Martin Rajman
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Biography
Martin Rajman is the Executive Director of Nano-tera.ch, a large Swiss Research Program funding collaborative multi-disciplinary projects for the engineering of complex systems in Health and the Environment. Since 2008, the Nano-Tera.ch program started more than 100 research projects for a total public funding of more than 95 Mo CHF (~100 Mo USD). Before being appointed as Nano-Tera.ch Executive Director, Martin Rajman was Director of the EPFL Global Computing Center (CGC), an association of research groups and laboratories of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences fostering interdisciplinary research in the general area of internet computing and distributed information systems. In this position, he was managing more than 20 European projects. In parallel with his research management activities, Martin Rajman is senior researcher at EPF Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL). His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics and Data-driven Probabilistic Machine Learning. Previously, he was senior researcher at the Computer Science Department of Telecom Paris-Tech, where he was in charge of the development of a research and teaching activity in the domain of Natural Language Processing. Martin Rajman is also active in various large scale industry-research collaborations with majors economic players. In particular, he has been involved in the improvement of the product ranking technology used by e-Bay and is currently collaborating with Elsevier on enhanced article recommendation techniques. Martin Rajman is author or co-author of more than 100 publications and former Director of the Computer Science Series of EPFL-Press (PPUR).Publications
Infoscience publications
Publication list in EPFL Infoscience
Aggregating Spatial and Photometric Context for Photometric Stereo
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9806.Topologically Better Delineation of Curvilinear Structures
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9749.Deep Learning for 3D Surface Modelling and Reconstruction
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10386.Empathetic Conversational Agents for Distress Support
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9810.Using Animal Motion Capture to Learn Neural Representations
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9124.Encoder-Decoder Models for Human Segmentation and Motion Analysis
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8036.Learning to Represent and Reconstruct 3D Deformable Objects
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7974.Human-Centered Scene Understanding via Crowd Counting
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8979.Learning to Reduce Annotation Load
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9074.Word Sense Consistency in Statistical and Neural Machine Translation
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8743.Nano-Tera.ch: Information Technology for Health, Environment, and Energy
IEEE Design and Test. 2017. DOI : 10.1109/MDAT.2017.2757926.Distributed Time Series Analytics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7395.Multiscale Centerline Extraction Based on Regression and Projection onto the Set of Elongated Structures
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7241.Modeling Users' Information Needs in a Document Recommender for Meetings
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6760.Discourse-level features for statistical machine translation
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6501.Reconciling Schema Matching Networks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6033.CoFeed: privacy-preserving Web search recommendation based on collaborative aggregation of interest feedback
Software-Practice & Experience. 2013. DOI : 10.1002/spe.1127.Entities on the Web
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5897.Selection and Aggregation of Ranking Criteria for Retrieval from Scientific Publication Databases
Lausanne, EPFL, 2012. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5460.Citation graph based ranking in Invenio
2010. 14th European Conference on Digital Libraries, Glasgow, UK, September 6-10, 2010. p. 236–247. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-15464-5_25.Capturing and Analyzing User Behavior in Large Digital Libraries
2010. Very Large Digital Libraries (VLDL), Glasgow, UK, September 10, 2010. p. 24-31.Fisher Kernels and Probabilistic Latent Semantic Models
Lausanne, EPFL, 2010. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-4647.Rank Aggregation in Scientific Publication Databases Based on Logistic Regression
2009Answering questions about archived, annotated meetings
Lausanne, EPFL, 2009. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-4512.Query-Driven Indexing for Scalable Peer-to-Peer Text Retrieval
Future Generation Computer Systems. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.future.2008.03.006.Query-Driven Indexing for Scalable Peer-to-Peer Text Retrieval
2009. Infoscale: the Second International Conference on Scalable Information Systems, Suzhou, China, June 6-8, 2007. p. 89-99. DOI : 10.1016/j.future.2008.03.006.Scalable Content-based Ranking in P2P Information Retrieval
