Christine Golbreich

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Christine Golbreich is a Professor in Computer Science at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin, France. Her main interests include, Semantic Web, Web languages (e.g., OWL, SWRL, RuleML), ontologies and rules, information integration, knowledge management and their application to the industry and the biomedical sector. Her recent work is mainly concerned with Web languages for ontology and rules, extensions to OWL, verification and debugging, migration of biomedical ontologies to OWL, and knowledge management.

After studying mathematics at University Paris VI (Master in logics, 1972) and a pluridisciplinary technical training at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (Automatique), she was awarded Engineer des Mines de Paris (1973), a PhD for her research on frame-based representation applied to biology, an Habilitation (HdR) in Computer Sciences at University Paris 11 (LRI) for her work on flexible KBS and representation languages for the elicitation of reasoning (1996).

She has worked on various topics and managed several projects on knowledge engineering and knowledge representation, most often applied to biomedicine, but also to other sectors.

She conducted her first research at INRIA Rocquencourt in Biomathematics and Artificial Intelligence (1984). Her work was mainly devoted to a frame based system for modeling in biology. She also managed a project on human-machine interaction on the task based acquisition methodology Mad and its graphical framework Emad.

In 1989, she got an associate professor position at University Paris 11 (LRI). At LRI she was in charge of a project on second generation architectures and supervised several PhD focused on the explicit and declarative representation of reasoning and task languages: Task, Lisa, MetaTask which have been transferred to the industry (ILOG and EDF)

In 1997, she was appointed full professor at University Rennes 2. She joined the Laboratory in Medical Informatics, where her research was focused on semantic web technology, and their application to semantic annotation and data integration in biomedicine.

She recently moved back to Paris as a professor at University of Versailles Saint-Quentin.

She has been involved in several projects about Semantic Web for Life Sciences, e.g; her collaboration with the Rouen Hospital-University about the Catalog and Index of Health Resources in French CISMeF for the migration of MeSH to OWL, the conversion of the Foundational Model of Anatomy to OWL in collaboration with the University of Washington (Seattle) and the National Library of Medicine (NIH), e.g; her collaboration with the French National Agency for Transplant (Agence de Biomedecine) for the development of a mediator-based architecture integrating dialysis and transplantation data, e.g; a project in medical imagery for annotating brain MRI images in collaboration with the INSERM/INRIA group Visages. She is involved in the Network of Excellence project Knowledge Web (Industry needs and KR language extensions) and contributed to use-cases in the W3C Working Group RIF (Rule Interchange Format). She is the point person of the User Requirements Task Force, one of OWLED task forces created to identify requirements to improve the utility and deployment of the OWL language by users esp. in industrial and life sciences sectors. She is involved in standardization efforts: member of the W3C OWL Working group and the Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group, and co-editor with Evan K. Wallace of the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language: New Features and Rationale W3C Recommendation, 27 October 2009

--- Award

January 2007: Christine Golbreich (University Versailles Saint-Quentin) and Ammar Mechouche, Bernard Gibaud (U746), received the "best applicative paper" award at the conference EGC 2007 ("Extraction et Gestion de Connaissances") for the paper "Vers un système hybride pour l'annotation sémantique d'images IRM du cerveau".

--- Participation to Recent International Program Committees

· PC member of 17th Int. World Wide Web Conference, Semantic / Data Web (WWW 2008)

· PC member of 2nd Int. Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2008)

· PC member of Fifth European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008)

· PC member of Int. RuleML Symp. on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML 2008)

· PC member of OWL: Experiences and Directions, (OWLED 2008)

· PC member of 16th Int. World Wide Web Conference, Semantic Web track (WWW 2007)

· PC member of 1st Int. Conference onWeb Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2007)

· PC chair of OWL: Experiences and Directions 2007 (OWLED 2007)

· PC member of Int. RuleML Symp. on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007)

· PC member of AMIA 2007 Annual Symposium (AMIA 2007)

· PC member of Extraction et Gestion de Connaissances (EGC 2006)

· PC member of 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006)

· PC member of 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006)

· PC member of OWL: Experiences and Directions 2006 (OWLED 2006)

· PC member of RuleML 2006

· PC member of AMIA 2006

· PC member of AIMSA 2006

· PC member of Pacific Symp. on Biocomputing Semantic Webs for Life Sciences 2006

