User:ClaireGardent

Claire Gardent is a tenured senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).

She graduated from the University of Edinburgh and has worked in Universities in France, the Netherlands and Germany. She was nominated Chair of the European Chapter for the Association of Computational Linguistics (EACL), editor in chief of the journals "Traitement Automatique des Langues" and "Language and Linguistic Compass (Computational and Mathematical Section)" and member of the editorial board of the journals "Computational Linguistics", "Journal of Semantics", "Journal of Linguistic Modelling". She acted as program chair for various international conferences, workshops and summer schools (EACL, ENLG, SemDIAL, SIGDIAL, ESSLLI). She served as chair of SIGGEN, the ACL Special Interest Group in Natural Language Generation.

Her current research focuses on generation from text, data and meaning representations and on dialog. She organised two shared task on NLG, WebNLG (Generating Text from RDF triples) and KBGen (Generating Text from Knowledge Bases).