2008. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-85563-7_80.Managing Collaborative Feedback Information for Distributed Retrieval
2008. p. 27–34. DOI : 10.1145/1458469.1458479.Using Bibliographic Knowledge for Ranking in Scientific Publication Databases
2008. 8th Joint Conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering, Piraeus, Greece, 25 - 28 Aug 2008. p. 201-212. DOI : 10.3233/978-1-58603-900-4-201.Results of the first phase of the d-Rank project
2008AlvisP2P: Scalable Peer-to-Peer Text Retrieval in a Structured P2P Network
2008. 34th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB).Design of multimodal dialogue-based systems
Lausanne, EPFL, 2008. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-4081.Perspectives for Rank Aggregation within Scientific Publication Databases
2008Improving user confidence in decision support systems for electronic catalogs
Lausanne, EPFL, 2008. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-3737.Web Text Retrieval with a P2P Query-Driven Index
2007. SIGIR07: The 30th Annual International SIGIR Conference, Amsterdam The Netherlands, July 23 - 27, 2007. p. 679–686. DOI : 10.1145/1277741.1277857.Scalable P2P Search Engine using Highly Discriminative Keys
2007.Query-Driven Indexing for Scalable Peer-to-Peer Text Retrieval
2007.Query-Driven Indexing for Peer-to-Peer Text Retrieval (Poster)
2007.Scalable Peer-to-Peer Web Retrieval with Highly Discriminative Keys
2007. IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), Istanbul, Turkey, April 15-20, 2007. p. 1096-1105. DOI : 10.1109/ICDE.2007.368968.Man-Machine Voice Communication
Speech and Language Engineering; Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2007. p. 433-461.Speech Coding Techniques and Standards
Speech and Language Engineering; Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2007. p. 125-144.Syntactic Processing
Speech and Language Engineering; Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2007. p. 177-203.Scalable peer-to-peer Web search using highly discriminative keys
Lausanne, EPFL, 2007. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-3945.Web Text Retrieval with a P2P Query-Driven Index
2007. SIGIR, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 23-27 July 2007. p. 679-686. DOI : 10.1145/1277741.1277857.Query-Driven Indexing for Peer-to-Peer Text Retrieval
2007. 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'2007), Banff, Canada, May 8-12, 2007. p. 1185–1186. DOI : 10.1145/1242572.1242757.Extending the Wizard of Oz Methodology for Language-enabled Multimodal Systems
2006.Explicit Passive Analysis in Electronic Catalogs
2006.From Vocal to Multimodal Dialogue Management
2006. Eighth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI'06). p. 59–67. DOI : 10.1145/1180995.1181008.ALVIS Peers: A Scalable Full-text Peer-to-Peer Retrieval Engine
2006. Workshop on Information Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Networks P2P-IR at CIKM 2006. p. 41–48. DOI : 10.1145/1183579.1183588.Archivus: A multimodal system for multimedia meeting browsing and retrieval
2006Archivus: A multimodal system for multimedia meeting browsing and retrieval
2006Query-Driven Indexing for Peer-to-Peer Text Retrieval
2006Explicit Trade-off and Prospective Analysis in Electronic Catalogs
2006. Workshop on Recommender Systems. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Riva del Garda, Italy, August 2006.Exploitation de connaissances sémantiques externes dans les représentations vectorielles en recherche documentaire
Lausanne, EPFL, 2006. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-3654.A Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Information Retrieval Across Digital Library Collections
2006. European conference on research and advanced technology for digital libraries (ECDL 2006), Alicante, Spain, September 2006. p. 14-25. DOI : 10.1007/11863878_2.Beyond term indexing: A P2P framework for Web information retrieval
Informatica. 2006.Scalable Peer-to-Peer Web Retrieval with Highly Discriminative Keys
2006Type-based event dissemination
Lausanne, EPFL, 2006. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-3595.A Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Information Retrieval Across Digital Library Collections
2006Explicit Passive Analysis in Electronic Catalogs
2006Distributed link-based ranking in P2P Web retrieval
Lausanne, EPFL, 2006. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-3361.Robust Stochastic Parsing: Comparing Two Approaches for Processing Extra-Grammatical Sentences
2005. p. 1-7.Evaluating a System for Enhanced Access to Statistical Data on the Web: The StatSearch Evaluation Experiments
2005.Combining Text Mining and Information Retrieval Techniques for Enhanced Access to Statistical Data on the Web
2005.Combining Text Mining and Information Retrieval Techniques for Enhanced Access to Statistical Data on the Web: A preliminary report
Knowledge Mining; Springer Verlag, 2005. p. 213-222.Answering natural language queries on spoken dialogs in meeting discussions
2005Making Statistical Data More Easily Accessible on the Web : Results of the StatSearch Case Study
2005. International Marketing and Output Database Conference 2005, The Hague, The Netherlands, 5-9 September 2005.Opportunities from Open Source Search
