François Rousseau

François Rousseau

Software engineer

Research interests

  • Text Mining

  • Machine Learning

  • Natural Language Processing

  • Search and Information Retrieval

  • Data Science

  • Publications

    Shortest-Path Graph Kernels for Document Similarity.
    Giannis Nikolentzos, Polykarpos Meladianos, François Rousseau, Yannis Stavrakas and Michalis Vazirgiannis.
    2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP '17.

    Community-preserving Anonymization of Graphs.
    François Rousseau, Jordi Casas-Roma and Michalis Vazirgiannis.
    Knowledge and Information Systems, 2017.

    Multivariate Gaussian Document Representation from Word Embeddings for Text Categorization.
    Giannis Nikolentzos, Polykarpos Meladianos, François Rousseau, Yannis Stavrakas and Michalis Vazirgiannis.
    15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL '17.

    Graph-based Term Weighting Scheme for Topic Modeling.
    Giannis Bekoulis and François Rousseau.
    2nd International Workshop on Data Science for Social Media and Risk, SoMeRis '16.

    Regularizing Text Categorization with Clusters of Words.
    Konstantinos Skianis, François Rousseau and Michalis Vazirgiannis.
    2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP '16.

    Convolutional Sentence Kernel with Word Embedding for Short Text Categorization.
    Jonghoon Kim, François Rousseau and Michalis Vazirgiannis.
    2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP '15.

    Community-preserving generalization of social networks.
    Jordi Casas-Roma and François Rousseau.
    1st International Workshop on Data Science for Social Media and Risk, SoMeRis '15.

    Text Categorization as a Graph Classification Problem.
    François Rousseau, Emmanouil Kiagias and Michalis Vazirgiannis.
    52th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, ACL-IJCNLP '15.

    Degeneracy-based Real-Time Sub-Event Detection in Twitter Stream.
    Polykarpos Meladianos, Giannis Nikolentzos, François Rousseau, Yannis Stavrakas and Michalis Vazirgiannis.
    9th AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM '15.

    Main Core Retention on Graph-of-words for Single-Document Keyword Extraction.
    François Rousseau and Michalis Vazirgiannis.
    37th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR '15.

    Graph-of-word and TW-IDF: New Approach to Ad Hoc IR.
    François Rousseau and Michalis Vazirgiannis. Best Paper, Honorable Mention.
    22nd ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, CIKM '13.

    Efficient Online Novelty Detection in News Streams.
    Margarita Karkali, François Rousseau, Alexandros Ntoulas and Michalis Vazirgiannis.
    14th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering, WISE '13.

    Composition of TF Normalizations: New Insights on Scoring Functions for Ad Hoc IR.
    François Rousseau and Michalis Vazirgiannis.
    38th ACM International Conference on Information Retrieval, SIGIR '13.

    Reviews

  • AAAI '17

  • CIKM '16

  • WWW '15, ASONAM '15 and ACM TIST

  • WWW '14, SIGKDD '14 and ECML PKDD '14

  • WWW '13, SIGKDD '13, ASONAM '13 and ECML PKDD '13

  • ICDM '12

  • Experience

    Software Engineer at Google

    November 2015 - Now

    Targeting queries for mobile apps.

    Researcher at LIX

    October 2012 - September 2015

    Explored graph-of-words to mine and retrieve text with networks of features.

    Software Engineer at Google

    June 2014 - August 2014

    Enhanced the Q&A part of Google Search using NLP and ML techniques.

    Software Engineer at Sift Science

    June 2013 - August 2013

    Made the machine learning system real-time. Developed a device fingerprinting system.

    Software Engineer at Google

    October 2011 - July 2012

    Built the Text-To-Speech system for French (released with Android 4.1).

    Researcher at LIP6

    April 2011 - September 2011

    Designed a low-dimension barycenter-based semantic space for sentiment classification.

    Education

    Ecole Polytechnique

    2012 - 2015

    PhD in Computer Science under the supervision of Michalis Vazirgiannis.
    Dissertation on Graph-of-words: mining and retrieving text with networks of features.

    Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI

    2010 - 2011

    MSc in Computer Science (Major in Machine Learning and Web Mining).
    Thesis on Word Embeddings for Opinion mining and Sentiment Analysis.

    Télécom ParisTech

    2008 - 2011

    Engineering Diploma in Telecommunications (Major in Computer Science).