Violaine Prince

Violaine Prince is full professor at the University Montpellier 2 (Montpellier, France). She obtained her PhD in 1986 at the university of Paris VII, and her ‘habilitation’ (post-PhD degree) at the University of Paris XI (Orsay). Previous head of Computer Science department at the Faculty of Sciences in Montpellier, previous head of the National University Council for Computer Science (grouping 3,000 professors and assistant professors in Computer Science in France), she now leads the NLP research team at LIRMM (Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier, a CNRS research unit). Her research interests are in natural language processing (NLP) and cognitive science. She has published more than 70 reviewed papers in books, journals and conferences, authored 10 research and education books, founded and chaired several conferences and belonged to program committees as well as journals reading committees. She is member of the board of the IEEE Computer Society French Chapter.

Publications

Information Retrieval in Biomedicine: Natural Language Processing for Knowledge Integration
Information Retrieval in Biomedicine: Natural Language Processing for Knowledge Integration
Violaine Prince, Mathieu Roche. © 2009. 460 pages.
Today, there is an intense interest for bio natural language processing (NLP) creating a need among researchers, academicians, and practitioners for a comprehensive publication...
Knowledge Acquisition Modeling Through Dialogue Between Cognitive Agents
Knowledge Acquisition Modeling Through Dialogue Between Cognitive Agents
Mehdi Yousfi-Monod, Violaine Prince. © 2007. 19 pages.
This article tackles learning and communication between cognitive artificial agents. Our focus is on dialogue as the only way for agents to acquire knowledge, as it often happens...