Publications
Conferences
Awards
My Collections
About me
Florentina Vasilescu Armaselu is a researcher in text technology interested in the new paradigms at the intersection of digital, textual and visual. Other fields of interest are computational linguistics, computer assisted language learning and terminology.
Background
2010: Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (electronic literature, text and technology), University of Montreal, Canada.2003: Master in Computer Science (computational linguistics - Word Sense Disambiguation), University of Montreal, Canada.
1997: Diploma in Philology (English, French language and literature), Faculty of Letters, University of Craiova, Romania.
1997: Scholarship for teaching training in Multimedia, Università degli Studi, Torino, Italy.
1996: Scholarship for teaching training in Translation and Terminology, Université Rennes 2, France.
1989: Engineer Diploma (Automatics and Computers), Faculty of Electrotechnics, University of Craiova, Romania. ^
Experience
2011-present: Research Text Technology, Zoom Imagine.2006-2010: NorthSide Inc., Montreal, Canada, Computational linguistics (R & D).
2006: University of Montreal, Département de l'histoire de l'art et d'études cinématographiques, Teaching assistant.
2005-2006: University of Montreal, Centre for Research on Intermediality, Communication.
2005-2009 : Electronic magazine Terra Nova , Redactor.
2002-2003: University of Montreal, Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle (DIRO), Teaching assistant.
1996-2001: University of Craiova, Romania, Faculty of Letters, Adjunct Professor (computer assisted language learning and design, computer science, computational linguistics).
1992-1996: University of Craiova, Publishing House "Universitaria", Technical editor.
1990-1992: Informatics and Statistics Department, MAT-S.A., Craiova, Romania, Analyst-programmer.
1989-1990: IRE, Drobeta Turnu Severin, Romania, junior analyst-programmer. ^
Publications
Theses
Vasilescu F. « Le livre sous la loupe : Nouvelles formes d'écriture électronique», Ph.D. Thesis, Papyrus, University of Montreal Institutional Repository, June 2010.
Vasilescu F. « Désambiguïsation de corpus monolingues par des approches de type Lesk », Master Thesis, RALI, University of Montreal, August 2003.
Articles
Vasilescu Armaselu F. « Du texte électronique au contexte culturel », in Performances et objets culturels. Nouvelles perspectives, Sous la direction de Louis Hébert et Lucie Guillemette, Presses de l'Université Laval, Canada, 2010, pp. 483-493.
Armaselu F. "The Text as a Scalable Structure. New ways of Storytelling?", The Fourth International Conference on the Book, Boston, October 20-22, 2006, published in The International Journal of the Book, Volume 4, Issue 4, Melbourne, Australia, Common Ground, 2007, awarded runner-up for International Award for Excellence in the area of the development of the book.
Vasilescu Armaselu F. « Analyseur combinatoire de texte. De la littérature potentielle à l'analyse potentielle », Omagiu aniversar academicianului Marius Sala, Universitaria, Craiova, Romania 2007, pp. 690-700.
Vasilescu Armaselu F. "Le livre «Sous la loupe». Nouvelles métaphores pour nouvelles formes de textualité électronique", DIGITAL HUMANITIES 2006, Université Paris - Sorbonne, July 5th - July 9th, Conference Abstracts, pp. 221-225, 2006.
Armaselu F. "The Book under the Magnifying Glass. New Forms of Electronic Textuality", Third International Conference of the Book, Oxford Brookes, University, Oxford UK, 11-13 September 2005, published in The International Journal of the Book, Volume 3, Melbourne, Australia, Common Ground, 2006.
Vasilescu Armaselu F. « Cent mille milliards de poèmes et combien de sens ? Une étude d’analyse potentielle » – Actes TALN-RECITAL, Congrès international sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, June 6-10, 2005, Dourdan, France, 2005.
Vasilescu F., Langlais P., Lapalme G. "Evaluating Variants of the Lesk Approach for Disambiguating Words", Proceedings, 4th International Conference On Language Resources And Evaluation, LREC, May 26-27-28, 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 633-636.
Vasilescu F., Langlais P. « Désambiguïsation de corpus monolingues par des approches de type Lesk », Actes, Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, TALN, April 19-22, 2004, Fès, Maroc.
Armaselu F. « La formation informatique du traducteur. Une exigence de l’intégration » – Actes du colloque international Traduire l’Europe, Université Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Roumanie, March 2001.
