Gabor BELLA

Gabor BELLA is an Associate Professor (maître de conférences) in Data Science at IMT Atlantique's Data Science department in Brest, France. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and focuses on computational systems addressing linguistic diversity and interlingual communication challenges. His research emphasizes healthcare data interoperability and bias mitigation in AI language technologies.

Key research areas include multilingual lexical databases, cross-lingual semantic alignment, and ethical considerations in AI. He leads the Universal Knowledge Core (UKC), a large multilingual lexicon emphasizing linguistic diversity, and coordinates the SCROLL NLP platform for semantic text analysis in structured data.

Academic roles include Programme Chair at CONTEXT 2019 conference and serving as Associate Editor for Springer Nature Computer Science. Awards include a 2025 LoResLM Best Reviewer Award and 2024 ECAI Outstanding PC Member Award.

Notable projects: InteropEHRate (health data interoperability), Diversicon Framework (pluggable lexical resources), and collaborations with organizations like NHS Scotland. His work bridges theoretical linguistics with applied NLP, particularly in minority language preservation and healthcare data integration.

Recent publications address linguistic bias in AI, metonymy universality, and cross-lingual medical data standards. Supervises PhD students like Hadi Khalilia and collaborates widely across Europe and the Global South to advance equitable language technologies.