Curriculum Vitae
Practical Information
| Name: | Cécile Grivaz |
| Birth date: | 25th of January 1982 |
| Citizenship: | Switzerland |
Education
| 2007-2011 | Computational Linguistics PhD at Geneva University, with supervisor Prof. J. Moeschler and Dr. M. Rajman Automatic Extraction of Causal Knowledge from French Texts. Funded by a Swiss National Science Foundation project (100012-113382). |
| 2007 | Linguistics DEA (Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies) at Geneva University, with supervisor Dr. P. Merlo: Experiments in Parsers Combination. |
| 2005 | Master of Science in Computer Science at the Swiss Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), with supervisor Dr. M. Rajman: Mixing Methods to Improve Automatic Entity Extraction |
| 2000 | Baccalauréat ès Lettres (Latin and mathematics) and Maturité type A (Latin and Greek) at Gymnase Auguste Piccard in Lausanne. |
Additional Education
| 2010 | Stay at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Prof. R. Girju, funded by a Swiss National Science Foundation fellowship for prospective researchers. |
| 2009-2010 | Stay at Universität des Saarlandes with Dr. C. Sporleder, funded by a grant. |
| 2008 | Summer School on Neural Networks in Classification, Regression and Data Mining NN2008 |
| 2007 | Linguistic Society of America 2007 Summer Institute in Stanford University |
| 2006 | First French speaking school in formal semantics SEBOSEFOR |
| 2003 | Semester Project at EPFL, with supervisor Prof. A. Billard: Vision System for the Humanoid Robot Robota. |
| 2003 | Internship in the Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Institute of Bern University, with supervisor Prof. T. Braun: Stocking Strategy for the Routing Table in TAP Protocol. |
| 2002-2003 | One year mobility at Catalunia Polytechnic University in Barcelona (UPC). Semester project with supervisor Prof. N. Castell Ariño: Comparing Catalan and Spanish texts with the Textual Database Wordnet. |
Professional Experience
| 2009 | Involved in the EPFL research project HieralDic (Hierarchically Layered Dictionary). |
| 2007-2008 | Involved in the EPFL research project Internet Patroling. |
| 2006-2007 | Ventek SA, Geneva: Development of crawling robots and configuration for the search engine FAST |
| 2005 | Ventek SA, Geneva: Internship. Development of crawling robots and a web interface for the search engine FAST. |
Reviewing
| 2010 | 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010) |
| 2009 | MAnifestation des JEunes Chercheurs en Sciences et Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (MajecSTIC 2009). |
Languages
| French | Mother Language |
| English | Fluent (Cambridge First Certificate in 2000). |
| Spanish | Very good. |
| German | Basic knowledge. |
| Lojban (artificial language) | Some syntactic knowledge and interest. |