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I am a Maître de Conférences (~associate professor) at Université Paris-Saclay where I am the head of the Artificial Intelligence master. I conduct my research in the Spoken Language Processing / Traitement du Langage Parlé group at LISN (ex LIMSI). I am a board member of the ATALA, a French association that promotes and animates research in natural language processing.

My research focus on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. I am especially interested in inference algorithms for structured prediction.

I also give training in deep learning for Natural Language Processing for the private sector via CNRS formation entreprise.

Special issue of the TAL journal: robustness and limitations of NLP models

This thematic issue of the TAL journal aims at questioning the robustness and limits of modern NLP models. All standard NLP tasks can be considered. Works on other languages than French and English are warmly welcomed.

Paper submission deadline : May 12th, 2023

More information on the website: tal-64-2.sciencesconf.org

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Students and postdocs

Current:

  • Yara Khater, Master intern (2023) co-supervised with Matthieu Labeau

  • Benno Uthayasooriyar, PhD student (sept. 2022 - …) co-supervised with Franck Vermet and Antoine Ly

  • Alban Petit, PhD student (oct. 2020 - …) co-supervised with François Yvon

Former:

  • Emile Chapuis, postdoc (jan. 2022 - dec. 2023) co-advised with Nadi Tomeh

  • Yara Khater, Master intern (2022)

  • Lili Lu, Master intern (2022)

  • Lynda Attouche, Undergrad intern (2021)

  • Alban Petit, Master intern (2020), now PhD student

  • Nicolas Devatine, Master intern (2020), now Phd student @ IRIT

Funded projects

Program Committee

Area Chair/Action Editor:

  • ACL Rolling Review, Oct. 2021 - … (including: ACL 2022, NAACL 2022, …)

  • EACL 2023, Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

  • TALN 2022, Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles

  • TALN 2021, Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles

  • NAACL 2021, Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

  • ACL 2020, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Reviewer:

  • 2022: EMNLP, Neurips

  • 2021: ACL, EMNLP

  • 2020: COLING

  • 2019: CoNLL, EMNLP, ACL, NAACL, JMLR

  • 2018: EMNLP, CoNLL, RJC

  • 2017: ECML PKDD (sub-reviewer)

Quick Presentation

I obtained a Ph.D. in 2018 from Université Paris 13 under the supervision of Joseph Le Roux and Adeline Nazarenko. We worked with Mathieu Lacroix on using combinatorial optimization techniques (Lagrangian relaxation) to solve efficiently problems related to syntactic parsing with mildly context-sensitive grammars (e.g. Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars).

My Ph.D. was supported by the Labex EFL, a public grant overseen by the French National Research Agency (ANR) as part of the Investissements d’Avenir program (ANR-10-LABX-0083).

From November 2017 to August 2018, I was postdoctoral researcher working with Ivan Titov. I was formally employed by the University of Amsterdam but I spent my time there as a visitor at the University of Edinburgh (EdinburghNLP group).