Talks
12-13 December 2007: W3C Video on the Web Workshop
Lynda Hardman attended the W3C Video on the Web Workshop in San Jose (California) and Brussels (Belgium), to present the position paper Identifying Spatial and Temporal Media Fragments on the Web written with Jacco van Ossenbruggen and Michael Hausenblas from Joanneum Research.
5-7 December 2007: The Second International Conference on Semantics And digital Media Technology (SAMT)
I attended SAMT 2007 in Genova (Italy). I'm co-organizer of the MAReSO (Multimedia Annotation and Retrieval enabled by Shared Ontologies) workshop. I presented the paper MPEG-7 based Multimedia Ontologies: Interoperability Support or Interoperability Issue? written with Oscar Celma, Suzanne Little, Roberto Garcia and Chrisa Tsinaraki.
11-15 November 2007: The Sixth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)
I attended ISWC 2007 in Busan (Korea) to present the paper COMM: Designing a Well-Founded Multimedia Ontology for the Web written with Richard Arndt and Steffen Staab from Koblenz University, Miroslav Vacura from University of Economics of Prague and Lynda Hardman.
24-29 September 2007: The Fifteenth ACM Multimedia Conference (ACM MM)
I attended ACM MM 2007 in Augsburg (Germany).
20 July 2007: Research Challenges in Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval (MAR)
I attended the MAR Workshop in Glasgow (Scotland) and I moderated a break-out session on Semantic and Interaction.
8-12 May 2007: The Sixteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
I attended WWW 2007 in Banff (Alberta, Canada) and I moderated a panel on The Role of Multimedia Metadata Standards in a (Semantic) Web 3.0. The panel was composed of Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester, UK), Lynda Hardman (CWI Amsterdam / Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands), Mor Naaman (Yahoo! Research Berkeley, USA) and John Smith (IBM, USA). See my introductory slides.
6-8 May 2007: W3C Advisory Committee Meeting
I attended W3C Advisory Committee Meeting in Banff (Alberta, Canada) to give a lightning talk about Multimedia Semantics: Challenges and Opportunities.
25-26 January 2007: Workshop on Multimodal Outpt Generation (MOG)
My colleague Željko Obrenović attended MOG 2007 in Aberdeen (UK), to present our paper Vocabularies for Description of Accessibility Issues in Mutimodal User Interfaces.
23 January 2007: DECOR Workshop
I attended the French Workshop DECOR: Passage à l'échelle des techniques de découverte de correspondances in Namur (Belgium), to present the paper Aligner automatiquement des ontologies avec oMAP.
6 December 2006: Multimedia Ontology Harmonization Meeting
I attended the aceMedia Multimedia Ontology Harmonization Meeting in Athens (Greece), to present a proposal for a well-founded, MPEG-7 based Multimedia Ontology for the Web, a work done withLynda Hardman and Richard Arndt and Steffen Staab from the Koblenz University.
6-8 December 2006: The First International Conference on Semantics And digital Media Technology (SAMT)
I attended SAMT 2006 in Athens (Greece), to present the paper Enabling Multimedia Metadata Interoperability by Defining Formal Semantics of MPEG-7 Profiles written with Werner Bailer, Michael Hausenblas, Philip Hofmair and Rudolf Schlatte from Joanneum Research.
2-6 July 2006: The 41st IPTC Annual General Meeting
I was invited during the 41st IPTC Annual General Meeting in Vienna (Austria), to present our work for Bringing NewsML2 into the Semantic Web.
11-14 June 2006: The Third European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)
I attended ESWC 2006 in Budva (Montenegro), to present the paper Towards Distributed Information Retrieval in the Semantic Web: Query Reformulation Using the oMAP Framework written with Umberto Straccia.
22-26 May 2006: The Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
I attended WWW 2006 in Edinburgh (Scotland).
22 May 2006: The First International Workshop on Semantic Web Annotations for Multimedia (SWAMM)
I'm co-organizer of the SWAMM workshop that was held during the WWW 2006 conference in Edinburgh (Scotland). See my opening talk and the ending panel I have chaired.
24 April 2006: W3C Announces Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group
Today, W3C announced the W3C Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group that I am co-chairing with Jeff Z. Pan. See the press release in the news archive for the announcement.
15-16 December 2005: The Second Italian Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP)
My colleague Umberto Straccia attended SWAP 2005 in Trento (Italy), to present our paper oMAP: An Implemented Framework for Automatically Aligning OWL Ontologies.
30 November-1 December 2005: The Second European Workshop on the Integration of knowledge, semantic and digital Media Technologies (EWIMT)
I attended EWIMT 2005 in London (UK), and I have been invited in the special Multimedia Ontology meeting to present an Overview of some MPEG-7 ontologies.
20-22 November 2005: The Sixth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE)
I attended WISE 2005 in New York (USA), to present the paper oMAP: Combining Classifiers for Aligning Automatically OWL Ontologies written with Umberto Straccia.
6-10 November 2005: The Fourth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)
I attended ISWC 2005 in Galway (Ireland). Before the start of the conference, I participated in the face-to-face meeting of the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group for reporting the work done in the Multimedia Task Force.
1-3 June 2005: The Sixteenth Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des Connaissances (IC)
I attended IC 2005 (the French Conference on Knowledge Engineering) in Nice (France), to present the paper Alignement d'ontologies pour OWL-Lite written with Henrik Nottelmann and Umberto Straccia.