· PC chair of 8th Intl. Protégé Conference Protégé With Rules Workshop 2005

· PC member of 2rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2005)

· PC member of 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005)

· PC member of OWL: Experiences and Directions 2005 (OWLED 2005)

· PC member of K-Cap 2005

· PC member of 1rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2004)

· PC member of RuleML 2004

· PC member of ISMB-ECCB 2004

· PC member of Medinfo 2004

--- Publications

· Publications from 2003 to 2007

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· Publications before 2003

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- Semantic Web

Web languages and ontologies

Biomedical Information Integration

- Mutimedia indexing and retrieval

- Medical Informatics - Biomathematics

Biomathematics applied to electrophysiology

Object representation for modeling in biology

- Knowledge Engineering and Representation

TheTASK framework

Task languages

Object representation

- PhD and HDR (Habilitation à diriger les recherches)

- French Publications

- Reports

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Knowledge Engineering and Representation

The TASK framework

TASK was a project focused on the development of an engineering framework for the construction of flexible systems (Pierret-Golbreich, 1994)   ( Pierret-Golbreich, 1996).
TASK, like a number of engineering frameworks based on as task-method approach, reflects Newell's knowledge level principle (Newell, 1982). Knowledge-based systems are modeled in terms of the tasks expected to be achieved, e.g. office allocation, elevator configuration etc., diagnosis, etc., the methods that should be applied to realize them, and the domain models that are required for that purpose, e.g. causal, hierarchical, models etc. TASK framework provides a semi-formal modeling language, a formal language based on ADT and an operational task language for the implementation. The first prototype was the task language MAD developed at INRIA (Pierret-Golbreich and al., 1989) (Scapin and Pierret-Golbreich, 1990). This modeling language was supported by a visual tool. It has been used to model several applications, like air traffic supervision, home automation, emergency situation etc. Then, several operational languages, TASK (Pierret-Golbreich and Delouis. 1990) (Pierret-Golbreich and Delouis. 1991), LISA (Delouis, I., 1993), TASK+ (Talon and Pierret-Golbreich, 1996) have been successively developed to enable the tasks execution. LISA has been used to achieve different systems for real applications in the field of electric networks at the French Electricity company EDF, like COPILOTE (Krivine and Delouis, 1991), AUSTRAL (Bredillet and Delouis-Jacob, 1994). The last language of the family was the formal language TFL (Pierret-Golbreich and Talon, 1996). TFL aimed at satisfying two main features required for real-world, in particular critical, systems: needs of precise and rigorous specification and of knowledge verification.

Task languages

Scapin D., Pierret-Golbreich, C. Towards a method for task description : MAD . Work with Display Units 89,. L. Berlinguet and D. Bethelette Eds., Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., North Holland, 371-380, 1990.

Pierret-Golbreich, C., Delouis, I. TASK : TASK Architecture for Structuring Knowledge. 10th International Conference Expert Systems & Their Applications, EC2, Avignon. 1990.

Pierret-Golbreich C, Delouis, I. A Task-Centered Representation for Expert Systems at the knowledge level.

8th Conference of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behavior, Steels and Smith Ed.Steels, L. & Smith, B. Eds., Springer-Verlag. 1991

Pierret-Golbreich, C., Hugonnard, E., Tong, X. KAM : Knowledge Acquisition Modelling. Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition Workshop of 13 th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI' 93, Tecuci , G., Kedar S., Kodratoff Y., Eds., Chambery. 1993.

Pierret-Golbreich, C. Task Model Perspective of Knowledge Engineering, 7th European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, EKAW'93, Springer-Verlag, 1993.

Pierret-Golbreich, C. Task Model, a framework for the design of Models of Expertise and their operationalization. 9th AAAI sponsored Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge Based Systems Workshop, KAW'94, Banff, Canada, SRDG Publications, University of Calgary. 1994.

Pierret-Golbreich, C., Hugonnard, E. Organization and use of generic Models based on the Task language . 8th European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, 1994. (complement papers collection)

Pierret-Golbreich, C., Talon, X. An algebraic specification of the models of expertise integrating control. 10th AAAI sponsored Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge Based Systems Workshop, KAW'95, Banff, Canada, B.R. Gaines & M. Musen (Ed.): SRDG Publications, University of Calgary. 1995.

