March 1995: Ph.D. in Computer Science,
Columbia University,
September
1985: "Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies” in
Artificial Intelligence, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UMPC), Paris, France
(MS equivalent).
September
1985: "Diplôme d'Ingénieur" Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique-Electronique-Automatique,
Paris,
September
1984: "Licence" in
Mathematics, Université
Denis Diderot,
·
Research
June
2004-May 2005: Visiting Researcher, Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris
6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, (LIP6-UPMC),
Since
June 2002: Adjunct Professor, Centro de Informática,
Universidade Federal do Pernambuco, (CIn-UFPE),
·
Current projects as principal investigator:
o
ROARS
(Reuse-Oriented Automated Reasoning Software) model-driven,
aspect-oriented engineering of an extensible
automated reasoning component framework based on upgrades of the KobrA method and the CHRÚ
rule-based constraint programming language (cooperation with Universität
Mannheim, Universität
Ulm and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Institute FIRST in Berlin, funded by CAPES-DAAD).
o
MODELOG (Model-Oriented Development with Executable Logical
Object Generation) fully automated generation through ATL model
transformations of Flora executable object-oriented logic
programs from UML
models with OCL
constraints (cooperation with LIP6-UMPC,
o
ORCAS (Ontologies and Reasoning
Components for Agent-based Simulations) model-driven, agent-oriented simulation engineering.
· Past
projects as principal investigator:
o
MAVERICK (Model-driven
Architecture for Voice-Enabled Recommendation, Internet Content and Knowledge), model-driven architecture integrating ontologies, web services,
voice portals
and natural
language generation to provide voice browsing access to web content
with case study on a ubiquitous movie recommendation site.
o
Cigolf, induction
from example data of object-oriented logic programs in Flora.
o
MRFC (Maracatu Robô
Futebol Clube),
model-driven engineering of soccer agent team and team analysis and debugging
environment for RoboCup simulated
league.
· Past
project as collaborator:
o
Smart-es, machine learning methods for
adaptive agents in e-commerce, web information gathering and games (cooperation
with LIP6-UMPC,
o
Virtual Learning Partners with Adaptive Behaviors, intelligent
facilitator agents in educational collaborative systems (funded by CNPq).
December
1997 - May 2002: Visiting Professor, Departamento de Informática, Universidade Federal do Pernambuco,
(DI-UFPE),
· Projects as
principal investigator:
o
MATRIKS (Multidimensional Analysis and Textual Reporting of Insight
Knowledge Summaries), automated generation of natural language hypertexts that summarize
results from knowledge discovery processes, with case study in outlier mining
in OLAP databases (funded by CNPq).
o
ExpanSyn, empirical
measurement of web search query expansion based on synonyms and hyponyms
encountered in lexical database WordNet.
December
1995 - November 1997: Post-doctoral researcher, Departamento
de Informática, Universidade Federal do Pernambuco,
(DI-UFPE),
·
Projects as participant:
o
BRIGHT, distributed and knowledge-based web search (funded by CNPq)
o
SADE, automated generation of natural language software
documentation from formal software specification in modular
object-oriented Z (funded by CNPq)
o
UNL (Universal Networking Language), web page
machine translation using language-neutral inter-lingua (funded by United Nation University)
April - October 1995: Researcher,
·
Project as participant:
o
MAGIC (Multimedia Automated
Generation for Intensive Care), automated generation of multimedia presentation
coordinating text, graphics, speech and animation with case study in ICU
patient condition summaries.
May 1993 - October 1995: Research consultant, Bellcore,
· Projects as
participant:
o
FlowDoc, automated generation of business reengineering plans natural
language summaries from workflows.
o
PlanDoc, automated generation of telephony equipment installation plans
natural language summaries from planning system reasoning traces.
· Research advising
Concluded PhD.
Thesis:
·
Hendrik Macedo, A Software Architecture for Ubiquitous
Web Browsing with Application to Recommendation Systems, 2006, CIn-UFPE.
·
Rosely Lacerda, Computational
grammar of the Portuguese noun phrase, 2001, Literature and
Linguistics Department, Universidade Federal de Alagoas (as co-advisor).
·
Eloi Favero, Generating
hypertext summaries of quantitative data in multi-dimensional databases, 2000, CIn-UFPE.
Concluded
Master’s Thesis:
·
Klebson Silva, Analysing and degugging multi-agent systems
based on object-oriented logic with application to RoboCup, 2004, CIn-UFPE.
