Mathieu Roche is a Senior Research Scientist (PhD, HDR) at CIRAD - TETIS research unit (France). Currently he is co-leader of the MISCA group (i.e. Spatial Information, Modelling, Knowledge Extraction) at TETIS. Between 2005 and 2013, he has been an Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) at the University Montpellier 2, France. Mathieu Roche obtained a PhD in Computer Science from University Paris 11 (Orsay) in 2004. He defended his HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches - Accreditation to supervise research) in 2011. Mathieu Roche led several academic and industrial projects in text-mining. Currently he is involved in 2 European projects: H2020 MOOD (Executive Board member) and DeSIRA ASSET. He has supervised 19 PhD students since 2006.