2005. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05), Compiégne University of Technology, France, Sep 19-22, 2005. p. 2-8. DOI : 10.1109/WI.2005.110.Using Highly Discriminative Keys for Indexing in a Peer-to-Peer Full Text Retrieval System
2005Using the EDR large scale semantic dictionary: application to conceptual document indexing
2005. p. 98-105.Introducing reset patterns: An extension to a Rapid Dialogue Prototyping Methodology
2005.Systematic definition and assent to eContracts for Web Services
2005.Rapid Multimodal Dialogue Design: Application in a Multimodal Meeting Retrieval and Browsing System
2005.Robust Stochastic Parsing using Optimal Maximum Coverage
2005. p. 258-263.A framework for rapid multimodal application design
2005. 8th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, Karlovy Vary, CZECH REPUBLIC, Sep 12-15, 2005. p. 393-403. DOI : 10.1007/11551874_51.Efficient Processing of Extra-grammatical Sentences: Comparing and Combining two approaches to Robust Stochastic Parsing
2005. p. 81-88.Natural Language Techniques for Model-driven Semantic Constraint Extraction
2005Building a peer-to-peer full-text Web search engine with highly discriminative keys
2005Using Highly Discriminative Keys for Indexing in a Peer-to-Peer Full-Text Retrieval System
2005Real-time interaction over the Internet
Lausanne, EPFL, 2005. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-3224.Efficient integration of automated speech recognition in the framework of dialogue-based vocal systems
Lausanne, EPFL, 2005. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-3163.ARCHIVUS: A System for Accessing the Content of Recorded Multimodal Meetings
2004. JOINT AMI/PASCAL/IM2/M4 Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-30568-2_25.Comparative evaluations in the domain of automatic speech recognition
2004.Discriminative Models of SCFG and STSG
2004. p. 187-194. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-30120-2_24.Speech recognition simulation and its application for Wizard-of-Oz experiments
2004.Assessing the usability of a dialogue management system designed in the framework of a rapid dialogue prototyping methodology
ACTA ACUSTICA united with ACUSTICA, the Journal of the European Acoustics Association (EAA): International Journal on Acoustics. 2004.Automated Generation of Finalized Dialogue Based Interfaces
2004.INSPIRE: Evaluation of a Smart-Home System for Infotainment Management and Device Control
2004. p. 1603-1606.Wizard-of-Oz tests for a dialog system in smart homes
2004.Rapid dialogue prototyping methodology
2004. 7th International Conference on Texts, Speech and Dialogue, Brno, CZECH REPUBLIC, Sep 08-11, 2004. p. 579-586. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-30120-2_73.Turn on the lights: investigating the Inspire voice controlled smart home system
2004.An Architecture for Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval
2004. 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2004), Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval, 2004.Tool for robust stochastic parsing using optimal maximum coverage
2004A Dialogue-based Grounding mechanism and new Service Description Features for adapting Semantic (Web) Services to Personal Assistants
2004Thematic Annotation: extracting concepts out of documents
2004INTRODUCING RESET PATTERNS: AN EXTENSION TO A RAPID DIALOGUE PROTOTYPING METHODOLOGY
2004Rapid Dialogue Prototyping Methodology
2004Schema matching for structured document transformations
Lausanne, EPFL, 2004. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-3108.Parsing DOP with Monte-Carlo Techniques
Data-Oriented Parsing; Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2003. p. 83-106.Dialogue Management with weak speech recognition : a pragmatic approach
2003. p. 133-138.Grammaires a Substitution d'Arbres Polynomiales et Discriminantes
Traitement Automatique des Langues. 2003.Apprentissage discriminant pour les Grammaires à Substitution d'Arbres
2003. p. 225-234.Gibbsian Tree Substitution Grammars
2003. p. 137-148.Assessing the usability of a dialogue management system designed in the framework of a rapid dialogue prototyping methodology
2003.Prototypage rapide et évaluation de modèles de dialogue finalisés
2003.Parsing DOP with Monte-Carlo Techniques
2003Représentation vectorielle de connaissances sémantiques pour la recherche d information
Assistance intelligente à la recherche d'informations; Hermes, 2003.Natural Language Queries on Natural Language Data: a Database of Meeting Dialogues
2003.Modèles syntaxiques probabilistes non-génératifs
Lausanne, EPFL, 2003. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-2705.Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Innovations using Statistical Analysis of Patents
2002. p. 641-652.Grammaires à substitution d'arbre polynomiales : caractérisation et nouveaux exemples
2002. p. 359-364.Polynomial Tree Substitution Grammars: Characterization and New Examples
2002. Formal Grammar, 2002. p. 29-39.Filtrages syntaxiques de co-occurrences pour la représentation vectorielle de documents
2002.Evaluation of a Vector Space similarity measure in a multilingual framework
2002.Validation de la notion de similarité textuelle dans un cadre multilingue
2002.Cognitive language engineering towards robust human-computer interaction
Lausanne, EPFL, 2002. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-2630.An architecture for the behavioural animation of virtual humans
