QUT | Staff Profiles | Laurianne Sitbon

Name: Dr Laurianne Sitbon
Position(s): Senior Lecturer
Science and Engineering Faculty,
Electrical Engineering, Computer Science,
Computer Human Interaction
Discipline *: Other Information and Computing Sciences, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing, Library and Information Studies
Phone: +61 7 3138 8079
Email: l.sitbon@qut.edu.au
Location: View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
Identifiers and profiles
Qualifications: PhD
Professional memberships and associations: Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)
Keywords: Applied Cognition, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Spaces, Text Analytics, Computer Human Interactions, Accessible Computing

* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Dr Laurianne Sitbon is a new generation early career academic who is initiating QUT’s undergraduate and postgraduate students to the joys of search engine technologies, including data mining and natural language processing. Her research investigates how to design better interactions models of information access supported by natural language processing technologies. She is convinced that there is enormous value for improvements in search engines from a better understanding of the human mind (how we create meaning out of words, how we make decisions) and people’s diverse abilities. She obtained her Masters of Science and Engineering from the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard in France and he PhD in Computer Science from the University of Avignon in France.

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Unit Design and re-design

2015 S1 – Data Manipulation IFN509, transition unit (new unit for the new IN20 Master of IT curriculum, 40 students), QUT
2014 S2 – Databases IAB130 (new unit for the new IN01 BIT curriculum, 325 students), QUT
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 – Search Engine Technology INB/INN344 (new unit, 10-45 students), QUT
2013-2014 – Data Warehousing and Mining INB/INN343 (redesigned for collaborative learning spaces in 2014, 50-60 students), QUT
2007 – Computational linguistics (new unit for the Master of IT, 30 students), University of Avignon

Project supervision CELL Projects (interdisciplinary groups) The Community Engaged Learning Lab has been established by LTU in 2012 as a framework to allow students from all faculties to engage in interdisciplinary projects that can benefit communitypartners, and thus operate in a service learning fashion.

S2 2014: My Budget Buddy, Designing and prototyping a website to support people with intellectual disability when allocating their NDIS budget to support services.
S1 2014: Designing tools to make legal information accessible to young offenders, iYouth justice project, consortium of community partners.
S1 2014: Evaluating and improving a Virtual Learning Environment to facilitate remote lifestyle education for users with intellectual disabilities, with the Endeavour Foundation
S2 2013: A website for setting goals and visualize progress towards them for users with intellectual disabilities, with the Endeavour Foundation.
S2 2013: Information through technology for prisoners, with Queensland Corrective Services
S1 2013: A personal goal management portal for users with intellectual disabilities, with the Endeavour Foundation.

Capstone projects (groups, bachelor of IT)

S2 2014: Mobile game to support young offenders. In partnership with iYouth Justice consortium. S2 2013: Information through technology for prisoners (see CELL projects). In partnership with Queensland Corrective Services.
S2 2013: Web based document management system to manage disabled service users at Endeavour Foundation. In partnership with the Endeavour Foundation.
S2 2013: Put yourself in the picture: a mobile application to help users with intellectual disabilities express what they want to achieve. In partnership with the Endeavour Foundation.
S2 2013: A virtual learning environment for users with intellectual disabilities: a virtual world where people with intellectual disabilities can train their social skills, and can practice sequencing every day life tasks. In partnership with the Endeavour Foundation.
S2 2012: The informed parent: a search engine that uses topic clustering and authority indicator to present a fair and unbiased view of the various opinions.
S2 2011: A real estate mashup: helping users finding rental housing according to quality of life.

Masters by coursework projects (individual, master of IT)

S1 2015 – Computing similarity between words from different disciplines
S1 2014 – Designing an interactive digital mindmap for large interactive screens
S1 2013 – Requirements for an information system centered around users with intellectual disabilities. In partnership with the Endeavour Foundation

This information has been contributed by Dr Laurianne Sitbon.

Kholghi M, Sitbon LJ, Zuccon G, Nguyen A, (2016) Active learning: a step towards automating medical concept extraction, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association p289-296
Koopman B, Zuccon G, Bruza P, Sitbon LJ, Lawley MJ, (2016) Information retrieval as semantic inference: a Graph Inference model applied to medical search, Information Retrieval p6-37
Bruza P, Kitto K, Ramm B, Sitbon LJ, (2015) A probabilistic framework for analysing the compositionality of conceptual combinations, Journal of Mathematical Psychology p26-38
Brereton M, Sitbon LJ, Abdullah M, Vanderberg M, Koplick S, (2015) Design after design to bridge between people living with cognitive or sensory impairments, their friends and proxies, CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts p4-20
Rajapakse S, Brereton M, Sitbon LJ, Roe P, (2015) A collaborative approach to design individualized technologies with people with a disability, Proceedings of the 27th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI 2015) p29-33
Sitbon LJ, Fell L, Poxon DA, Zhang J, Geva S, (2014) Towards universal search design, Proceedings of the 2014 Australasian Document Computing Symposium p109-112
Symonds MJ, Bruza P, Zuccon G, Koopman BR, Sitbon LJ, Turner IW, (2014) Automatic query expansion: A structural linguistic perspective, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology p1577-1596
De Vine LN, Zuccon G, Koopman B, Sitbon LJ, Bruza P, (2014) Medical semantic similarity with a neural language model, Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management p1819-1822
Wang H, Sitbon LJ, (2014) Multilingual lexical resources to detect cognates in non-aligned texts, Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2014 [Volume 12] p14-22
Li Z, Sharaf MA, Sitbon LJ, Du X, Zhou X, (2014) CoRE: A context-aware relation extraction method for relation completion, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering p836-849

For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.

Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)

Title: New Information Access Technologies for People with Intellectual Disability
Primary fund type: CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID: LP160100800
Start year: 2016
Keywords

Title: Framing authentic assessment of service learning within an information technology curriculum
Primary fund type: CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID: SD15-5151
Start year: 2015
Keywords: Assessment And Feedback Practices; Information Technology; Personal Development; Service Learning

Dr Laurianne Sitbon

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Dr Laurianne Sitbon

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