·
Erivan Andrade, Induction of object-oriented logic programs, 2003, CIn-UFPE.
·
Alexandre Damasceno, Developing
soccer agents with objects and logic. 2003, CIn-UFPE.
·
Fabio Pereira, A component for outlier mining in OLAP databases, 2003, CIn-UFPE.
·
Marcelino Pereira, SKDQL, a declarative language for specifying knowledge discovery
queries and tasks and its implementation, 2002, CIn-UFPE.
·
Franklin Ramalho, Evaluation of thesaurus-based query expansion in web search
engine, 2000, CIn-UFPE.
·
Natasha Queiroz, An API to connect OLAP and object-oriented deductive databases, 2000, CIn-UFPE.
·
Robson Fidalgo,
A Java API to access OLAP databases, 2000, CIn-UFPE.
On-going advising
activities: four PhD. Students and two Master Students.
·
Teaching:
Since
March 1996, Centro de Informática,
Universidade Federal do Pernambuco,
(CIn-UFPE),
· Graduate courses:
o
Software reuse
o
Symbolic artificial intelligence
o
Advanced topics in symbolic
artificial intelligence
o
Intelligent agents
o
Data mining and knowledge discovery
o
Natural language processing
· Undergraduate courses:
o
Model-driven engineering and software
components
o
Machine learning
o
Software development project
o
Introduction to artificial
intelligence
o
Logic programming
September
1989 - May 1990:
· Undergraduate course: Lisp programming
· Consulting
Since March 2006: SWQuality, software process improvement following the
Capability
Maturity Model Integration.
January-December 2003: Centro dos Estudos
e Sistemas Avançados do
Recife, (CESAR), Brazil, specification of the mission,
administrative and fundraising policies of an information technology innovation
center.
§
Franklin Ramalho, Jacques Robin and
Ulrich Schiel. Concurrent
transaction frame logic formal semantics for UML activity and class diagrams.
Electronic Notes in Computer Science, 95(17), 2004.
§
Franklin Ramalho and Jacques
Robin. Avaliação
empiríca da expansão
de consultas baseadas em Thesaurus: aplicação a engenhos de busca na web. Revista de Informática Teórica e Aplicada (RITA), 10(2), 2004
§
Franklin Ramalho, Jacques Robin and
Roberto Barros. XOCL, an XML language for representing logical constraints
in object-oriented models. Journal of Universal Computer
Science, 9(8), Springer, 2003.
§
Flávia Barros and
Jacques Robin. Processament de Linguagem
Natural. Revista Eletrónica
de Iniciação Científica,
1(2), 2001.
§
Eloi Favero and Jacques Robin. Um ambiente
de desenvolvimento de gramáticas
computacionais para o português. Revista de Informática Teórica e Aplicada (RITA). Editora do Instituto de Informática da UFRGS. 1999.
§
Michael Elhadad , Kathy McKeown and Jacques
Robin. Floating constraints in lexical choice. Computational
Linguistics, 23(2), 1997.
§
Jacques Robin and Kathy McKeown. Empirically
designing and evaluating a new revision-based model for summary generation.
Artificial Intelligence, 85(1-2). 1996.
§
Kathy McKeown, Jacques Robin and Karen
Kukich. Generating
concise natural langage summaries. Information
Processing and Management, 31(5). 1995.
§
Hendrik Macedo and Jacques Robin. Increasing profitability : voice-based
browsing for recommendation system web services. Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence, 3538, Springer, 2005.
§
Marcelino Pereira
and Jacques Robin. SKDQL, a structured
language to specify knowledge discovery processes and queries. Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3171, Springer, 2004
§
Eloi Favero and Jacques Robin. Using OLAP and Data Mining for Content Planning in Natural Language
Generation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1959, Springer, 2000.
§
Jacques Robin. Evaluating
the robustness and scalability of revision-based natural langage
generation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1159. 1996.
§
Karen Kukich, Kathy McKeown, James Shaw,
Jacques Robin, Neil Morgan and Jim Phillips. User-needs analysis and design methodology for an automated document
generator. In Current Issues in Computational Linguistics: In Honor of Don
Walker. Zampolli, A., Calzolari,
N. and Palmer, M. Eds. Kluwer Academic Press,
§
Jacques Robin. A revision-based
generation architecture for reporting facts in their historical context. In
New Concepts in Natural Language generation: Planning, Realization and Systems,
Horacek, H. and Zock, M.
Eds. Frances Pinter,
§
Michael Elhadad and Jacques Robin. Controlling content realization with
functional unification grammars. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 587,
1992.