Lausanne, EPFL, 2002. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-2611.Alignement multicritères des textes appliqué aux documents médiévaux
Lausanne, EPFL, 2002. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-2609.An FPGA-based syntactic parser for large size real-life context-free grammars
Lausanne, EPFL, 2002. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-2522.Intégration de connaissances syntaxiques et sémantiques dans les représentations vectorielles de textes
Lausanne, EPFL, 2002. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-2508.An FPGA-based syntactic parser for real-life unrestricted context-free grammars
2001An FPGA-based syntactic parser for real-life almost unrestricted context-free grammars
2001. 11th International Conference, FPL 2001, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, August 27-29, 2001. p. 590-594. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-44687-7_61.Polynominal tree-substitution grammars: an efficient framework for Data-Oriented Parsing
2001.Grammaire à substitution d'arbre de complexité polynomiale : un cadre efficace pour DOP
2001. p. 133-142.Polynomial Tree Substitution Grammars: an efficient framework for Data-Oriented Parsing
2001Intégration probabiliste de sens dans la représentation de textes
2001. p. 83-91.Improving Text representations through Probabilistic Integration of Synonymy Relations
2001. p. 200-205.Long short-term memory in recurrent neural networks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2001. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-2366.Le modele DSIR : une approche a base de semantique distributionnelle pour la recherche documentaire
Traitement automatique des langues. 2000.The DSIR model: a Distributional Semantics approach to Information Retrieval
2000An FPGA-based coprocessor for the parsing of context-free grammars
2000. IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, FCCM '00, Napa Valley, CA, April 17-19, 2000. p. 236-245. DOI : 10.1109/FPGA.2000.903411.Towards NLP-coprocessing: An FPGA implementation of a context-free parser
2000. p. 91-100.Monte-Carlo Sampling for NP-Hard Maximization Problems in the Framework of Weighted Parsing
2000. Second International Conference, Patras, Greece, June 2-4, 2000. p. 106–117. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-45154-4_10.Development of Acoustic and Linguistic Ressources for Research and Development in Interactive Vocal Information Servers
2000.ISIS: Interaction through Speech with Information System
2000. p. 339-344. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-45323-7_57.Using Information Extraction to Classify Newspapers Advertisements
2000. p. 309-316.Automated Information Extraction out of Classified Advertisements
2000. 5th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2000, Versailles, France, June 28–30, 2000. p. 203-214. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-45399-7_17.Towards NLP co-processing: An FPGA implementation of a context-free parser
2000. p. 91-100.Integration of syntactic constraints within a speech recognition system: Coupling a speech recognizer and a stochastic context-free parser
1999Stochastic Distributional Models for Textual Information Retrieval
1999. p. 80-85.Using Syntactic Constraints in Natural Language Disambiguation
1999Disambiguation Experiment for Spanish
1999Lattice Parsing for Speech Recognition
1999. p. 95-104.Textual Similarities based on a Distributional Approach
1999. p. 180-184.Integration of syntactic constraints within a speech recognition system: Coupling a speech recognizer and a stochastic context-free parser
1999L'action GRACE d'evaluation de l'assignation des parties du discours pour le francais
Langues. 1999.Métriques et premiers résultats de l'évaluation GRACE des étiqueteurs morphosyntaxiques pour le francais
1999.INtegrating SPEech acoustic and linguistic Constraints: Baseline System Development
1999Text Mining - Knowledge extraction from unstructured textual data
1998. p. 473-480.Similarités pour données textuelles
1998. p. 545-555.Linguistic Issues in GRACE (evaluation of Part-Of-Speech tagging for French)
1998.Text Mining at the Term Level
1998. p. 65–73. DOI : 10.1007/BFb0094806.Knowledge Management: A Text Mining Approach
1998. p. 9.1-9.10.A Practical Bottom-Up Algorithm for On-Line Parsing with Stochastic Context-Free Grammars
1998Extraction stochastique d'arbres d'analyse pour le modele DOP
1998. p. 52-61.A generalized CYK algorithm for parsing stochastic CFG
1998. p. 133-137.The GRACE French Part-Of-Speech Tagging Evaluation Task
1998. p. 433-441.Le Système D-SIR et le projet Amaryllis
1997.Text Mining: Natural Language techniques and Text Mining applications
1997.Verbatim analysis and usability in operational management
1997.Text Mining, knowledge extraction from unstructured textual data
1997.Les procédures de mesure automatique de l'action GRACE pour l'évaluation des assignateurs de Parties du Discours pour le Français
1997.Progress report on the GRACE evaluation program for French Part-Of-Speech taggers
1997.Ressources pour l'apprentissage, le développement et l'évaluation des systêmes de dictée vocale en français : corpus de texte, de parole et lexical
1997.Other publications
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