I also co-organized the colocated Workshop "Connaissance et Documents Temporels", CDT 2005, (a French Workshop on Knowledge and Temporal Documents) with Yannick Prié. I have presented the paper Ontologies et description du contenu de documents AV : une expérimentation dans le domaine médical written with Antoine Isaac.
29 May-1 June 2005: The Second European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)
My colleague Antoine Isaac attended ESWC 2005 in Heraklion (Crete), to present our paper Using Several Ontologies for Describing Audio-Visual Documents: A Case Study in the Medical Domain in the Workshop on Multimedia and the Semantic Web.
28-30 October 2004: The Fourth ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng)
I attended DocEng 2004 in Milwaukee (Wisconsin, USA), to present the paper A Reduced Yet Extensible Audio-Visual Description Language: How to Escape From the MPEG-7 Bottleneck written with Jean Carrive.
25-26 October 2004: The International Workshop on Multidisciplinary Image, Video, and Audio Retrieval and Mining (CoRIMedia)
I attended CoRIMedia 2004 in Sherbrooke (Canada), to present the paper A Motivating Scenario for Designing an Extensible Audio-Visual Description Language written with Jean Carrive, Steffen Lalande and Jean-Philippe Poli.
5-8 October 2004: The Fourteenth International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW)
My colleague Antoine Isaac attended EKAW 2004 in Whittlebury Hall (Northamptonshire, UK) to present our paper Designing and Using an Audio-Visual Description Core Ontology in the Workshop on Core Ontologies in Ontology Engineering.
22 June 2004: Workshop Modèles Documentaires de l'AudioVisuel (MDAV)
I co-organized MDAV 2004 (a French Workshop on Documentary models for audiovisual material) during the First Week of the Digital Document (SDN 2004) in La Rochelle (France) with Yannick Prié.
5-7 May 2004: The Fifteenth Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des Connaissances (IC)
I attended IC 2004 (the French Conference on Knowledge Engineering) in Lyon (France).
23 April 2004: Leesklub at CWI (INS2 group)
I was invited by the Semantic Media Interface in Amsterdam (Netherlands), to present the work done in my PhD Thesis, Formalization of documentary knowledge and conceptual knowledge with ontologies: applying to the description of audio-visual documents.
5 March 2004: Defense of my PhD Thesis
Today at 14:00hr, I defended my PhD entitled Formalization of Documentary Knowledge and Conceptual Knowledge With Ontologies: Applying to The Description of Audio-visual Documents in the main auditorium of INRIA Rhônes Alpes in Grenoble (France). See the slides of my PhD defense.
28-30 January 2004: The Fourteenth Congrès Francophones de Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle (RFIA)
I attended RFIA 2004 (the French Conference on Forms Recognition and Intelligence Artificial) in Toulouse (France).
20-23 October 2003: The Second International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)
I attended ISWC 2003 in Sanibel Island (Florida, USA) to present the paper Integrating Structure and Semantics into Audio-visual Documents.
I also attended the Second International Workshop Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools, EON 2003, a colocated workshop to present the paper Using XSLT for Interoperability: DOE and The Travelling Domain Experiment written with Antoine Isaac and Véronique Malaisé.
19 September 2003: XML Day
I gave an invited talk to the CINES (Centre Informatique National de l’Enseignement Supérieur) in Montpellier (France) and to the CSIESR (Comité des Services Informatiques de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche) in Giens (France) about XML and the Audiovisual Archives of INA (the French National Insitute of Audiovisual).
1-4 July 2003: The Fourteenth Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des Connaissances (IC)
I attended IC 2003 (the French Conference on Knowledge Engineering) in Laval (France), to present the paper Le raisonnement dans les descriptions documentaires : l'apport de la représentation des connaissances. This paper received the Best paper award price.
27 June 2003: Graduate Course in Audiovisual Documentation
I gave an invited talk in Paris (France) to graduated students about The Audiovisual Documentation in the Digital Age.
1-4 October 2002: The Thirteenth International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW)
I attended EKAW 2002 in Siguenza (Spain) to present the paper Semantic Commitment for Designing Ontologies: A Proposal written with Bruno Bachimont and Antoine Isaac.
I also attended the First International Workshop Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools, EON 2002, a colocated workshop to present the paper The travelling domain ontology modelled with DOE (Differential Ontology Editor) written with Antoine Isaac.
22-26 July 2002: The Fifteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)
I attended ECAI 2002 in Lyon (France).
9-12 June 2002: The First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)
I attended ISWC 2002 in Chia (Sardinia, Italy) to present the poster Semantic Commitment for Designing Ontologies: A Tool Proposal made with Antoine Isaac. See also the short paper.
28-30 May 2002: The Thirteenth Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des Connaissances (IC)
I attended IC 2002 (the French Conference on Knowledge Engineering) in Rouen (France), to present the paper DOE : une mise en oeuvre d'une méthode de structuration différentielle pour les ontologies written with Antoine Isaac.
25-28 June 2001: The Twelfth Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des Connaissances (IC)
I attended IC 2001 (the French Conference on Knowledge Engineering) in Grenoble (France), to present a poster and a demonstration about DOE, a differential ontology editor multilingual.
20 June 2000: Defense of my Master Thesis
I defended my Master Thesis entitled Integrating text – formal representation for the managment of XML documents in the University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble (France) under the supervision of Jérôme Euzenat. See the slides of my defense
July 1999: The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED)
My supervisor Claude Frasson attended the Workshop on Synthetic Agents held with AIED 1999 in Le Mans (France) to present the paper On the Application of a Believable Layer in ITS written with Sassine Abou-Jaoude, Claude Frasson and Olivier Charra.