Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

Laurent Amsaleg was the technical program chair of the Intl. Conf. on Similarity Search and Applications 2016.

Laurent Amsaleg and Vincent Claveau, with X. Tannier (LIMSI-CNRS), D. Nouvel (Inalco) organized a workshop about Computational Journalism. More than 50 persons (computer scientists, sociologists, and news/media compan fellows) attented. Program available at http://compjournalism2016.irisa.fr.

Pascale Sébillot is a member of the permanent steering committee of Conf. Francophone en Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles.

Member of the Organizing Committees

Simon Malinowski was in the organizing committee of the Workshop on Advanced Analysis and Learning on Temporal Data (AALTD 16) held in Riva del Garda, colocated with ECML/PKDD 2016.

Guillaume Gravier was co-chair of a special session at The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop Odyssey 2016.

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

Vincent Claveau was area chair of the French-speaking conference Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel 2016.

Guillaume Gravier was technical program chair of the International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing 2016.

Guillaume Gravier was area chair of the ACM Intl. Conf. on Multimedia 2016.

Guillaume Gravier was technical program chair of the French-speaking international conference Journées d'Études sur la Parole 2016.

Pascale Sébillot was area chair of the French-speaking conference Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel 2016.

Member of Conference Program Committees

Laurent Amsaleg was a PC member of: Intl. Conf. on Similarity Search and Applications; ACM Intl. Conf. on Multimedia Retrieval; IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Exhibition.

Yannis Avrithis was a PC member of: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; European Conference on Computer Vision; British Machine Vision Conference; ACM Multimedia Conference on Multimedia; European Signal Processing Conference; Intl. Conference on Multimedia and Expo; IEEE Intl. Conference in Image Processing; IEEE Intl. Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing; Intl. Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing.

Vincent Claveau was a PC member of: ACL demonstration track; Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing; Conf. Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel; CORIA; Language Resources and Evaluation Conf.

Teddy Furon was a PC member of ACM Information Hiding and Multimedia Security.

Guillaume Gravier was a PC member of: ACM Intl. Conf. on Multimedia; IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Exhibition; Annual Conf. of the Intl. Speech Communication Association; IEEE Intl. Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing; European Conf. on Information Retrieval; Conf. on Knowledge and Information Management; IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing; Intl. Conf. on Statistical Language and Speech Processing; Language Resources and Evaluation Conf.

Ewa Kijak was a PC member of Intl. Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing.

Pascale Sébillot was a PC member of: ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management; European Conference on Information Retrieval; Conférence nationale en intelligence artificielle; Conf. Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles; Colloque international sur l’écrit et le document

Reviewer

Ewa Kijak reviewed for ACM Conf. on Multimedia.

Pascale Sébillot was a scientific committee member of: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

Vincent Claveau is member of the editoral board of the journal Traitement Automatique des Langues.

Vincent Claveau was guest editor of the special issue on Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing of the journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (published in 2016).

Guillaume Gravier was appointed associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Multimedia in Sep. 2016.

Guillaume Gravier is guest editor of the special issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications on content-based multimedia indexing (to appear in 2017).

Guillaume Gravier was editor of the Working Notes Proc. of the MediaEval Multimedia Benchmark.

Pascale Sébillot is editor of the Journal Traitement Automatique des Langues.

Pascale Sébillot is member of the editorial board of the Journal Traitement Automatique des Langues.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

Laurent Amsaleg was a reviewer for: IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Pattern Recognition Letters, IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics & Security, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing.

Yannis Avrithis was a reviewer for Multimedia Tools and Applications, Elsevier Neurocomputing.

Vincent Claveau reviewed for Multimedia Tools and Applications, Elsevier Knowledge-Based Systems, Elsevier Information Sciences, Traitement Automatique des Langues.

Teddy Furon is a reviewer for IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security, Elsevier Digital Signal Processing, EURASIP Journal of Information Security, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing.

Guillaume Gravier reviewed for Computer Speech and Language.

Pascale Sébillot was member of the reading committee for several issues of the Journal Traitement Automatique des Langues.

Invited Talks

Yannis Avrithis gave an invited talk at Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Colloquium on March 31 in Prague, http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/cmp/events/colloquium-2016.03.31.

Vincent Claveau gave an invited talk at Congrès de l'ACFAS, colloque Documents et ressources pour leur traitement : un couplage crucial, Montreal.

Vincent Claveau gave an invited talk at Séminaire D2K du labex Digicosme, Paris.

Vincent Claveau gave an invited talk at Séminaire commun RALI−OLST, Montréal.

Guillaume Gravier gave an invited talk at the ACM Multimedia 2016 TPC workshop.

Guillaume Gravier was invited as a panelist at the Intl. Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing.

Guillaume Gravier gave an invited talk at the Journées de Statistique de Rennes (JSTAR).

Guillaume Gravier animated a round-table on 'Jeux de données et données en jeu : l’accès des données à des fins de recherche' at the Rencontres du Numérique organized by the National Research Agency (ANR).

Simon Malinowski gave an invited talk on time series classification at PUC Minas, Brazil.

Pascale Sébillot gave an invited tutorial (8h) about NLP at Institut de l’information scientifique et technique (INiST) Nancy.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

Laurent Amsaleg was nominated to be part of the Steering Committee of SISAP for a 2016–2020 term.

Vincent Claveau is finance head of the Association pour la Recherche d'Informations et ses Applications (ARIA).

Guillaume Gravier is president of the Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP), French-speaking branch of the Intl. Speech Communication Association.

Guillaume Gravier is co-founder and general chair of the ISCA SIG Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia.

Guillaume Gravier is member of the Community Council of the Mediaeval Multimedia Evaluation series.

Guillaume Gravier is the technical representative of Inria in the cPPP Big Data Value Association, actively working on technical aspects of data analytics.

Scientific Expertise

Laurent Amsaleg was an Expert Evaluator for the Luxembourg National Research Fund, 2016.

Vincent Claveau was an expert for the FNRS (Belgian funding agency).

Vincent Claveau was an expert for GIFAS − Groupement des Industries Françaises Aéronautiques et Spatiales.

Vincent Claveau was an expert for the Programme Hubert Curien (funding program for bilateral projects).

Teddy Furon is scientific adviser for the company LAMARK.

Guillaume Gravier was vice-president of the Scientific Evaluation Committee of the National Research Agency for the theme 'Interaction, Robotic, Content, Automatic' up to July 2016.

Since September 2016, Guillaume Gravier is president of the Scientific Evaluation Committee of the National Research Agency for the theme 'Knowledge, data, content, big data, HPC, simulation'.

Research Administration

Vincent Claveau is deputy head of the GdR MaDICS, a CNRS inter-lab initiative to promote research about Big Data and Data Science.

Guillaume Gravier is a member of the Board of the technology cluster Images & Réseaux.

Guillaume Gravier is a member of the Board of the Comité des Projets of Inria - Rennes Bretagne Atlantique.

Pascale Sébillot is a member of the Conseil National des Universités 27th section (computer science).

Pascale Sébillot is the director of the Computer Science Laboratory, INSA Rennes.

Pascale Sébillot is the deputy director of the Scientific Advisory Committee of IRISA UMR 6074.

Pascale Sébillot is a member of the theses advisory committee of the Matisse doctoral school.