Section: Dissemination

Committees

• Alpage is involved in the French journal T.A.L. (AERES linguistic rank: A). Éric de La Clergerie is “Rédacteur en chef”. Laurence Danlos has been nominated as member of the editorial board. Benoît Sagot is “Secrétaire de rédaction” of the journal; Benoît Crabbé, Pascal Denis and Benoît Sagot did external reviews for T.A.L. in 2009.

• Éric de La Clergerie was program chair for the 2009 edition of the International Workshop on Parsing Technologies organized in Paris by Alpage, for which Laurence Danlos was local chair;

• Éric de La Clergerie was co-organizer of the ATALA worshop on “French Parsing Systems” (October 10th, 2009), as a satellite event of IWPT'09.

• Participation of Laurence Danlos to the program committee of TALN'09

• Participation of Éric de La Clergerie to the program committees of TALN'09, TEMA'09 and CLA'09. He has also reviewed for ACL-IJCNL'09 (areas: “Syntax and Parsing”) and EACL'09.

• Participation of Pierre Boullier to the program committees of ACL 2009

• Participation of Pascal Denis to the program committees of the journals ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing , ACM Computing Surveys and the conferences ACL 2009, EMNLP 2009, IEEE-ICSC 2009, the NAACL/HLT 2009 Workshop on Integer Linear Programming for NLP and TLS XII.

• Participation of Benoît Sagot to the program committees of ACL 2009 and TALN 2009

• Evaluation by Laurence Danlos of two projects for ANR Program CONTINT (STIC).

  Evaluation by Laurence Danlos of three CIFRE (ANRT) applications.

  Evaluation by Laurence Danlos of an INALCO team for AERES.

• Evaluation by Éric de La Clergerie of one project for ANR CONTINT Program

• Evaluation by Benoît Sagot of one project for ANR White Program

• Éric de La Clergerie participated to an AERES evaluation committee.

• Djamé Seddah and Benoît Sagot are elected board member of the French NLP society (ATALA);

  Djamé Seddah is Program Chair of the “Journées ATALA” (one day long workshops in NLP, 4 or 5 per year).

• Laurence Danlos was the head of the organizing committee for the 50th birthday of ATALA (Association du Traitment Automatique du Langage Naturel), of which Djamé Seddah was a member. This one-day event, which took place in the grand Amphithéâtre de la Sorbonne, gathered 300 participants.