William Aboucaya

Training and Experience:

• Research engineer position, 2023-2024, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)
• Ph. D. in Computer Science, 2019-2023, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)
• Engineering degree - Major in Software Engineering, 2014-2019, Institut Supérieur d'Électronique de Paris (ISEP)

Methodologies:

• Natural Language Processing: Textual Entailment Recognition, Named Entity Recognition / Linking, Graph-To-Text...
• Machine Learning: Recommender Systems, Clustering, Neural Networks.
• Semantic web: Knowledge Extraction / Inference
• Data and graph analysis
• Front-end and back-end development

Programming Languages and databases:

• Python for data science (pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, NetworkX, HuggingFace environment) + web application development (FastAPI + JinJa)
• Database: SQL (MySQL, SQLite), NoSQL (SPARQL, RDF / RDF*)
• Java: API / back-end development
• JavaScript: front-end / mobile development, React + Native

Publications:

• An Interactive Tool for Goal Model Construction using a Knowledge Graph. Shahin Abdoul Soukour, William Aboucaya, Nikolaos Georgantas. REFSQ 2025: 31st International Working Conference on Requirement Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, April 2025, Barcelona, Spain.
• Finding Conflicts of Opinion on Citizen Participation Platforms. William Aboucaya, Oana Balalau, Rafael Angarita, and Valérie Issarny. WI-IAT 2024: 23rd IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, December 2024, Bangkok, Thailand.
• Leveraging Knowledge Graphs for Goal Model Generation. Shahin Abdoul Soukour, William Aboucaya, Nikolaos Georgantas. NLP4RE 2023: 7th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering (NLP4RE) in conjuction with the 30th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2024), April 2024, Winterthur, Switzerland.
• Building Online Public Consultation Knowledge Graphs. William Aboucaya, Sonia Guehis, Rafael Angarita. Text2KG 2023: International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Generation from Text, Co-located with the ESWC 2023, May 2023, Hersonissos (Crete), Greece.
• Detecting Obstacles to Collaboration in an Online Participatory Democracy Platform: A Use-case Driven Analysis. William Aboucaya, Rafael Angarita, Valerie Issarny. FairWare ’22: International Workshop on Equitable Data and Technology in conjunction with the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2022), May 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.