Student of the University of La Rochelle (France) and member of its IT Laboratory (L3i) (fr) (IT, Images and Interactions), in the teams ‘Documents and digital contents’ (fr) and ‘Models and knowledge’ (fr).

Master’s degree graduated with honours. The Master’s degree in Computer Science is oriented towards data processing, data science and information systems management. I developed new skills in digitisation, data mining, big-data and data analysis.

Participation in the ICADL 2023 conference for the publication of a dataset (HAL: hal-04207205v2), PARES (Parish Record Survey) containing unpublished images of parish census registers used by the INED to carry out demographic analysis of the 17th to 20th centuries. In addition to this dataset, we release experiments related to the extraction of rows from tables

Authors: Guillaume Bernard, Casey Wall, Mélodie Boillet, Mickaël Coustaty, Christopher Kermorvant, Antoine Doucet

Publication of a demonstration at the end of an internship (HAL: hal-04113008v1) carried out by a student at the University of Bordeaux. This work stems from the thesis work mentioned below.

*Authors: Guillaume Bernard, Thomas Blot

PhD thesis manuscript (full information on the dedicated page [in French]) on the detection and tracking of events reported in the historical press (from 1850 to 1950). That is, to chronologically sort events detected by AI tools to reconstruct a complete story about events, from the origin of events to journalistic papers.

Participation in the CLEF 2022 Conference where I published a paper on algorithms to track events mentioned in the written press and specifically short texts (like telegrams). This paper is released with all the source codes, data and experiments results.

Authors: Guillaume Bernard, Cyrille Suire, Cyril Faucher et Antoine Doucet

Participation in the ISWC 2021 Conference for a platform demo to query documents based on a standard event representation. This demo is a document oriented search engine based on semantics able to search for press documents relating real-world events.

Authors: Guillaume Bernard, Cyrille Suire, Cyril Faucher, Paolo Rosso et Antoine Doucet

Participation in the TPDL 2021 Conference for a long paper describing a system to automate the representation of real-world events by using public knowledge bases like Wikipedia and Wikidata.

Authors: Guillaume Bernard, Cyrille Suire, Cyril Faucher et Antoine Doucet

I participated in the EKAW Conference in 2018 to present a poster describing a system to automate the tracking of users in indoor environments using the Bluetooth technology.

Authors: Guillaume Bernard, Cyril Faucher, Karell Bertet

Pedagogical responsibility for the DevOPS module which, over 8 weeks, consisted in training students in DevOPS issues. Focused on practice, the students were put in a situation close to reality (life of a pre-existing project). They had to go through the different steps of the DevOPS cycle and in particular create continuous integration and deployment pipelines using Gitlab CI. The deployment and monitoring of the system was done on Microsoft Azure.

Preparation of a course and teaching over 8 weeks. The students were introduced to data analysis with Python. They worked largely on natural language processing issues. The course consisted in training them on the notions of textual content processing (cleaning, normalisation, etc.) and content interpretation (TF-IDF methods, LDA analysis, etc.). The course ended with a 2-week project for which students had to choose their own dataset and provide a complete analysis of its content.

Intervention on TD and TP sessions during 5 weeks to provide students with notions related to software architecture (design and development of these architectures, adapted design patterns, etc). Introduction to test-driven development and to the notion of code quality.

For my thesis, I moved for ten weeks to the Universitat Politècnica de València (Polytechnic University), València (Spain). I have taken courses that certify me to a level equivalent to A2.3 of the European Language framework (autonomous).

My contribution to the GNOME project is mainly focused on the translation of the GNOME ecosystem and its documentation. This includes components such as the Shell, Machines, Calendar or Terminal. Beyond that, I am also the maintainer of the translation of Liferea, an RSS feed reader.

Since 2020 I am a member of the GNOME Foundation, which manages the long-term direction of the project.

I contribute in my free time to some sections of the French Wikipedia, by adding and correcting various things. Since 2015, after having made more than 500 changes, I have become a patroller and focus more on monitoring the changes of newcomers, formatting, adding sources, formatting elements of the wiki.

I got involved in the OpenStreetMap project in 2013 with the desire to map and record as much of my village as possible. Since my arrival in La Rochelle, I have been looking after the Minimes area and monitoring changes in the city centre. I take advantage of my travels to make corrections where possible.