Project INTACT

Detecting Intentions Predicting Actions: online analysis of social media for emergency detection during ecological crises. 

PI INTACT

• Human Sciences. Linguistics: Alda Mari (CNRS/ENS/EFPS), Language, Thought and Behavior Team (CNRS Project Lead)

• Computer Science.  Farah Benamara (IRIT and University of Toulouse), Mélodi Team

Distinctions

Alda Mari : Innovation Medal CNRS 2025

Alda Mari : Innovation Price in Human Sciences 2024

Members

Permanent

• Alda Mari (CNRS/ENS/EFPS), Language, Thought and Behavior Team 

• Farah Benamara (IRIT and University of Toulouse), Mélodi Team

• Véronique Moriceau (IRIT and University of Toulouse), Mélodi Team

• Velentin Taffin TTT Toulouse

• Jérôme Lelasseu TTT Toulouse

• Colonel Olivier Morin (DGSCGC, Head of the Strategy and Foresight Mission) 2018-2020

• Colonel Laurent Leglise (DGSCGC, Head of the Strategy and Foresight Mission) 2020-2022

• Gaëtan Chevalier (Engineer, PhD candidate, UTT) 2018-2022

Non-permanent

4 engineers, 5 PhD students, +15 Master Students

Project Phases and funding Institutions

• INTACT I: CHEMI 2018–2019

• INTACT II: FIESPI 2020–2022

• INTACT III: CNRS Pre-Maturation Program, CNRS Innovation

• INTACT IV: Maturation with SATT, TTT

What do we have now.

We have a patent and a running software ! Please, contact me at my CNRS address.

DEMO: please contact me, at alda DOT mari “@” cnrs DOT fr

Why INTACT is unique

Because it resorts to a very sophisticated semantic based annotation that considers speaker’s evaluation and perspective, based on work of Giannakidou and Mari (2021,2024) in semantics and pragmatics. Emergency is thus treated not only as domain dependent but as a stance, anchored to individuals.

What we have achieved

Use social media effectively during active crises

• Recognize that social networks have become a key communication channel during emergencies.

• Develop methods to exploit information shared on social media while a crisis is unfolding.

Improve crisis communication

• Help authorities communicate more efficiently with the public through social media.

• Address the challenges and opportunities created by digital communication platforms.

Increase societal resilience

• Enhance society's ability to respond to and recover from crisis-triggering events.

• Leverage information circulating on social networks to support resilience.

Support crisis management

• Provide tools, methods, or analyses that help decision-makers manage crises more effectively.

• Improve situational awareness by monitoring and understanding online communications.

Benefit civil security and public order

• Increase the effectiveness of crisis-management work for emergency services, civil protection agencies, and public-security organizations.

Selected Publications

Background Theoretical Work on Modality and Evaluativity

Giannakidou, A. and Mari, A. (2021). Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought. The University of Chicago Press.

Giannakidou, A. and Mari, A. (2026). Modal Sentences. Cambridge University Press.

Implementation within INTACT

Kozlowski, D., Lannelongue, E., Saudemont, F., Benamara, F., Mari, A., Moriceau, V., & Boumadane, A. (2020). A three-level classification of French tweets in ecological crises. Information Processing & Management, 57(5), 102284.

Bourgon, N., Benamara, F., Mari, A., Moriceau, V., Chevalier, G., & Leygue, L. (2022, May). Are sudden crises making me collapse? measuring transfer learning performances on urgency detection. In 19th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2022).

Laurenti, E. Nils, B., Benamara, F., Alda, M., Moriceau, V., & Camille, C. (2022). Speech acts and communicative intentions for urgency detection. In *SEM Seattle (pp. 289-298).

Benamara, F., Mari, A., Meunier, R., Moriceau, V., Moudjari, L., & Tinarrage, V. (2024). Digging communicative intentions: The case of crises events. Dialogue & Discourse, 15(1), 1-44.