Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles

Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles is a CNRS senior researcher at IRIT, the laboratory in Computer Science of Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, since 1991. She is currently heading the IA department at IRIT together with P. Zaraté. Before, she headed the MELODI group (http://www.irit.fr/-Equipe-MELODI- ) jointly with P. Muller from 2011 to 2020 and from 2010 to 2019, she coordinated activities at IRIT related to Big Data, AI and Data processing. Her research deals with knowledge engineering (KE) and semantic web technologies, methods and models for ontology engineering and population from human expertise, text and more recently from data. She contributes to information extraction from text, in particular relation extraction, and ontology-based integration of heterogeneous geospatial data. Since 2019, she manages the dataNoos project that aims at promoting open science within University of Toulouse thanks to use cases and a prototype of dataset semantic reporitory. https://www.irit.fr/~Nathalie.Aussenac-Gilles/