Professor Dr. Ali Jaoua,

Program Coordinator in Computer Science at Oryx Universal

College, Qatar, in partnership with Liverpool John Moore’s

University, UK

Title: Conceptual data science: foundation and recent

applications for natural language processing, Data Science

and Machine Learning.

Abstract: Formal concept Analysis (FCA) is a mathematical and philosophical

foundation for data science, machine learning, natural language processing, and

several other applications. It was initiated with different names since the

beginning of the last century using either relational algebra, graph theory, or

linguistic analysis. (FCA) gives a general and deep structural representation of any

data context, as a lattice of formal concepts, where each concept is a maximal

association between a set of objects and a set of attributes. Through the lattice

structure of concepts, we may extract knowledge, mainly as associations

between objects or attributes. The utilization of the concept of the Galois

Connection offers a natural and rational mathematical way to derive inferences

and to make the right conclusions from initial facts with respect to any binary

context, therefore useful for machine learning and classification. A context is

defined as a triplet of Objects, Attributes, and a binary relation relating objects

to attributes. During this talk, I will present some foundations of formal concept

analysis and several applications for data reduction in general, multilingual text

summarization, machine learning, automatic information extraction from the

internet, search results in real-time structuring browsers, anomaly detection in

data, and software at runtime.

Biography: Prof. Ali Jaoua, Professor, and Program Coordinator in Computer

Science at Oryx Universal College, Qatar, in partnership with Liverpool John

Moore’s University, UK, since 2020. He obtained the degree of "Doctor Es-

Science" (Ph.D.) in Computer Science, from the University Paul Sabatier of

Toulouse (France), "Doctor Engineer" from Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, and

"Engineer in Computer Science" from ENSEEIHT of Toulouse (France). During the

last twenty years, he contributed to machine learning and conceptual data

science in general (i.e. Automatic Information Extraction from the internet,

Feature extraction, data reduction, Text Mining, Hidden Data Analysis,

Information Retrieval, Knowledge Engineering, Meta-Search Engine

development, Alerting System, Natural Language Processing, pattern generation

and recognition, Sentiments Analysis, and opinion mining). He coordinated the

Master of Science in Computing and Ph.D. programs in Computer Science and

Computer Engineering during the last 8 years. He supervised several Ph.D. theses

mostly on conceptual information engineering, software fault, tolerance, and

algorithmic in Tunisia, Canada, France, and Qatar. He published about 50

International Journal papers, presented about one hundred conferences, and

contributed to several books. He organized five international conferences in

computer science in Tunisia and the Gulf. He has been an invited

Professor/researcher at Joseph Fournier University, Grenoble (France), the

University of Sherbrook (and Canada), and Sophia-Antipolis (I3S) (France). He

occupied the position of Associate Professor in computer science at Laval

University (Quebec, Canada), from 1989 to 1992, Professor in Computer Science

at Al-Manar University (Tunis) from 1995, up to 2008, and Professor at Qatar

University up to 2019. He has been an invited speaker for international

conferences and universities during the last ten years, and a program committee

member of several known international conferences. He has agreed on several

research grants as lead PI, co-Lead PI, or co-PI from QNRF for six NPRP research

projects. He also got grants from CRSNG and FCAR in Canada, and DGRST and

SERST in Tunisia, and he participated in several pilot projects in France, Canada,

and Tunisia. He is a Member of the Steering Committee of Relational Methods in

Computer Science Group, RELMICS, and an Editorial member of the associated

electronic journal (JORMICS). He has been a member of the editorial board of the

International Journal of Information Science, Elsevier publisher, for several years,

and regularly evaluates papers for this journal with a high impact factor. He is

also a regular reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. Member of the

Editorial Board of NMNC (New Mathematics and Natural Computation (World

Scientific)). Starting from January 2009 to 2011, he has been the Editor in Chief

of the International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering in Arabic, and

Philips Publisher for several years. He is also a member of the ACM society.