Research Talks
This page lists research talks I have given over the years, in a manner as exhaustive as possible. Talks given as part of a class are not presented here, they can be found in the Teaching section of the Web site.
2024
- 21 November. Qu'est-ce que l'IA ? Assemblée des partenaires de Hal, Lyon, France.
- 24 October. Expected Shapley-Like Scores of Boolean Functions: Complexity and Applications to Probabilistic Databases. Bases de Données Avancées, Orléans, France. (corresponding publication)
- 25 May. On the Impact of Val on Pierre & ProvSQL. ValFest 2024, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. (corresponding publication)
- 1 March. Provenance, Probabilities, and Power Indices in Databases. ENS Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
- 18 January. Expected Shapley-Like Scores of Boolean Functions: Complexity and Applications to Probabilistic Databases. Representation, Provenance, and Explanations in Database Theory and Logic seminar, Dagstuhl, Germany. (corresponding publication)
2023
- 01 November. Extracting Definienda in Mathematical Scholarly Articles with Transformers. Workshop on Information Extraction from Scholarly Publications, online, Indonesia. (corresponding publication)
- 26 October. Confidential Truth Finding with Multi-Party Computation. Bases de Données Avancées, Montpellier, France. (corresponding publication)
- 7 September. Challenges in Building a Provenance-Aware Database Management System. Simons Institute, Berkeley, USA.
- 3 July. Building a Provenance-Aware Database Management System. Laboratoire de Méthodes Formelles, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
2022
- 17 November. Building a Provenance-Aware Database Management System. Polaris Colloqium, Inria Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
- 12 June. Efficient Provenance-Aware Querying of Graph Databases with Datalog. Workshop on Graph Data Management Experiences & Systems and Network Data Analytics, Philadelphia, USA. (corresponding publication)
2021
- 17 June. Introduction to Fine-Grained Management of Data Provenance. Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
2019
- 13 December. TheoremKB: Towards a Knowledge Base of Mathematical Results. SinFra Symposium 2019 on Artificial Intelligence, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
- 20 September. Provenance in Databases: Principles and Applications. Reasoning Web Summer School, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy. (corresponding publication)
- 8 April. Introduction to Database Theory. École de Printemps en Informatique Théorique, CIRM, Luminy, France.
- 18 January. Provenance and Probabilities in Relational Databases: From Theory to Practice. National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
2018
- 22 October. Une étude expérimentale de la largeur d'arbre de données graphe du monde réel. Bases de Données Avancées, Bucarest, Romania. (corresponding publication)
- 4 October. Connecting Width and Structure in Knowledge Compilation. FILOFOCS, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France.
- 11 July. Provenance and Probabilities in Relational Databases: From Theory to Practice. Theory and Practice of Provenance, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
- 29 June. Reinforcement learning for intensional data management. FADEx seminar, Inria Paris, Paris, France.
- 22 June. Provenance and Probabilities in Relational Databases: From Theory to Practice. TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
- 18 June. Complex Data Management. AI Singapore – France workshop, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
- 24 May. Initiation à LaTeX. Training Thursday, Bibliothèques ENS, Paris, France.
- 16 May. Intensional Data Management. BioQOP meeting, Télécom parisTech, Paris, France.
- 11 May. Théorie des bases de données. Colloque Algorithmique et Programmation, CIRM, Luminy, France.
- 23 April. Timely Crawling of the Structured Web. Temporal Web Analytics Workshop, Lyon, France.
- 20 April. Reinforcement learning for intensional data management. Sequel seminar, Inria Lille, Lille, France.
- 9 March. Reinforcement learning for intensional data management. Spring workshop on Mining and Learning, Titisee, Germany.
- 22 February. Reinforcement learning for intensional data management. Data Science seminar, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France.
- 20 February. Provenance and Probabilities in Relational Databases: From Theory to Practice. Colloquium LORIA, LORIA, Nancy, France.
2017
- 2 May. Tree decompositions for probabilistic data management. Algorithms and Complexity seminar, IRIF (Research Institute for Foundations of Computer Science), Paris, France.
- 21 February. Semiring Provenance in Relational Databases. Foundations, Representation Systems, Implementation. Information Systems seminar, Oxford University computer science department, Oxford, United Kingdom.
- 10 February. Semiring Provenance in Relational Databases. Foundations, Representation Systems, Implementation. Valda seminar, École normale supérieure, Paris, France.
2016
- 13 October. The Veracity of Big Data. Day of the Research Chair on Big Data & Market Insights, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France.
- 5 October. What do Internet companies know about you? DG Competition's Antitrust Reflection Day, Overijse, Belgium.
- 15 September. What do Internet companies know about you? CERRE Private Seminar – Data & Competition Policy, University Foundation, Brussels, Belgium.
