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Caroline has a doctorate in Computational Linguistics from Simon Fraser University, as well as a master's degree in Electrical Engineering and a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from École Polytechnique de Montréal. Her professional experience includes six years as Assistant Professor at University of Ottawa's School of Information and Technology Engineering (SITE), where her work focused on terminology and computational lexicography. While at SITE, she also supervised students studying in areas ranging from speech recognition to the evaluation of word similarity in corpus. In addition, Caroline participated in the launch of University of Ottawa's Groupe de Recherche en ingénierie de la langue (GRIL). With GRIL, she began research in computer-assisted language learning. In September 2003, Caroline began working at NRC-IIT, conducting research in the area of automated translation and computer-assisted translation.

Over the past ten years, Caroline has acquired broad expertise in the study of semantics, including word sense disambiguation, the notion of similarity and distance between concepts, conceptual hierarchies and ontology, the development of semantic fields, the impact of semantics in the understanding of language, and the difficulty of extracting semantic information from text.