Catherine Dominguès

Catherine Dominguès is a senior researcher at the French National Mapping Agency (IGN) specializing in Natural Language Processing for Cartography within the MEIG (Mediation and Enrichment of Geographic Information) research team. Her work bridges computational linguistics and geographic information science, focusing on the intersection of language analysis and spatial data representation.

• Education: Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) in Natural Language Processing (2020), PhD in Computer Science (2001), DEA in Theoretical Foundations of Computer Systems (1989)

Research Interests center on places and placenames, expressive variations in toponym spelling, location-based information retrieval, and sensitive cartography. Her methodology combines data mining, fuzzy spatial reasoning, and geovisualization techniques.

Key publication trends show her work connects NLP for map analysis, mountain rescue support systems, and narrative-based mapping. She contributes to heterogeneous data integration and fuzzy logic applications in geographic contexts.

• Supervision: Co-supervised Dong Chuanming (PhD) and previously supervised Firas Bessadok (PhD)
• Projects: Core member of the CHOUCAS project (2017-2022) integrating heterogeneous data for mountain rescue, and involved in MATRICIEL (2016-2017) mapping migrant perceptions