Maxime

Biography:

Researcher in AI and NLP, specializing in semantics and automatic dialogue analysis. He spent a year as an engineer at Orange before joining the University of Lorraine in 2009 as a specialist in the computation of natural language semantics. At Loria (UMR 7503), he has developed interdisciplinary research into the analysis of conversations between clinicians and patients suffering from mental disorders. He has also studied the ethical issues involved in developments in NLP. He has published over 80 scientific articles. He has had 4 theses defended and is supervising 3 other theses on these themes and has supervised numerous students (including 15 M2 Research students). He has been responsible for several scientific projects, including an INRIA exploratory project in collaboration with the DFKI. He is also involved in one of the PEPR digital health projects. He was co-leader of a workpackage in the Olki project. He is the founder of the Master in NLP at the IDMC, which is part of the Erasmus Mundus Language and Communication Technologies programme. His active teaching activity includes the creation of specialized courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has a strong scientific mediation activity, and was notably deputy scientific manager of interstices.info for 6 years. He has been editor-in-chief of the TAL journal since 2023, and a reviewer for the main conferences and journals in the discipline since 2010 (ACL, NAACL, EACL, WOLLIC, IWCS, TALN, etc.). He is elected to the CNU 27, and has been elected to a number of councils at the Université de Lorraine over the past 12 years.