Jean-Cédric CHAPPELIER is M.Sc. (1991) and Ph.D. (1996) from Télécom ParisTech. He is researcher and lecturer at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) since 1996, where he has been working on several projects in the domain of Natural Language Processing and teaching several courses including Natural Language Processing, Information Theory, as well as several Programming classes (Shell, C, Perl, C++).