Project : acacia

Section: Dissemination

Teaching

University

• The Acacia project is a welcoming team of the ``École doctorale STIC of the Nice - Sophia Antipolis University (UNSA)''.

• The members of the project gave the following courses:

  • UNSA, Département d'Informatique: Thanh-Le Bach gave a practical course: "UEF 1 Informatique et programmation" (18 hours TP)

  • Olivier Corby gave the following courses:

    • ESSI: Course on XML 2 hours and 7 hours TP

    • ENTPE: Course on Knowledge engineering and XML: 12 hours

    • UTT Troyes: Course on RDF and Corese semantic search engine: 2 hours

    • ISIM Montpellier: Course on Ontologies and semantic web: 4 hours

  • ENTPE, Lyon : Rose Dieng-Kuntz is the main professor of a 30h module on artificial intelligence where Rose Dieng-Kuntz (12h on Knowledge Acquisition and Management and on Multiagent Systems), Olivier Corby (12h on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning and on XML and Semantic Web) and Bertrand Neveu, Coprin project gave courses.

  • ISIM, Montpellier: Rose Dieng-Kuntz gave 6h of courses on Knowledge Acquisition and Knowledge Engineering and on Knowledge Capitalization.

  • Institut National des Télécommunications (INT): Rose Dieng-Kuntz gave a course on Methods and Tools for Knowledge Capitalization (1 hour). This course will be published as a chapter of a book [42].

  • Alain Giboin gave the following courses:

    • ESSI 3rd year, Module « Interfaces graphiques homme-machine » (GUI), Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis: contribution to the organization of the module, lectures, participation to tutorials, and assessment of students' GUI projects (21 h).

    • DESS « Ergonomie des Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (ErgoNTIC) », Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis : lectures (12 h), tutoring and training supervision.

    • Coordination between the ESSI GUI Module and the DESS ErgoNTIC. This coordination aims at making work together software engineers and ergonomists as early as the learning phase, and to allow software engineering and ergonomics teachers to set up joint actions promoting cooperation between software engineers and ergonomists.

  • ESSI: Khaled Khelif gave Practical courses on XML (8 hours in February 2003) and on Java Programming at ESSI (since September 2003, 4 hours per week)

Theses

• Defended Theses:

  1. Carolina Medina-Ramírez : ''Contribution to semantic information retrieval: knowledge capitalization in a memory of gene interactions'', ``Contribution à la recherche d'informations sémantiques: Capitalisation de connaissances dans une mémoire d'interactions géniques'', Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, September 30, 2003.

     KeyWords: Semantic information retrieval, Conceptual Graphs, genic interactions, semantic annotations, ontology, RDF(S), XML, XSLT, documentary memories and virtual documents generation.

     Abstract

     The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, in order to be accessible and comprehensible not only by humans but also by computers thus enabling cooperation between computers and people. This approach relies on ontologies (information exchange and search), semantic annotations (document content representation) and formal knowledge representation languages (for representing these ontologies and annotations). The ongoing works in this direction have produced several methods, knowledge representation formalisms, and tools to annotate and manipulate in a semantic manner Web resources. Nevertheless, the huge amount of formalisms proposed shows not only the increasing interest of such approach but also the problems faced when sharing annotations and ontologies. We argue that translation methods seem necessary to share and re-use knowledge using languages with different expressivity levels. In addition, among the heterogeneous resources belonging for example to a scientific community or an enterprise, documents (in electronic or paper supports) constitute a significant source of knowledge to be represented, handled, queried and diffused. The thesis offers both a translation process from languages using differents semantic levels and an environment for managing, capitalizing and distributing knowledge into an information retrieval framework.

• Current theses :

  1. Laurent Alamarguy: Ontologies and Semantic Relations Acquisition from Biomedical Corpora, université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis.

  2. Thanh-Le Bach: Construction of a Multi-Viewpoints Semantic Web, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris.

  3. Tuan-Dung Cao: Software Agents for the Web Mining, Application to Technological and Scientific Watch, Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis.

  4. Khaled Khelif : Semantic Web and Experiment Memory for the Transcriptome Analysis, université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis (in collaboration with IPMC and Bayer Crop Science).

• Thesis jurys: Rose Dieng-Kuntz was member of the following thesis jurys:

  • chair for Maria Nava (University of Paris 4 - Sorbonne),

  • chair for Christian Frank at INPG (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble),

  • member for Rim Ehelou (university Henri Poincaré Nancy 1),

  • supervisor for Carolina Medina-Ramirez (UNSA).

Training

We welcomed the following trainees:

• Jean-Baptiste Ciccolella, UNSA: « Base de données pour moteur de recherche sémantique »

• Frédéric Corby, IUT Montpellier: « Traduction d'une base de données médicales en RDF »,

• Karine Delêtre, UNSA, DESS Ergonomie des Nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication: « Étude ergonomique des fonctionnalités de collecticiels au sein du projet KMP »

• Phuc-Hiep Luong, IFI (Institut de la francophonie pour l'informatique du Vietnam): « Études sur les Graphes Conceptuels Flous et RDF(S) Flou : implémentations dans un Staff Virtuel dans le cadre d'un réseau de soins ».

• Dabid Minier, ESIEA, Laval: « Ontologie et annotations pour un réseau de soin dans le cadre du système Ligne de Vie ».