- 09 June. Approximation Algorithms (for Database Researchers). Thematic school on Big data, Urrugne, France.
- 02 June. Adaptive Web Crawling through Structure-Based Link Classification. University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands. (corresponding publication)
- 25 May. The Veracity of Big Data. AAFD & SFC 2016, Marrakech, Morocco.
- 16 February. Exploiting Web and Social Networking Data. Round table Ethics & Big Data, Université Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France.
2015
- 11 December. Adaptive Web Crawling through Structure-Based Link Classification. International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, Seoul, South Korea. (corresponding publication)
- 25 November. Mobility Analytics through Social and Personal Data. Big Data Business Convention, Université Paris-Saclay, Saclay, France.
- 2 October. Fouille de graphes et détection d'évènements. Day of the Research Chair on Big Data & Market Insights, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France.
- 31 May. FOREST: Focused Object Retrieval by Exploiting Significant Tag paths. Web and Databases, Melbourne, Australia. (corresponding publication)
- 20 April. Truth Finding with Attribute Partitioning. CCIPX final meeting, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. (corresponding publication)
- 3 February. Challenges in Big Data Management and Analytics. SinFra, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore. (corresponding publication)
- 31 January. Research within DBWeb. Focus on Uncertainty, Structure, Intensionality. U.S. Army Research Laboratory visit, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France. (corresponding publication)
2014
- 3 December. Disseminate your Research: Style Does Matter. IC2 group seminar, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France. (corresponding publication)
- 10 September. Data Acquisition and Extraction from the Variety of Web Sources. Yves Rocher, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.
- 3 July. UnSAID: Uncertainty and Structure in the Access to Intensional Data. Université Rennes 1, Rennes, France. (corresponding publication)
- 22 June. ProbTree: A Query-Efficient Representation of Probabilistic Graphs. Special Interest Group on Management of Data, Snowbird, USA. (corresponding publication)
- 15 May. Urban Data: Acquisition and Exploitation through Social and Crowd Sensing. Futuring Cities Data Day, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France.
- 24 April. Web Security. Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Denpasar, Indonesia.
- 7 April. Probabilistic XML Model. NORM-ATIS meeting, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France.
- 2 April. UnSAID: Uncertainty and Structure in the Access to Intensional Data. IC2 group seminar, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France. (corresponding publication)
- 31 March. Reinforcement Learning for Data Management Scientists. National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
- 19 March. Disseminate your Research: Style Does Matter. Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. (corresponding publication)
2013
- 5 December. Probabilistic Models for Uncertain Data. Symposium on Information and Communication Technology, Da Nang, Vietnam. (corresponding publication)
- 1 November. Disseminate your Research: Style Does Matter. PhD Students at CIKM, San Francisco, USA. (corresponding publication)
- 30 September. Uncertainty in Webdam. Webdone workshop, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France.
- 26 September. Probabilistic XML: A Data Model for the Web. Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy.
- 23 September. Semantic Web Technologies. Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy.
- 18 September. Web Search. Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy.
- 14 August. Challenges in Deep Web Data Extraction. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
- 7 July. PARIS: Probabilistic Alignement of Relationships, Instances, and Schema. Data Extraction and Object Search, Oxford, United Kingdom. (corresponding publication)
- 4 June. Web Search. Accueils professeurs de CPGE, INRIA Paris–Rocquencourt, Rocquencourt, France.
- 14 March. Probabilistic XML: Models and Complexity. CCIPX kickoff meeting, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore. (corresponding publication)
2012
- 5 December. Crowd Mining. Database group seminar, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. (corresponding publication)
- 20 October. De Turing à Chomsky: Langues, langages, machines et monoïdes. Mathematic Park, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France.
- 18 October. Monadic Datalog Containment (and the Hidden Web). WebDam–MoDaS workshop, Eilat, Israel. (corresponding publication)
- 16 October. Querying Intensional Data. WebDam–MoDaS workshop, Eilat, Israel.
- 7 September. Ontology Languages. “Ontologies” day, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France.
- 31 August. Dealing with the Deep Web and all its Quirks. Very Large Data Search, Istanbul, Turkey. (corresponding publication)
- 13 June. Probabilistic XML: A Data Model for the Web. Habilitation thesis defense, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France. (mp4 | corresponding publication)
- 31 May. Monadic Datalog Containment (and the Hidden Web). Dahu working group, INRIA Saclay – Île-de-France, Cachan, France. (corresponding publication)
- 30 May. Social Networks. Chair on Information Technology and Digital Sciences, Collège de France, Paris, France. (mov)
- 16 May. ProFoUnd: Program-analysis–based Form Understanding. IC2 group seminar, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France. (corresponding publication)
- 19 April. API Blender: A Uniform Interface to Social Platform APIs. World Wide Web, Lyon, France. (corresponding publication)
- 29 February. ProFoUnd: Program-analysis–based Form Understanding. Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel. (corresponding publication)
- 17 January. Modèles mathématiques de réseaux sociaux. Panel on Social Networks, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France.
