Sam Bigeard

Resources

The Multilingual Sign Language Wordnet
Contains 11 000 signs in 8 different sign languages of Europe aligned with synsets IDs from the Open Multilingual Wordnet. It can be browsed online, and data can be downloaded in CSV format.
Lexicon of french disorders names
Resource in French. List of disorder names, including layman names. More informations on the French page.
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Employment

Postdoc : Project manager in Natural Language Processing
December 2023 - present
At INRIA Université de Lorraine, France
Postdoc : Engineer in Natural Language Processing
February 2021 - October 2023
At IDGS laboratory, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Postdoc : Engineer in Natural Language Processing
February 2020 - January 2021
At IECL Nancy, France
Engineer in Natural Language Processing
April 2018 - October 2019
At CNRS (French national research agency) and working at LIMSI laboratory, Université Paris Sud, France
Engineer in Natural Language Processing
June 2016 - March 2018
At Université de Bordeaux, France
Internship
May 2015 - October 2015
At General management of Bordeaux hospitals, France
Development of a tool to anonymize health records while keeping readability and timeline consistency
Internship
June 2015 - August 2014
At CNRS
Development of a data extraction tool for numerical data in medical files. Work done for project RAVEL under Natalia Grabar. The tool mainly used CRF with the Wapiti tool from LIMSI laboratory.

Education

PhD in Natural Language Processing
June 2016 - October 2019 At Université de Lille, France
Thesis title : Detection and analysis of drug non compliance in social media
It's a thesis in Natural Language Processing, Text mining and Machine learning. The goal is to identify how and why people find themselves in non compliance situations from the informations they share on social media. More informations on the Thesis page.
Master's degree in Natural Language Processing
2013-2015
First year at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris, France, part of Sorbonne Universités), second year at INALCO (Paris, France). This degree is co-organized between three different universities, which is why I changed universities between first and second year. It's still the same degree.
Bachelor in Linguistics
2010-2013
At Université Sorbonne Nouvelle with a minor in NLP

Teaching

I taught a 3 hours introductory course in NLP to medical informatics master students. Slides here

Communication activites

Chiche : Presentations to high schoolers about research and computer science jobs
2 events in 2024.
Pint of Science : Presentation in a pub to explain a science topic to the general public
2024 presentation : Why does my phone understand French but not Alsacian? Presentation in French

Languages

Programming

See my github

Personal life

I paint, sew and roller-skate. My pronouns are them/him.