Armaselu F., Teodorescu C. « Centre de documentation en terminologie juridique. Réalisation et intégration », Conférence pour une Infrastructure terminologique en Europe, Paris, March 13-15, 2000, Actes, pp. 127-131.
Armaselu F. « Dictionnaire d’informatique », Terminometro, La terminologie en Roumanie et en République de Moldova, Hors-Série, 2000, pp. 24-26.
Armaselu F. « Représentation du sens dans les systèmes de traduction automatique », B.U.L.A.G. N° 25, La traduction et le Traitement Automatique des Langues, 2000.
Armaselu F. « Microsoft Word et la conception des leçons de langue », - BULAG - Génie Linguistique et Génie Logiciel - no 24 - Centre Tesnière, 1999, France, pp. 81-88.
Armaselu F. « Le système auteur WINCALIS. La leçon multimédia », Annales de l’Université de Craiova, Série des sciences philologiques, Universitaria, Craiova, Romania, 1998, pp. 55-58.
Armaselu F. "Computer Program for the Study of Irregular Verbs in English (Program pentru studiul verbelor neregulate din limba engleza)", University of Craiova Annals, Philological Series, Universitaria, Craiova, Romania, 1996. ^
Books
Armaselu F., Armaselu Fl. Web Pages Design. HTML, JavaScript, Java (Crearea paginilor Web. HTML, JavaScript, Java), 372 p., Info, Craiova, Romania, 2000.
Armaselu F. Microsoft Word. Utilisation and applications (Microsoft Word. Utilizare si aplicatii), 308 p., Info, Craiova, Romania, 1999.
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Conferences and Workshops
"Crossing Borders. The Intermedial Zoom", MLA Workshop: Getting Started in Digital Humanities with DHCommons, Seattle, USA, January 5, 2012.
« Code, signe, modèle. Perspective sémiotique sur le design d'un éditeur de texte zoomable », Approches sémiotiques au design, 78e Congrès annuel de l'ACFAS, Montréal, May 10-11, 2010.
"Z-Text. Navigating the Text as a Scalable Map", Geography and the Humanities Symposium, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA, June 22-24, 2007.
« Le livre sous la loupe. L’interactivité par degrés d’immersion », Interactivité et formes narratives , 74e congrès de l'ACFAS, May 2006.
"Zooming-in and out through the knowledge space. New forms of local / global interaction", 2006 Congress of the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des Médias Interactifs (SDH/SEMI), The City: A Festival of Knowledge, York University, May 29-31, 2006.
"The Fractal Geometry of Text. New Digital Approaches to the Textual Paradigm", CaSTA 2005 – Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, October 3-7, 2005.
"The Book under the Magnifying Glass", COCH-COSH "The Networked Citizen: New Contributions of the Digital Humanities", The University of Western Ontario, May 29 - 31, 2005.
"Zooming In and Out through the Text. Visual Tools for New Forms of Electronic Textuality" - Eyedeologies: En-visioning the Readable/Reading the Visual, University of Toronto Comparative Literature Annual Graduate Student Colloquium, Toronto, April 7-8, 2005.
"One Hundred Thousand Billion Sonnets and How Many Meanings?"- Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, Discussion Group on Media and Literature – Lyric and Media, Philadelphia, December 27 – 30, 2004.
« Texte et hypertexte deux facettes du même paradigme » (award for best PhD student communication), Intertextualité, interdiscursivité et intermédialité, Xe COLLOQUE ANNUEL DE SÉMIOTIQUE DE LA FRANCOPHONIE, 72e Congrès de la Société des Savoirs, ACFAS, May 10-14, 2004, Montreal, Canada.
Armaselu F. « Microsoft Word et la conception des leçons de langue »,GLAT, La communication multilingue et l'interactivité : l'écriture au - delà des mots,
École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, Technopôle Brest-Iroise, France, July 11-12-13, 2000.
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Awards
2007, The International Journal of the Book, Common Ground, awarded runner-up for International Award for Excellence in the area of the development of the book for "The Text as a Scalable Structure. New ways of Storytelling?"
2000, Special award in technical and scientific terminology for Romanian Language (energetics) – Latin Union, Romanian Academy, Romanian Association for Terminology
1999, Special award in technical and scientific terminology for Romanian Language (computer science) – Latin Union, Romanian Academy, Romanian Association for Terminology, ITC Soft ^