Benjamins, R. Pierret-Golbreich, C. Assumptions on Problem-Solving Methods Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 1076, 9th European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, N. Shadboldt and K. O'Hara and G. Schreiber Ed., 1-16, Springer- Verlag, 1996

Pierret-Golbreich, C., Talon, X. TFL, an algebraic language to specify the dynamic behavior of Knowledge-Based systems The Knowledge Engineering Review, Vol 11: 3, Cambridge Press 253- 280, 1996.

Talon, X. Pierret-Golbreich, C. TASK, a framework for the different steps of a KBS constuction, 6th European Workshop on Knowledge Engineering Methods and Languages KEML'96, Gif sur Yvette, 1996

Pierret-Golbreich, C. Correctness of Methods w.r.t Problems Specifications. Workshop Validation, Verification and Refinement of the 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Wahlster Ed., Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Budapest, Hongrie, 1996.

Pierret-Golbreich, C. Modular and Reusable Specifications 6th European Workshop on Knowledge Engineering Methods and Languages, Gif/Yvette, 1996.

Talon, X. and Pierret-Golbreich, C. TASK: from the specification to the implementation. 8th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 80-88, IEEE Computer Society Press. 1996.

Pierret-Golbreich, C. Correctness of dynamic knowledge. 8th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Computer Society Press. 1996.

Talon, X., Pierret-Golbreich, C. A language to specify strategies for flexible problem-solving, 7th Knowledge Engineering Methods and Languages Workshop, England. 1997

Pierret-Golbreich C. Libraries of Reusable Components Supported by Formal Methods. 15th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Posters Session Abstracts, Nagoya, Japan, 23-29 August 1997.

Benjamins, R. Pierret-Golbreich,  C. Fensel D., Motta, E. Studer R.. Making Knowledge Engineering Technology Work. 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Madrid, Spain. 1997.

Pierret-Golbreich C., Talon X. Specification of Flexible Knowledge-Based Systems. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 1319, 10th European Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management Workshop, R. Benjamins, E. Plaza Ed., Springer-Verlag, 1997.

Pierret-Golbreich C. Supporting organisation and use of problem-solving methods libraries by a formal approach. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 1998 (49).

PhD and Habilitation

Pierret-Golbreich C.  Conception et développement de systèmes à base de connaissances flexibles. Mémoire pour l'Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Université Paris Sud, 1996

Pierret-Golbreich C. Vers un système à base de connaissances centrées-objet pour la modélisation des systèmes dynamiques en biologie. These de l'Université de Technologie de Compiègne, 1988

    Medical Informatics and Biomathematics

Biomathematics applied to electrophysiology

Henry, J. , Kaufmann, F. , Landau, M. , Pierret-Golbreich, C. Utilisation de la méthode de continuation-bifurcation en electrophysiologie cardiaque. 11th International Congress on Cybernetics, International Association on Cybernetics, Namur, Belgique. 1986.

Henry, J., Pierret-Golbreich, C. Identification of systems with fast and slow dynamics : application to the cardiac action potential, 25th International Conference on Decison and Control , IEEE Control System Society, Athenes. 1986

Object representation for modelling in biology

Pierret-Golbreich, C. Object-centered knowledge representation for modelling in biology. International Symposium on AI, Expert Systems and languages in Modelling and Simulation, Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation Publication IMACS, Barcelone. 1987.

Pierret-Golbreich C. A Computer Aided Modelling System Using an Object-Centered Representation, Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Computation : Towards second generation systems, R Huber et al.Eds, J.C. Baltzer AG, Scientific Publishing Co., 233-242, 1988

Pierret-Golbreich, C. Knowledge Representation for computer aided modelling in Biology. 12th World Congress on Scientific Computation, Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation Publications, IMACS, Paris. 1988

Pierret-Golbreich, C. Contribution of an Object-Centered Representation for computer aided modelling in Biology . Simulation Series, Vol 20, N 3, pp.33-40, The Society for Computer Simulation International Publication, San Diego, California. 1989.    

Semantic Web

Web languages and ontologies

Golbreich C, Dameron O, Gibaud B, Burgun A, Web ontology language requirements w.r.t expressiveness of taxononomy and axioms in medecine, 2nd International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2003, Sanibel Island, Florida, October 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 2870, Springer. 2003.

