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Before
becoming a scientist, I trained race horses in Ireland, trapped possums
in New Zealand and herded sheep on the German moors. In Geneva where
I later went to become an interpretor, I met Maghi King who finally
put order into my life and send me to the UK to study for a Master in
Intelligence Knowledge Based Systems at Essex University. I did
my Master research under Ann de Roeck's
supervision and moved on to
Edinburgh to do my PhD. There, I was hired by Gabriel Bès (U. de
Clermont Ferrand, France) to work on the EU funded ACORD project on
parsing and generating with Unification Categorial Grammar. In my
thesis on the other hand I investigated the syntactic, semantic
and computational properties of verbal ellipsis and was supervised by Ewan Klein and Robin
Cooper. After leaving Edinburgh, I worked in
Amsterdam and Utrecht on EU funded projects and in Saarbrücken
on German funded ones (LISA, InDiGen). Finally, in 2000, Jean-Marie
Pierrel suggested I apply for a CNRS position and since then I have
been in Nancy working at LORIA and redirecting my research to help
promote french NLP. Along the way, I gave birth to three wonderful
daughters: Jennifer, Gabrielle and Caroline. On tuesdays at 12 a.m, when I am not sitting in
a meeting, away at a conference or nursing a sick child at home, I can
be found teaching Iyengar yoga at LORIA. For this, I thank Clé Souren, my teacher in Amsterdam.
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