- 17 January. Stockage et indexation de masses de données. Panel on Social Networks, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France.
2011
- 15 November. PARIS: Probabilistic Alignement of Relationships, Instances, and Schema. International Workshop on Big-Data Analytics for the Temporal Web, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France. (corresponding publication)
- 26 October. Introduction to Probabilistic Data Management. With . Bases de Données Avancées, Rabat, Morocco.
- 26 October. Optimal Probabilistic Generators for XML Corpora. Bases de Données Avancées, Rabat, Morocco. (pptx | corresponding publication)
- 18 October. Finding Optimal Probabilistic Generators for XML Collections. Foundations of distributed data management seminar, Dagstuhl, Germany. (pptx | corresponding publication)
- 3 October. Intelligent Archiving of the Social Web. DIADEM 1.0 Workshop, Vienna, Austria.
- 19 July. BigTable. French-German summer school for young researchers, Frauenchiemsee, Germany. (flv)
- 18 July. Distributed Computing. French-German summer school for young researchers, Frauenchiemsee, Germany. (flv)
- 15 June. Determining Relevance of Accesses at Runtime. Principles Of Database Systems, Athens, Greece. (corresponding publication)
- 25 March. Value Joins are Expensive over (Probabilistic) XML. Logics in Databases, Uppsala, Sweden. (corresponding publication)
- 24 March. The Hidden Web, XML and the Semantic Web: Scientific Data Management Perspectives. With and . Extending DataBase Technology, Uppsala, Sweden. (ppt | corresponding publication)
- 4 March. Finding the Best Probabilistic Schema for an XML Corpus. Webdam workshop, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France.
- 7 February. Determining Relevance of Accesses at Runtime. DBWeb seminar, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France. (corresponding publication)
- 2 February. Schema Mapping Discovery from Data Instances. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy. (corresponding publication)
- 27 January. Determining Relevance of Accesses at Runtime. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy. (corresponding publication)
- 25 January. WP5: Intelligent Content Acquisition. Arcomem kickoff meeting, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
- 24 January. Institut Télécom: Partner Introduction. Arcomem kickoff meeting, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
- 13 January. Determining Relevance of Accesses at Runtime. Dahu working group, INRIA Saclay – Île-de-France, Cachan, France. (corresponding publication)
2010
- 22 November. DBWeb: Research Topics. DBWeb seminar, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France.
- 18 November. Probabilistic XML Data Management. INFRES Department Seminar, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France.
- 16 November. Indexing Large-Scale Data. Workshop on Large Scale Data Mining, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France.
- 9 June. ACM SIGMOD Second Annual Programming Contest. Special Interest Group on Management of Data, Indianapolis, USA. (mpg)
- 4 June. DataRing: Model and Language. Past, Current, and Future Work. DataRing meeting, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France.
- 18 May. Web Search. Thematic school on Big data, Les Houches physics school, Les Houches, France.
- 10 May. Corroborating Information from Disagreeing Views. DBWeb seminar, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France. (corresponding publication)
- 26 April. Deep Web Data. Analysis, Extraction, and Modelling. Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
- 13 January. Probabilistic XML: Survey and Challenges. Dahu working group, INRIA Saclay – Île-de-France, Cachan, France.
2009
- 20 November. Probabilistic XML: Survey and Challenges. Mostrare seminar, INRIA Lille – Nord Europe, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
- 10 November. Probabilistic XML: Survey and Challenges. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
- 9 November. Aggregating Discrete and Continuous Probabilistic XML. With . The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. (corresponding publication)
- 15 September. Corroborating Information from Disagreeing Views. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy. (corresponding publication)
- 28 August. Probabilistic XML: Survey and Challenges. Webdam workshop, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France.
- 26 May. Concepts et modèles des Webs communautaires. With . Association Française pour l'Intelligence Artificielle, Hammamet, Tunisia.
- 5 May. Automatic Wrapper Induction from Hidden-Web Sources with Domain Knowledge. Information Systems seminar, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Oxford, United Kingdom. (corresponding publication)
- 27 January. Modèle d'incertitude et langage de requêtes pour le DataRing. DataRing kickoff meeting, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France.
2008
- 11 December. Introduction aux réseaux sociaux sur le Web. Working group on peer-to-peer social networks, INRIA Saclay – Île-de-France, Saclay, France.
- 13 November. Comprendre le Web caché. Business Intelligence seminar, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France. (corresponding publication)
- 30 October. Automatic Wrapper Induction from Hidden-Web Sources with Domain Knowledge. Web Information and Data Management, Napa, USA. (corresponding publication)
- 21 October. Concepts et modèles des Webs communautaires. With . Bases de Données Avancées, Guilherand-Granges, France.