§
Kathy McKeown, Michael Elhadad, Yumiko Fukumoto, Jong Lim, Christina Lombardi, Jacques Robin and Frank Smadja.
Text generation in COMET. In Current
Research in Natural Language generation. Dale, R., Mellish,
C.S. and Zock, M. Eds. Academic Press. 1990.
§
Jacques Robin and Jairson
Vitorino. ORCAS:
Towards a CHR-Based Model-Driven Framework of Reusable Reasoning Components.
20th Workshop on Logic Programming (WLP'2006),
§
Xavier Blanc, Franklin Ramalho and
Jacques Robin. Metamodel reuse with MOF. ACM/IEEE 8th
International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering, Languages and Systems.
(MoDELs’2005).
§
Hendrik Macedo, Jacques Robin and Roberto Barros. Web Engineering meets Natural Language Processing:
a Vocal Interface Generation Practice. Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Multimídia e Web. Poços de
Caldas, MG,
§
Luciano Barbosa, Ana Carolina Salgado, Francisco de Carvalho, Jacques
Robin and Juliana Freire. Looking at both the Present and the Past to Efficiently Update Replicas
of Web Content. ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data
Management (WIDM’2005),
§
Hendrik Macedo and Jacques Robin. A mediator architecture providing ubiquitous access via voice portals,
web services, ontologies and natural language
generation. International Information and Telecommunication Technologies
Symposium, (IITTS’2004),
§
Franklin Ramalho and Jacques
Robin. Mapping UML class diagrams to object-oriented logic programs for
model-driven development. Third UML Workshop in Software Model Engineering
(WISME’2004),
§
Fabio Pereira and Jacques Robin. Um componente de mineração
de exceções em cubos de dados OLAP. Simpósio
Brasileiro de Sistemas de Informação (SBIS’2004).
§
Franklin Ramalho, Jacques Robin and
Ulrich Schiel. Concurrent
transaction frame logic formal semantics for UML activity and class diagrams.
Sixth Brazilian Symposium on Formal methods, (WMF'2003),
§
Jacques Robin and Franklin Ramalho: Can ontologies
improve web search engines effectiveness before the advent of the semantic web?
Simpósio Brasileiro de Banco de Dados, 2003, (SBBD'2003)
§
§
Ryan Albuquerque, Paulo Guedes, Carlos
Figueira, Jacques Robin and Geber Ramalho.
Embedding J2ME-based Inference Engine in
Handheld Devices: The KEOPS Case Study. Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents on
embedded, wearable and mobile devices,
§
Jacques Robin and Eloi Favero. Natural
Language Generation Meets Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Third
International Conference on Data Integration and Web-based Applications and Services,
2001,
§
Jacques Robin and Franklin Ramalho. Evaluating Wordnet-based
Query Expansion in a Web Search Engine Setting. International Workshop on
Information Retrieval, 2001,
§
Jacques Robin and Eloi Favero. Content Aggregation
in Natural Language Hypertext Summarization of Data Mining Discoveries.
First International Conference on Natural Language Génération,
2000, Mitzpe-Ramon, Israël
(INLG´2000).
§
Jacques Robin. Evaluating
the portability of revision rules for incremental summary generation. 34th
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 1996,
§
Becky Passoneau, Karen Kukich, Jacques Robin, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Larry Lefkowitz
and Hongyang Jin. Generating
Summaries of Work Flow Diagrams. International Conference on Natural
Language Processing and Industrial Applications. 1996,
§
Jacques Robin. Automatic
generation and revision of natural langage summaries
providing historical background. 11th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial
Intelligence, 1994,
§
Jacques Robin and Kathy McKeown. Corpus
analysis for revision-based generation of complex sentences. 11th National
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1993,
§
Kathy McKeown, Jacques Robin and
Michael Tanenblatt. Tailoring lexical choice to the user's vocabulary in multimedia
explanation generation. 31st Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics, 1993,
§
Kathy McKeown, Steve Feiner , Jacques
Robin, Doree Seligmann and Michael
Tanenblatt. Generating
cross-references for multimedia explanation. Proceedings of the 10th
National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1992,
· Software Reuse: Model-Driven, Component-Based, Aspect-Oriented
and Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
·
Automated Reasoning: Rule-Based
Constraint Programming, Object-Oriented, Abductive,
Inductive and Probabilistic Logic Programming
· Multi-Agent Simulations for Games and Tutoring Systems
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