Claire Gardent is a French computer scientist and linguist specializing in

natural language processing Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to pro ...

, including

natural language generation Natural language generation (NLG) is a software process that produces natural language output. In one of the most widely-cited survey of NLG methods, NLG is characterized as "the subfield of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics tha ...

and

machine translation Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT (not to be confused with computer-aided translation, machine-aided human translation or interactive translation), is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates t ...

. She is a director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, affiliated with the (LORIA), She is also past chair of the European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and former editor-in-chief of the journal ''Traitement Automatique des Langues'' (''Revue TAL'').

Education and career

Gardent was a

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

student at the University of Toulouse, graduating in 1986. She went to the UK for graduate study, earning a master's degree in

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...

from the University of Essex in 1987 and a PhD in cognitive science from the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh ( sco, University o Edinburgh, gd, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Granted a royal charter by King James VI in 15 ...

in 1991. Her doctoral dissertation, ''Gapping and VP ellipsis in a unification-based grammar'', was jointly supervised by Ewan Klein and Robin Cooper. After ten years as a postdoctoral researcher in the Netherlands and Germany, she joined CNRS and LORIA as a researcher in 2000. She has headed a research group on computational, formal, and field linguistics since 2019.

Books

Gardent is the coauthor of books including: *''Techniques d'analyse et de génération pour la langue naturelle'' (with Karine Baschung, Editions Adosa, 1995) *''Deep Learning Approaches to Text Production'' (with Shashi Narayan, Morgan & Claypool, 2020).

Recognition

In 2022 she won the CNRS Silver Medal.

References

External links

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