Section: Dissemination

Involvement within the scientific community

Honours

• Gérard Huet obtained the EATCS 2009 award.

Editorial boards

• Alain Lecomte has been on the editorial board of the international journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) since August 2001.

• Christian Retoré has been a reviewer for Mathematical Reviews since October 2003.

• Christian Retoré has been editor in chief of the international journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) since April 2004 (and in the editorial board since 2001) until Summer 2009.

• Christian Retoré has been the editor in charge of the relations between mathematics, logic and computer science in La Gazette des Mathématiciens (quarterly, Société Mathématique de France) since July 2008.

Program committees of conferences and schools

• Mauro Gaio was co-chair of the Colloque Sageo 09 http://sageo09.univ-pau.fr/ .

• Gérard Huet is co-editing with Amba Kulkarni and Peter Scharf the proceedings of the 1st and 2nd International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposiums, held respectively in INRIA Rocquencourt (France) in October 2007 and Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island, USA) in May 2008.

• Gérard Huet and Amba Kulkarni will also co-edit the proceedings of the 3rd Symposium, that will take place in University of Hyderabad (India) in January 2009.

• Alain Lecomte and Christian Retoré were on the program committee of workshop Games, Dialogs and Interactions in 2009 at Paris.

• Richard Moot and Christian Retore were in the Reading Committee of TALN 2009 (Senlis).

• Richard Moot was co-chair of the program committee of ESSLLI 2009.

• Richard Moot was part of the program committee for the special issue "Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing" of the journal Traitement Automatique des Langues.

• Richard Moot was part of the program committee of Formal Grammar 2009 in Bordeaux.

• Richard Moot was part of the program committee of the ESSLLI 2009 Workshop "Parsing with Categorial Grammars".

• Christian Retoré was on the committee of the Journées de sémantique et modélisation / Conference on Semantics and Formal Modelling held in Paris in March 2009.

Academic committees

• Renaud Marlet was a member of the hiring committee for associate scientists (chargés de recherche) at INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest, 2009.

• Since November 2007, Renaud Marlet has been a member of the Incentive Action Working Group (GTAI) of the Scientific and Technological Orientation Council (COST) of INRIA. Tasks include selecting and evaluating Collaborative Research Initiatives (ARC), Exploratory Actions (AE), Software Development Operations (ODL) and Technological Development Actions (ADT).

• Since November 2007, Renaud Marlet has been a member of the International Affairs Working Group (GTRI) of the Scientific and Technological Orientation Council (COST) of INRIA. Tasks include selecting and evaluating Associated Teams (EA) as well as proposals made in internatinal programs such as CONICyT/INRIA (with Chile), EuroMéditerrané 3+3 (with Algeria, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Tunisia), SECyT/INRIA-CNRS (with Argentina), STIC-AmSud (with South America), STIC-Tunisie (with Tunisia), and ERCIM post-doctorates.

• Since January 2008, Renaud Marlet has been a member of the teacher-and-researcher committee of INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest. Tasks include the evaluation of proposals concerning invitations of professors and temporary assignments at INRIA.

• Christian Retoré was on a hiring committee for a professorship in Université Paris XIII.

• Christian Retoré was the head of the Master on Algorithms and Formal Methods of Université Bordeaux 1 until June 2009.

• Christian Retoré is a member of the scientific committee (conseil scientifique) of the LaBRI.

Organization of events

• Alain Lecomte organized an international workshop Games, Dialogues and Interactions in Paris in September 2009 to conclude the Prélude national research program.

• ESSLLI 2009 (520 participants, 48 lectures and workshops, 2 weeks) organizing committee included Christian Retoré (chair), Pierre Bourreau, Lionel Clément, Alain Lecomte, Bruno Mery, Richard Moot, Sylvain Salvati, Natalia Vinogradova, Emilie Voisin: Signes project-team was the main organizer of the European Summer School in Logic and Language and Information (ESSLLI), Bordeaux, France, July 2009..