Golbreich C., Jacquelinet C., Burgun A. Biomedical Information Integration: two case-studies, SIG4, OntoWeb 5 Meeting, Florida, 2003

Golbreich C, Dameron O, Gibaud B, Burgun A. How to represent medical ontologies in view of a Semantic Web, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 9th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in Europe, AIME 2003, Cyprus, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 2780, Springer, October 18-22, 2003.

Burgun A, Golbreich C, Jacquelinet C. Evolving from standard vocabularies to formal ontology for an information system dedicated to organ transplantation. Ontologies in Medicine Volume 102 Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Edited by: D.M. Pisanel, IOS Press 2004

Soualmia L., Golbreich C., Darmoni S., Representing the MeSH in OWL : Towards a Semi-Automatic Migration, KR-MED, First International Workshop on Formal Biomedical Knowledge Representation collocated with KR 2004, Whistler, Canada, CEUR Vol 102, Whistler, Canada, 2004.

Golbreich C., Atsutoshi I., Combining SWRL rules and OWL ontologies with Protégé OWL Plugin, Jess, and Racer, 7th International Protégé Conference, Bethesda, Maryland, 2004

Golbreich C., Mercier S., Construction of the dialysis and transplantation ontology: advantages, limits, and questions about Protege OWL, Workshop on Using Protégé in Medical Applications, Bethesda, Maryland, 2004.

Golbreich C., Combining Rule and Ontology Reasoners for the Semantic Web, Invited talk, Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web, Hiroshima, Japan, Grigoris Antoniou, Harold Boley Editors, LNCS 3323, Springer, 2004.

Golbreich C., Challenges for Knowledge Management in the Biomedical Domain, SIGSEMIS Bulletin Vol 1, Issue 2, 2004

Golbreich C., Bierlaire O., Dameron O., Gibaud B., Use Case: Ontology with Rules for identifying brain anatomical structures, W3C Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability, Washington, D.C., USA, April 2005

Christine Golbreich, Songmao Zhang, Olivier Bodenreider, Migrating the FMA from Protégé to OWL, 8th International Protégé Conference, OWL Experience and Directions Workshop, Madrid, Spain, July 18-21, 2005.

Christine Golbreich, Songmao Zhang, Olivier Bodenreider, The Foundational Model of Anatomy in OWL: Experience and Perspectives, OWL Experience and Directions. Workshop, Galway, Ireland, Nov 11-12, 2005

Christine Golbreich, Olivier Bierlaire, Olivier Dameron, Bernard Gibaud. What reasoning support for Ontology and Rules? the brain anatomy case study. Galway, Ireland, OWL Experience and Directions Workshop, Nov 11-12, 2005

Songmao Zhang, Olivier Bodenreider, Christine Golbreich, Experience in reasoning with the Foundational Model of Anatomy in OWL DL, In: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, Wailea, Maui 2006.

Biomedical Information Integration

Golbreich C, Burgun A, Challenges for Biomedical Information Integration, Position Statement, in Proceedings of the Semantic Integration Workshop, Sanibel Island, Florida, Edited by AnHai Doan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Alon Halevy, University of Washington, Natasha Noy, Stanford University, CEUR Vol 82, 2003.

Golbreich C, Dameron O, Gibaud B, Burgun A, Comment représenter les ontologies pour un Web Sémantique Médical ? Journées Francophones de la Toile, Tours, 2003

Maquet G., Golbreich C., Burgun A., From an ontology-based search engine towards a more flexible integration for medical and biological information, In Proceedings of the Semantic Integration Workshop, Sanibel Island, Florida, Edited by AnHai Doan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Alon Halevy, University of Washington, Natasha Noy, Stanford University, CEUR Vol 82, 2003

Golbreich C., Burgun, Biomedical Information Integration, a hot issue, Poster at MEDINFO 2004, San Francisco, 2004

    Multimedia indexing and retrieval (French only)

Golbreich C. Vers un moteur de recherche évoluée de documents multimédia par le contenu, Rapport de Recherche, Université Rennes 2, 2000. (et Bulletin AFIA N°55)

Zarg Ayouna H, Golbreich C. Raisonner par similarité pour l'indexation et la recherche Multimédia. GDR ISIS - Journées GT10 - Indexation Multimédia, Décembre 2000

Zarg Ayouna H., C. Golbreich. Raisonnement par similarité pour l'indexation et la recherche dans des documents multimédia. dans Complément des actes de la conférence Ingénierie des Connaissances, IC'2001, Juin 2001

Golbreich C., MediaWorks : Plateforme générique pour une recherche de documents audiovisuels par le contenu, Annexe technique du projet Priamm et Progsi (confidentiel), 2000

Golbreich C., Explorer les documents de bibliothèques numériques, un besoin croissant des entreprises, NimeStic’01, Nîmes, 2001

    Publications in French conferences (with review)

Scapin, D., Pierret-Golbreich, C. Une Méthode Analytique de Description des tâches. Colloque sur l'ingénierie des interfaces homme-machine, Cargèse, Mai 1989.