- 14 October. On the Expressiveness of Probabilistic XML Models. Uncertainty Management Dagstuhl seminar, Dagstuhl, Germany. (corresponding publication)
- 7 October. Gestion de données incertaines et de leur provenance. INSERM & Institut Télécom seminar, Paris, France.
- 28 July. Understanding the Hidden Web. Athens University of Economics & Business, Athens, Greece. (corresponding publication)
- 24 July. Le Web, un graphe à fouiller. Data mining meeting, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France.
- 27 June. État des recherches. DBWeb Meeting, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France.
- 9 June. On the Complexity of Deriving Schema Mappings from Database Instances. Principles Of Database Systems, Vancouver, Canada. (corresponding publication)
- 14 May. On the Complexity of Deriving Schema Mappings from Database Instances. D5 group meeting, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany. (corresponding publication)
- 5 May. Timestamping Pages on the Web. LiWA meeting, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany. (corresponding publication)
- 10 March. Research Interests. Ranked XML Querying Dagstuhl seminar, Dagstuhl, Germany.
2007
- 12 December. Comprendre le Web caché. PhD thesis defense, Université Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France. (mpg (French) | corresponding publication)
- 30 November. On the Complexity of Deriving Schema Mappings from Database Instances. Gemo seminar, INRIA Futurs, Orsay, France. (corresponding publication)
- 22 August. Understanding the Hidden Web. Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany. (corresponding publication)
- 24 July. Finding Related Pages Using Green Measures: The Example of Wikipedia. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada. (corresponding publication)
- 13 June. On the Complexity of Managing Probabilistic XML Data. Principles Of Database Systems, Beijing, China. (corresponding publication)
- 13 March. Inverting Schema Mappings. With . Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Oxford, United Kingdom.
2006
- 10 November. Finding Related Pages Using Green Measures: The Example of Wikipedia. Gemo seminar, INRIA Futurs, Orsay, France. (corresponding publication)
- 29 September. Leveraging Data Sources Exported as Forms and Web Services. Gemo seminar, INRIA Futurs, Orsay, France.
- 3 July. Querying and Updating Probabilistic Information in XML. International Center for Computational Logic, Dresden, Germany. (corresponding publication)
- 28 March. Querying and Updating Probabilistic Information in XML. Extending DataBase Technology, Munich, Germany. (corresponding publication)
- 10 March. Querying and Updating Probabilistic Information in XML. Gemo seminar, INRIA Futurs, Orsay, France. (corresponding publication)
- 6 January. Querying and Updating Probabilistic Information in XML. Mostrare seminar, INRIA Futurs, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. (corresponding publication)
2005
- 17 November. SYSTRAN Translation Stylesheets: Machine Translation driven by XSLT. XML Conference & Exhibition, Atlanta, USA. (corresponding publication)
- 20 October. XML Warehousing Meets Sociology. IADIS International Conference on the Web and Internet, Lisbon, Portugal. (corresponding publication)
- 15 September. Integration of SYSTRAN MT systems in an open workflow. Machine Translation Summit, Phuket, Thailand. (corresponding publication)
- 28 July. Identifying Websites with Flow Simulation. International Conference on Web Engineering, Sidney, Australia. (corresponding publication)
- 17 June. Understanding the Hidden Web. Mostrare seminar, INRIA Futurs, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
- 2 June. Understanding the Hidden Web. Gemo days, Saint-Malo, France.
- 25 April. Identification de sites Web logiques. Thematic school on large interaction networks, Paris, France. (corresponding publication)
- 1 February. WebStand: Sociological Analysis of the W3C Standardization Process. Gemo seminar, INRIA Futurs, Orsay, France. (corresponding publication)
2003
- 12 September. Identification de sites Web logiques. MSc thesis defense, Université Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France. (corresponding publication)
- 7 June. Identification of logical websites. Gemo seminar, INRIA Futurs, Orsay, France. (corresponding publication)
- 26 May. Découverte automatique de mots similaires. Student seminar, École normale supérieure, Paris, France. (corresponding publication)
2002
- 10 December. Vérification automatique de multiplicateurs avec les *BMDs. Student seminar, École normale supérieure, Paris, France. (corresponding publication)
- 3 May. Verifying multipliers with *BMDs and a backward construction algorithm. Chalmers Tekhniska Högskola, Göteborg, Sweden. (corresponding publication)
- 13 April. Automatic extraction of synonyms in a dictionary. Text Mining Workshop, Arlington, USA. (corresponding publication)
2001
- 24 September. Extraction of information in large graphs. Automatic search for synonyms. First-year internship defense, École normale supérieure, Paris, France. (corresponding publication)