities. The NiceCampus Lab Project was a winner of the AUF Call for Proposals 2016-2017. In this context, the MIRE (Maison de l'innovation et de la recherche NiceCampus) was created at University of Da Nang (Vietnam).

DILPROSPECT

Participant : Andrea Tettamanzi.

We participated in the interdisciplinary DILPROSPECT CNRS Project, with researchers of many other research units, including the UMR 7300 ESPACE and INRA on the study of the interface between constructed and natural land on the French Riviera.

AZKAR

Participants : Alain Giboin, Thierry Bergeron, Michel Buffa, Catherine Faron Zucker.

The AZKAR research project (http://www.azkar.fr), funded by the BPI, started in 2014, ended in September 2017. This project brings together the world of robotics assistance and the Web of linked data. Its goal was to experiment P2P remote control of a mobile robot using only Web technologies, as well as using artificial intelligence supported by semantic Web formalisms, schemas and datasets in the context of museum visits. Many experiments took place at the Museum of the Great War of Meaux and at the Cité des Sciences de la Villette. The places thus visited at a distance, the spaces and the elements they contain are described with the help of an ontology of the scenes, objects, observation points and paths specific to the museum. Geography and collections are captured using linked data and integrated with Web resources external to the museum to enrich the scenes and objects observed. On this basis, we have designed a demonstrator to offer external media based on visited museum scenes, implementing SPARQL queries on a previously populated triplestore.

ANR WASABI

Participants : Michel Buffa, Elena Cabrio, Catherine Faron Zucker.

The ANR project WASABI started in January 2017 with IRCAM, Deezer, Radio France and the SME Parisson, consists in building a 2 million songs knowledge base of commercial popular music (rock, pop, etc.) Its originality is the joint use of audio-based music information extraction algorithms, song lyrics analysis algorithms (natural language processing), and the use of the Semantic Web. Web Audio technologies will then explore these bases of musical knowledge by providing innovative applications for composers, musicologists, music schools and sound engineers, music broadcasters and journalists.

ANR SIDES 3.0

Participants : Catherine Faron Zucker, Olivier Corby, Fabien Gandon, Alain Giboin, Andrea Tettamanzi.

Partners: Université Grenoble Alpes, Inria, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Viseo, Theia.

SIDES 3.0 is an ANR project (2017-2020) which started in fall 2017. It is led by Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) and its general objective is to introduce semantics within the existing SIDES educational platform (http://side-sante.org/) for medicine students, in order to provide them with added value educational services.

Web site: https://www.uness.fr/projets/sides

Ministry of Culture: DBpedia.fr

Participants : Elmahdi Korfed, Fabien Gandon.

This DBpedia.fr project proposes the creation of a French chapter of the DBpedia database. This project was the first project of the Semanticpedia convention signed by the Ministry of Culture, the Wikimedia foundation and Inria.

Web site: http://dbpedia.fr

Convention between Inria and the Ministry of Culture

Participant : Fabien Gandon.

We supervise the research convention with the Ministry of Culture to foster research and development at the crossroad of culture and digital sciences. This convention signed between Inria and the Ministry of Culture provides a framework to support projects at the cross-road of the cultural domain and the digital sciences.

QWANT-Inria Joint Laboratory

Participant : Fabien Gandon.

We supervise the QWANT-Inria Joint Laboratory where joint teams are created and funded to contribute to the search engine research and development. The motto of the joint lab is Smart Search and Privacy with five research directions:

GDRI Zoomathia

Participants : Catherine Faron Zucker, Franck Michel, Alexandre Monnin, Andrea Tettamanzi.

Wimmics is partner of the International Research Group (GDRI) Zoomathia funded by two CNRS institutes: INEE and INSHS. It aims at studying transmission of zoological knowledge from Antiquity to Middle-Age through material resources (bio residues, artefacts), iconography and texts.

One of the goals of the project is to design a thesaurus and semantically annotate resources, capturing different types of knowledge: zoonyme, historical period, zoological speciality (ethology, anatomy, physiology, psychology, zootechnique, etc.), litterary genre or iconography.

This year, as a continuation of the work initiated with the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris during the last two years, we have proposed a model to represent taxonomic and nomenclatural information as Linked Data, and we published the french taxonomic register on the Web along this model.

On another note, we worked with researhers from CEPAM on the applying plagiarism detection methods in the analysis of manuscript transmission.

Web site: http://www.cepam.cnrs.fr/zoomathia/

FUI PadDOC

Participants : Patrice Pena, Alain Giboin.

PadDOC goal is to contribute to accelerating the digital transition of citizen, local and regional authorities, administrations and enterprises, by : (1) developing an open standard and innovative software and hardware resources to facilitate nearby or distant administrative formalities and procedures; (2) improving the security of the holder’s personal data by putting these data under the exclusive control of the holder; (3) by exploiting unmarked communicating supports (such as smartphones or tablets) for all chain actors. PadDOC partners are: Docapost BPO, Anyces, ABC SmartCard and the teams Rainbow, Media-Coding and Wimmics. Started in November 2014, the project ended this year (June 2017). Wimmics contributed to the analysis, design and evaluation of the PadDOC security-oriented user interfaces