Pierret-Golbreich, C.- Alengry, P. The role of objects for structuring knowledge: aid for technical diagnosis. ERGO/IA'88, Biarritz, October 4-6,1988

Pierret-Golbreich, C. Vers l'intégration des objets symboliques et biologiques dans EDORA : expressions, modèles, processus, systèmes. Les Cahiers d'EDORA, N866, INRIA Ed., juillet 1988

Pierret-Golbreich, C, Acquisition des connaissances orientée modèles de tâches, 3emes Journées d'Acquisition des Connaissances du PRC-IA, PRC GRECO IA, AFIA, AFCET, Dourdan, 1992.

Pierret-Golbreich, C., Fuentes, R., Gaudillere, P., Regnier, M. REDRESSE : une application juridique modélisée avec l'outil Open KADS Acquisition et Ingénierie de la connaissance : tendances actuelles, Aussenac N., Laublet P., Reynaud C. Eds, CEPADUES, Toulouse (1995).

Pierret-Golbreich, C. Bibliothèque de composants réutilisables supportée par des méthodes formelles, Journées Ingénierie des Connaissances et Apprentissage Automatique  JICAA 1997, INRIA Ed.,Roscoff, 20-22 mai 1997.

Pierret-Golbreich, C. Halte au gâchis! Rassemblons nos savoirs et nos ressources pédagogiques. In NTICF'98 New Technologies of Information and Communication in Engineering Education and Industry. Rouen, France. 1998.

Talon, X.,  Pierret-Golbreich, C.,  Le langage de stratégie de MétaTask, Conférence Ingénierie des connaissances 99, Plate-forme AFIA, Palaiseau, 1999.

Pierret-Golbreich, C., Talon, X., Un système flexible pour l'aide à la prise de décision stratégique par les sapeurs pompiers,  Systèmes, Applications, Innovations, ISAI'99, Plate-forme AFIA, Palaiseau, 1999.

Pierret-Golbreich, C.,  Talon, X.,  MétaTask, un langage de programmation orienté tâche. Application à la prise de décision stratégique, 12ème Congrès Francophone AFRIF-AFIA de  Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle RFIA 2000, 1-3 février 2000, Paris

    Reports

Pierret-Golbreich, C. Structuration des connaissances et conduite du raisonnement à l'aide d'objets: l'aide à la formulation d'un modèle en dynamique des populations, Rapport de Recherche INRIA 847, Mai 1988.

Pierret-Golbreich, C. , Delouis, I., Scapin, D. Un outil d'acquisition et de représentation des t?ches orienté-objet, Rapport de Recherche INRIA 1063, 1989

Pierret-Golbreich, C. , Delouis, I. EMAD : un outil d'acquisition et de représentation des tâches orienté-objet, Manuel de référence, Document Technique INRIA

Pierret-Golbreich, C. Vers une nouvelle Architecture pour l'explicitation du raisonnement au niveau connaissances, Rapport de Recherche LRI 674, Université Paris-Sud, Centre d'Orsay, juin 1991

Pierret-Golbreich, C. Acquisition des connaissances orientée modèles de tâches, Rapport de Recherche LRI 694, Université Paris-Sud, Centre d'Orsay, septembre 1991

Pierret-Golbreich, C. Nouvelles Architectures de systèmes à base de connaissances et Droit, Rapport interne pour l'évaluation à mi-parcours de la Jeune Equipe Informatique et Droit, Faculté de Sceaux, Oct 1993

Pierret-Golbreich, C. Modular and Reusable Specifications in Knowledge Engineering: Formal Specification of Goals and their Development, Rapport de Recherche LRI, Université Paris-Sud, Centre d'Orsay, juin 1996

Golbreich C, Dameron O, Gibaud B, Burgun A, Standards et ontologies biomédicales pour un Web Sémantique, Rapport interne, 2002