Dr. Lyne Da Sylva

Biography

Lyne Da Sylva received a diverse education in applied mathematics, computer science, linguistics, and computational linguistics. Her doctoral thesis focused on the study of default values in syntactic representation languages, touching upon both theoretical aspects of linguistics and formal implementation. Her interdisciplinary training led her to work on various research projects in Natural Language Processing (NLP), including automatic syntactic analysis, as well as in a private company (Les Logiciels Machina Sapiens Inc.), where she developed software for automated language correction and translation. She is currently a full professor at the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Montreal, teaching indexing methodology, thesaurus development, digital libraries, documentary semiotics, and tools for automatic language processing applied to document management. Her teaching activities aim to identify the linguistic aspects involved in document management. Her current research interests focus on digital information management, specifically the automation of indexing and summarization within digital libraries, which include library, archival, or museum collections. One of her special projects involves the automatic creation of indexes for digital monographs.

Research Interests