Engineer Computer Science

JOB OBJECTIVE

Seeking for a research engineer position in Natural Language Processing or related field.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

- Natural Language Processing.

- Sentiment Analysis.

- Text Mining.

- Machine Learning.

- Recommender Systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

- Programming languages: Java, SQL, PHP, HTML.

- Environments: UNIX, Windows.

EDUCATION

- 2011: Ph.D. in Computer Science with highest honors, University of Orléans and University of Paris 6, France.

Field: Natural Language Processing and Text Mining. Subject: "Mining of Unstructured Textual Data from Web 2.0 for Content Recommendation".

- 2007: Master Degree of Science in Computer Science with honors, University of Bordeaux, France.

- 2005: Bachelor Degree of Science in Computer Science, University of Bordeaux, France.

WORK EXPERIENCE

- 2014-2015: NLP Research Engineer - SALEZEO - Paris - France.

Development of a Crawler and parsing tools to collect data related to business development like contact details, business news and event monitoring. Processing, cleaning and validation of a large amount of data.

- 2013-2014: Post-Doctorant - FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS - Belo Horizonte - Brazil.

Development of a recommender system prototype based on experts’ opinion. Data analysis.

- 2012-2013: Research Engineer – NATIONAL CENTER OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH – Paris – France.

Building of a website and creation of tools allowing updates and moderations in a fast and semi-automatic way.

- 2007 - 2011: NLP Research Engineer – Orange – 45.5 billion euros – France.

Development of innovative text classification methods regarding sentimental analysis for a movie recommender system. Text classification, text processing, machine learning, opinion mining, recommender system.

OTHER INFORMATION & ACTIVITIES

Professional: Organizing committee member for the 18th meeting of the French Society of Classification (SFC 2011). Conferences and

journals reviewer: CORIA (French Conference in Information Retrieval), IEEE Systems Journal.

Languages: French (native language), English (fluent), Portugues (fluent).

Spare-time activities: Sports (rugby, tennis, ski, basketball, squash, volley), music (guitar, clarinet), cinema, books.

PUBLICATIONS

Book chapters:

- F. Meyer, D. Poirier, I. Tellier, F. Fessant, “Reperio: An Architecture for Recommendation in an Industrial Context”, 2011, submitted.

- D. Poirier, C. Bothorel, E. Guimier, M. Boullé, “Automating Opinion Analysis in Film Reviews: the Case of Statistic versus Linguistic

Approach”, in the book Affective Computing and Sentiment Analysis, Springer Edition, 2011.

Journals:

- D. Poirier, F. Fessant, I. Tellier, “From Opinion Classification to Recommendations: How Texts from a Social Network Can Help”, in

TAL Volume 51 2010. Opinions and Sentiments, 2010.

- D. Poirier, F. Fessant, C. Bothorel, E. Guimier, M. Boullé, “Approches Statistique et Linguistique Pour la Classification de Textes

d'Opinion Portant sur les Films”, in Revue des Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information RNTI-E-17, 2009.

Conferences and Workshops:

- D. Poirier, I. Tellier, F. Fessant, “Reducing the Cold-Start Problem in Content Recommendation through Opinion Classification”, in

Proceedings of IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Toronto, Canada, 2010.

- D. Poirier, I. Tellier, F. Fessant, J. Schluth, “Towards Text-Based Recommendations”, in Proceedings RIAO 2010: International

Conference on Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information, Paris, France, 2010.

- D. Poirier, “La Classification d'Opinion comme Préambule à la Recommandation Automatique de Contenus”, in Proceedings

CORIA-CIFED 2010 : COnférence en Recherche d'Information et Applications, Sousse, Tunisia, 2010.

- D. Poirier, C. Bothorel, E. Guimier, M. Boullé, “Automating Opinion Analysis in Film Reviews: the Case of Statistic Versus Linguistic

Approach”, in Proceedings LREC 2008, Workshop EMOT: Emotion, Metaphor, Ontology and Terminology, Marrakech, Morrocco, 2008.

- D. Poirier, C. Bothorel, M. Boullé, “Analyse Exploratoire d'Opinions Cinématographiques : Co-Clustering de Corpus Textuels

Communautaires”, in Proceedings EGC 2008 : Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances, Sophia Antipolis, France, 2008.

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