University professor
Contact.
Email: christophe.roche@univ-smb.fr
web page: christophe-roche.fr
Phone: +33 (0) 479 758 779 – Fax: +33 (0) 479 758 888
Office: Mont-Blanc Building – Bourget du Lac Science Campus – Office 118
Address: Equipe Condillac – LISTIC – Campus Scientifique – 73 376 Le Bourget du Lac cedex – France
RESUME
- Full Professor at the University of Savoie Mont-Blanc (France)
- Head of the Condillac Research Group in "Terminology & Ontology" – LISTIC Lab.
- Associate Researcher at NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal) – CLUNL Linguistic Research Center
- PhD in Artificial Intelligence (INPG Grenoble – 1984)
- Areas of interest: Terminology, Ontology, Ontoterminology, Linguistics, Knowledge Representation
- Chairman of the TOTh Conference
- Chair of the AFNOR Commission on Terminology (X03A)
- Project Leader of the ISO Standards on Terminology (ISO 1087-1 & ISO 704)
Terminology Coordination Unit: Interview with Christophe Roche
RESEARCH
My main areas of interest are Terminology as a scientific discipline, Ontology originating from knowledge engineering and taking into account philosophical and logical principles, and combining both into a new paradigm of ontoterminology (a terminology whose conceptual system is a formal ontology).
Ontoterminology relies on a new Concept Theory of Terminology (C.T.T.) based on consistent epistemological and logical principles.
Ontoterminology is involved in several projects and applications, both research and industrial: e.g., multilingual ontology-oriented terminology, multilingual semantic search engine, content management system, ontology-oriented thesaurus.
The " Naming the Things " project aims to bring together people from different disciplines who are interested in applying terminology and ontology to their fields, e.g. Digital Humanities.
Publications.
Selected articles:
Terminology and ontology
C. Roche. Langages journal, 39th year, no. 157, 2005, pp. 48-62
The term and the concept: foundations of ontoterminology
C. Roche. TOTh 2007, Terminology & Ontology: Theories and Applications, Annecy (France), June 1, 2007, pp. 1-22
Ontoterminology: How to unify terminology and ontology into a single paradigm
C. Roche. LREC 2012, Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Istanbul (Turkey), May 21-27, 2012, pp. 2626-2630
Saying is not modeling
C. Roche. NLPCS 2007, Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science, Funchal (Portugal), June 12-13, 2007, pp. 47-56
Should Terminology Principles be re-examined?
C. Roche. TKE 2012, 10th Terminology and Knowledge Engineering Conference, Madrid (Spain), June 19-22, 2012, pp. 17-32.
Formal Representations in Terminology
C. Roche. Verbal and Nonverbal Representation in Terminology, TOTh Workshop 2013, Copenhagen, November 8, 2013, pp. 23-35
Ontological definition – abstract
C. Roche. Handbook of Terminology, Volume 1, John Benjamins Publishing, 2015, pp. 128–152
TEACHING
■ Professor at the University Savoie Mont Blanc (France)
■ Lecturer at the University NOVA of Lisbon (Portugal)
Courses at the L3, M1, M2, and PhD levels in:
- Logic
- Theory of language
- Artificial Intelligence
- Knowledge Representation
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Semantic Web
- Terminology
- Ontology
TOTh
TOTh: Terminology & Ontology: Theories and applications
The TOTh community was created ten years ago and, ever since, has drawn together researchers, teachers, trainers, practitioners, users, and industrialists whose interests concern terminology and, in a more general way, the links between language and knowledge in the context of our discipline.
TOTh is open to all streams of thought, and sets out to provide a forum for exchange and sharing where problems are presented along with solutions and feedback from experience, on both the theoretical and applied planes, as well as new tendencies and perspectives in the disciplines associated with terminology (translation, lexicography, knowledge engineering, information sciences, etc.).
The TOTh international community comprises more than 20 different nationalities and the most prominent personalities in the field. The official languages are French and English. The annual events that TOTh organizes include a conference, a training session, and a workshop.
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