She obtained her Master in computer science and PhD in computational linguistics on medical data in the University of Nantes, France. She also worked as a post-doctoral researcher in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, on medical opinion mining, and in Dublin City University, Ireland, on medical Information Retrieval. She is co-chair of the CLEF eHealth 2014 and 2015 evaluation lab, and has been co-leading the information retrieval task in 2013 and 2014. She co-organized a workshop on Medical IR in SIGIR 2014. She was publication co-chair for SIGIR 2013 and COLING 2014. She has been involved in two national French research projects and in EU project Khresmoi, on medical information access. She is reviewing papers for several medical informatics conferences and journals.